The 8th Annual Denver Food and Wine event is the party of the summer to benefit the Colorado Restaurant Association. It runs from Sept. 6-9 at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Here’s the drill:
* Thursday, Sept. 6, features a special wine dinner at Metro’s new Hospitality Learning Center. Seating is limited to 34 people, and the dinner features wines and a “special guest” by Southern Wine and Spirits. Evening will include cocktails and appetizers, tour of new venue, dinner by Denver chefs.
* Friday, Sept. 7, includes an industry/trade breakfast sponsored by the Colorado Hotel Lodging Association and Colorado Restaurant Association with speakers from the CH&LA and CRA. The location will be the ballroom of the new Springfield Suites by Marriott. There’ll also be demos and seminars in the new Hospitality Learning Center as well as Riedel glass seminars. During the evening will be Restaurants Rock in the Springfield Suites and HLC Tastes, featuring live entertainment, tastes from Denver restaurants and spirits and wines from Southern Wine and Spirits.
* Saturday, Sept. 8, will be a “grand tasting” for the general public set up under tents in the quadrangle at 7th & Lawrence Way. It will feature tastes of more than 600 wines and spirits and food from over 40 restaurants. There’ll be a Tented VIP Plaza, a Pernod Ricard Lounge, a Beam Global Lounge, a Viking Culinary Stage with confirmed guest Chef Dario Cecchini, the Butcher of Panzano.
* Sunday, Sept. 9, there’s a special dinner at Panzano with Dario and Demo. The Denver Broncos play the Pittsburgh Steelers at 6:30 p.m.
A total of 5,000 people are expected for all the events.
Media sponsors are Entercom Radio Stations – KOSI, air jordan 4.5 femmes The Mountain, ALICE, KEZW; The Denver Post; 9News; Dining Out Magazine; Larimer Associates; Visit Denver; and The Denver Partnership. Beneficiaries are the Denver Post Community Foundation, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado Restaurant Association Education Foundation scholarship program.
More information: www.denverfoodandwine.com
Hot Rocks rocks!
I have been an unabashed fan of John Elway’s since I moved to Denver in 1993. I never take a close encounter with him for granted. So last night at the Hot Rocks Griller Challenge was special because I got to sidle up to the NFL Hall of Famer and have my picture snapped. It never gets old.
Thanks, John. I adore you and will always be proud to call you a friend. You rock my world!
Muy caliente!
Hot Rocks Griller Challenge pitted super chefs against each other in heated competition to raise money for Denver Health Medical Center Men’s Health Department.
There were two competitions for Best Slider. People’s Choice winners were:
1. Tyler Wiard, Aniedra Nichols of Elway’s Cherry Creek
2. Troy Guard, TAG, TAG Raw Bar and Madison Street Grill
3. Simon Purvis, EDGE Restaurant
In the Chefs’ Choice competition:
A tie between Troy Guard and Paul Reilly of Encore.
Eavesdropping on a woman in a Suburban who backed into a Toyota Prius and then became defiant with the owner of the Prius about the accident: She claimed that the accident wasn’t her fault because she was on her phone, backing up and the Prius was so small she couldn’t see it.
At that point the Arapahoe County sheriff said to her, “How are you going to air jordan 5 femmes xplain to your insurance company that it wasn’t your fault when the vehicle you hit was parked and there was no driver in it?”
The woman had nothing more to say.
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