The New York Daily News is reporting that three chefs are in the running for the new White House chef job: Art Smith, personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and owner of Chicago’s Table Fifty-Two; Rick Bayless, owner of Rick Bayless Topolobampo and Frontera Grill, two restaurants in Chicago; and Daniel…
The original Tosh’s Hacienda, post-expansion. Tosh’s may be making a comeback: After surrendering his landmark restaurant in Five Points to a mountain of debt, Ruben Tracy Mackintosh has filed for a liquor license for Tosh’s Cantina at 8101 East Belleview Avenue down in Marina Square. For close to fifty years,…
William and Stephanie Wahl left their restaurant, Indulge, to cook at the Escoffier dinner. For those who don’t know Escoffier from etouffe, last night’s Auguste in November event offered a delicious course — eight courses, actually — on the essentials of French cooking. The duck fois gras, presented by William…
Last week, a reader was hungering for paella. Now it’s someone wondering where they can get their goose on goose for Thanksgiving. Does anyone know of a restaurant flipping that bird on November 27? For a comprehensive list of restaurants serving the traditional turkey, try open table. Sadly, that site…
Bill Ritter. Politicos across Colorado are brushing up their resumes and trading rumors about who’s going to Washington to join the Barack Obama administration — and some are looking either further afield. This morning, Governor Bill Ritter will announce an economic-development mission to Japan and China that will take forty…
The Landmark project in Greenwood Village is still waiting for some of its tenants to appear, but the New York Times didn’t wait to salute the development. In a November 9 story headlined “A Luxury Development Thrives in Denver,” the paper asked “why is this project doing so well while…
I know we’ve already reported at length about the new vibe (casual) and new concept (not so French) at Aix Restaurant and Wine Bar at 719 East 17th Avenue. I know we’ve talked about alterations made in light of the current economy, talking Aix back to a classic bistro model…
A ticket to fried. It’s hard to miss the yellow envelope snuggly nestled on your car — you can see it from down the block. But the fact is you didn’t feed the pay station machine that smugly governs the block or the insatiable meter enough cash and now you…
You’re making some legal history, too, my friend… At 9 a.m. Thursday morning, Denver County Judge Melvin Okamoto, who’s retiring at the end of the month, called Courtroom T into session and promptly began dispensing justice to a motley crew of folks charged with misdemeanors — shoplifting, trespassing, public intoxication,…
Tooey’s Off Colfax just opened in the onetime janleone space at 1521 Marion Street. Most recently Club Boca, the address had been vacant for close to a year before the new owners took it over on October 15, and they burned some serious midnight oil in order to get it…
It seems that a couple with a jones for tacos (and obviously no taste whatsoever) got the ultimate happy meal last month when they found a bag of weed kindly tucked in with their takeout order from Del Taco at 5240 South Wadsworth Boulevard. Now, did this fine, upstanding couple…
A river of memories — and red sauce — runs along the 700 block of South University Boulevard, where Sam Badis bought a little joint named Jim Sano’s back in 1964, changed the name to the Saucy Noodle, painted the walls red and added the slogan, “If you don’t like…
Andrew Romanoff. Andrew Romanoff, the outgoing speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, will be back at the Statehouse today, helping to choose the leadership for the next session. In his last year of his last term before the state’s term-limits law booted him out, Romanoff crafted a plan to…
Back in 1898, Ernest Blumenschein and Bert Phillips, two young artists fresh from studying in Paris, decided to take a sketching trip through the West. They were headed from Denver to northern New Mexico when the wheel of their surrey broke. Had the accident occurred earlier — in Pueblo, say,…
I woke up early in Colorado, still a battleground state, according to the November 4 Wall Street Journal. I prepared myself for battle by studying the election items that had arrived at my home yesterday: a flier under my doormat headlined “Vote for the Change We Need,” with a number…
Jason Sheehan’s raved about Les Delices de Paris, and now Alexandre and Christelle Donats’s bakery/cafe is bigger and better than ever. It’s moved from its spot at 5303 Leetsdale (which Sheehan said “could be the most inconvenient location on Leetsdale, but on its best days, is the best-smelling spot in…
Paul Trujillo’s art captures an historic moment. Yesterday, the day that Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, I received a note from the Fords. They’re the family who’d asked Paul Trujillo, a sixteen-year-old urban artist, to paint a piece on the back of their garage…
Inside Rockbar, a rock bar. Wicked Garden debuted last Thursday in the old home of Open Bar (and before that, Hush), right next door to Ted’s Montana Grill in Larimer Square. A recent invitation to a Wicked Garden party calls the club “Denver’s only Rock Bar” — which has got…
There’s a certain sense of excitement I get when I walk into a restaurant I’ve never been to. When I stumble upon a small, somewhat rundown, definitely risky place, that excitement is amplified. The excitement is the hallmark of an adventurous eater. It seems like there are fewer and fewer…
Berkshire chef Woodie Thomas shows off a bacon flight. The Berkshire, which Andy Ganick opened in December in Stapleton, is all about the pig. It’s named, of course, after the most famous of the heritage breeds. Its décor is piggish, though not cutesy — focusing mainly on the repeated motif…
Sticker shock? I’m so tired of seeing all the “free admission/ice cream/taco with an ‘I voted’ sticker” deals. Do all these businesses realize that 60 percent of all Coloradans voted early, most by mail? And if you voted by mail in Denver, you did not get an “I Voted” sticker…
Zen Ultra Lounge opened last week — but it’s not related to Zen Asian Bistro & Sushi, one of several restaurants suddenly springing up in the northern suburb, in this case, in Westminster at 11940 Bradburn Boulevard. Zen Ultra Lounge took over the space at 940 Lincoln Street that had…
