Still making Super Bowl plans? Here are a few more spots featuring Super Bowl specials on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1.

* Lucky Strike, the bowling and entertainment center in the Denver Pavilions, offers 12 state-of-the-art bowling lanes, a 100 square-foot video wall, four tournament-quality billiards tables, an outdoor patio and a private party lounge with four lanes of its own. Big game specials from 11 a.m. to midnight at Lucky Strike Denver include one-dollar shoe rentals, three-dollar bowling, three-dollar Fireball shots, four-dollar Bloody Mary bar and eight-dollar Mimosa carafes.

* At Hard Rock Cafe in the Denver Pavilions, guests can enjoy a special menu with limited-edition, shareable offerings from now through Feb. 1.

The menu includes new Triple Threat Sliders, a trio including: brie and fontina macaroni and cheese burger on a Bavarian pretzel roll; double pork burger, an Angus beef burger glazed with sweet and spicy barbecue sauce, hand pulled pork, smoked bacon aged cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese on a Bavarian pretzel roll and a Tangy Buffalo Burger, Angus beef burger topped with tangy buffalo wing sauce, blue cheese and Monterey Jack cheese on a Bavarian pretzel roll.

And during the big game only for $21.95 per person, guests can also enjoy their choice of Hard Rock Cafe Local Legendary Burger (including the Legendary Burgers from Denver, as well as New England and Seattle); a craft beer; and an all-you-can-eat wing bar.

* During the Big Game, Randolph’s, in the Warwick Hotel at 1776 Grant St., is serving bottomless Super Bowl baskets such as chips and salsa, a seven-layer-dip bar, wings with three sauces or bottomless French fries for $25 or $12.50 for children. Additionally, Randolph’s will offer draft beers for two dollars; house wine for six dollars and house cocktails for four dollars, as well as football-friendly specials on burgers, flat breads, brats, ribs and more. The game will be shown on the restaurant’s two televisions, with an additional 50-inch flat screen.

British singing sensation Sam Smith and his band visited the LoDo retail store for snap-front shirt founder Rockmount Ranch Wear on Monday.

After shopping hard, Smith tweeted a picture to his 1.62 million followers.  The band played a sellout show at First Bank Events Center Monday in Broomfield. Smith has six Grammy Award nominations this year alone.

The band bought a wide range of shirts including leather, new Spring prints, gingham checks and solids.

Top, Sam Smith, center, and his bandmate Brendan post with Rockmount Ranch Wear owner Steve Weil. Above, Brendan and Smith try on new shirts at the LoDo store.

Kachina Southwestern Grill in the Westin Westminster (10600 Westminster Blvd.) hosts the first Bison & Beer Dinner of the New Year beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Join Chef Jeff Bolton, the ranchers of Prairie Ridge Buffalo Ranch in Limon and Boulder Beer for a night of bison and beer.

The evening begins with a cocktail reception with the ranchers and brewers, followed by a four-course dinner featuring the best cuts of bison paired with beer from Colorado’s first craft brewery.                 

Menu items for the evening include: bison pintxos with pickled onion, cotija cheese and chipotle aioli; bison machaca tamales; roasted bison tenderloin with diver scallops; a center cut bison ribeye with bitter chocolate and espresso mole, arroz verde, calabacitas, and garlic seared dandelion greens and chocolate cola cake. All menu items will be paired with beer from Boulder Beer.

Cost is $50, not including tax and gratuity. Reservations are recommended. For more information, call Kachina Southwestern Grill at 303-410-5024, e-mail info@kachinagrill.com, or visit www.kachinagrill.com.

Nathan Gunn, one of the world’s most in-demand baritones, makes his Denver-area debut at 7:30 p.m. March 10 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Gunn’s performance will be accompanied by Julie Jordan Dunn, his wife and accomplished pianist.

The decorated baritone has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Theater an der Wien, Teatro Real in Madrid and more.

