Wild Ginger, the excellent Thai restaurant at 399 West Littleton Boulevard in Littleton, is on hiatus until August 28, an extended holiday of sorts, while owner Somsak Damrongsang hangs out in his native Thailand and the kitchen gets a makeover. “We remodeled the dining room four years ago, but we…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from World Cup drinks at the Irish Snug to some very fresh mozzarella. For correctly tracing that cheese to Luca D’Italia, the Real Joe pegging wins a DINR deck. Real Joe, send your contact info to…
Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog: 1. The fact that Coors Field made PETA”s list of the country’s most vegetarian-friendly ballparks, coming in at number five on its annual list, made the rest of us darksiders swear to eat steaks, cheeseburgers, bratwursts and as…
In case you missed it, Esquire magazine just released its globe-groping list of the “15 Bars Every Many Should Drink In Before He Dies.” Much to our disappointment, there’s not a single Colorado watering hole on the roster, which does, however, ballyhoo bars in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York,…
The British Bulldog may have had the crowds on the opening day of World Cup soccer, but there were a few other spots around town to get your soccer hooligan on — especially if you like Irish whiskey. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
The line that snaked around Larimer Square last night was a mix of old men and young women, all trying to get into Suite 200, site of the Ms. Colorado Hooters pageant. And inside, it seemed like everyone who ever was or still is connected to Hooters was in the…
It’s not the same as $10,000, but Diego Zhang’s, the burger-centric joint with two locations in Centennial, will certainly make do with $2,500, the third place prize awarded in the finals of a local business plan competition sponsored by the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at…
It’s BrewGrass time on Old South Pearl Street, the kick-ass bluegrass block party that combines energetic guitar picking with dirty dancing, feasting and imbibing. The annual celebration, which rocks the 1200 block of South Pearl, kicks off at noon tomorrow with suds from 15 breweries, many of them local, numerous…
Indian food is always a feast, and here, where the above snap was flashed, dinner is a parade of delicious dishes that always ends with lugging home my kid’s leftovers, because, according to him, Indian food is “gross,” except, he contends, for the naan, which in this case is pelted…
Westword — thirty-plus years your weekly, ink-stained guide to Denver — now lives in your iPhone. The Westword iPhone app went live last night and is stocked with much of the same content you get here at westword.com. More specifically, you’ll find:…
By year’s end, Broomfield-based Noodles & Company will have brought its total number of Colorado locations to 43. And with the opening of a store this August in Republic Plaza, there will be two Noodles & Co outposts on the 16th Street Mall alone, one at 303 16th Street; the…
After more than a year of planning and construction, Cellar Wine Bar is now officially open at 2556 15th Street. It’s a great corner location, right at the turn where 15th becomes 29th Avenue — or it would be a great corner location, if not for the fact that the…
First came an appearance on Oprah. Now Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, is a panelist on America’s Next Great Restaurant, joining chefs Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone (The Biggest Loser) and Lorena Garcia. They’ll be the judges as potential restaurateurs vie for what’s being billed by Magic Elves, the production team,…
“I’ve been doing raw food for six years and was shocked when I moved from meat-and-potatoes Chicago to healthy Boulder and saw that there was such a big gap in raw food restaurants,” says Daniel Asher, chef of Root Down and the former chef of Organic Orbit, a vegetable-focused Boulder…
As swiftly and suddenly as Carmen’s Cafe opened in April, the coffee shop at 1115 Grant Street in the Grant Street Mansion has now morphed into the Front Porch Cafe. The shop’s former namesake, Carmen Sanchez, dropped out (or was dropped, depending on who you talk to) as a result…
Grand Junction isn’t what you’d call a culinary food capital, but the mountain town does have at least one claim to fame: Enstrom’s Almond Toffee, the Colorado toffee company that will celebrate 50 years of sugar rushes later this fall with a confection of fanfare. In the meantime, Colorado’s own…
Centennial’s Farro Italian Restaurant has not only tweaked its menu of rustic Italian dishes, but it’s also launched a happy hour, started serving cheap carafes of wine and introduced a three-course “recession menu.” The restaurant’s happy hour, featuring half off all appetizers and small plates, plus $3 well drinks, imports…
Andrew Lubatty The Avenue Grill 630 East 17th Avenue 303-861-2820 www.avenuegrill.com This is part two of Andrew Lubatty’s Chef and Tell interview. To read part one of that interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: When I was fourteen, I worked at this place called J.G. Melons in Bridgehampton, Long Island, that…
When you teach a writing class focused on food — as I did at the University of Colorado for almost a decade — you run into a lot of young food fanatics. And I noticed an interesting phenomenon among them. At first, students enrolled because the class sounded easy (easier,…
Film director Adam Green, who released Frozen earlier this year and just completed Hatchet II, which you can see later this fall, has hooked up with 1492 Pictures, the production firm that produced the Harry Potter films, The Goonies and Gremlins, to bring Killer Pizza to the cinematic screen. The…
Get your sleeping bags out, early birds. Sunflower Farmers Market is opening its tenth Colorado location two weeks from today, and if the past is any indication, things could get a little crazy. A Sunflower representative says lines started forming at 3 a.m. for the Albuquerque store’s June 2 opening…
Yes, we’re bringing it back…my name is Amber (but friends call me Ambs), and I’ll be your new Veggie Girl. Some background: I’ve been vegetarian — not vegan; that’s just plain crazy — on and off for eight of my 29 years. I love food, despite the fact that I’ve…
