After almost fifteen years, Dixons Downtown Grill shut its doors at 1610 16th Street on Labor Day, leaving a 9,200 square-foot gap on the 16th Street Mall. But it also left behind some good memories: of employees dancing on the bar at closing on that last Saturday night (“and no…
Tom Colicchio — or a reasonable facsimile — will guest star on The Simpsons later this month, which inspired our look back at some of the great Simpsons food scenes. Wonders Wratha: How could you not include any scenes from the episode where Homer is a food critic? The “low…
Decades of this city’s history gathered last night in the stunning Gates Reading Room at the Denver Public Library to honor historian Tom Noel, aka Dr. Colorado, who received this year’s Eleanor Gehres Award. And the fact that Noel had served on the Eleanor Gehres Award Committee for 2011 was…
Westword is looking for students for its fall photo intern program, which focuses on food and restaurant photography. And by “student,” we do not mean “a student of life.” There’s no cash offered with this gig, only college credits. Don’t bother applying if this doesn’t apply to you. Still interested?…
Denver restaurateurs are some of the most generous people in town, forever contributing food, labor and cash to worthy causes and charity events. Many are also very generous to their employees — but they like coming up with policies that work for their unique, often small businesses, not getting tied…
After a summer of travels, Laura Shunk revealed the five restaurant concepts she’d love to see in Denver, ranging from a Burmese restaurant to a Czech restaurant and beer hall. Which had commenters wondering: What about Sobo 151?…
Denver restaurateurs are some of the most generous people in town, donating food, labor and cash to all the good causes forever hitting them up. But while the idea of a generous paid time-off policy for employees sounds good in theory, restaurant owners — and former restaurant owners, like Governor…
Now that the scaffolding that masked Mountain Mirage is gone, and the defective fountain that was supposed to create a silhouette of the Rockies but instead leaked down into the trains has been removed and replaced by open space, you can see the bones of the Jeppeson Terminal at Denver…
The expanded City, O’ City has been open less than a week, but people have no shortage of opinions on the new, improved space — even if they have yet to see that space in person, and have only read about it here. The comments — both pro and con…
I’m back in the town where I grew up, the town where my father grew up, the town where his father moved 130 years ago, the town that started out as an Illinois farm community but is now a pricey suburb of Chicago whose water is tied for second-best in…
Biker Jim (right) was one of the thirty featured vendors invited by Cafe Society scribes to participate in Dish, our celebration of the local culinary scene that filled Ninth Avenue Historic Park on the Metro State campus Friday night. Get a second helping of the event through our slide show…
Let’s hope Mayor Michael Hancock has Curt Fentress’s number on speed dial. The Denver architect was brought in to fix Denver International Airport before it ever got off the ground decades ago, and the expansion plans he crafted back then could be looking very good now that starchitect Santiago Calatrava…
After a five-week makeover, the expanded City, O’ City made its debut yesterday — to both raves and rants. The vegetarian restaurant has merged its original home — which was once the home of its sibling, WaterCourse Foods — with the space next door, gaining twice as much dining area,…
The house has stood on the edge of downtown Denver for 120 years. For 88 of those years, it was the home of Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado’s first poet laureate; his words line the rotunda of the State Capitol and mark the spot where Denver got its start at Confluence…
A week ago, three young entrepreneurs launched a new concept: Sabi Sushi, a restaurant without a restaurant that takes orders online, fills them at a local kitchen, then delivers the goods to a predetermined downtown drop zone. “First there were traditional restaurants,” co-owner Shaan Puri told Laura Shunk. “Then fast-casual,…
Mayor Michael Hancock defined his concept of a “win” for Denver in any “win-win-win” solution for the National Western Stock Show during a speech before the venerable City Club of Denver yesterday: “Folks, we have got to find a way to keep the National Western Stock Show in Denver,” he…
Was Stranahan’s the punk rock of whiskey? That was the question posed by Sean Kenyon yesterday, in the first of his several-part series on the sale of Stranahan’s late last year — and the recent departure of head distiller Jake Norris from the company. That news inspired this response from…
Kristen and Will Stillman survived unimaginable horrors during the dozen years they were prisoners of Eric Torrez. The twins were just eight when their mother, Karen, got kicked out of a fourth homeless shelter and took her children to a tiny house on Irving Street where Torrez lived with his…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, featuring everything from a mountain of mac and cheese with pulled pork to that rare bird, broasted chicken, to a plate of soft-shell crabs. For correctly identifying that plate as coming from Pho-natic, Denverchef wins an EatDenver deck…
All this week, we’ll be rolling out the dishes that will be featured at Dish, our celebration of Denver’s dining scene, set for Friday, September 9. This is the seventeenth edition of the annual eating event, which used to go by the name Menu Affair and also has a new…
When I equated the One Book, One Denver program with a McDonald’s Happy Meal — people-pleasing and easy to digest — I didn’t know that McDonald’s had signed on to sponsor this year’s celebration of reading, which will focus on The Art of Racing in the Rain. But hey, at…
This weekend is your last chance to make some memories at Dixons Downtown Grill, which is closing its doors Monday after almost fifteen years in the heart of LoDo. LoDo residents will be crying in their beers at a Saturday afternoon wake at Dixons. But the restaurant will stay open…
