Apparently a crisp Ben Franklin, a bottle of wine and your mug shot on the wall of fame wasn’t quite enough incentive for the would-be food warriors that Virgilio Urbano, the master dough flipper of Virgilio’s Pizzeria, had hoped would try and tackle the 11-pound, 28-inch pizza-eating challenge that he…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
On Sunday, a pair of ninjas robbed Deli Cioso, a Mexican restaurant in Longmont. Owner Rudy Masia says he turned over a day’s receipts to the mysterious miscreants, who were tiny and dressed in black. Longmont Police Sergeant Garrett Boden told the Longmont Times-Call that the culprits didn’t have large…
“Pinch the tail, suck the head, burn in hell.” That’s the verbiage on a makeshift church sign at godhatesshrimp.com. God hates shrimp? Clearly, he (or she) just hasn’t sucked good shrimp heads. But the opportunity exists for the rest of you if you can guess where I’m eating. Special bonus:…
A cop from Miami Gardens, Florida somehow keeps his cool while dissecting a maggot-laden steak sandwich from a restaurant that clearly doesn’t live by the motto, “To serve and protect.” The determined police officer insists on keeping the eurolarvae alive as evidence for the local news station. Warning: This is…
Let us take a moment to pray praise the taco. Last July, Gidget, the talking prima donna Chihuahua best known for making Taco Bell’s fast food look cute (and, at times, even edible), passed away at 15 after complications from a massive stroke. Now comes word that the last bell…
During truffle season, chef Daniel Boulud serves a $150 black truffle burger, stuffed with braised ribs and foie gras, at DB Bistro Moderne in the Big Apple. At Serendipity 3, also in New York, the Golden Opulence Tahitian vanilla ice cream sundae, garnished in a 23-carat edible gold leaf, sells…
Argyll Gastropub, the subterranean grub-and-ale house at 2700 East Third Avenue, is about to get bigger — much bigger. That’s because Argyll owner Robert Thompson just snatched up the Plush space directly next door, which closed following New Year’s Eve. Thompson’s first priority is to expand the patio before St…
If I were to give you any clues, this would be much too easy. Let’s just say that it’s an awesome drink that you’ll continue to think about long into the night. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to…
The National Western Stock Show has doubled your drinking pleasure this year. Not only has the Cowboy Bar — the temporary saloon set up in the basement of the Hall of Education, right by the stalls where bulls are groomed — expanded, adding more than a dozen seats and space…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
You have exactly 14 days left in which to order the salmon in the above snap, because come February 1, it’ll disappear along with the majority of other dishes on the ever-changing board. Can you guess whose fish I netted? Cast your guesses in the comment section below. Special bonus:…
If you count on Cafe Colorado, the storefront that opened last year at 287 Columbine Street, for your morning joint of java, you may need to look elsewhere this morning. The sign above is posted on the door; more ominous is a full voicemail box (at 303-377-8902) and another sign…
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…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were getting your morning groove on at the new Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, which opened right around the same time as the Denver Biscuit Company. Cupcakes: out; biscuits: in. After hyping and hyping and hyping…
The trailer for Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution, has been released. According to ABC, Oliver will attempt to transform the eating habits of a bunch of rednecks in Huntington, West Virginia, and rumor has it that he bawls when he realizes what he’s gotten himself into. We don’t…
It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also got the…
Oh, ick. In one of the worst mouth picks of the week, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, a national trade organization representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry, plucked Sarah Palin, the former beauty pageant bimbo, governor of Russia Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential…
I thought I’d had the worst margarita ever — until I took a sip of this one. I don’t know why bars insist on using crappy sweet and sour mix. Hey, 1965 is calling and wants their shitty mixers back. That said, I do like their televisions for watching football…
The delicate, crisp little cookie is technically a tuile, but not to Minney Beasley’s founder Harmon Canon. “I just never use that word,” he confesses. To Canon, they are simply almond lace cookies, made from a recipe handed down from his great aunt Minnie Beasley. What makes them tuiles is…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Shanahan’s just opened on Christmas Eve at 5085 South Syracuse Street, and there was a one-hour wait for a table in the 130-seat dining room, even with a reservation on Saturday night. But if you were waiting for the duck or osso bucco on the opening menu, you could wait…
