You won’t find Donna Simpson, world’s fattest woman, anywhere near this state. As David McSwane reported here yesterday, a recent Gallup poll crowned Colorado as the winner in the competition for slimmest U.S. metro cities, with its four largest metro areas taking a huge bite out of the top ten…
Sasquatch is a mythical creature who lurks in the shadows and is rarely seen by humans. All we get are a bunch of plaster casts and maybe some hair samples. Well, we now know how they breed, as the mother of all the creatures has been found: in the swamps…
I had lunch with my fiancee today, which is good and bad. Good because she for some reason is convinced she wants to marry me. Bad because she always wants to split things. She has this idea that eating an entire cheesesteak sando and french fries in the middle of…
When my husband and I tied the knot in August 2008, we knew we wanted a low-key ceremony and informal but still delicious food for the reception. We thought barbecue would be perfect. We found the former at the Jefferson County Courthouse and the latter — after tasting just about…
The organizers of hushDenver hit another grand slam on Saturday night at their third dinner party – this time with kitchen magic by current and former Root Down chefs Erin Boyle, Victor Mena, Brent Buxton, Samm Sherman and Samuel Martinez. I’m not a food critic – thank god, for the…
Jimano’s Pizzeria, a pie palace headquartered in Gurnee, Illinois, is blowing into Denver — and bringing Chicago-style deep dish pizza with it. When Jimano’s opens later this spring at 2950 South Broadway, it’ll be the fourteenth outpost for former finance manager-turned-pizza-baker Jimmy OBerto, who operates additional stores throughout Illinois, Wisconsin…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Of the never-ending parade of dishes that recently took me on an incredibly amazing culinary joy ride, the deconstructed pasta dish in the above snap may have been my favorite. Where did I swoon for my supper?…
When Bump and Grind, the Uptown breakfast and lunch joint best known for its wickedly crass drag queens who made weekend brunch worth the early rise, shuttered at the end of 2009, you could hear the collective cries of anguish all over the city. There was nothing — absolutely nothing…
Dean Ornish M.D. — founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco — has a few thoughts about how to keep off the weight. Let’s find out what’s up white, medical coat sleeve…
After seven years at 2401 Blake Street, the Blake Street Tavern is moving a block south — to 2301 Blake, into a storied space that’s held everything from 23 Parish to Polly Esther’s to Club 303. Chris Fuselier, the tavern’s owner, says he hopes to have everything in place by…
Cafe Society served up eight Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from shiny Chinese food to some very scary soups to yes, a drink that did not contain alcohol. For correctly identifying Pablo’s latte, Rachel is now the lucky winner of a DINR deck. Rachel, send your…
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but as far as chain restaurants go, this one actually doesn’t suck. True, the raspberry mojito was sweet enough for my 16-year-old niece, and the martinis were a little on the small side, but, hell, it’s still more than I expected from a chain…
Cynics may be predicting the end of the cupcake era, but the craze undeniably recognizes a dessert-goer’s instinct toward the small, the cute and the adventurous. What may allow the cupcake to persevere in the face of detractors is its mutable personality. Frozen, savory, boozy or meaty: It’s all been…
Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Avenue #181 in Boulder (in the Peloton’s retail area), already has a decent happy hour that runs from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. daily and includes special pricing on red and white wines, margaritas, martinis and mojitos, plus certain small plates. But they’re upping the ante starting…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
There are people who worship the marriage of shrimp and grits. Those people should take comfort in the fact that several Denver restaurants answer the call, including one down-home joint that always slings a little extra lagniappe on the plate. Can you guess where I got my Dixie on?…
For the first time in more than a decade, McCormick’s Fish House & Bar, at 1659 Wazee Street, did not host its annual luncheon to celebrate the Changing of the Sign — the ceremony held outside the bar on the Thursday before St. Patrick’s Day, when Wazee at 17th Street…
Boulder has some terrific restaurants, including Arugula, the site of a recent Slow Food dinner that fed the mind, body and soul of Juliet Wittman. But Arugula isn’t the only Boulder restaurant that feeds us. Here are five more of our favorites: Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, 303-442-6966…
Today Sprouts Farmers Market will open its eighth Colorado store, at 4729 West 29th Street in Greeley — just two weeks after a Sprouts sprouted up in Centennial, at 20811 East Smoky Hill Road. The six other locations are in Aurora, Boulder, Castle Rock, Fort Collins, Parker and Westminster, and…
If you’re one of those people who doesn’t poison your body with pork, cow, fowl, things with fins or anything else that might be construed as meat by PETA, then we have just the contest for you. The animal-rights group is in the final throes of its annual Sexiest Vegetarian…
Just got news of another Denver Restaurant Week extension. Yes, we know: Even without any extensions, the event has gone way beyond a “week” — and for that matter, it also stretches far beyond Denver. Because the latest extension news comes from Trattoria on Pearl, at 1430 Pearl Street in…