Also a distinguished concert performer, Gunn has sung with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Recently, Gunn sang classic American musical roles from “Camelot”, “Showboat” and “Carousel” with the New York Philharmonic and at Carnegie Hall.

Tickets to the Lone Tree concert range from $65 to $75, and can be purchased online at www.lonetreeartscenter.org or by calling 720-509-1000 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

I wrote last week about Roadhouse Hospitality Group acquiring the 40-year-old Wazee Supper Club at 1600 15th St. in LoDo, making it the 17th restaurant for the family-operated Colorado-based company.

But I was given incorrect information when I wrote that Roadhouse is also the owner of Washington Park Grille.

Greg Sauber and Jeff Estey have owned Wash Park Grille since Aug. 1, 1996.

Eavesdropping on an unemployed man to an unemployed female friend over coffee at Panera Bread on Capitol Hill: “Well, we’d better get going. ‘Ellen’s’ on in three hours.”

Boulder-bred chef Gabe Kennedy, who now calls New York City home, was the record-setting champion of season three of the ABC cooking competition “The Taste.”

Kennedy, who was named the show’s winner on Thursday, gets his own cooking show on ABC.com, $100,000 and “The Taste” trophy.

The culinary tug-of-war puts 16 contestants – from home cooks to pros – going tongs to tongs to create a single spoonful of food judged by heavyweight foodies Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Marcus Samuelson.

Kennedy’s journey to victory earned him the most gold stars in the series’ history.

According to the website heavy.com, “Saints And Sinners was the theme for team challenge with two opposite dishes and 90 minutes to cook. The guest judge was the successful Jonathan Waxman, who tasted each contestant’s food blindly…For Gabe, Waxman loved the complexity of his food.

“…Next up was the solo challenge with a Surf and Turf theme. Each cook created two dishes for the judges to taste and this time, Waxman was overseeing their skills in the kitchen and acting as their mentor.

“The final challenge was titled Three Perfect Courses and the inspiration for the challenge was to watch Waxman prepare his own three-course meal. Gabe has a panicking moment when he realizes the sour cherries he has are not fresh. Nonetheless, each of the dishes were delicious and the judges had a tough time figuring out the winner…And the winner was announced as Gabe.” Kennedy works as a private chef based in Brooklyn.

For the rest of the story, go to www.heavy.com/entertainment/2015/01/gabe-kennedy-winner-the-taste-who-won-finale-season-3-wins-eliminated-elimination-results-2015/.

(ABC photos)

Looking for a rocking sports bar to watch Super Bowl XLIX?

Travel + Leisure magazine picked Society Sports and Spirits at 1434 Blake St. as one of the Best Sports Bars in America. Here’s what T+L said:

“Not far from the Pepsi Center, where the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche reign, you’ll find Society Sports and Spirits tuned in to whatever game is on, be it basketball, NHL, or college sports. The alumni crowd is as diverse and as strong as they come, ready to cheer on the Cyclones, OSU Cowboys, or the Razorbacks—though perhaps with their indoor voices. ‘As sports junkies ourselves,’ says owner Wil Evans, ‘we believe it’s of the utmost importance to be able to hear volume for your game.’ This place also pulls for the home team behind the bar, with a diverse array of Colorado beers and more than 45 whiskeys produced in state. As of winter 2014, you can even request a whiskey on tap.”

With all that whiskey and beer, maybe you’ll forget that the Broncos are sitting this one out.

See the rest of the best at www.travelandleisure.com/articles/best-sports-bars-in-america.

After 25 years selling fine art and glass at Pismo galleries in Cherry Creek North, Vail and Aspen, owner Sandy Sardella is shutting down doors No. 1, 2 and 3.

Her decision to close was not due to financial hard times – she told The Denver Business Journal that 2014 was her best year ever – she wants to retire.

Sardella, wife of former 9News anchor Ed Sardella, is running “retirement” sales through March 31 at the Cherry Creek store (2770 E. Second Ave.), and through mid-April at the ski resort store to take advantage of the ski season.