Woody Creek Bakery raising funds for wildfire victims
Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe will donate ten percent of sales from all eight of its locations to the Red Cross wildfire relief fund today…
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Showing 18371 - 18392 of 32511El Diablo and Sketch are closed…for now
El Diablo does not look like this tonight. There are no crowds. In fact, the restaurant is closed, as is Sketch, its sibling next door. Very early yesterday morning, the city slapped the entire First Avenue Hotel building with notices to vacate the premise — immediately…
Lost Highway Brewing will raise a pint to Colfax Avenue this winter
Colfax Avenue has always been Denver’s main thoroughfare. Created after the Rush to the Rockies of 1859, the Gateway Road flourished in the decades that followed as both a business district and a social hub, right up through the 1950s, when touristy motels lined both sides. But like Radiator Springs…
Photos: A new Beehive buzzes in Boulder
The second iteration of Beehive, chef/owner Janice Henning’s pared-down, seasonal foods showcase, opened yesterday in Boulder. The slim space that once housed Saxy’s Cafe now looks rustic yet serene, with stark white furniture and whimsical jar lights dangling overhead…
Guess where I’m eating a summery watermelon salad?
Ah, summer…and watermelon…and arugula…and goat cheese. Four of my favorite things, and this salad? It’s my new go-to for roughage. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday,…
Four truly upsetting restaurant wine service fails
There’s nothing more delicious than an evening spent in the company of friends, enjoying the magical experience that is the simultaneous consumption of inspired cuisine and grape-based libations — otherwise known as food and wine. Layer on top of that the fact that we can enjoy these heavenly events at…
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Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks doesn’t seem like a member of the Fertitta chain gang
When you’re sitting on the patio outside Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks, watching the uniquely Denver action along the 16th Street Mall and enjoying a happy-hour cocktail and a big slice of chocolate cake from Cake Bubbles in Lakewood, it’s easy to forget that you’re sitting in a link of…
Rare bottles, cask ales and the Colorado Brewers Rendezvous highlight the week
Copper Kettle Brewing scored some hand-painted, custom table tops recently that incorporate not just game boards — like backgammon and checkers — but a few of the young brewery’s accolades, including its Great American Beer Festival medal and, of course, its nod as Best Brewery for Neighbors in Westword’s Best…
Frank Bonanno admits he’s a “dick” when it comes to court battles with the health department
Opinionated. Tenacious. Temperamental. And, at times, a “dick,” especially when he’s in a courtroom arguing his case on front of a judge, who’s presiding over the latest infraction levied against him by the Denver Department of Environmental Health, with whom Frank Bonanno, who owns Luca d’Italia, Mizuna, Bones, Lou’s Food…
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Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: brandied peach veal loin chops
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. According to Barb,…
Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy’s, on McNuggets, orgasms and bad-ass steel
Beau Simmons Jonesy’s EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 www.jeatbar.com This is part one of my interview with Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy’s EatBar. You can read part two of our chat tomorrow. Beau Simmons stretches out in his garden, his face tickled by the leaves of his heirloom-tomato…
Free Slurpees for 7-Eleven’s birthday today!
Happy birthday to 7-Eleven, which turns 85 today. And everyone is invited to join in the festivities, which include miniature birthday accessories, chances to win some sweet prizes — and free Slurpees for all…
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Reader: Beehive needs to differentiate itself from the pack…or is that swarm?
Nearly a decade after it buzzed off from its home in central Denver (the spot now occupied by Table 6), the Beehive is back. But this time, chef/owner Janice Henning has landed in Boulder — where her farm-to-table approach isn’t nearly as novel as it was in Denver a decade…
Euclid Hall introduces new Hump Day happy hour
In addition to its daily Study Hall happy hour (select drafts, cocktails and house wines for $3), Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, 1317 14th Street, will host a new Hump Day happy hour every Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. featuring deals on “not-so-classic” craft beer and shot combinations and…
Sonoda’s closes on Broadway
Sonoda’s has shuttered at 550 Broadway. This location wasn’t technically part of the local sushi chain; two years ago, it was sold to a former employee of Sonoda’s with permission to use the name. But the spot had been struggling of late and once the lease was up, the current…
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The Village Cork rebounds with Pete Ryan, its new executive chef
I’ll never forget the first time I came face-to-face with Pete Ryan. We were meeting at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, where he had just become the school’s executive chef/instructor, and, as usual, my watch was stuck on slow. “You’re fucking late,” he reprimanded me. And then, for the…
Il Vicino opens on South Gaylord Street…with a liquor license!
Brown Dog Pizza lost the fight of its lives last year when the Telluride-based pizzeria got its chain yanked by a throng of vocal neighborhood pit bulls who raised holy hell when the pizza joint attempted to secure a liquor license for the space at 1001 South Gaylord Street. And…
The devil you say! City slaps El Diablo and Sketch with notice to vacate
Danger. That’s the sign on the door of Sketch, which is supposed to host an opening for a showing of 9News reporter Kirk Montgomery’s photographs tonight. The sign — as well as five different letters signed by Michael Roach, Building Official with Development Services in the Denver Department of Community…
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Copper Kettle triples the size of its brewing space
Copper Kettle will nearly triple the size of its brewery space this August when it expands next door and adds storage and refrigeration space. “We are producing a lot of beer, but we don’t have anywhere to store it right now,” says brewery co-owner Kristen Kozick…
Guess where I’m eating carnitas smothered in green chile?
Trust me: The green chile, jolted with heat, is far better than the burgers, which this joint has been ballyhooing for years. Or, as some would say, resting on its laurels. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess…
Denver’s ten hippest bars — or is that hipster bars?
Our colleagues over on the Backbeat music blog have been pouring themselves into watering holes all over town, to determine Denver’s ten hippest bars — or is that hipster bars? See that list here: Denver’s ten biggest hipster bars. Follow @CafeWestword…
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Taita Peruvian Cuisine & Bar will open by the end of the month in Capitol Hill
“I’ve been involved with food since I was six, and I’ve always dreamed of having a restaurant in an old building with a wooden roof and exposed brick — a space to create whatever I want,” says Pepe Aparicio, who, along with his brother, Gianfranco, will open Taita, a Peruvian…