If you can’t stand the heat, get out of la cocina. Back in 1995, Saul Sierra was a nineteen-year-old high-school drop-out and dishwasher when he opened Mi Cocina Grille at 4935 West 29th Avenue with the help of his mother. Three years later, he sold that location (it’s now LaCocinata)…
5280 is out with its annual Top of the Town issue, and Michael Roberts — the powerhouse behind the Latest Word — has been named the town’s Top Blogger. He deserves the honor…and then some. He’s made this blog the talk of the town…
Robert Thompson’s Argyll was the surprise hit of 2009; despite being labeled a “gastropub,” it even took top honors for Best New Restaurant in our Best of Denver 2010. Argyll was doing so well that Thompson had considered taking on the space next door to the restaurant at 2700 East…
Industry insiders have predicted that Colorado’s new medical-marijuana laws might nearly halve the number of dispensaries in the state, and some of Denver’s dispensaries are on the hit list. But since new laws were instituted in Los Angeles, the reduction has been far more dramatic, with hundreds of dispensaries required…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, from the sliders at this still-unidentified steakhouse to the tacorito at Holly Inn West to the marrow bones at Brasserie Ten Ten. For correctly identifying that dish, Kelly wins a DINR deck. Kelly, send your contact info…
BenchWarmers will open its third Colorado location on Thursday, June 24, and in touting this accomplishment, the Colorado-based company offers the most succinct business plan ever: “I was at a Colorado Avalanche game one evening with friends,” founder and chief executive officer Kevin Foote, explains in this earlier Cafe Society…
Graeme McDowell may have won the U.S. Open, but in a far more inexplicable Pebble Beach victory, Ken Ross, the CEO of Pinnacol Assurance, was named Business Person of the Year by the Colorado chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The award cited his “communication skills.” And he…
It’s getting to be a full-time job tracing the fall-out from the job offers dangled by the White House for Andrew Romanoff. According to Roll Call, House Republicans issued a resolution of inquiry last night demanding documents from the Justice Department on the White House’s role in making job offers…
Former Top Chef contestant Richard Blais was in Denver recently, and he’s still all shook up over what he found when he visited H Burger: a copycat version of his Burnt Marshmallow and Nutella milkshake. “Maybe I should just be flattered?” he asks in this steaming-mad blog post. “But instead,…
Greg Goldfogel checked in a couple of weeks to reveal his new plans since abruptly closing Alto, the restaurant that replaced the beloved Ristorante Amore, last summer. “I have finally got my head back on straight,” he said, “filed for bankruptcy, and decided to launch Amore Natural Foods, bringing back…
The neighborhood has been hot, hot, hot since Chick-a-Latte started pouring out the coffee — and pouring on the sex — at 4736 East Colfax Avenue. Tomorrow, the coffeeshop’s owners hope to warm up the neighbors by offering a free D cup of coffee to anyone who comes in. That’s…
Colorado candidates cowboyed up this week, riding into the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association annual convention in Pueblo to tout their ties to rural Colorado. And in the southeastern quadrant of the state, no topic causes more of a rural row than the proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. The…
“Eat*Drink*Play,” urges the logo of Chances, a new joint that just opened today in the spot at 1135 Bannock Street that had been Wolfie’s and, before that, Bambino’s. Make that half of the spot — the space has been cut back (the other half is a salon), but there’s still…
Elway’s was hot, hot, hot at last night’s Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, a benefit for the men’s programs at Denver Health. Governor Bill Ritter welcomed the crowd — and got to speak from experience about Denver Health’s care, since he spent several days in the hospital in March after his…
The new season of Man V. Foodstarted last night, and featured Adam Richman attempted to become a Wing King at the West End Tavern, a challenge that involves eating fifty wings in half-an-hour. Since the challenge was introduced almost a year ago, fifteen eaters have been crowned Wing King. Richman…
Thanks to the Anubis statue now standing guard outside Denver International Airport, all those conspiracy theories about DIA have taken off again — and they’ve landed the airport smack-dab in today’s edition of USA Today. “Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis now standing outside…
In March, Adam Richman traveled to Boulder — 926 Pearl Street, to be precise — to tackle the Wing King Challenge at the West End Tavern: fifty chicken wings in thirty minutes. Since the West End introduced the contest a year ago, only fifteen people have managed to finish, even…
El Diablo may be the most appropriate name ever for a restaurant. Jesse Morreale, who took on the massive project of renovating the old First Avenue Hotel at First and Broadway, turning the front area into a restaurant he named El Diablo (an adjacent portion is already Sketch), was in…
And here we thought Ryan Snodgrass and Justin Lariscy, the rafting guides who rescued a thirteen-year-old girl from Clear Creek and got arrested as thanks, were take-charge guys. Now comes news of Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who made it his mission to kill Osama Bin Laden — and was…
Jeff Peckman, the creator of a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, has promised that the measure would not cost the city anything — and by moving the proposal from the August ballot to the November election, the Denver Elections Division has made good on at…
The rubber-band installation in the back room of the Corner Office, 1401 Curtis Street, snapped a while ago, but its been replaced with a far cooler piece of art: a mural created by renowned graffiti artists David Villorente and Robert Cartwright, who created New York street art under the name…
On Sunday, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank weighed in on his “prickly” former editor at the Yale Daily News: one Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff, who’s challenging incumbent Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, may have left journalism behind, but he still knows how to edit an upstart…
