Hugo Matheson, the co-owner of the original Kitchen in Boulder, along with the new Kitchen Denver, is obsessed with the business. “I live and breathe every detail of the restaurants,” he says in this week’s Chef and Tell interview. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.” No matter how stupid restaurant…
It was a year ago today that Denver woke up to discover that upstart Aurora had rustled a major deal in the metro area: a massive, $800 million hotel/spa/convention complex that Gaylord Entertainment would build near Denver International Airport…
Hot enough for you? Bree Davies’s “top five reasons to stop whining and enjoy the summer already” has plenty of people hot under the collar…
Laura Shunk, who chose Fruition for a farewell dinner with her parents and a last review in this week’s Westword, isn’t the only one who considers that restaurant a go-to spot. Foodies from Chicago who’ve eaten around the world focused on Fruition as their number-one dining destination in Denver, and…
Jeff Peckman thinks outside the box — in this case, the “tinder box.” Two years ago, he asked voters to approve a UFO welcoming committee, an idea he pushed further as a 2011 candidate for mayor of Denver. And now he wants to help end the High Park Fire…
Taco Bell is rolling out a more upscale menu on July 5, and after eating a test dinner hosted by America’s Next Great Restaurant chef Lorena Garcia, Jenn Wohletz suggested that the “Cantina Bell menu may make Chipotle a little nervous.” Only if Garcia stays in the kitchen, doubters respond…
Like a good ghost story or a reality show in eternal reruns, Tiffany Fitzgerald’s “Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans comes to Denver, meets Phil Goodstein, acts like a child” lives on, and on. And the comments keep coming…
Cafe Society serves up a mixed menu: posts on restaurant openings, posts on restaurant closings, posts on bad customer behavior, posts on bad server behavior…and yesterday, Jenn Wohletz’s list “five things I’ve found in men’s refrigerators that made me not want to date them.” The comments have been pouring out…
Colorado has dozens of museums devoted to unusual items — bells, washing machines. Some are temporary, some permanent. But no museum promises to have the half-life of the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, devoted to the plant that manufactured plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs just sixteen miles northwest — upwind…
As a service-industry professional/lifer, Sean Kenyon Lori Midson’s list of the “ten rudest things customers do to make servers wish you’d never come to their restaurants,” all of which he’s seen all too many times during his 27-year career in service. But even worse, he suggests, is when people in…
The city once thought it had the solution to Triangle Park — unofficially known as the Bumuda Triangle because of all the homeless who gathered there during the day, when the nearby shelters were closed. But five years and more than $300,000 later, Denver admitted its plan hadn’t worked and…
Karen Scharer, whose work is currently showing at Space Gallery, took some time to explain the finer aspects of abstract art to Tiffany Fitzgerald last week. But some readers don’t appreciate her explanation — or her art, particularly “February Wetlands,” shown above…
The smell of smoke is in the air. It could be a long-distance reminder of the High Park Fire still raging outside Fort Collins. Or it could be your next-door neighbors here in Denver, lighting up their illicit fire pit. Or their completely illegal chimenea…
“Not a fan of what Cherry Creek has become.” That’s how chef Chris Cina greeted the news that Bisque had closed. Originally known as Cafe Bisque when it opened in Lakewood a decade ago, Bisque left that ‘burb and moved to Cherry Creek last November. And now it’s in the…
Juneteenth. PrideFest. Denver Comic Con. The metro area is full of festivities this weekend. Some are looking to the future, some to the past — like the fourth annual 1940s WWII Era Ball at the Boulder Airport…
Happy anniversary, Mayor Hancock. A year ago, Michael Hancock defeated Chris Romer in the Denver mayoral runoff, capping an unlikely campaign that saw Hancock polling at just 10 percent two months before the May 3 election, then trouncing Romer in the runoff. But where were the big stories taking note…
It was just two years ago that Steuben’s Food Service became the very first food truck to roll into Civic Center Park, a ground-breaking, if not turf-smashing, development that rated a cover story in Westword. Today, of course, mobile food vendors are all over the city — and Civic Center…
Britt Chester has wheels turning all around town with “Guess where I’m biking.” This town is full of bike enthusiasts who ride both for fun and health — which makes the latest spot in the series particularly appropriate…
Celebrity chefs are winging into Colorado for this weekend’s Aspen Food & Wine festival, and one lands in Denver today: Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of Dirt Candy, a renowned vegetarian restaurant in New York, will be at Linger tonight as part of the Celebrity Chef Tour, a moveable feast that crosses…
Colorado cantaloupes are ripening quickly this season, and so are concerns that the listeria hysteria over last year’s outbreak could put a damper on sales of the fruit. So the Colorado Department of Agriculture, headed by commissioner John Salazar, is pushing a project to improve the image of the vilified…
Denver has lots of wonderful galleries that deserve to be seen — and then, as Tiffany Fitzgerald revealed in her list of “Five hidden Denver art galleries,” there are great spaces hiding in plain sight — in the back of bigger galleries. The Back Room at Zip 37, for example…
Did beer gardens exist before hipsters recently discovered them? You’re darn Teuton! For more than thirty years — since before its hometown was officially known as Centennial — Karl’s Deli has been serving German specialties, including beer, on its front patio overlooking a suburban strip mall. Christoph Zierhut purchased the…
