Above is the season’s greeting that Nancy Levine, our intrepid Drink of the Week columnist, found when she was out last night judging the 2008 Holiday Cocktail Competition. Seventeen restaurants — all members of the Denver Independent Network of Restaurants — had signed up to create special holiday drinks for this contest…
Just got this e-mail from Jeff Osaka, the chef/owner of twelverestaurant, the elegant, if pricy, place that opened exactly a month ago. “Due to the current economy, and feedback from our loyal customers, twelverestaurant has responded quickly and adjusted its price structure to reflect this demand. However, changes will not…
Double Bastard Stone Brewing Company Escondido, California Double Bastard, made by one of my two favorite breweries in the country, packs a punch — and feels no guilt about the violence. This beer, highly alcoholic (more than 10 percent), highly sought after, rich in flavor and texture, is one of…
Hot-and-sour soup is my new winter comfort food, thanks to Karma, a great new Asian fusion spot at 22 South Broadway. I tried my first bowl a couple of weeks ago and was instantly addicted to the potent brew. It’s the spiciest, most perfect hot-and-sour soup I’ve found, full of…
Kristen Cofrades is the new executive chef at Warwick Denver Hotel, overseeing Randolph’s Restaurant & Bar (which has one of the best patios in town), as well as the room service and banquet departments of the hotel at 1776 Grant Street. Cofrades comes to the Warwick (and a post formerly…
“South Capitol Hill was booming in the early 20th century. The area on the ridge south of Cheesman Park sloping toward the Country Club neighborhood rapidly emerged as a premier residential location as Denver recovered from the Panic of 1893. Before long, distinguished houses dotted 7th Avenue. Nearby were houses…
The report in today’s Rocky Mountain News was a real eye-opener (and we’re not talking a Bloody Mary): According to Bill Scanlan’s “State fades a little in health stats,” Colorado fell from the 16th to the 19th healthiest state in the latest report from America’s Health Rankings, largely because of a rise…
In Bite Me this week, I talk about a couple of noodle joints coming to town — Bones and Happy Noodle House — and a New Yorker piece that helped fuel the fad. But Frank Bonanno and Dave Query aren’t the only local restaurant empire-builders getting in on this act. The Jet…
Noodle shops are big again, and a couple of upcoming openings speak to a new trend/fad among serious chefs going slumming for fun. It seems to have been inspired by a fantastic article in the March 24 New Yorker by Larissa MacFarquhar on chef David Chang and the opening of…
For more photos of Go Fish, go to westword.com/slideshow. I first came to sushi as a teenager in upstate New York. Cutting class at Irondequoit High School, I’d duck out during lunch or skip remedial math to run up to Wegmans a few blocks away for terrible grocery-store sushi in…
The bummer about Bar Bar (officially the Carioca Cafe, at 2060 Champa Street) is not that the bathrooms are glacial, grimy, graffiti-covered dungeons. It’s not that the volatile mix of white, black, brown and out-of-town patrons are wont to drink until an altercation seems like a good idea. It’s not…
Go Fish certainly has Asian-American fusion down, and that’s because the owners learned a few things at Spicy Basil, which they’d opened a few years before in the other corner of the same building. The fact that Spicy Basil had replaced a failed barbecue restaurant and I didn’t hold the…
I don’t have fond memories of my high school physics teacher, Mr. Woods. Although he was funny, quirky and endearingly curmudgeonly, I was terrible at physics, and for this he had little patience. Furthermore, he once accused me of having cheated on my homework, which wasn’t true. I cheated in…
Christmas Ale Anchor Brewing Company San Francisco Like other spiced beers, this one hides the malt and hops, but in this case, it worked. The usual pumpkin pie-like suspects — like cinnamon, ginger and clove — were there, as well as what I believe was a touch of myrrh. (By…
It was hard to tell if the three homeless men gathered outside the brand-new Argonaut Wine & Liquor this morning were waiting for the store to open to the public or for Mayor John Hickenlooper, who was scheduled to arrive for the grand-opening ceremony. Either way, they got what they…
While the 2000-2200 blocks of Larimer Street are jumping, things quiet down past Snooze. And a rancorous project at 2425 Broadway, on the triangular parcel of property bordering Larimer that once held an auto body shop and the late, lamented Bamboo Hut, is currently on hold. The owners of that parcel, Focus Property…
On Saturday morning, the Christmas carols were pouring from the pawn shops on Larimer Street, and the chile at the Mexico City Lounge was appropriately red and green. But all was too calm across the street; judging from the unopened mail inside the locked space, it looks like Larimer Kabob…
Denver’s pho restaurants have seen some tough times lately. Last month, a car crashed into Pho 7, knocking the joint out of commission for a few days. Times were even tougher at Ha Noi Pho, our Best Taste of Hanoi in the Best of Denver 2007. Soon after we bestowed…
Last year, Adam Cayton-Holland checked out Taco Bell’s deal offering four tacos for a buck from 4-6 p.m. the day after the Colorado Rockies scored seven runs. By carefully mapping out his course, he managed to secure 28 tacos — and a severe case of heartburn. Now Taco Bell is advertising…
Fat Sully’s, a pizzeria that took up residence inside Atomic Cowboy about a month ago, will finally celebrate its grand opening at 9 p.m. on December 6. The concept for Fat Sully’s, according to employee Josh Rifkin, “is a neighborhood pizzeria with giant slices of New York-style pizza. We also offer gluten- and fat-free pizza options with delivery going until 1 a.m., sometimes longer.”…
The space is simple, almost iconic Japantown nouvelle, with wood and steel and stone all polished to a high and gleaming gloss, mismatched walls in shades of lime and mustard, one of those trickling fountain things and abstract sculptures of fish on the walls done in shiny, candy-colored…
The Boulderado has some tread on its tires. The landmark Boulder hotel will celebrate its hundredth year in 2009, beginning with an elaborate New Year’s Eve gala and an open house on January 4. But you don’t have to wait until then to enjoy the Boulderado’s most noteworthy feature: the buffet. The hotel…
