Culinary Cruising: Time for a Manicure

Marisol, the author of The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan, a sensual, romantic novel that comes complete with recipes, has left landlocked Denver for a stint as a celebrity chef. She’s sending daily missives from her temporary home: a cruise ship. Cadiz, Spain: Cadiz is the oldest city in…

Culinary Cruising: Menu Change

Marisol, the author of The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan, a sensual, romantic novel that comes complete with recipes, has left landlocked Denver for a stint as a celebrity chef. She’s sending daily missives from her temporary home: a cruise ship. Marseille (or so we thought): If you’ve been…

Dudes! On the Red Carpet

In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…

Denver Daisy, Redux

The garden glove has been thrown. “Sounds like your thumb is anything but green, Patty,” Cloudclimber posted in a comment responding to my Denver Daisy, Day Fifteen entry. “I got 14 plants out of that little seed packet and am going to set them out tomorrow.” In that report, I…

In the Ballpark: Meadowlark

If you’re tired of the downtown crowd or simply looking for a mid-show break from the Larimer Lounge, the Meadowlark’s patio is a true urban oasis. It’s big and dark and often quiet, and coming here is like slipping away from a party and into someone’s back yard to share…

Dudes! Day Three, Part One

In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…

Culinary Cruising: The Bored Millionaire

Marisol, the author of The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan, a sensual, romantic novel that comes complete with recipes, has left landlocked Denver for a stint as a celebrity chef. She’s sending daily missives from her temporary home: a cruise ship. A few days later: Monte Carlo I have…

Get to the Points: Kiva Restaurant

After a one-year hiatus (and some lackluster years before then), Juneteenth is coming back to Welton Street this year. A celebration of the day when African-Americans in Texas learned that they’d been freed — more than a year after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation — Juneteenth is observed around…

Dudes! Day Two

In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…

Culinary Cruising: Power Struggle

Marisol, the author of The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan, a sensual, romantic novel that comes complete with recipes, has left landlocked Denver for a stint as a celebrity chef. She’s sending daily missives from her temporary home: a cruise ship. Day Four: Civitavecchia-Rome, Italy Ship entertainers are on…

Fine China

Here’s the deal of the day: Charlie Huang, owner of Jing in the Landmark project at 5370 East Greenwood Village Plaza in Greenwood Village and Little Ollie’s at 2363 East Third Avenue, will donate 100 percent of all proceeds from lunch and dinner at both restaurants to today to victims…

Dudes!

In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…

Sex in the City: Elway’s

While Elway’s patio can be a perfectly civilized place to while away an hour — or six — this space should be a lot wilder tonight, when Elway’s kicks off its first Wednesday night patio party, Live from Elway’s Backyard, and the action spills onto the sidewalk beyond the restaurant…

Take a Bite of Cafe Bites

Chinook Tavern is staying put — at least for now. Originally, the Georg family planned to pack up their restaurant at 265 Detroit Street this month, and move their restaurant down south. But now they’ll be open in Cherry Creek at least through October. You’d already know this if you…

Helping One of Their Own

A quick reminder: On Monday, June 16, the guys at Vesta Dipping Grill will throw a bash for one of their own: bartender Travis Van-Cleave. Seems the barman caught himself a case of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (that’s okay, I didn’t know what it was, either) and, in the process of…

Death of a Cowboy

Robin Carole Gall, 38, was in jail in Canon City Monday night after Fremont County sheriff’s deputies found her husband, Brent Thomas Gall, 40, dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. Brent Gall was a federal correctional officer. He was also a defendant in the infamous “Cowboys” case, in…

Culinary Cruising: Cliff Hanging

Marisol, the author of The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan, a sensual, romantic novel that comes complete with recipes, has left landlocked Denver for a stint as a celebrity chef. She’s sending daily missives from her temporary home: a cruise ship. Day Three: Santorini, Greece The locals are proud…

The Staycation: Randolph’s

The Warwick Denver Hotel hasn’t yet completed its renovation, but the patio outside Randolph’s Restaurant and Bar is looking good — very food. The patio wraps around two sides of the building, and although Grant Street and 18th Avenue are pretty major thoroughfares, the smart set-up of this spot –…

Soul on Ice

Henry Coleman, owner and head cook at the new Coleman’s Soul Food (which moved into the old home of Ethel’s House of Soul shortly after it closed in January), knows from Detroit soul food, Detroit comfort food, Detroit’s streetside, slap-dash, eat-while walking cuisine. He’s a veteran lunch-wagon cook from that…

Win Some/Lose Some

While I might not have had much luck at this year’s James Beard Awards, it’s a damn good thing that I wasn’t the only one from our little square state in Manhattan this past weekend. As a matter of fact, Colorado was much better represented at the Chef Awards (which…

Culinary Cruising: To the Loo

Marisol, the author of The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan, a sensual, romantic novel that comes complete with recipes, has left landlocked Denver for a stint as a celebrity chef. She’s sending daily missives from her temporary home: a cruise ship. Day Two: Turkey “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen…