Don’t look for a second installment of Denver Restaurant Week next summer: Visit Denver, the convention and visitors bureau that organizes the event that’s grown into two weeks in the winter, says that DRW can’t split those two weeks and share the dining wealth between seasons because August is just…
When Elitch Gardens Amusement Park first moved downtown, it planned daily fireworks displays — until neighbors complained. Now, after sixteen years, Elitch Gardens finally has those nightly shows, and though it’s had to scale back the pyrotechnics, it will end the summer season with a bang on Sunday night…
Mayor Michael Hancock will reveal the eighth selection in the One Book, One Denver program today outside of the new Denver Municipal Animal Shelter, where a giant sculpture of a dog stands guard outside. “Sunspot” is a stunning reminder of how much the arts can enrich our lives… and our…
The news that the Spicy Pickle outpost near the University of Denver has closed came as no big surprise to readers. Fact is, many sandwich lovers think the spice went out of the Spicy Pickle long ago. EPL, for example: Bring back the Boars Head meats and maybe your shops…
The flames of the Fourmile Canyon fire have long been extinguished, but the scars remain — on the hillsides, and in the bank accounts and psyches of the victims. A Night at the Gold Hill Inn, a fundraiser at the historic Gold Hill Inn from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. tonight,…
Denver Restaurant Week won’t have a week in August in 2012. That’s the word from Visit Denver, the convention and visitors’ bureau that sponsors the event and held a meeting on July 14 to discuss the future form of the eating orgy that offers $52.80 (for two) meal deals during…
Funkwerks, a funky brewery in Fort Collins, almost created an international incident when it named a beer Maori King, prompting complaints from the Maori natives in New Zealand — complaints reported around the world. That inspired this from Jon S: So I’m more interested in how the Maori found out…
Sometimes the simple answer is the right answer. Simple, stupid even, but the right one. In a comment on Lisa Jones’s blog about the coverage of the Troy Lowrie bust — which fueled Peter Boyles’s radio show yesterday, and is again today — a commenter suggested that Westword’s Latest Word…
After almost fifteen years, Dixons Downtown Grill will serve its last meal on Labor Day. Want to be there? We’re going to give away brunch for two on September 5 to the person who posts the most interesting memory of Dixons in the comments section below. The deadline is 5…
Doesn’t look like Jason Sheehan taught Seattle much during his brief time in the Pacific Northwest. Because while the Seattle Times did score with a few suggestions on where football fans could eat in this new Pac-12 town — the Kitchen, Flagstaff House, West End Tavern — it also fumbled…
On Sunday, the world got to see amazing feats of athleticism as the USA Pro Cycling Challenge wound its way through stunning Colorado scenery to the finish line by the State Capitol. Tonight, the world gets to see another amazing feat of Colorado athleticism: Professor Splash has made it to…
On September 1, Mayor Michael Hancock will announce the selection for the eighth annual One Book, One Denver program. I know it will not be a book by Thomas Hornsby Ferril. I know this because the program has never picked a book rooted in Denver, or even Colorado. (The closest…
You didn’t know you came to make a city, Nobody knows when a city’s going to happen… That’s the start of “Elegant Dust,” one of the poems in which Thomas Hornsby Ferril, named Colorado’s Poet Laureate in 1979, 83 years after he was born, captures the city he always called…
For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary celebration of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year’s Dish, slated for Friday, September 9, at Ninth Avenue Historic Park, promises to be bigger and better than…
Saturday was a big day for William F. Cody, the Old West icon who became the country’s first true action figure, and a marketing genius who pedaled the brand of Buffalo Bill around the world. The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, a Denver-owned facility dedicated to his memory, was recently…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a sad, gray tampiquena steak to a decorative cappucino to this rare sour ale. For correctly identifying it as coming from the Bull & Bush, Rev_Ed wins an EatDenver deck…
Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, the latest effort by Robert Thompson (Argyll, Brasserie Rouge), opens today in the former home of Baur’s. Lori Midson was there last week for a sneak peak of executive chef Sergio Romero’s menu, which Thompson calls “everyday French comfort food,” and her photos had…
Sean McAllister, the attorney who’s co-chairing the state’s DUID-marijuana working group, has a lot of suggestions for what we should do with medical marijuana coverage on this blog — including banning certain commenters and, above all, keeping a closer eye on our dispensary reviewer, William Breathes…
Jesse Morreale’s plans to emphasize burgers and the Broncos at Rockbar, with longtime Borolo Grill chef Brian Laird in that huge hotel kitchen behind and below the dive bar, got a major grilling from readers. Wrote ByeByeBirdie: I met my wife at Rockbar. It was a blind date, so to…
When civic-minded — and eagle-eyed — Coloradans noticed that their summons for jury duty was coming from Albuquerque, they were prepared to indict Colorado officials for sending yet another contract out of state. Was no local company capable of licking and sticking those forms? But now the verdict is in,…
Steve Horner, the anti-ladies’ night crusader who gave Denver bars fits a few years ago when he complained about their deals for women, has moved on to Las Vegas, where he’s filed complaints against six casinos, arguing that their free pool party offers for women are discriminatory. A new law…
Cafe Society had people talking, and squawking, yesterday, about everything from Rockbar’s new plans to Sean Kenyon’s mezcal-tasting trip to the Pinyon’s commitment to local ingredients to how to get the best service at wine shops. But one comment in particular stood out, for both for its erudition and its…
