Steve Progar posted this note on Facebook earlier today: “After a successful 12 years in partnership at Abrusci’s, I’ve taken on a new challenge at the Hideaway Steakhouse. Great place, great food, great people! Hope to see you all come in! Thanks for all the memories at Abrusci’s!” But if…
Last week, we revealed Cafe Society’s choices for Denver’s Ten Best New Restaurants to open in 2012: Amerigo, Squeaky Bean, The Populist, Central Bistro & Bar, True Food Kitchen, Taita Peruvian Cuisine & Bar, The Universal, Pho Lee, Uncle and The Kitchen Denver. At the time, one of the restaurants,…
Cabinet members Ken Salazar and Ray LaHood were at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal last week, announcing a deal that adds 1,200 acres to the Rocky Flats wildlife refuge and stretches the Rocky Mountain Greenway. But some weren’t celebrating the announcement…
For this week’s review (which will be published later today), Gretchen Kurtz ventured south to La Polleria, the Peruvian polleria that opened in a strip mall in 2011, bringing authentic ethnic flavor to a suburban space. And it was a welcome addition, says one reader: See also: – It takes…
Governor John Hickenlooper is just back from the National Governor’s Conference in Washington, where he did not talk about drinking fracking fluid, as he had during Senate testimony two weeks ago. Hick’s quip about his sip of frack fluid made headlines, but there are at least six Colorado drinks we’d…
Yesterday we revealed the current Food & Drink leaders in our Best of Denver 2013 Readers’ Poll. In the Best Fried Chicken category, for example, the top five vote-getters are:Carrie’s Place, Steuben’s,White Fence FarmPopeye’s and KFC. And those last two just don’t fly with one reader. See also: – Best…
On Saturday, Westword celebrated its ninth class of MasterMinds — artistic adventurers who are changing the landscape of Denver. Here’s a look at our first winner: Self-proclaimed “farmer/midwife/DJ/producer/emcee/touring musician” Ietef Vita was born Michael Walker in Five Points in 1986, part of a family of artists and activists with “a…
JetBlue brought me to Denver last night only a few hours late. But even though we landed at Denver International Airport, with its all-weather runways, I felt transported back to another airport — the old Stapleton International Airport — and thirty years back in time, to the Blizzard of 1982…
For her most recent review, Gretchen Kurtz went to True Food Kitchen — a restaurant that definitely focuses on good food that’s good for you, even if the menu isn’t overt about its good intentions. But when you go out to eat, do you want someone else to have decided…
Gretchen Kurtz reviewed True Food Kitchen, which opened last fall in Cherry Creek. Lori Midson interviewed Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, for Chef and Tell. See also: – True Food Kitchen is good…and good for you – Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, on the perfect bite and his…
On Monday, Visit Aurora launched its first online voter’s choice poll, Aurora’s Eats & Drinks, to pick that city’s favorite restaurants. And while voting continues on the poll through March 11, Cafe Society readers are already weighing in — some saying that they’d never eat in Aurora, others insisting that…
Last week we posted our list of the Ten Best New Restaurants to open in 2012, and included Squeaky Bean — which had closed in LoHi in 2011, then opened in LoDo a year later — and the Kitchen Denver, the latest outpost of a Boulder-based empire. But do those…
Denver is full of aesthetic adventurers and artists who are changing the cultural landscape. They’re among Denver’s greatest assets, the reason this city attracted more of the desirable 25-to-34-year-old demo than any other area in recent years. They’re Colorado’s creative capital…
On Monday night, Euclid Hall was featured on Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods. But the food there isn’t all that bizarre: Yesterday, Euclid Hall learned that executive chef Jorel Pierce has been named a semi-finalist for James Beard Rising Star Chef. And while Pierce didn’t last past the first episode of…
Denver is full of aesthetic adventurers and artists who are changing the cultural landscape. They’re one of this city’s greatest assets, the reason we’ve attracted more of the desirable 25-to-34-year-old demographic than any other area over the past few years. They’re Colorado’s creative capital. But some of their efforts are…
Euclid Hall is on a roll. Today the restaurant learned that Jorel Pierce, the executive chef, has been named a James Beard semifinalist in the Rising Star Chef category. And last night, the restaurant’s Rocky Mountain oysters got a rave review from Andrew Zimmern on Bizarre Foods. One segment of…
The James Beard Foundation has just released its list — its long list — of semi-finalists, and several Denver area restaurants and chefs have made the cut. Jorel Pierce may have gotten bumped from Top Chef early, but the exec chef at Euclid Hall made the cut for Rising Star…
Ole! The former Luciano’s space at 1043 Broadway will not become Pizza Pizza, as was rumored last fall, but Ole, which promises “Italian with a Brazilian kick!” (Which means it’s no relation to the Ole in Commerce City, a Mexican joint.) The sign is on the window and door of…
The story of the Sand Creek Massacre is a difficult one to tell — but also a critical one to tell, and tell right. That’s why the Northern Cheyenne are so disappointed with Collision, the History Colorado exhibit, that they have asked it be taken down. That’s why two lectures…
Yesterday Jenn Wohletz weighed in on the European horse-meat “scandal,” revealing that not only would she eat horse, she’d eat it again. “It’s horse meat, not poison, and if horse meat were sold at grocery stores here in the States, I might be nibbling on a haunch of roasted mustang…
When we last caught up with Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of the homegrown PeaceJam, they were on their way to Guatamela, to spend December 21, 2012 — that important date on the Mayan calendar — with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Mayan elders and hundreds…
In our current cover story, “Big, Big Love,” Jenn Wohletz profiles one big, happy, polyamorous family: Reggie, Eeza Alexander and Cassiday, who all share a home — and a California king-sized bed — in Denver. But polyamory is not all sexual fun and games, she reports. The more people in…
