Here’s the start of our capsule review of the Northwoods Inn, a Colorado institution that opened on South Santa Fe Drive back in 1961, then moved to 8109 Blakeland Drive in Littleton a decade ago: “Not surprisingly, the menu at this veteran steakhouse is mostly meat.” And how! Turns out…
When McCormick’s Fish House & Bar opened in the corner of the Oxford hotel in 1987, it was an oasis in a lower downtown desert that desperately needed a new watering hole. Twenty-four years later, LoDo is overflowing with bars — and McCormick’s has achieved the status of an institution…
Turns out that Tom Tancredo was not the only Michael Hancock supporter to start shouting “Viva Romer.” State representative Crisanta Duran gave $100 to the Hancock campaign, a donation recorded on May 10 — the day before she endorsed Chris Romer and became deputy manager of his campaign…
Department of Homeland Security agents, along with members of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, raided Wildcat Dairy yesterday — and found that 89 percent of the workers there were not authorized to be in the U.S. But so far, only the employees are being punished — not the employer. According…
A year ago this week, Westword’s cover story was Laura Shunk’s “The Truck Stops Here,” a look at the spanking-new phenomenon — in Denver, at least — of gourmet food trucks. Steuben’s, the first truck to take to the streets, was the focus of that piece, but it wasn’t long…
It’s going to be hot today, perfect weather for some ice cream. It’s already hot in the comments section of Laura Shunk’s “Denver’s five best spots for ice cream” post, where readers are melting for Sweet Action, giving Liks the deep freeze and, in the case of anon, asking Shunk…
Movers and shakers usually donate to political campaigns so that they can get the ear of an office-holder. But at today’s debt-retirement fundraiser for Doug Linkhart, they’ll be lucky if they get this lousy T-shirt… and the thanks of a longtime public servant…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, including a couple that featured unheralded items at homegrown chains: tacos at Chipotle and chile at Larkburger. And then there was this non-chain burger , an early contender for Best Burger in the next Best of Denver. For correctly identifying…
The end of the endless Denver mayor’s race is just a week away, and no matter how Chris Romer or Michael Hancock may feel about creationism, there’s little evidence that this campaign has evolved. A Romer-supporting 527 is still wallowing in the mud…
The comments just keep coming about Laura Shunk’s review of Lou’s Food Bar — although often the comments have less to do with Lou’s than they do with its owner, Frank Bonanno, or the Denver food scene in general, or Westword’s coverage of that food scene in particular. For example,…
With ice cream weather finally on the horizon, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s Five Best Places for Ice Cream,” including Sweet Action and Sweet Cow, winner of the Best Ice Cream in the Best of Denver 2011. But her ice cream picks left Werdna cold: You’ve got to be kidding…
Memorial Day is still three days away, but all week I have been carried away by memories. The extended Westword family lost one of its members this week when Chris Power Bain, who’d served as advertising manager in the early ’80s, passed away. There’s much more to her story than…
No sour grapes here! Every week, Swirl Girl Kendra Anderson pours out information — and opinions — about wine. Too much info? Not according to Mo Smith, who posted this comment on “Three major sommelier service don’ts”: Enjoy your columns, but will say that some of us love the dorky…
“Viva Romer!” That was the word from Tom Tancredo yesterday morning on Peter Boyles’s radio show, responding to the dirty-tricks campaign designed to turn Latino voters against Michael Hancock by claiming that Tancredo has endorsed Hancock. Except, of course, that Tancredo has never endorsed Hancock…
The closing of Tarbell’s and The Oven at the Streets at SouthGlenn continues to fuel a discussion of what kind of restaurants, exactly, will work in the suburbs, as opposed to the city. Here’s the take from b/art: Wow. We actually would drive to the Oven from the Wash Park…
In a Denver mayoral campaign that was supposed to be so clean, the dirtiest deed yet is tied to a man who does not even live in Denver and has not actually talked to either candidate. “That’s what you get for going to lunch with Peter Boyles,” says Tom Tancredo…
Just when you thought this mayoral campaign couldn’t blow any harder, Tom Tancredo enters the ring. Not that the five-term congressman, one-time presidential aspirant, one-time gubernatorial candidate and all-time House Crazy asked to get in on the action. But once the negative ads start, how much lower can you go?…
The Rapture has been postponed from last Saturday to October 21, and the renovation of McCormick’s Fish House & Bar has also been postponed — but only until May 31. That means you have another week to enjoy the bar’s legendary greyhounds (fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice), happy-hour food deals and camaraderie…
The news that both Tarbell’s and the Oven had closed at the Streets at SouthGlenn saddened fans in the southern suburbs, as well as the Cafe Society scribes who’d awarded Tarbell’s the Best Burger award in the Best of Denver 2011. But davebarnes has a different take: Not sad. Overpriced…
My official ballot for the City and County of Denver’s municipal run-off election was shoved through my mail chute yesterday and I picked it up gingerly, wondering if the slime would come off on my hand. Increasingly, this campaign has made me long for a John Hickenlooper-like no-negative-campaigning shower…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from the dosa at Jai Ho to a Philly cheesesteak sandwich at Vita to this golden plate of potsticking goodness. For correctly identifying them as coming from Lao Wang Noodle House, CabelMarco wins an EatDenver deck…
“Police Brutality is Killing Us.” That was the stark message, laid out in black-and-white, in the editorial pages of the Denver Post yesterday. But this wasn’t an editorial: It was an ad placed by the America Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, part of a new Race to Justice campaign designed…
