Alamos Verdes doesn’t have bad Mexican food, but the venerable Arvada restaurant has the “Worst Boss of 2009,” according to eBossWatch.com, which just ranked the 25 worst bosses. Coming out on top: Paul Martinez, co-owner and manager of the restaurant at 5304 Vance Street that his parents, Emma and John…
The former Dick’s Hickory Dock, a river-side restaurant on Highway 74 between Morrison and Evergreen, was sold at auction by Sheldon Good & Company on December 12. Dick’s, which opened back in the ’70s and snagged a Westword readers’ choice award for Best Barbecued Ribs in the Best of Denver…
“I was thinking I’ve got five minutes to go and no one has asked me about medical marijuana… that’s a good thing,” Governor Bill Ritter said. And then, just five minutes before the governor had to leave Monday’s legislative briefing, it came: the inevitable question about medical marijuana. No conversation…
Long before other Denver restaurants started offering pico de gallo — or naming themselves Pico De Gallo — this Mexican eatery was making fans with its “special” salsa. Among the fans eating there Sunday night: former mayor Wellington Webb and some of his extended family and, just a table away,…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, kicks off its “Will Drink Beer for Food” drive today. From now through December 20, when you order the Metro Care Ring special, the Wynkoop will donate $1 for each purchased draft beer, sampler tray and Rail Yard Ale sixpack to the charity…
Every December, my parents would pack the family into the station wagon and head to downtown Chicago, where we’d look at the displays in the department-store windows and all the Christmas lights that glowed brighter than the tail-lights in the traffic jam around us. Downtown department stores have gone the…
Anyone who buys a DINR deck is a winner: For $50, you get 52 cards, each offering a $10 discount at a local, independent restaurant. You can buy the decks at any Tattered Cover location or at www.eatdenver.com — but you can also win one right here. Every Friday for…
Kenny and Kristin Johnson, the owners of KJ’s Coffee Bar, have a date with the Denver Department of Excise and License at 1:30 p.m. today, a hearing where they’ll ask that their liquor license be changed to a cabaret license, so that they can present live music on a regular…
The Walnut Room brought new life — and cash — to NoDo, the area northeast of Coors Field. But for its next venture, it’s taking on an area that’s already ground zero for hipsters: Broadway. And at 9 a.m. today, Walnut owner John Burr will be at the Denver Department…
Eric, who won the tickets to see Guy Fieri at the Paramount Wednesday night, posted this comment about the show — which we’ve pulled up so that everyone else knows what they missed: “Thanks so much for the tickets to see the Culinary Road Show. The best word I can…
Denver International Airport has the money to start planning a transformation of the Jeppesen Terminal into a massive mall (and move security screening to the perimeter) — but it’s put the Scrooge to its annual holiday entertainment, blaming budget constraints for the $50,000 cut. For twenty years, the International Performance…
The Three Door Bistro project at 2049 Larimer Street is officially dead, but across the street at 2046 Larimer, ZanZBar Billiards finally opened on December 1. Ami Benari, who also owns Tarantula Billiards (1456 Champa Street), spent ten months renovating the former Market Central space into a pool hall/bar/restaurant. Right…
Time magazine is out with the Top 10 of Everything in 2009 — and Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty makes the list of the top ten non-fiction books of the year, coming in at #9. Here’s what Time says about Sheehan’s book in its round-up: “It’s a paradox of the post-Bourdain…
Last month’s Kumbaya moment, which featured most of Colorado’s top GOPs uniting behind gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis and the Republican Party’s Platform for Prosperity, did not resound in southeastern Colorado. They’re singing a different song near Pinon Canyon, a stunning swathe of ranchland east of Trinidad, because the platform is…
With new dispensaries opening daily across Colorado, the prime names are getting snapped up faster than the docs who are willing to prescribe medical marijuana. Now to worry, though; with this handy medical marijuana matrix, you can devise a new dispensary name faster than it takes to light up a…
Liver lovers are an exclusive bunch. And as a lunch special on a cold winter’s day, this steaming plate of organ meat smothered with onions and jalapenos had half of our table swooning — and the other half cringing.Can you guess where I was eating?Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who…
How cold was it last night? So cold that Barry Fey was wearing long pants. But the dining room at CY Steak, the revamped steakhouse attached to the Diamond Cabaret at 1222 Glenarm Place, warmed up fast — and not just because of the evening-gowned (at the start) girls dancing…
The call came yesterday: The Denver Department of Excise and License has approved the liquor license for the Tavern Hospitality Group’s project at the Lowenstein, in the space that had been occupied by Neighborhood Flix. THG’s Frank Schultz had gone through a series of neighborhood meetings before the postponed hearing…
State senator Chris Romer could have used some medical marijuana last night, to soothe the headache of dealing with all of yesterday’s complaints over his just-released, 63-page bill to regulate the industry. Among its provisions: creating a state licensing authority to handle licenses for both clinics and growers and setting…
The first VFW post in the country was founded in Denver in 1899, in a building in the Golden Triangle. A century later, VFW Post #1 moved around the corner to 955 Bannock Street — and attempted to recall its glory days by calling the bar Stewart’s 1899 Saloon. It…
He missed a court date at the end of November — but disgraced developer Erik Osborn showed up in plenty of time for his trial in Denver District Court, which got under way on Monday. The crux of this case is Osborn’s involvement with One Lincoln Park, and how he…
After 25 years in its current location at 300 Josephine Street, the Cherry Creek Egg Shell will be moving this month to the former home of Mel’s, at 235 Fillmore Street. “The new, improved Egg Shell will feature an outside patio with heat lamps and a full bar,” its website…
