As of May 1, soda pop and candy — “a preparation of sugar, honey, or other natural or artificial sweeteners in combination with chocolate, fruit, nuts, or other ingredients or flavoring in the form of bars, drops or pieces,” according to the Colorado Department of Revenue — are no longer…
A traditional Scotch egg tucks a not-quite-hard-boiled egg inside a sausage casing — but from there, this brunch starter breaks with all traditions. Can you guess where I was eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into…
It’s time for our monthly round-up of restaurant opening-and-closing action — and there was plenty in April, much of it caffeine-fueled: RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN APRIL*: Abrusci’s, 300 Fillmore Street Backcountry Provisions, 1617 Wazee Street Bardo Coffee House, 238 South Broadway Big Game, 1631 Wazee Street Boulder Organic Pizza, 1175 Walnut…
There are several links in the homegrown Mercedes Mexican Restaurant chain around the metro area, but perhaps none more welcome than this new outpost, which occupies a former Taco Bell at 14th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive. Which means that not only does this Mercedes offer the same great $2…
Jared Jacang Maher’s February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky’s restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue stands for So All May Eat, and speaks to the…
Cafe Society served up six Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from the view from the door of the Squeeze Inn to a giant (and still unidentified) breakfast burrito to the new fois gras on Shanahan’s revamped menu. For identifying that starter — which may be one…
When Brad and Libby Birky opened their restaurant, SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue, people didn’t give the venture much of a chance. After all, the name stood for “So All May Eat,” and signaled the couple’s willingness to serve everyone, regardless of how much money the diners had,…
Big Game just opened last night at 1631 Wazee Street, and as promised, the restaurant brought to us by TurnTable Restaurant Group — New York restaurateurs Jeffrey and Zach Chodorow, and Dan Smith — looked like it was going to be very hot. But this is ridiculous. Five fire trucks…
There I was yesterday morning, feeling sorry for all the residents of Arizona who didn’t get a chance to vote on that state’s show-me-your-papers, anti-illegal immigration legislation and are now feeling as ostracized as Coloradans were after the voters of this state did approve the anti-gay-rights Amendment 2. And Colorado…
Tryst is gone, but one of its traditions lives on at its replacement at 1512 Larimer Street, now known as Dive on Fifteenth: the Everyone-Drinks-Free event. From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 30, the bar promises: “Everyone drinks free. Women drink free. Guys drink free. You drink free. We…
Governor Bill Ritter was in Five Points yesterday, to kick off the Sustainable Main Streets Initiative that will try to jump-start economic development in four spots across the state, ranging from rural towns to the very urban Five Points. This was once a jumping entertainment district. But over the past…
Eric Osborn, the disgraced developer behind One Lincoln Park, was back in Denver District Court this week for a second trial, again involving a charge of felony theft connected with one of his real estate projects. In December, a jury had convicted Osborn on two charges of felony theft, for…
The sixth annual WomenCook! event features something new: two men. Michael Benson is the chef at the WOW Cafe at the Denver Department of Human Services, 1200 Federal Boulevard; Craig Dixon is the chef at Cafe Options, 1650 Curtis Street. But they have something in common beyond their gender: Their…
The traffic of I-70 is just a few hundred feet away, but this watering hole is a tiny oasis of serenity — on weekday afternoons, at least. On most weekends, though, that parking lot will be filled with cars, classic and otherwise. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus:…
Chase Wilbanks, executive chef at La Tour in Vail, came down from the mountains to cook up six courses (and display an awesome crab tattoo that you can see here) at the third Hush Denver dinner on April 24. Up to this point, Hush — the not-so-secret dining club –…
“Invasion of the ballot snatchers.” That’s what the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society calls Jeff Peckman’s proposal to have Denver create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission — a proposal that will go to Denver voters on the August ballot. “The more research we do, the more furious we get,” RMPR’s Bryan…
Cops were called to CityPub, a watering hole at 3575 South Yosemite Street that’s a sibling of CityGrille, early Monday morning, on a report of a “large fight.” A fight that left one man dead, according to Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson. The death is being investigated as a homicide,…
One day it was Home Depot, the next it was Wendy’s, and then a secret admirer told me he’d stopped by “applebees and thought about u.” Now I just got an e-mail from someone who spotted me at Starbucks — at least according to this: Howdy Patricia. not usually this…
Cafe Society served up six Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from the 4/20 celebration at Vine Street Pub to the revamped carne tampequina at Mezcal to another stumper of a Mexican dish. For correctly identifying the carnitas at El Nopalito, Ginny wins a DINR deck. Ginny,…
Erik Osborn, already sentenced to ten years in community corrections earlier this month, will be back in Denver District Court today for a second trial. He’s again charged with felony theft, for again allegedly using funds raised from one development project for another. Osborn’s first conviction, in December 2009, involved…
I was lucky enough to experience the Pig ‘N Whistle, a classic West Colfax motel on the “fabulous 40 strip,” when it was still run by former boxer Eddie Bohn. I heard tales from Bohn as we drank beers in the front bar, covered with boxing memorabilia; I hosted a…
The last time any member of the public was in what’s now known as the McNichols building, the old Carnegie library on the edge of Civic Center Park, it was to pay an overdue property tax bill. But the city’s finance offices long ago moved into the Wellington E. Webb…
