Celebration AleSierra NevadaThis is a beer that I sometimes dream about during the summer months; it’s the only thing that makes me look forward to cool weather. It’s also the first beer I think of when I consider the holidays — and the first one I buy. Although it differs from…
In case you’re looking for anything but turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving, several of Jason Sheehan’s favorite restaurants will be serving their normal menus on Turkey Day. The short list:…
The Thanksgiving dinner table is a sacred place, and we all have a vision of the perfect holiday meal. But what are the most important dishes? If it came down to stuffing or turkey, which would you choose? We can all be thankful such decisions rarely come to pass, for…
If your company has canceled its holiday party because of the economy, there’s still hope! Loews Denver Hotel will be giving away a full holiday party to a local small business. To enter, a business manager must create a DVD or YouTube video explaining why his or her company should…
Thanksgiving is a time for celebration, and some people party by helping others. Westword will run a list of places offering meals for the needy on our Café Society blog. If you know of others, leave a comment below or send us an email. Bar Louie Restaurants is partnering…
Don’t feel like mashing potatoes, thickening gravy and overcooking a turkey this year? There are a few restaurants in the Denver area that will be doing the hard work for you. We’ll be updating this category — and another with places serving the needy. If you know of others,…
Tough times have hit the Denver location of the Santa Fe Tequila Company. The restaurant, at 901 West 10th Avenue, has closed temporarily, according to its website, just about a year after opening and just five months after a review in Westword. But a manager at the restaurant’s…
Seriously, dude? Canned crab? What the fuck was Hosea Rosenberg thinking? For those of you who missed the most recent episode of Top Chef: New York, let me catch you up. The chef-testants had to cook New American for fifty. The catch? They had to do it from the kitchen…
Craft breweries in Colorado and around the country make seasonal beers all year round, but my favorites come out in the fall. I call them holiday, or Christmas, beers. Often dark and with a higher percentage of alcohol, these big beers are the bad boys of the microbrewery world. Colorado…
First, the historic Branch Inn in Pueblo was wiped right off the map by a massive explosion; last Friday, authorities announced that their investigation into the disaster had concluded it was an accident. That’s undoubtedly the same conclusion they’ll reach in the southeast corner of the state, where three people died…
Incredible Berry Crunch! Disney Magic Selections Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Yellowish, puffy corn and oat squares accompanied by rough orbs that appear in four different colors more typically associated with ink than food: blue, purple, red and green. There’s a name for this kind of stuff:…
For the not-so-thrifty holiday shopper, Marczyk Fine Foods has just the thing: black and white truffles. I just got word from Barbara Macfarlane that the store at 770 East 17th Avenue has taken in a shipment of white truffles from Alba and Burgundy blacks — right in time for the…
With fall upon us and turkey day fast approaching, I’ve started to think of some of my favorite, festive holiday treats. Candy canes? Sure. Pumpkin pie? Love it. Pecan pie? Yum. But none of them belong on the Candy Girls blog. Luckily, I found out that Godiva Chocolatier makes truffle…
Pay this forward. “You might think, only in a place called Loveland could generosity pour out in the form of a Vente café latte,” the TV news feature begins. Yup, just in time for the holidays, and to cheer everyone up during the recession doldrums, comes this story from KUSA…
Last year’s winner toasts with the judges. Millions of people drink beer, and many more consider themselves to be beer experts – either in quantity or quality — but only one can be Beerdrinker of the Year. The Wynkoop Brewing Company is now taking resumes for its thirteenth annual Beerdrinker…
For those of you who don’t like margaritas because the sweet and sour makes your teeth squeak, have we got a discovery for you: agave nectar. At a Partida Tequila tasting at Lola this week, we got to sample Partida’s 100 percent organic agave nectar — clean-tasting, sweet, not as…
Gobble this, turkey! Spinelli’s Market 4621 East 23rd Avenue 303-329-8143 Turkey Cranberry Gouda House turkey, cranberry sauce, smoked Gouda, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a croissant, and served with a pickle $7 Spinelli’s Market has to be one of the best, least known, most wonderful places in Denver. A family-owned…
The concept behind Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery sounds like a concept whose time has come. It’s designed to be almost a Native American Chipotle, with an emphasis on healthy, local fare. But while Tocabe sounds like a concept whose time has come, it’s also taking its time. The owners…
I’m a hopeless romantic and my one true love is food — so when it betrays me, I am especially hurt. On Monday I ambled into my local Whole Foods (which is the equivalent of a candy addict going into a candy store or a porn addict into a porn…
After work, I often need a drink. Since I’ve been working at Westword, my after-work watering hole of choice has been Dazzle (930 Lincoln Street) — which not only offers $4 specialty cocktails during happy hour, but great food options at $5 a pop. But what really makes Dazzle stand…
If you were the person you’d always wanted to be, would you look like this? Suddenly, Lowell Boulevard is becoming a very hot restaurant street. First, of course, there was the much ballyhooed transformation of the old Billy’s Inn at 4403 Lowell into the very cool, very hip Billy’s Inn…
Yesterday we took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to visit The Cooler, a bar/restaurant at 2045 Sheridan in Edgewater that not only has a great outdoor patio with a view of Sloan’s Lake, but an unbeatable gimmick: Every beer — and there are lots of them available — comes…
