The Taste of Colorado, which opens at 11:30 a.m. today in Civic Center Park, serves up much more than turkey legs, snowcones, kettle corn and roasted nuts — although those classic snacks are available, too. But there are also restaurants, gourmet carts and other culinary companies with booths scattered amidst…
How much wiggle-room is there in today’s deadline for the state’s ballot certification? After repeated questions on Thursday — prompted by Republican hopes that Dan Maes would drop out of the gubernatorial race — Secretary of State Bernie Buescher finally issued a statement to clarify things…
At noon, all three Colorado gubernatorial candidates are slated to be at Channel 12 to tape the first debate of the season, which is scheduled to air tomorrow night. That’s the day the Colorado Secretary of State’s office must officially certify the names on the November ballot…
The artist-outfitted pianos that the Downtown Denver Partnership placed on the 16th Street Mall last November were such a hit that ten of them returned this summer for a command performance. And while they were initially supposed to stay there just through June, the gig kept getting extended, and extended…
Colorado produce is continuing to pour into local farmers’ markets, but EatDenver is already reaping the benefits of the recent Harvest Week, when its 55 members offered special deals and meals to celebrate this state’s homegrown products. And EatDenver definitely qualifies as one of those — even though for the…
While gourmet trucks and other mobile food outfits continued to roll out in August, a number of brick-and-mortar establishments opened their doors, too. Keep reading for our list:…
Gray’s Coors Tavern and the Sunset Inn go head to head — make that slopper to slopper — tonight on Food Wars on the Travel Channel. A slopper is a messy delicacy unique to Pueblo: an open-face cheeseburger served in a soup bowl, and covered with red or green chile…
What candidate would a mayor with a simmering police scandal in his city not want to face in a gubernatorial race? A candidate with a background in law enforcement — unless, of course, that background is looking pretty murky. Lucky John Hickenlooper, meet Dan Maes…
A little help, please! A reader just made this fascinating request: “I’m organizing a night with my wife involving all things tiny. We are renting a Smart car and hopefully trying some of Denver’s smallest food and drink establishments. Unfortunately, a Google search has yielded very little information, so I…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a homegrown chain founded by Alon Mor in 2007, will open its eleventh Front Range restaurant tomorrow at 2466 South Colorado Boulevard. And today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Garbanzo is partnering with the National Sports Center for the Disabled on a private, pre-opening fundraiser at the…
Harvest Week is over, but the eating will continue for Tom Ward, who won an EatDenver deck for his mouth-watering description of a Harvest Week dinner at Panzano, which you can read here. Tom, send your address to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send you the deck, with $520 worth of discounts…
When John Hickenlooper unveiled his education platform yesterday, he touted the experience of running mate Joseph Garcia, currently the president of CSU-Pueblo. Which would make Garcia, who’s already served as director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies under then-governor Roy Romer, a natural to head the Colorado Department of Education…
Although EatDenver’s Harvest Week — a cornucopia of special menus featuring Colorado’s produce and products at Denver’s independent restaurants — just ended, there’s still one last course to serve up: a DINR deck, which gives you $520 in discounts at members of Eat Denver (formerly known as Denver’s Independent Network…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess where contests this past week (our apologies for the hellish computer glitches that affected the comments functionality), ranging from this late summer salad to some still-unidentified carne asada fries to these barbecue sauces. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jabo’s, VB wins…
While Ali Hasan — wearing a bolo tie as well as “Muhammed” in front of his name — proudly proclaimed himself a Republican as he pushed for the controversial Muslim community center/mosque project near Ground Zero on Fox News last week, his mother was telling Talking Points Memo that the…
The building at 2479 South Broadway that briefly housed the Cabin on Broadway — and Old Tyme Dawgs & Drafts before that, and the Blue Walleye before that, and Mike’s Great Divide before that — is back on the block, locked up tight with a broker’s sign in the window…
He may not have been a great candidate for Colorado treasurer, but Ali Hasan — now using the Muhammed in front of his name that he usually dropped in favor of Ali, and billing himself as “an American and Constitutionalist first, a Muslim second” — came out the winner in…
The Citizen Oversight Board — the seven-member group set up as a watchdog for the city’s Safety Department — had already changed the venue for tonight’s quarterly public forum to a larger venue. After all, the board anticipated a big turnout and plenty of questions for its guest speaker: Manager…
The calls and e-mails started coming early yesterday morning, after news broke that Tom Tancredo had chosen a new lieutenant governor candidate: Pat Miller. No, not the Pat Miller better known as the Gabby Gourmet — though that would certainly have broadened the ticket…
A Lakewood man got a trespassing notice for telling a Safeway deli employee that he likes large chicken breasts, Michael Roberts reports…
Heather and Doug Buchman are closing down their Second Street Art Market and Wine Bar in Monument. “The time has come for us to move forward from this experience and do more of what we do best,” they report. The wine bar will remain open through Saturday; after that, they’ll…
Just in the nick of time, Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo has a new running mate on the American Constitution Party ticket. And no, it’s not Michelle Malkin. Former state representative and author Pat Miller will be Tancredo’s lieutenant governor candidate…
