The band playing in this space wasn’t enough to distract me from a much needed cocktail Friday night. Nor was the art show hanging on the walls, although I ordered the No Ka Oi pomegranate punch, named after one of the pieces in the exhibit. Can you guess where I’m…
The Tilted Kilt, which opens tomorrow at 1201 16th Street in the former ESPN Zone space, has a menu. I know this because I ordered from it last night during a preview dinner. But when you’re surrounded by hot guys that inch up their kilts on command and girls dressed…
“I made a decision, I’m doing it and it’s happening this weekend.” That’s Mark Dym, owner/chef of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, 2129 Larimer Street, talking about his new brunch, which starts this Saturday, November 14. “We’re keeping it simple, with just a few breakfast pizzas, bottomless mimosas for eight bucks or…
It’s been a long, rough ride for many of the shops at Denver Pavilions, with some high-profile restaurant disasters, including the Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe space on the still-empty bridge, which replaced the disastrous Cafe Odyssey, where diners got to eat at Machu Pichu (yum). But through it all, one…
These Guess Where I’m Eating posts usually go the same way: One of us puts up a picture, offers a few words, then asks you to guess where the dish is from. You good folks guess Chubby’s (if it’s a burrito, which it usually is), or West End Tavern or…
As Bella, 1920 Market Street served upscale Italian fare. As B-52, it was bar chow. As the site of the Real World: Denver, the space served up mostly melodrama. But when new owners Shane Alexander and Josh Hawkinson took over the LoDo building and turned it into Theorie, they hoped…
I recently raved about Chili Verde — the new, kinda-upscale Pueblan restaurant at 3700 Tejon Street. Poblano crepes, perfect ceviche, all kinds of seafood — I loved the grub, the service, the room, everything about the place. The only thing that had me slightly concerned? The fact that the Yanez-Mota…
One of my favorite Denver restaurants just added blue plate specials to its menu, including shrimp and grits, which is the dish you see in the above photo. But while the addition of blue plates to the board just reinforces my unhealthy addiction to said restaurant, the fact that it…
If you’re looking for a quick lunch downtown, your options just got a hell of a lot tastier, thanks to Mike Winston and Bryan Hume, two cooks who worked the line together at Table 6, 609 Corona Street, before striking out on their own and opening Gastro Cart last week…
Thanksgiving is still two weeks away, but should you feel like tackling a turkey early (you know, just for practice), Dedric McGhee, exec chef of Thyme on the Creek, the in-house restaurant at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder (and the former chef of El Monte Sagrado in Taos), offers…
Six months after it opened in the former home of the Squealin’ Pig at 2700 East Third Avenue, Robert Thompson’s starts serving lunch today. “We’ve been fortunate to have built some momentum lately and our customers have been requesting a moderately priced, high-quality lunch spot in Cherry Creek,” he explains…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were hanging on every last word of our hi-larious stories about the time we spent getting up close and personal with the regulars at Nob Hill Inn, which may very well be the best damn dive bar in…
Even though Keegan Gerhard and his wife, Lisa Bailey, opened D Bar Desserts, 1475 East 17th Avenue, just under two years ago, it took about two minutes for the sugar house to emerge as one of the city’s premiere dessert spots. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday,…
Like a good Jew-in-training, I’ve adopted a ritual of taking down a massive bowl of vermicelli noodles covered in pork before heading to my Intro to Judaism class. The eternal question, the one no rabbi can answer, is this: Who’s serving up the noodles?…
First, Michelle Obama caught the attention of carrot stalkers when she corralled a group of Washington, D.C., schoolkids to help her garden grow on the White House’s South Lawn; she also pimped her garden on Sesame Street. Then Spike Mendelsohn, burger wizard, former Top Chef Chicago contestant and the exec…
Yesterday I talked with Alex Gurevich about his plans for making pizzas at the former Mojitos/Mel’s/Montecito/Piscos/Dudley’s space at 1120 East Sixth Avenue, right smack in the middle of Sixth Avenue’s restaurant row. It sounded like good news. Despite some bad moves over the years, I think Gurevich is a good…
The SportsBook, a new nightclub, sports bar and restaurant whose menu is overseen by chef/restaurateur Michel Wahaltere (9th Door, MiniBAR, 5 Degrees), is holding its grand opening tonight with complimentary drinks and food from 7 to 9 p.m. In between grubbing on Wahaltere’s small plates and comfort foods, sports buffs…
If the panhandlers trying to shake me down last night as I left this restaurant on the edge of downtown had been smart, they would have grabbed my leftovers rather than asked for change. But maybe they know I would have fought to the death for the last bits of…
See more of Mark Manger’s photos from Cheeky Monk, the subject of this week’s restaurant review, at westword.com/slideshow…
Robb Walsh, restaurant critic for our sister paper, the Houston Press, book author and genial man-about-town, has followed what has now become a well-trod path among the rapidly decreasing ranks of full-time restaurant critics: He has blown his own cover and chosen to face the world as a non-anonymous critic…
Okay, so yesterday I used my not insignificant Staffing Up mojo to give some suggestions as to what ought to be done with the former Mojitos , which closed last week at 1120 East Sixth Avenue. And then this morning, guess what happened? I get a phone call from Alex…
This letter, which was published in today’s issue, could be the best letter Westword has ever received about a review: Having suffered through Jason Sheehan’s unconscionably vindictive review of Mark & Isabella, I will make a point to try the place, simply to protest Sheehan’s (as always) self-indulgent hatchet job…
