La Cocina de Paula moves from LoDo to West Alameda

The first home Paula Contreras chose for her Colombian-Mexican restaurant, La Cocina de Paula, was a night club — the eatery took up residence in LoDo’s Oasis Hookah Bar & Lounge, where it peddled lunch seven days a week before the late night crowd came in. But at the end…

Mile High Spirits opens next week

A few months ago, partners Joe Vonfeldt, Chase Campbell and Wyn Ferrell revealed that they were building out a distillery in a warehouse space on upper Larimer where they’d make private label spirits for customers as well as their own line, including Elevate Vodka, Pegleg Rum and Denver Dry Gin…

Top five reasons why people love Trader Joe’s so f*@%ing much

The prayers, pleas and entreaties of Coloradans have been heard, and we are finally getting a Trader Joe’s store at the Twenty Ninth Street mall in Boulder in 2013. The hoopla surrounding this blessed event — akin to the birth of the Christ child — has some uninitiated locals wondering…

Five meaty ways to satisfy carnivorous cravings in Denver

Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of…

Sexy Pizza will open a second outpost on South Pearl Street

There’s been a lot of restaurant action on South Pearl Street since the beginning of the year: the Pearl Street Grill, India’s Pearl and Ototo moved out, Seven Cups dried up and Izakaya Den announced a move, making way for the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group to take over that space. Now, there’s…

Guess where I’m eating?

If you want to get to the meat of the matter, you’ll need to battle a barrage of lettuce first. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…