Stay hungry. Denver Restaurant Week is on the way.
The idea is to set a three-course menu at a variety of Denver restaurants at $52.80 for two ($26.40 for a solo) to get people to get their forks out and hit the town. Denver Restaurant Week began last year with 83 participating eateries. This year organizers have added 34 – plus Beringer winery has come on as a title sponsor.
The local feast runs Feb. 28-March 3.
“It was a huge hit last year,” says restaurant guy John Imbergamo, who has been involved from the beginning. “What it does is it allows the average consumer to try out a restaurant with a known financial risk.”
For a full roster of the restaurants go to denver.org, click on “Denver Restaurant Week” and tour the site. Places to get excited about: Bistro Vendome, Del Frisco’s, Cuba Cuba, Elway’s, Rioja, Luca D’Italia, Kevin Taylor, Mizuna, Mel’s, Strings, nine75, Piatti, Zengo. Yumbo.
Wheels
I’ve received a lot of calls asking how to get tix to the “Wheel of Fortune” shows being taped here March 24, 25 and 26 in the Lecture Hall at the Colorado Convention Center.
Go to thedenverchannel.com to apply for free tickets (try 20,000). There are two sessions each day, afternoon (three shows) and evening (two shows). Show themes will be “Great Outdoors Week” (celebrating Denver), “College Week” and “Mom & Me Week.” Shows are all cast – except for “College Week,” so if you’re enrolled here get a move on and apply through the same site.
Blooming
A new ultra-glossy magazine has hit Denver – bloom colorado, “your guide to beauty + cosmetic enhancement.”
Inside are all kinds of stories on breast augmentation, liposuction, fat relocation, Botox, dentistry, rhinoplasty – and the local doctors who do them.
Maximum Talent model Regan Doyle is on the cover – and if she’s had any work done sign up with her doctor.
Drunk again
Modern Drunkard magazine’s Frank Kelly Rich’s new book “The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century” had a nice review in the NY Times this month. Reviewer Liesl Schillinger likes the chapters (“Real Drunks Don’t Drink Zima,” “The Power of Positive Drinking”), but she notes that Rich left out one important sign in “25 Signs You Might Be a Drunkard” – “You have bought ‘The Modern Drunkard’ unironically.”
City spirit
Thom Wise comes back to Denver from his new Las Vegas gig to catch Lannie Garrett’s opening night Friday at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret … CBS’s fall pilot “Jericho” takes place in a small Kansas town, where they see a mushroom cloud explode over Denver on the horizon. Or it might be Boulder. Either way, we’re toast. The people in the Kansas hamlet have wacky adventures. It was written by Stephen Chbosky, screenwriter of “Rent” … Mayor John Hickenlooper kept his word and sent Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor six buffalo ribeye steaks from The Fort, along with some baked beans … Sez who: “What can you expect from a day that begins with getting up?” Wendy R. Ellner
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.
