The long-promised remodel of McCormick’s Fish House & Bar in the Oxford Hotel was completed last month and celebrated at a pair of parties this week, where a few innovations were revealed in the legendary Cruise Room. We understood that the original marble floor was a hazard, and the replacement…
The Denver Department of Environmental Health is responsible for inspecting over 3,500 brick-and-mortar food establishments — as well as mobile food trucks and events. Some restaurateurs think that the department went too far in recent years, when the fines assessed eateries soared. And after a year of discussions between health…
Want to be part of a new reality show? The Breckenridge-Wynkoop restaurants are collaborating with Koncrete Media, a local production company, on a reality TV show, Mile High Social. And they’re hosting a casting call from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 10 at Ghost Plate & Tap; the…
Yazoo Barbecue Company has won several Best of Denver awards since Don Hines opened his barbecue joint in a 700 square foot bunker at 2150 Broadway a decade ago. Since then, Hines has opened a second location an East Arapahoe, and his places are so popular that Yazoo is a…
This is Founder’s Day at the University of Denver, with the founder in question being then-territorial governor John Evans. In fact, “the university’s highest award” is the Evans Award, which will be handed out to a Board of Trustees member tonight. Before he moved to Colorado, Evans had founded Northwestern…
Ugg boots? For Bree Davies, that’s the best thing to come out of winter in Colorado. “Digging cars out of the snow, getting stranded for days inside my own house, standing in the cold waiting to get into a show, a movie or a restaurant — these are all things…
TJ Hobbs, who now heads the kitchen at Ghost Plate & Tap, was raised in rural Minnesota, and his first job was working on an organic farm — so he understands the farm-to-table concept. And he’d like to see the “farm to table” moniker disappear in 2013. “Not the use…
Think firefighters want Senate Bill 25, which would allow collective bargaining, to go through the Colorado Legislature? According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters group was the single-biggest donor to current legislators in 2011-12, pouring out $140,325…
“I gave an interview to some asshole out here, from some crunchy newspaper,” Adam Carolla said from the Paramount stage Wednesday night. “He’s probably here somewhere tonight.” And he was: Josiah Hesse was in the audience as Carolla proceeded to launch a Big Mock Attack directed at Hesse’s discussion of…
Denver lost a piece of its dining history when Leo Goto recently passed away. His Leo’s Place was one of the most popular places in town after it opened in 1970; Goto went on to turn the Wellshire Inn into a fine-dining restaurant. And his smiling presence was a constant…
After twenty years, Ballet Nouveau Colorado has made the leap. The dance company is splitting in two, and the portion now known as Wonderbound has moved into Denver, to 1075 Park Avenue West — at the confluence of Arapahoe Square, Curtis Park and Five Points. Wonderbound is sharing the building…
Before John Evans moved west in 1862 to become the first territorial governor of Colorado and found the school that grew into the University of Denver (as well as inspire the naming of streets, towns and a mountain), he was among nine founders of Northwestern University north of Chicago, in…
Federal Boulevard is full of pho restaurants, and one took a hit early yesterday morning when a fight started outside Maxim Lounge around 2 a.m., moving from the venue’s parking lot out onto the street. Then a Honda Civic with a ski rack struck three people in the parking lot…
Denver diners love hot wings — and hate anyone who criticizes their favorites. Yesterday Jenn Wohletz wrote about her trip to the Buffalo Wild Wings outpost at 8255 South Chester Street in Englewood, where she liked the Blazin’ wings and not much else. The sports-bar atmosphere and conversation, in particular:…
As the Colorado Senate begins debating gun bills, the Capitol should be filled with enough opinions today to blow the dome right off. But you can shoot your mouth off on the future of this state without even leaving your couch or kitchen table: Starting today, TBD Colorado is bringing…
After two and a half years, Cantina Laredo has folded its umbrellas at the Streets at SouthGlenn, and the location has been wiped off the website of the Texas-based chain, which has restaurants in a dozen states (as well as the United Arab Emirates). But there’s still a Cantina Laredo…
For the first time, we’re doing our Best of Denver Readers’ Poll voting in two rounds — and last week, after we closed out the first round, we revealed the leading vote-getters. Some of the results were eye-opening (and wince-inducing). for example, the finalists for Best Italian Restaurant? Maggiano’s, Gaetano’s,…
On Saturday, Westword celebrated its ninth class of MasterMinds — artistic adventurers who are changing the landscape of Denver. Here’s our last winner: The Nix brothers got their start as filmmakers in high school in 1999, when Evan, the older brother, got a VHS camcorder for Christmas. They were living…
Later this morning we’ll post our Restaurant Roll Call for February, a compendium of all the openings and closings on the Denver dining scene last month. One of those openings? Moontower Tacos, which opened a week ago in the former Thai Mango space at Sixth and Grant. Owner Brent Thrash…
Yesterday we caught up with Steve Progar, who’s moved from Abusci’s to the Hideaway Steakhouse, which opened two years ago next month in Westminster. That Hideaway is not to be confused with Hideaway Kitchen & Bar. But it often is, says Dante Tripi, now the chef at Hideway Kitchen &…
When Patzi Azpiroz decided he wanted to introduce authentic deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza in California, he spent two years experimenting with recipes in his San Francisco kitchen. Today there are a half-dozen Patxi’s Pizza outlets in California, and this fall Azpiroz and his partner, Bill Freeman, opened the first Colorado Patxi’s…
After ten years, award-winning author Kent Haruf has returned to Holt — a fictional town in eastern Colorado, but one filled with simple truths. Haruf, a native of Colorado, grew up in a place like this, “out from Denver, away from the mountains, back onto the high plains: sagebrush and…
