When the Georg family closed Chinook, their longtime restaurant at 265 Detroit Street, in the summer of 2008, they promised to relocate within a few months to the new Landmark project. But now, more than eighteen months later, it looks like Chinook will never open in Greenwood Village. The space…
First, the kitchen skimped on the sticks, which prompted the bartender to ponder the situation before heading back to the kitchen to haul out a few more. Things were looking up until a rather unsightly insect scuttled across the bar, which prompted me to get the hell out of there…
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…
“I get such an adrenalin rush when I’m in the kitchen and there’s great satisfaction in making it all happen in a very small and hot environment and having people leave happy about their decision to eat here,” says Sheila Lucero. The newly promoted executive chef of Jax Fish House,…
Last fall, Dylan Moore revealed that for the next outpost in his empire, which already includes Deluxe and Delite, he’d be moving off that hip block on Broadway. And as this new billboard (right by Yazoo downtown) shows, Moore is partnering with Mod Living, the hip decor store at 5327…
There are a few things that I like about Boulder and many that I don’t. For example, it bothers me that Boulder exists where it does, snugged up tight against the base of the Flatirons, frantically humping the leg of a mountain range that would be that much more splendid…
Here we are in the dead of winter with 60-degree temperatures. Sweet. If only Sweet Action Ice Cream, the awesome addiction at 52 Broadway that churns out flavors like brown sugar banana, blueberry lavender, baklava and salted butterscotch and Stranahan’s caramel brickle, wasn’t taking the WHOLE MONTH OF JANUARY OFF…
Yee haw! The National Western Stock Show is in town, which means that wannabe Westerners are playing cowboy at bars all over town. But this saloon is the real thing. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Post your answer — with an actual address for this bar, or enough details…
Just got this note from an Ohio man, who needs someone with a more encyclopedic knowledge of the Denver dining scene than I possess: “My wife and I will be there the weekend of February 6. As a kid I’m pretty sure we drove through Denver on our way back…
The pizzas at this slice of life are being pumped out at a record pace, which isn’t surprising, considering their perfect crusts and premium toppings. Which pizza palace has tossed me a new favorite? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any of the week’s…
Virgilio Urbano, the pie man behind Virgilio’s Pizzeria, 7986 West Alameda Avenue, has just issued a challenge: Stuff your piehole with a 28-inch pizza — all 11 pounds of it — topped with sausage, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms, green peppers and onions within a two hour time frame (bathroom breaks…
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…
People love McDonald’s in the worst way. And as two recent incidents show, although there have been billions served by the burger chain, it has not always been happily. On December 27, a still-unidentified woman completely trashed a McDonald’s in Kansas City because she didn’t like her hamburger. A 99-cent…
“A few years ago, during a brainstorming session, I came up with an idea to create an all-female chef cooking event, something that would bring together some of the best female chefs in Denver,” says Sheila Lucero, executive chef of Jax Fish House in Denver and Boulder, and the force…
The waft of spices have stopped escaping from the kitchen at Aroma Cafe & Grill, an Indian-Mediterranean restaurant that opened last May at 2017 South University Boulevard. The dining room is still intact, but the lights are dark, the phone number has been disconnected and the signage has disappeared. Better…
We know how much chefs love their knives — “It’s hurt me, I’ve hurt it, and we’re still together,” joked Kyle Fitzgerald in last week’s Chef and Tell interview — but Heiko K, a slasher chef in Germany, took butchery to a whole new level when he dismembered a man…
On January 12, 1970, Jim and Angelo Karagas opened my My Brother’s Bar, which forty years later is still one of this town’s best watering holes, despite having never had a sign out front. When the brothers bought the building at 2376 15th Street, it had already been a bar…
Puerto Vallarta, the coastal Mexican joint that occupied a corner lot at 75 South Federal Boulevard for as long there’s been shrimp in the sea (okay, that’s a slight exaggeration) is now bordered up with blond wood. But if that’s where you migrated to get your mariscos, don’t heave: The…
New menu. New chef. And one amazing new dish. Which not-so-new restaurant is off to a great start in 2010? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any of the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts will be entered in a pool — and we’ll…
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…
In this here ‘Merica, we can never just cherish a food. It has to become a preoccupation — an “anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better” obsession. We always have to take it one step further, and we don’t give a damn about integrity or redneckery. Case in point: bacon. The Goddess of Pork. The sublime…
Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. But marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture spokeswoman Christi Lightcap, “it would not fall under this specialty crops…
