Get ready to get your drink on! The 7-Eleven convenience store franchise is getting up there in age, and tomorrow will commemorate its 81st year in business. Despite the fact that we think every day can be free Slurpee day (listen, I’m not going to fill my Super Big Gulp…
I’d been having such a good day. A full night’s sleep and then some — rare for me, insomniac that I am. Waking late, bumming around the house in sweatpants, in a rush to get precisely nowhere. First cigarette of the day and a mug of green tea on the…
While I messed up at Mona’s, at least I didn’t blow my cover until I went to pay for my last meal there. Which means that for at least for two full meals and nine-tenths of a third, I was still working under my normal, modest cloak of anonymity, still…
When I heard that the owners of the Candlelight Tavern had taken over the Kentucky Inn, it reminded me of The Parent Trap, the movie about identical twins who are separated shortly after birth when their parents divorce, meet as teens at summer camp, and begin plotting to reunite their…
No sooner does the level of my Great Divide Samurai bottle dip below the top of the label than Carol, the bartendress at the shiny-new Jonesy’s EatBar (400 East 20th Avenue), asks if I’d like another. It’s been less than five minutes since she served it to me. “Oh, I…
There are lots of reasons for attending the “Live to the Fullest Cup” event at Fluid Coffee Bar, 501 East 19th Avenue, this Friday at 7 p.m., which will raise money for 26-year-old Semeon Abay, head roaster for the Denver-based Novo Coffee, who was recently diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate…
Jason Sheehan is no fan of Hell’s Kitchen, but he watches it. And now he’s playing it, as he describes here and here, in his account of week one. Now on to week two: One of the many complications of working in kitchens is being able to do it hurt…
In the Tillemann-Dicks’ house of many talents (the subject of a July 10 Westword feature), 20-year-old Liberty Belle is known for her stellar cooking. That means she not only scrounges up enough food for all 10 of her siblings, but is also skilled enough to keep them all happy. Here…
There’s a lot of action over at Mel’s on Sixth Avenue, which is in the process of changing names and management. And then there’s this odd e-mail from Mel, Jane and Charlie Masters making the rounds, which invites recipients to “Become a Mel’s Bistro Truffle Hound”! The details, in their…
I’d ordered the hash at my first breakfast at Mona’s because I’m a Mick, because I’m a Mick who grew up blue-collar, lower-middle-class in a neighborhood full of blue-collar Murphys, Doogals and McDonoughs, because I’m a lower-middle-class, blue-collar Mick who’s always had a weakness for girls whose families spent their…
The Masters are on the move. Mel’s in Greenwood Village (at 5970 South Holly Street) had a couple of parties (one for friends, and then a knock-down, drag-out staff bash) over the weekend, and is closing today for remodeling. The hostess I talked to last night said that the staff…
Coming home from Breckenridge this weekend, I stopped in at the A&W in Frisco, conveniently located near the entrance ramp to I-70. Though I was sure the ride back to Denver would not be as hellish as the ride up — through a blitzkrieg of Fourth of July traffic –…
Kung Fu Panda Crunchers Kellogg’s Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: The cereal’s building blocks are actually building circles — light tan orbs made of oat and corn flour. Think of them as Kix, or more accurately, fake Kix. These mounds are supplemented by four varieties of marshmallows:…
The Fourth of July is past, but Cafe Berlin will be waving the flag for the next week. In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift of 1948 – the Luftbruske — Cafe Berlin will serve a free beer to anyone in the military — whether he or…
Timing is everything, and the Georg family picked a very good time to close their Chinook Tavern, a landmark at 265 Detroit Street for almost two decades. By closing up on Tuesday, they managed to avoid the chaos of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. Now if they can just survive…
A drunk dialer sent us this coaster she discovered at My Brother’s Bar during some early Fourth of July celebrating. It comes complete with ring sizes — and the number for Hyde Park Jewelers. Genius marketing — even if she only got a coaster, and not a ring. Unless you…
I had to have some half-unexpected dental work done a couple of days ago. It was nothing terribly serious but it was serious enough, if you know what I mean. Lot of blood, stitches. An annoyance. And as I was getting finished off in the chair, my dentist (a miracle…
The restaurants keep coming to that block of Broadway just south of Center — three in the last two months alone. First Beatrice & Woodsley and Delite, and now Karma, at 22 South Broadway. A sign on the door announces that it’s “Opening Soon for Dine-In” — and judging from…
My Brother’s Bar is the oldest bar in Denver — city directories show that this spot at the corner of 15th and Platte streets was an operating tavern before the 1880s — but there’s plenty of life left in the joint. For starters, it keeps late hours for such an…
Jason Sheehan is no fan of Hell’s Kitchen, but he watches it. And now he’s playing it, as he describes here. Week One: FNG The game is divided into five seven-day weeks with no days off and no quitting until the last table is served and out the door –…
Albuquerque, New Mexico, about eight years ago… The rush started around five. There was never any way to gauge it — nothing scientific, no outward sign. Though we flew a jolly roger from the fryer end and my guys comported themselves like the hippest of pirates (bandannas, tattoos, ear and…
When Matt Selby and Josh and Jen Wolkon were planning Steuben’s, their paean to classic Americana that opened in a coolly retro space at 523 East 17th Avenue two years ago, they worked hard to get their showpiece lobster roll just right. This was a sandwich they cared passionately about,…
