Indulge Wine Bar For all the restaurateurs closing their joints and blaming the economy (see: Via), three times as many seem to be opening — this week, at least. On Monday, it was Indulge Wine Bar, which will be serving up two dozen vintages by the glass; lunch and dinner…
Mark Dym plays with fire at Marco’s. On Wednesday night, I had a pizza. Doesn’t matter from where—let’s just say it was from a well-known chain, well-known for serving halfway-decent ingredients atop cardboard crusts to drunken frat boys, suburban families and, occasionally, lazy restaurant critics. Let’s just say the name…
WaterCourse is out from under wraps. Dan Landes usually stars at WaterCourse Foods, WaterCourse Bakery and City, ‘O City, his Denver ventures. But tomorrow night, he’s got a starring role on the Food Network’s Dinner Impossible, helping host and Iron Chef America winner Michael Simon with his toughest task yet…
“X” marks the drop. We can’t tell you when you’ll get that mail-in ballot you requested, and then requested again. But we can lay to rest another rumor making the rounds: that mail-in ballots are only counted if a vote looks close election day. “We count every ballot,” says Linda…
The Ice House has swallowed another restaurant. Via Modern Tratteria & Bar has gone the way of Brasserie Rouge, Anita’s Crab Shack, and Cucina Cucina, which all occupied the same space in the Ice House at 1801 Wynkoop Street. Jason Sheehan raved about James Mazzio’s menu (he loved Brasserie Rouge,…
Those wacky Republicans! The McCain-Palin Colorado campaign is hosting its seventh — and final — Iron Chef phone bank this evening, starting at 5 p.m. at the Centennial headquarters. This week’s special ingredient is “Sloppy Joes,” in honor of Joe the Plumber. Phone-bank participants are encouraged to bring homemade dishes…
Now you can indulge yourself in Highlands Ranch, since Indulge Wine Bar will open its doors at 4 p.m. today, and then stay open seven days a week — from 4-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, from 4 p.m.-midnight Friday, from 11 a.m.-midnight Saturday, and from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday. And the hours…
Problem One: It’s 1:33 a.m, you’ve been studying all night, and you want a cookie. Solution: Boulder Baked Boulder Baked offers 24 varieties of cookies, including the Kona: a chocolate espresso, macadamia nut and coconut cookie. But this bakery doesn’t just sell cookies; it also has whole pies and simple…
Auguste Escoffier woud be honored by the celebration in his honor. For all you hardcore food nerds, there’s an event coming up where you can seriously get your geek on. On November 9, the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food will celebrate the life and cooking…
Have these drinks been chilled? When Jack Martinez, founder of the beloved Jack-n-Grill at 2524 Federal Boulevard, franchised his New Mexican restaurant concept to Anthony Javazon, the Jack-n-Grill at 16221 East 40th Avenue became a favorite stop for recalibrating the tastebuds after flying into DIA, and earned a Best of…
Wolves found no sanctuary at CSU Sunday. Barack Obama’s appearances in Denver and Fort Collins on October 26 set records for starstruck crowds and creative guesstimates of crowd size by reporters. But the Democratic presidential hopeful’s latest swing through our candidate-besieged state (you’d think we had ninety electoral votes here,…
Now that John Hickenlooper has voted, he can get back to the budget. Boo! Want to avoid scary lines on November 4? You can still ask for a mail-in-ballot through 5 p.m. October 28 — but that’s putting a lot of faith in our election commissions, their crazy California printers…
Gary Isaacs’s original photo for the Wynkoop proclaimed that Beer Is Food. The blow-out, twentieth anniversary celebration of the Wynkoop Brewing Co., 1634 18th Street, continues today with the after-party for the Gorilla Run and then, at 2 p.m., an amazing (and potentially very icky) stunt: a dive into a…
No sooner had WaterCourse Foods moved from 13th Avenue into its new, bigger home at 837 East 17th Avenue than the building was suddenly covered with construction scaffolding and attendant crap. Obstacles like this are often enough to sink a restaurant, but WaterCourse continued to do a healthy — very…
Tosh’s Hacienda The flier for the S.O.S. — Sophisticated.On.Saturdays — party October 25 says that it will be held in the new Club Dynasty, located in the “old” Kiva Restaurant at 3090 Downing Street, with two floors of dance club and a spelling-impaired dress code: “no hats, white tees, do…
Yes, businesses are having a tough time right now, restaurants especially, but you can’t blame all closings on the bad economy. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of bad management. Or just a single bad decision (or lack thereof). That was the case with the downtown Denver Palomino, which the Denver…
Adman Lew Cady sent in the following memory of the early days of the Wynkoop Brewing Co.: The night Rock Bottom opened, John Hickenlooper and I (and you) were there and I asked Hickenlooper what he was going to do now that there was a second brewpub in town. “Crush…
Since it opened in April, Sexy Pizza has gotten plenty of people seriously aroused. But it’s not easy to find satisfaction: The sign at 1018 East 11th Avenue still reads Pizza Vera, which was the name of the business that was there when Cayvan Khalatbari bought the place. “Well, I…
Gary Isaacs’s original photo for the Wynkoop proclaimed that Beer Is Food. After twenty years and many, many, many times twenty beers, memories tend to get a little foggy. Still, I have no problem recalling the day in October 1988 when the Wynkoop Brewing Co. opened its doors. The town…
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Of the fifteen spaces honored in the 2008 Mayor’s Design Awards, several honorees are particularly delicious, because the buildings look just as good as the food created inside them. “Great cities are just as enriched by many discrete and beautifully designed projects as they are by large and bold civic…
Jared Boller has a whole lotta shaking going on. When I first talked to Jared Boller for Bite Metwo weeks ago, it was because he was one of the multitude unexpectedly let go by Jim Sullivan during the synchronized closures of Nine75 and Ocean. Then the head bartender at Ocean,…
