Before the Balloon Boy story blew up around the globe, Colorado’s Najibullah Zazi was reportedly getting ready to blow up New York City. Our hometown terrorist is now being held without bail in New York on charges of conspiring to detonate explosives in the United States; his father has a…
Hosea Rosenberg may have won last season’s Top Chef, but his luck didn’t hold for Big Red F colleague James Lee, the Boulder mixologist who placed fourth at this weekend’s Iron Bar Chef contest at the annual Santé Restaurant Symposium in New York. Which means Lee didn’t get the $1,000…
I was at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, twice on Sunday — for brunch (the chicken-fried pork special) and dinner (the Sunday paella special). And you’d think I might have had my fill of Lola for a while — but you’d be wrong. Because tonight, Lola is hosting a Yucatan Dinner,…
Ryan Frazier made a smart move, even though his announcement last Thursday that he was switching from a run for the U.S. Senate to go for the 7th Congressional District seat currently occupied by Ed Perlmutter was completely overshadowed by a certain silver balloon. But someone took notice: The Colorado…
Peter Boyles is holding his annual haunted house event at Yak and Yeti, the Nepalese restaurant that took over the former home of the Cheshire Cat Brewpub and Restaurant, at 7803 Ralston Road in Arvada. (There’s a second Yak and Yeti at 8665 Sheridan in Westminster.) The ghosts on Ralston…
Aurora was slated to get its very own Smashburger on Wednesday, October 21, but the opening of the store at 2630 South Parker Road has been delayed — “a permitting issue that the landlord is working through,” according to Julie Noyes, spokeswoman for the homegrown chain. When the Aurora outlet…
The Mexican hamburgers at this joint are legendary — as are the chiles relleno, and the green chile that smothers everything in sight. In a town crazy for Mexican food, that’s no tiny achievement. Guess where I’m eating?…
Even Balloon Boy couldn’t knock our hunt for a medical-marijuana reviewer out of the national news. Yesterday, NPR’s Sunday show ran a piece about our quest, resulting in still more applications coming in from across the country. But sorry, folks: We’re looking for a Colorado resident, someone who can identify…
Even as the area north of downtown gentrifies, certain problematic pockets remain. The area around 22nd and Arapahoe streets, for example, where the manager of the brand-new (and beautiful) Lobby American Grille, located in the space in the historic Paris Hotel at 2191 Arapahoe Street that was once occupied by…
James Lee, mixologist at the Bitter Bar at Happy (known as Happy Noodle House until very recently), is heading from Boulder to New York this weekend, for the annual Santé Restaurant Symposium — where he’ll be competing against against five other bartenders in the Iron Bar Chef contest. The competitors…
Okay, so Falcon Heene was never in the balloon. But why wasn’t he in school yesterday? That’s a question for Rico Munn, who’s done good work during his two years as executive director of the Department of Regulatory Affairs, and yesterday was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to head the…
The new Tony’s Market at 950 Broadway may be the only place in town where you can drink a beer or glass of wine while you do your shopping — legally. That’s because the market opened with a liquor license that covers not just the bistro inside the market, but…
Last week we asked for your favorite dive (among the nominees: El Chapultepec, Lancer Lounge, Squire, PS Lounge, BarBar, Berkeley, Charlie Brown’s Lion’s Lair). Now it’s time to prove your devotion: Write a love letter/tribute to your favorite dive bar, professing sincere fidelity to its wood paneling and nicotine-stained ceiling…
Cliff Young, whose eponymously named restaurant transformed the Denver dining scene, is back in business at the Diamond Cabaret, where his CY Steak opened this week at 1222 Glenarm Place. It was a soft opening — in a room full of hard bodies. While strip clubs across the country are…
Ryan Frazier is trading in a clunker in favor of a much sleeker vehicle. Six months after the two-term Aurora City Councilman announced that he was running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, he’s pulling out of that race and making a fast course correction for the 7th…
In an industry when a restaurant reaching its first birthday is considered noteworthy, the run of the Brook Forest Inn is nothing short of remarkable. Edwin and Marie Welz, immigrants who arrived in this country in 1910 and took over a homestead near Evergreen, worked on transforming the place into…
When we learned that Joe Rogan, former host of Fear Factor, had moved to metro Denver, we offered up our top ten list of very scary things for newcomers to Colorado. Number 4? Animal Encounters: “As houses sprawl across formerly uninhabited areas, the animals that used to live where your…
Nothing says fall like a new menu filled with root vegetables — and pork belly. Guess where we’re eating, and toasting to autumn…
Hospoda, the restaurant that billed itself as “friendly beer house,” has closed after a good effort in a bad location, at 3763 Wynkoop Street (right off Brighton Boulevard), the former home of the Wynkoop Grill. Jason Sheehan loved Hospoda it when I dragged him there — the ambience was a…
“Olives date back to before the invention of the written language,” notes the web page for the Twisted Olive. “We’re here to add a new chapter in Olive history, a fun and tasteful one. It starts with redefining and twisting the Olive’s role in entertainment, cuisine, nightlife and most importantly…you!”…
Jeff Peckman has had a tough month: First, David Letterman’s all-too-earthly horn-dog behavior made big news — and bit into the value of a clip from Letterman’s June 10, 2008 UFO interview with Peckman that’s prominently featured on the campaign web page for the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission. That’s the concept…
It could have the oddest name ever: Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids. But don’t let that deter you from trying out this restaurant — because the liquids will come out of 43 craft taps. “This is an authentic craft beer bar right down to the keg-based fountains,” says…
