Yes, yesterday’s Guess Where I’m Eating? cakes were from City Bakery, Michael Bortz’s place up at 5454 Washington Street, an industrial-park setting that gives no hint of the wonderful things being created inside. Except for the smell, of course. Although Bortz breads and desserts are featured at many restaurants around…
John Hickenlooper will announce the Mayor’s Design Awards tonight, but we can tell you that two of the fifteen honorees are restaurants: Root Down and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria. Both restaurants opened last year, in old spaces made remarkably new. In Root Down’s case, a vintage service station was turned into…
Anthony Bourdain wasn’t impressed with Denver when he came through town in 2002, touting A Cook’s Tour. He’ll be back for a talk at the Buell Theatre on November 18, and we’ve got a pair of tickets that we’re giving to the reader who comes up with the best three-stop…
Forget John Hancock: Next time you’re asked to sign a petition, you can just put down your Michael Hancock. Someone — and it definitely wasn’t Denver city councilman Michael Hancock — did just that when presented with a petition pushing a ballot measure that would change the Denver City Charter…
You can have your pecan pumpkin coffeecake and eat it, too, if you stop by this bakery. Maple walnut coffeecake, too. And pecan hazelnut tart. Guess where we’d be eating all day and night if we got the chance……
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 100 Chicken-fried steak from Lola…
Ten years ago this month Westword left LoDo — where the paper had been housed, in an assortment of offices, for more than twenty years, since long before lower downtown even had a hip nickname. Moving to the edge of the Golden Triangle, we found the space and parking we…
The Army wants to take over more of the ranchland around Pinon Canyon — but it’s not accounting adequately for the 238,000 acres it already has, taken 25 years ago in the largest land grab in the country’s history. On September 8, Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the Army’s 2007…
It’s been a long, rough ride for many of the shops at Denver Pavilions, with some high-profile restaurant disasters, including the Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe space on the still-empty bridge, which replaced the disastrous Cafe Odyssey, where diners got to eat at Machu Pichu (yum). But through it all, one…
The nights get quiet in Northfield Stapleton. Driving along 29th Avenue Sunday night, I spotted a hardy crew in the Berkshire, one of the only homegrown spots in the neighborhood, but the chains surrounding that restaurant, and to the north in Northfield, were just about empty. But the area should…
When I last talked with former Congressman Tom Tancredo — about marijuana, of all things, which he’d like to see legalized, even though he’s never so much as attempted to inhale — he was just back from an October Constitution Party event in Phoenix, where he’d been urged to run…
As Bella, 1920 Market Street served upscale Italian fare. As B-52, it was bar chow. As the site of the Real World: Denver, the space served up mostly melodrama. But when new owners Shane Alexander and Josh Hawkinson took over the LoDo building and turned it into Theorie, they hoped…
Six months after it opened in the former home of the Squealin’ Pig at 2700 East Third Avenue, Robert Thompson’s starts serving lunch today. “We’ve been fortunate to have built some momentum lately and our customers have been requesting a moderately priced, high-quality lunch spot in Cherry Creek,” he explains…
The Tavern Hospitality Group is ready to take over the space in the Lowenstein project at 2510 East Colfax Avenue that was previously occupied by Neighborhood Flix, where it plans to open an event center (think the Soiled Dove in Lowry) and a Tavern (think Wash Park, Uptown, etc). But…
Timing is everything. On Thursday, Senator Michael Bennet voted against Lindsey Graham’s amendment that would have barred the Obama administration from trying anyone accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks in federal district courts, instead using military commissions at Guantanamo. And Bennet wasn’t alone: Graham’s proposal was tabled by a vote…
Time to toast a dozen students at the University of Denver School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, who have organized the first-ever DU Vin Festival Grand Tasting. The Grand Tasting runs from 2 to 6 p.m. today, in the HRTM Building at 2044 East Evans on the DU campus…
We were at Table 6 last night, at a Samuel Adams beer dinner, testing the Winter Lager, the Holiday Porter, the new Samuel Adams Barrel Aged Collection of three special brews that will only be offered in select cities, including Denver. We were testing all kinds of beer, with one…
How do you know you’re in a classic dive? It helps if the owner stands up and welcomes you to his place — the place he’s had for 58 years, and bought before he was old enough to own it legally. Jerry Feld bought the bar at 404 Broadway back…
The 2010 election is less than a year away, and judging from this past Tuesday’s vote, things are going to get plenty messy. But here in Colorado, we’re still cleaning up after the dirty dealings of 2006. The gubernatorial race was particularly bad, with 527s and party operatives pushing the…
If the panhandlers trying to shake me down last night as I left this restaurant on the edge of downtown had been smart, they would have grabbed my leftovers rather than asked for change. But maybe they know I would have fought to the death for the last bits of…
Celebrate the town’s best dives at 8 p.m. tonight, when Club 404, the joint at 404 Broadway that Jerry Feld has owned for more than fifty years, hosts the launch party for Drew Bixby’s Denver’s Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City. Bixby will be on…
First, Hapa Sushi owner Mark Van Grack offered free orange undies to participants in last week’s Naked Pumpkin Run, urging them to “Run Responsibly.” Now he’s fired up an ad that includes a map of metro Denver with the four Hapa Sushi locations marked in red — and 59 local…
