Wednesday is the day to Dine Out, Get Out, Sleep Out, Help Out. Hundreds of Colorado restaurants, taverns, nightclubs and hotels will donate at least 10 percent of their sales that day to Katrina relief. Some, like North and Bloom, will donate 100 percent. Check it out at coloradorestaurant.com.
So where are Denver’s boldest names chowing down? Mayor John Hickenlooper breaks his fast at Racines at 7:30 a.m. with Pete Meersman, president and CEO of the Colorado Restaurant Association, and Christine Benero, CEO of the Mile High Chapter of American Red Cross.
Gov. Bill Owens has breakfast at Panzano with some columnist. Then Hick has to have lunch with her. Talk about indigestion!
Owens is having lunch at Elway’s with John Elway and Meersman. Elway went as far as to make a radio spot for the cause that’ll air on Clear Channel stations. “Hi. I’m John Elway. Most people at first don’t think of me as a restaurant guy, but I am. And on Oct. 5, my restaurant will be joining hundreds of other restaurants across the city in Dine Out to Help Out. … Go out with your friends and families on Oct. 5 – and we’ll take care of the giving.”
Me? I’ll be having the town’s best BLT at Strings for lunch, dinner at Mel’s, music at Steak au Poivre, nightcap at North and then tuck myself in at JW Marriott. All for the cause.
Winers
What Cherry Creek North needed was a wine bar – and now it’s getting two of ’em.
Mezcal’s Jesse Morreale is set to open Sketch in November at 250 Steele St. in the former Le Delice space.
And Bacchus Wine Bar will open later this month at 2817 E. Third Ave., right next to the Upper Crust (at Detroit). Upper Crust owner Scott Branning will run the joint with a 100-bottle wine list starting in the $20s, small plates that’ll reflect Europe and his Southern influence. Think foie gras and fried green tomatoes. Separate plates.
Hike!
Friday is the last day you dames can sign up for the Oct. 14 Denver Broncos NFL 101 Workshop for Women. This is the fifth year the team has offered the 4-10 p.m. tutoring session and it’s always a sellout.
The gang gets hors d’oeuvres and cocktails along with talks from coaches and players, explanations of terms and strategies, insight from Broncos’ wives, a tour of the stadium and, always a hit, an equipment demonstration.
Players skedded to appear include Todd Devoe, Wesley Duke, Nick Ferguson, Louis Green and Kyle Johnson. NFL reporter Andrea Kremer is again the host of the party. Go to denverbroncos.com/nfl101.
City spirit
Steve Farber and his son Gregg Farber are starting The Transplant Foundation – a salute to the successful kidney transplant from Gregg to Steve in 2004. More than 150 were expected Sunday night at an informal organizational dinner at Jim Sullivan and Troy Guard’s nine75 restaurant … About 100 bookworms showed up Thursday night at Peggy and Kiki Vandeweghe’s elegant Denver pad to support the Denver Public Library’s Oct. 15 Booklover’s Ball … Sez who: “I do not seek, I find.” Pablo Picasso
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
