The Highland area is about to get its own sweet spot: Apres Dessert Bar, an adjunct of Generous Servings, the café/cooking school located at 3801 West 32nd Avenue, is on target to open at 2 p.m. today. The (very) grand opening is slated for Saturday, February 20, when Apres Dessert…
Even though its lineage is pure Southern barbecue, the origins of Moe’s Original Bar B Cue lie in the mountains of Colorado, where three friends from the University of Alabama who were fans of barbecue set up a carry-out shop at Lionshead, at the base of Vail Mountain, in 2002…
While sinners were out celebrating Fat Tuesday yesterday, we were sampling one restaurant’s Lent menu, trying the soup with cactus and shrimp patties, one of the items that will be featured for the next six weeks. Can you guess where we were eating?…
The panhandler outside looked happy. The hostess inside looked happy. The server looked happy. And we were happy, to take a break from our marathon drive across Colorado to look at colleges and sit down in a booth in a Boulder restaurant with a nice view of the Pearl Street…
Mark Tarbell’s new restaurant opened last fall in the Streets of Southglenn, at 6955 South York Street, but tonight it will finally celebrate its grand opening with a charity fundraiser. And it will do so under a new name: What had been Home is now Tarbell’s…
For years, the Saturday morning sales at the Western Beverage distribution center, aka Beer Warehouse, were the greatest deal in town — if you could find the warehouse in north Denver. “It was amazing. It was like that scene in Indiana Jones where they open the vault on the Holy…
The expanded, full-service Starbucks in the Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton Street, reopens today — and 100 percent of the day’s sales will benefit the Denver Public Library. Which is appropriate, because among the new amenities at this Starbucks include a collection of historic Denver photos, culled from images available…
Before Michael Bennet’s fundraiser with President Barack Obama on Thursday afternoon, the incumbent senator has another important date: He and Democratic challenger Andrew Romanoff will meet for their first debate at 8 p.m. tonight. The faceoff at St. Cajetan’s on the Auraria campus (it’s sponsored by Denver Young Democrats) should…
Nv Lounge has a date with the Denver Department of Excise and License this morning for its liquor license application at 475 Santa Fe Drive. Does the address sound familiar? It should. For a brief, shining moment, it was the Continental Club, the hippest new bar in town — until…
Larimer Hot House has gone cold, less than six months after it opened at 2810 Larimer Street, in the former home of Espo Gelato. Most of the contents have been removed, and the few that remain are tagged with a “sold” sign. And when you dial Larimer Hot House, you…
Cafe Society served up just four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week — but a few were stumpers. So by correctly identifying the Squeaky Bean cocktail, Sonny is now the lucky winner of a DINR deck…
For decades, as both a Denver City Council member and then a member of then-Mayor Wellington Webb’s administration, Cathy Donohue helped steer the course of Denver. She just never expected to steer into Denver. But on November 24, 2008, Donohue was behind the wheel when her car crashed into CityGrille,…
Happy, at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder, just made Forbes.com’s list of America’s Best New Restaurants. “The notion of affordable, flavorful Asian dishes (primarily noodles) is nothing new, especially since the rise of chef David Chang’s Momofuku empire in New York City. But a dedicated focus on pairing unique cocktails…
Smashburger got its start here in Colorado in 2007, and since then the local chain has been a smashing success as it expanded into other markets, often offering up regional variations on the their great burger formula. Now, finally, Smashburger is showing Colorado some home-state love. On February 14, it…
H Burger Denver is opening tomorrow. Really. After a three-day delay, the party at 1555 Blake Street (entrance on the 16th Street Mall) will start at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 13, and end at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 14. If all — finally — goes according to plan,…
You won’t find Michelle Malkin, the conservative commentator who now calls Colorado home and was just named one of the right’s top 25 journalists, out at the Denver Federal Center today. That’s because the National Park Service will be holding a meeting at 10 a.m. on $3 million in grants…
This just in from Deluxe Burger, the joint venture between Dylan Moore (Delite, Deluxe) and Mod Livin’ that was supposed to open February 14 at 5325 East Colfax Avenue (and has been pushing that date on billboards around town): TRUE LOVE (IN A BUN) TAKES TIME!! We spent, hours prepping…
Mayor John Hickenlooper is stranded in Washington, D.C., where he went to make a fast speech — and now is stuck in that snowbound city. Which means he probably won’t make the Colorado Restaurant Association “Candidates & Cocktails” event that starts at 5 p.m. today at Elway’s in Cherry Creek,…
HBurgerCo, the new gourmet burger and contemporary cocktail joint going into 1555 Blake Street (fair warning: the entrance is on the 16th Street Mall) didn’t open yesterday, as originally planned. A series of parties and friends-and-families dinners over the last week highlighted a few glitches in the new space, which…
It’s not easy to find a cure for the common code, as Kenny Be showed in “”Everybody Must Get Zoned,” his cartoon feature that lives on the web and inside numerous lockers in city facilities. Denver’s zoning code is more than fifty years old — so a five-month delay in…
There are many songs about Billy the Kid – including Bob Dylan’s “Billy,” from the soundtrack of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – but no songs about Pat Garrett, the sheriff in Lincoln County, New Mexico, who killed the charming rogue born William Bonney. “He has become the bad…
Two very different restaurant fundraisers this week bought a literal boatload of help for Haiti. First up: The $125-a-head, six-course meal at Rioja on Monday night wound up raising $21,518 for Project C.U.R.E., which the Denver-based non-profit will leverage into a forty-foot container of medical relief for Haiti with a…
