Q: Where do three restaurateurs who all work at the hip Lola and share a birthday go to celebrate? A: White Fence Farm “It was awesome,” reported one of the birthday boys yesterday, when I stopped in for brunch at Lola — the readers’ choice for Best Brunch, and our…
From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, Cook Street School of Fine Cooking will offer “Sous Vide 101,” taught by mathematician Douglas Baldwin; from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on April 1, Ian Kleinman of O’s Steak and Seafood will be at the school to teach “Molecular Gastronomy…
Danger! Danger! No one has driven down my street since I arrived home late last night (after carousing through a close-to-empty downtown last night). There’s no telling when, if ever, the newspaper will arrive. Maybe tomorrow, when the temperature returns to fifty degrees. I am looking at the foot of…
From 5 to 7 p.m. tonight, March 27, Highlands Wine Seller and Sunflower Farmers Market will host a wine-and-cheese tasting at the Wine Seller, 6668 Timberline Road in Highlands Ranch. And it’s free! For more information, go to www.sfmarkets.com. And from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 28, Food Network celebrity and…
Downtown is a relative ghost town tonight, with even such mainstays as Dixons closed on account of snow. But there are still restaurants serving tonight, chief among them P.F. Chang’s at 1415 15th Street (the only one of the metro locations open, and seating a fair amount of tables as…
Although soup will probably be a popular supper choice on this cold day, we just heard that the “Soup for the Soul” fundraiser has beencancelled. “If you purchased tickets for the event,” says spokeswoman Paige Thompson, “you will be notified about the rescheduled date. We are currently working on rescheduling…
David Lane presented his last witness in Denver District Court yesterday — Ward Churchill’s wife, Natsu Taylor Saito — and the University of Colorado lawyers started delivering their defense. But if you happened to tune into The O’Reilly Factor on Tuesday, the day Churchill finished his testimony, it’s all over…
Tonight’s “Soup for the Soul” has just been cancelled. Twenty local food stalwarts — Alto, Baur’s, Bistro Vendome, Blue Point Bakery, Dazzle, Elway’s (Cherry Creek), Fruition, Japon, Lola, Mel’s, Oceanaire, the Palm, Panera Bread, Panzano, Pesce Fresco, Rioja, San Lorenzo, Steuben’s, Table 6 and Vesta — were to join in…
Poetry is not all old-fashioned hearts and flowers. As delivered by members of the Slam Nuba Team, poetry is vital, thoroughly modern and not remotely well-behaved. See for yourself tonight, when National Poetry Month gets off to an invigorating start Friday at Slam Nuba Team Slam Off 2009, at Crossroads…
Sandy Widener, Westword’s original managing editor, was a force of nature, a ball of unstoppable energy – never more so than when she took to rollerblading along the Cherry Creek bike path. Today’s second annual Parr-Widener Scholarship Walk-Run, a benefit for graduates of the East High School A+ Angels mentor…
Jack A. Weil was the oldest still-working CEO in the country when he passed away last summer at the age of 107 – and the founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear hasn’t quit working yet. Cleaning up the store at 1626 Wazee Street last month, his granddaughter-in-law came across a manifesto…
What? After twenty years of offering the most dependable happy hour in the city, with a terrific cheeseburger among the other $1.95 specials, McCormick’s has changed its hours? Just walked into the bar at the corner of the Oxford Hotel and found out that corporate had dictated a cutback several…
Common Grounds will soon leave its longtime LoDo home at 17th and Wazee streets and move over to the SugarBeat space — across the street at 444 17th Street, in the Millennium Building. But the coffeehouse/winebar lost its liquor license when its lease ran out (there’s a story there), so…
The eighteenth annual Colorado Mountain Winefest doesn’t start until September 17, but the Colorado Association for Viticulture and Enology just uncorked the winner of its WineFest art contest. “Labor of Love,” by Grand Junction artist Mary Ellen Andrews, will be featured on all promotional materials for the four-day Winefest, and…
Most people go to Super Star Asian for the dim sum. But we’ll let you in on a secret: This modest storefront in what remains of Alameda Square, at 2200 West Alameda Avenue, has an amazing lunch deal: Just $5.95 buys you hot tea, a big bowl of hot-and-sour soup,…
Yesterday morning, before heading to the office to finish up the Best of Denver 2009, our 25th anniversary celebration of this city, our annual orgy of niceness, I stopped for a moment at my favorite spot in Denver. Denver got its start at the confluence of the South Platte River…
Baking isn’t easy a mile above sea level, but you should be able to rise to the occasion after taking “Baking Fundamentals,” a six-week series whose first session runs from 6:30 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Kitchen Table Cooking School in the Landmark project in Greenwood Village. Tuition is…
There have been other school shootings in the ten years since Columbine, horror scenes with even bigger body counts. But for some reason, Columbine is the crime that resonates; “Columbine” is the word that keeps getting repeated in the tales of similar plots — some carried out, some foiled. It…
At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, El Camino, 3628 West 32nd Avenue (that’s the address of the former swimclub 32), will host a happy hour to celebrate buckfifty.org, the great web site that celebrates Denver, with $1.50 specials. For more info on the venue, go to www.elcaminotavern.com. Marczyk Fine…
Barack Obama spilled way past 60 Minutes talking about the economy last night, and there’s still plenty of talk to come. Trump University is in session, offering four days of classes on how you can “make a fortune” in real estate; today’s are at 1 and 6 p.m. at the…
Nate Appleman, author of the A16: Food + Wine cookbook and chef at San Francisco’s A16 and SPQR restaurants, will be cooking tonight and tomorrow night at Frasca, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder; Frasca co-owner and wine director Bobby Stuckey will pair the wines. Tickets are $140, and hard to…
After months of delays, Tosh’s Cantina has finally opened in Marina Square, at 8101 East Belleview Avenue. I called the restaurant this morning, and reached Ruben Macintosh — the family patriarch who presided over the original (and much loved) restaurant at 3090 Downing Street for decades, before the family business…
