Just the ‘fax, ma’am. Laura Shunk’s recent visit to Bourbon Grill, a hole-in-the-wall on East Colfax, inspired this from Steve065: I haven’t eaten there in years, but I have a soft spot for the bourbon chicken combo. Laura’s right; it’s perfect food after drunken debauchery. Which can be at any…
On Colorado Day, it seemed very appropriate to run into one of the creative entrepreneurs who are as much a part of this state’s landscape as the Rockies: Denver designer and hair stylist Fallene Wells, one of our 2010 MasterMind winners and a contestant on this season’s Project Runway…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, including two stumpers — a disappointing huarache and some mystery proscuitto and melon — as well as this plate with the town’s most incredible falafel. For correctly identifying the veggie feast as coming from Mecca Grill, Brian wins an EatDenver…
I made a marathon drive back to Colorado yesterday, arriving on the eve of this state’s birthday — just in time to watch a Coloradan make a splash on America’s Got Talent, where the self-proclaimed Professor Splash executed a record-breaking belly flop into twelve inches of water, at about the…
The Denver County Fair may have celebrated some of this city’s most innovative entrepreneurs — but the vendors selling food there didn’t rank among them. Jenny An’s criticism of the eating opportunities at this inaugural fair got her labeled a “commie” by AllAmericanVet: What kind of comi writes a bad…
Our list of the “Five Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver” had a couple of readers wondering about the absence of JJ’s. But which JJ’s? From thespot84: I’m excited to try all of these. For straight up chinese takeout/delivery downtown, however, JJ’s Bistro is truly hard to beat. And this from…
Sixty years ago, metro boosters celebrated the feds’ decision to put a factory that would manufacture plutonium triggers for bombs sixteen miles upwind from Denver. Today, the government is still wrestling with what to do with the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, now slated to become a wildlife refuge…
Charley Garcia is gone from the Denver Manager of Safety’s office almost as quickly as he came in. In March, then-mayor Bill Vidal had appointed Garcia, a former state public defender, to the post, making him the fourth person to hold it in a year. He replaced interim manager Mary…
Readers have been pouring out the jokes since Molson Coors announced that it will release Animee, a beer geared towards female non-beer drinkers, in the UK. From Claire: The Virginia Slims of the beer biz. From eCurmudgeon: Otherwise known as Zima with a new label…
We’ve always been pretty cranky about the lack of Colorado-centric food items at Denver International Airport — especially Colorado-centric food items that visitors can take back home as souvenirs from this state. But that will soon change: Provenzano Resources, which is in charge of adding fourteen kiosks and 24 RMUs…
TAG, you’re it. The fallout from TAG continues to radiate across the restaurant scene, with the news yesterday that James Lee and Michael Pacovsky are going to Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Robert Thompson’s spot slated to open in the former home of Baur’s at 1512 Curtis Street late…
With many Denver streets undergoing repairs these days, traffic around town can be stop and start. On13th Avenue last Thursday morning, it came to a full stop for me. I was heading west in the left lane shortly before 9 a.m. when the already fitful traffic flow ahead of me…
Frank Bonanno is about to expand his empire, adding Russell’s Smokehouse to the vast underground area in Larimer Square where Green Russell is already located. “I’m not doing traditional barbecue, or Texas barbecue, or Kansas City barbecue, or St. Louis-style barbecue,” he tells Lori Midson. “I’m doing barbecue my way…
A week after his inauguration, Mayor Michael Hancock really takes the reins today. This morning, he’ll hold his first Mayor-City Council meeting (five of the reps are complete newbies — unlike Hancock, who was on council for eight years). That’ll be followed by the initial gathering of Hancock’s National Western…
Craig Nassi and the Beauvallon Corp, original owners of the beleaguered Beauvallon building, won a round in the Colorado Court of Appeals — where, last week, a three-judge panel reversed the findings of Denver District Court Judge Norm Haglund and tossed a verdict worth more than a million to Matrix…
We’ve carped plenty about the lack of Colorado-created items at Denver International Airport, and a new program will not only introduce a few state-specific retail outlets, but will also be hiring some Coloradans to work at them at a job fair today. Over the next two weeks, up to fourteen…
Every year for the past decade, Colorado Inside Out, the weekly Colorado Public Television public-affairs show on which I’m a regular, takes a trip back in time. And for the last three years, those journeys have been awarded with a regional Emmy — including one announced Saturday night…
What radio station are you listening to right now? If you have the radio on at all, odds are good that it’s tuned to 630 AM, where Peter Boyles is not just beating the competition, but crushing it. But last week’s report on KHOW’s great early-morning numbers didn’t surprise some…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified plate of “ewww” to a steak at Westerkamp that inspired an interesting comment from “disapointed culinarian” to this duck duet. For correctly identifying it as coming from Bistro Vendome, where Dana Rodriguez is now the executive…
Denver is going very Euro. IKEA, with its 550-seat, meatball-rolling restaurant that will provide sustenance for all those furniture shoppers, officially opens Wednesday. And last Friday, Chloe Mezze Lounge made its long-awaited debut — and in both concept and crowd, the hipper-than-hip Chloe could not have been more unlike the…
Want to run for political office? Have we got a deal for you! The luckiest address in Denver, 1100 Bannock Street, has a “for lease” sign on the door, and this golden spot in the Golden Triangle doesn’t rent to losers…
What? You didn’t get your invitation to the wedding of Asma Hasan, author of Why I Am a Muslim, and Tahir Ali? It’s an extravaganza you won’t want to miss — if Malik and Seeme Hasan, through their Hasan Family Foundation, could pay $300,00 for losing gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’s…
