Westminster, while never exactly the center of the culinary universe, has been seeing a few interesting openings lately, and now there’s another to be added to the books: Mamma Mia Trattoria. Mamma Mia is scheduled for a July 21 opening at 9008 West 88th Avenue. As if you couldn’t tell…
Lunch: The delicious scratch-made soups are the specialty at Spices Cafe, 1510 Humboldt Street, but today’s recession-buster lunch special — cheese enchiladas with beans and rice– for $3.95 — is nearly as good a deal as the early morning breakfast bargain, when $1.95 gets you two eggs, toast and hash…
The kitchen crew at Cook Street Fine School of Cooking, 1937 Market Street, is searching for a kick-ass judge to sound off at the school’s upcoming cook-off, an Iron Chef-like duel on Friday, July 31, that’s all part of Cook Street’s ten-year anniversary celebrations. If you’d like to voice your…
PETA — the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — is a lot of things. It is a political organization dedicated to saving all the cute critters on the planet. It is a finely-tuned donation-gathering machine that preys on weepy liberals who’d rather empty their wallets than think too much…
This could have been the quietest closing in town: Sengers on the Fax filed for Chapter 7 on July8, according to a legal notice in today’s Denver Business Journal. The watering hole at 3014 East Colfax Avenue got off to a fast start when it opened two years ago, but…
If Mark Huebner got booted from The Bachelorette, it’s only because Jillian never got to try one of his Cripple Creek pizzas.We did yesterday, and the meat-heavy pie (sausage, pepperoni, Genoa salami) on an ideal crust was a big hit. “Not too thick, not too thin,” Huebner says of the…
One of Denver’s best annual culinary celebrations comes down on Sunday, July 19, at Mile High Station (2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue), this site of this year’s Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a fantastic food-centric event that raises funds to eradicate childhood hunger in Denver and across America…
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 191 Inverness Drive West in Englewood, is hosting its second summer Friday Night Flights fundraiser at 6 p.m. tonight to benefit the Excelsior Youth Center, a local non-profit. The cow palace will serve a selection of appetizers paired with three wines for $25 per…
Germany is now short one chef and the science of molecular gastronomy has claimed another victim. This, from the Daily Telegraph: “The 24-year-old chef was experimenting with a recipe involving liquid nitrogen, which is used by chefs including Heston Blumenthal to freeze food, when there was suddenly an ‘enormous explosion.'”Said…
Juan’s on Stout, a downtown Mexican joint that shared the same address at 1531 Stout Street as Mici’s Handcrafted Italian, has closed — but the space won’t be empty long. Cilanto Fusion, another south-of-the-border newcomer (La Brisa opened just last week at 375 South Pearl Street), is picking up where…
The National Cattlemen’s Summer Convention is in town right now, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals responded in a way that only PETA could: by spray-painting a naked employee red and black and having her lie on a grill outside the downtown Sheraton, where the conference is being…
We must be looking a little tired around the office, because a co-worker recently bestowed this candy upon us. Hey, we don’t look gift horses in the mouth, we just put them in our mouths. The gifts, that is. The candy. Maybe we need a couple more of these…..
First, there were the white trash enchiladas at the Rio Grande, followed by the white trash au gratin potatoes at Simms Steakhouse, which, to complement those scene-stealing views of Denver’s skyline, now has a menu (and a chef in Moosah Reaume, formerly of Willie G’s Seafood & Steak) that just…
See more of Lori Midson’s photos at westword.com/slideshow. While I didn’t buy the shirt straight off the bartender’s back at last night’s feel-good Share Our Strength-Taste of the Nation fundraiser at Jonesy’s EatBar, the rowdy (in all the good ways) gastropub at 400 East 20th Avenue, I did purchase a…
After a kitchen fire at the end of June, Big Hoss Bar-B-Q had hoped to reopen by the Fourth of July weekend. When Hoss Orwat’s barbecue joint blew through that deadline, it set July 15 as a goal. But Big Hoss didn’t make that one, either. The tentative reopening date…
Life on South Pearl Street will be a little less sweet when Mulberries Cake Shop leaves its longtime spot at 1570 South Pearl and moves to Colfax and Vine — where the baked goods will be just as impressive, they promise, and the new place will have the added amenity…
Bottle up your favorite oenophiles today and head to the Table Mountain Inn in Golden (1321 Washington Avenue) for a “Wined Up Your World” wine-tasting event, where twenty wines — reds, whites, blends and imports — will be paired with the restaurant’s Southwestern-focused foodstuffs. If you simply can’t wait to…
I was not born in Florida, thank God. I did not grow up there. I actually spent only a short portion of my life in the Sunshine State — a few months buried to the eyes in the damp and lizard-infested sloughs — and most of that time was spent…
I don’t think there’s any such thing as a slow night at Cuba Cuba anymore. It used to be that if you showed up early enough on a weekday, you could be assured of getting some kind of table. Maybe not the best in the house, maybe not the one…
After almost two years of searching, Walnut Room owner John Burr has finally found a spot for his next venture, the Walnut Room Pizzeria. It’s the former home of Freaky’s, at 2 Broadway. There was a fire in the building at Broadway and Ellsworth back in March 2008 and the…
Last week, I asked a simple question: What’s the worst meal you’ve had in a restaurant that was supposed to be good? I posed the question because I was feeling a bit pissed off myself. Because I have had more than my share of terrible experiences in restaurants where I…
The sandwich: Italian Sub What’s on it: Mortadella, capocollo, Genoa salami, tomatoes, olives, banana peppers, red onion, lettuce, provolone and Parmesan on a demi baguette with Italian vinaigrette. Where to get it: Tony’s Market (950 Broadway, 720-880-4501) How much: $7.99 with chips and cookies; less without Tony’s Market opened to…
