Swing Thai started serving yesterday in the Jet Hotel, 1612 Wazee Street. This fourth location of the homegrown chain took over the space left open when XO closed ten weeks ago. To make sure that Swing Thai doesn’t suffer the same fate, Buddhist monks will perform a blessing at the…
Worried about who’ll be running Denver while John Hickenlooper is running for governor? Fear not: councilmember-at-large Doug Linkhart (who’s rumored to be taking a look at running for mayor himself) is on the job, as he explains in his latest e-mail blast, “Hick Up! Not a Problem.” Which ends with…
When the Georg family closed Chinook, their longtime restaurant at 265 Detroit Street, in the summer of 2008, they promised to relocate within a few months to the new Landmark project. But now, more than eighteen months later, it looks like Chinook will never open in Greenwood Village. The space…
Colorado was the first state to make Martin Luther King’s birthday a holiday, and the annual Marade, the march/parade in his honor, is the largest in the country. So how does Denver Public Schools mark this august occasion? By offering a lunch menu on January 15 — the same day…
Last fall, Dylan Moore revealed that for the next outpost in his empire, which already includes Deluxe and Delite, he’d be moving off that hip block on Broadway. And as this new billboard (right by Yazoo downtown) shows, Moore is partnering with Mod Living, the hip decor store at 5327…
It may be “giddyup” time for John Hickenlooper, but his announcement that he does not plan to resign as Denver mayor in order to run for Colorado governor put a major “whoa” on all the dark horses already preparing for a run at the top slot at City Hall. And…
There are a few things that I like about Boulder and many that I don’t. For example, it bothers me that Boulder exists where it does, snugged up tight against the base of the Flatirons, frantically humping the leg of a mountain range that would be that much more splendid…
Yee haw! The National Western Stock Show is in town, which means that wannabe Westerners are playing cowboy at bars all over town. But this saloon is the real thing. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Post your answer — with an actual address for this bar, or enough details…
Just got this note from an Ohio man, who needs someone with a more encyclopedic knowledge of the Denver dining scene than I possess: “My wife and I will be there the weekend of February 6. As a kid I’m pretty sure we drove through Denver on our way back…
First Atomic Cowboy started serving pizza, thanks to the addition of Fat Sully’s. Now it has fresh biscuits and sausage gravy (made fresh daily), along with other Southern breakfast comfort-food items, courtesy of the Denver Biscuit Company, which just opened inside the Bluebird District hangout at 3237 East Colfax Avenue…
Stop by Rioja, at 1431 Larimer Street, every Tuesday from 5 p.m. until close, and you can enjoy the $15 Sips and Snacks special: four bite-sized snacks paired with wines according to that week’s theme. Today, it’s Wines of Spain; on January 19, Pinot Posse; on January 26, the Sauvignons…
Our throats were dry, our eyes were red. Blame it on pot. Specifically, on listening to four hours of pot testimony and discussion — on top of the salute to the National Western Stock Show and another hour of civic housekeeping — at last night’s Denver City Council meeting. But…
Lola launched its new Monday night specials menu last week, and although the pork rinds shown at right weren’t our favorite, there are many, many dishes on the roster that deserve all-star billing. Among them: shrimp albondigas in tomato “soup” with pappas quesadilla for $9, an achiote chicken taco or…
On January 12, 1970, Jim and Angelo Karagas opened my My Brother’s Bar, which forty years later is still one of this town’s best watering holes, despite having never had a sign out front. When the brothers bought the building at 2376 15th Street, it had already been a bar…
On the 1400 block of Market, the Ruth’s Chris space is still dark and the former home of Buca di Beppo is slated to become a medical marijuana dispensary — but Gaslamp got the lights on this past weekend. Gaslamp is owned by Greg Gallagher, who also owns the Front…
Despite suggestions that he hold his horses and wait to see what the Colorado Legislature does, Charlie Brown pressed on with his proposal to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of Denver, and that proposal will go to a vote of the full council tonight, after a two-hour public…
Anyone who buys a DINR deck is a winner: For $50, you get 52 cards, each offering a $10 discount at a local, independent restaurant. You can buy the decks at any Tattered Cover location or at www.eatdenver.com — but you can also win one right here. Every Friday for…
First, Ryan Layman left Avenue Grill and moved across the street to Steuben’s. Now comes word that after seven years at Avenue Grill, Randy Layman — Ryan’s twin brother — is heading to Jonesy’s EatBar to become bar manager there. Randy poured out his ‘tending philosophy to Nancy Levine for…
The Fort will be closed from January 11 through January 21 for a kitchen renovation — the first since the Morrison restaurant, a recreation of Bent’s Old Fort, was built out of 80,000 handmade adobe bricks back in 1962. Some of those bricks are right behind the dishwasher, which helped…
Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, is working on a book on the history of Mexican food in the United States, and this past summer he invited readers to “tell me your favorite local Mexican restaurant and what makes it so bueno” — in 25 words or less. Now…
Governor Bill Ritter hosted more than thirty business leaders at the Governor’s Mansion yesterday for a roundtable discussion of one of his major priorities for 2010: job creation. But Ritter had already given job creation a major push the day before, when his official announcement that he would not run…
Would-be medical marijuana dispensary owners are snapping up empty restaurant spaces around town. The former Buca di Beppo at 1400 Market Street is turning into Farmacy, and the space at 5151 East 28th Avenue that formerly held Bubba Chinos #5 is now slated to become a medical marijuana dispensary. But…
