8 Rivers: Mojiotos, music and munchies, mon!

Happy Place: 8 Rivers, 1550 Blake Street, 303-623-3342 The Hours: Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and all day Sunday The Deals: $3 Red Stripe lager; $3-4 house wines and sangria; $5 well drinks, Appleton rum, and mojitos; $20 mojito pitchers; $5 small plates. What did we think? Flip…

Otis & Henry’s now open in Black Hawk

A couple of weeks ago, we announced that Otis & Henry’s Bar and Grill, a casual spot featuring comfort food favorites, would open this week in the Lady Luck Casino in Black Hawk at 340 Main Street. The bar and grill is part of a growing concept in the nationwide…

Guess where I’m eating?

Now that fall is at our doorstep, restaurants all over the city are autumn-izing their menus, which means that butternut squash is popping up here, there, and in the salad in the above pic, where the sweet, silky nubs are bolstered by thicket of arugula, patches of lamb belly, quinoa…

Fat chance: Just try to consume the Big Fat Ugly

If you’re taking a road trip back east, make sure you stop in Champaign, Illinois, where you can try to wrap your hands around one of the biggest sandwiches around. The Fat Sandwich Company specializes in, yes, fat sandwiches, and the fattest of all is the Big Fat Ugly. This…

Wazee Supper Club adds limited delivery service

For those of you who can’t fathom patronizing a pizza joint that doesn’t bring the goods right to your door, a new world is about to open up: the Wazee Supper Club, 1600 15th Street, is rolling out delivery. There are some restrictions, though…

Guess where I’m eating?

The small plates happy hour menu at this high-style restaurant with an equally cosmopolitan lounge tricked out with TVs, a fireplace and faddish furnishings stars everything from from frog legs to sushi rolls. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…

Photos: Behind the scenes at the newly expanded Frasca Food & Wine

We knew when Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, the pair of owners behind Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, closed their restaurant down for six weeks to expand and renovate, that the result would be stunning. But nothing could have prepared us for the upgraded Friulano eatery we encountered last night…

Bistro Vendome has the right ambience for brunch

After eating my way through the menu at Euclid Hall for this week’s review, I stopped by Rioja, the Larimer Square restaurant that Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch opened six years ago, and also by Bistro Vendome, the restaurant at 1420 Larimer Street that the pair took over in 2006…