The Four Seasons Denver Hotel, 1111 14th St., blew the socks off invited guests last week when it debuted the Blow-Dry Bar, a posh pampering place inside the hotel’s spa.
The menu of services includes a list of blowouts from the basic at $65, to a formal up-do at $95 to a bridal up-do at $120 and more in between.
You can also get a scalp massage for $30, conditioning treatment for $35, and makeup application for $65.
For reservations, call 303-389-3020.
This Valentine’s Day, Four Seasons Hotel Denver invites you and your loved one to revel in “007 style” with its James Bond-themed hotel packages “Goldfinger” and “Diamonds are Forever.”
The decadent Goldfinger package is over the top at $7,777 for a weekend stay in a one-bedroom suite, which includes:
This package requires a seven-day advance booking.
The “Diamonds are Forever” package at $350 includes:
This package requires does not require an advance booking.
For reservations or more information, contact the reservations department at 303-389-3000 or visit www.fourseasons.com/denver/offers.
This from Dana Lauren Berry, the most awesome PR gal at the Four Seasons Hotel Denver:
“Today is my last day at Four Seasons Hotel Denver! I just wanted to take a minute to thank you – it has been wonderful to work with you. I’m taking a few days to pack and move, then I’m off to open the new Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort as the Director of Public Relations for this
phenomenal new property. which is opening in late summer 2014.”
In the interim, Jill Swanson, marketing & PR assistant, will handle media inquiries, special rate
requests, donation requests, community event involvement, etc., for Four Seasons Hotel Denver.
Best of luck in Florida, Dana!
You can paint the town pink this month in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month with several pink promotions going on around town that will encourage you to buy pink, think pink, eat pink or drink pink.
Here are some local spots that are thinkin’ pink:
Sage Restaurant Group’s Denver-area eateries are having various deals to take a bite out of breast cancer. Throughout the month of October each restaurant will offer pink doughnuts where a portion of proceeds from each doughnut sold will benefit the Denver affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
* Second Home Kitchen + Bar, 150 Clayton Lane: doughnut holes with pomegranate glaze.
* Kachina Southwestern Grill, 10600 Westminster Blvd.: Pink Chocolate Beignets with White Chocolate Crème Anglaise.
* The Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar, 1401 Curtis St.: Pink Velvet Icing Doughnuts. (more…)
It’s a bird, it’s a plane … you know the rest.
A Superman-type stunt will take wing between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Tuesday when the Red Bull Air Force base jumpers will take a dive from the 45th level rooftop of the Four Seasons Hotel Denver to the third-level outdoor pool at 1111 14th St. In other words, they will attempt the world’s biggest belly flop.
RBAF team members Jeff Provenzano from Arizona, and Miles Daisher from Idaho will be jumping. The RBAF is a team assembled from the most accomplished and experienced skydivers, base jumpers, wing-suit fliers and paraglider pilots on the planet.
With gold medals in virtually every discipline and numerous world records on their resumes, the team members combine for more than 100,000 skydives and 6,000 base jumps.
Throughout the year, they perform more than 50 demos including air shows, major sporting events, motorsport events as well as skydiving, base jumping and paragliding competitions in the U.S. and abroad. This is the first RBAF jump in Denver.
Guests attending the monthly poolside summer soiree from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday will have the opportunity to experience the base jumpers up close and personal. The poolside event is raising funds for the Colorado Scholarship Coalition. A $25 suggested cash donation is accepted upon entry into the event.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/223956597757305/?ref=22.
Miles Daisher, top, and Jeff Provenzano, below, will jump from the 45th floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Denver onto the hotel’s third-floor pool, bottom. (Photos courtesy of RedBull.com and Four Seasons Hotel Denver)
They say it’s your birthday
Diamond dude Michael Pollak, owner of Hyde Park Jewelers, is celebrating the big 6-0 (he’s much older than I am since I don’t hit that number until December) Wednesday at Izakaya Den’s rooftop.
It’s a guys-only gathering orchestrated by Michael’s wife, Shereen. The festive evening includes drinks and dinner followed by dessert and cigars. In lieu of gifts, Pollak is asking his guests to make a donation to Denver Health Foundation. Izakaya Den is located at 1487-A S. Pearl St. in Denver.
Happy B-day, Michael, and let me know what 60 feels like.
Screen scene
LaLa’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, 410 E. Seventh Ave., brings back its annual Movie Under The Moon event on Wednesday across the street at Governors Park.
This year’s movie is “Labyrinth” starring David Bowie. The movie starts at 8:30 p.m., but those attending the free event should show up early for prime seating, as well as pizzas, meat and cheese boxes and popcorn for sale.
Peroni and Svedka vodka are sponsors, and will set up bars in a beer garden in the park, with a featured Svedka cocktail available in the restaurant.
All food sales will benefit the Rocky Mountain Hyperbaric Association for brain injuries.
“The purpose of this event is to bring the community together for a night of fun, and to support a good cause,” said Eric To, Lala’s general manager.
Portable chairs will be allowed in the back of the park. The movie company will rope off the middle of the park where chairs will not be permitted. More information: www.lalaswinebar.com.
Culinary creativity
Who has the culinary chops to become “The Next Culinary Voice?” Find out when Pat “Gabby Gourmet” Miller and chef Michael Long host the competition, presented by JP Morgan Chase, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Mile High Station, a benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Seattle Fish Company presents the VIP reception where guests will mingle with celebrity judges and competing chefs. Judges include Mark DeNittis, president and founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute of Meat; Jenna Johansen, competitor on Bravo’s “Around the World in 80 Plates” and recently named Innovation Chef at Epicurean Catering; Matt Selby, executive chef and owner of Corner House, and Elise Wiggins, executive chef at Panzano.
Each chef competitor will create a signature dish to be served to the judges and roughly 200 attendees who will cast their votes for their favorites.
Competing chefs include: Aaron Bernstein, sous chef at Panzano; Ian Chisholm, executive chef and owner of Amerigo; Jeff Kenser, executive chef at Vista at Applewood; Doug Mace, executive chef at BaReD; Sean McGaughey, executive chef Opus/ Aria and Thach Tran, sous chef ChoLon Bistro.
Attendees will receive a cookbook from the event with two personal recipes from each of the competing chefs and judges, as well as chocolate from Veree Chocolates.
Tickets are $125 for VIP, which includes a meet-and-greet session with judges and competing chefs; $75 for general admission. More information: 303-296-6610 or colorado@cff.org.
Patxi’s Pizza’s slice of the pie
“Inc. Magazine” has ranked Patxi’s Pizza No. 24 on its annual list of fastest growing food and beverage companies in 2013’s Inc. 5,000 – up from the No. 32 ranking in 2012.
The annual ranking system lists the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. Patxi’s Pizza, with Colorado locations in Cherry Hills Village and Cherry Creek, ranked 1,217th overall, making it in the top 25 percent of growth businesses this year, and the company has experienced 342 percent growing in the last three years.
Patxi’s owns and operates nine locations in the Bay Area and two in Denver with plans for expansion in both markets this year.
“Patxi’s Pizza is once again excited to be a part of such a legendary list,” said Patxi’s CEO William Freeman. “We have been working hard to grow our business and have been extremely well received in our newest markets in Denver and San Jose. Our fresh authentic pizza seems to speak for itself and we are looking forward to bringing it to even more new customers. We have expansion plans for Seattle and Southern California.”
More information atwww.patxispizza.com.
Eavesdropping on a woman at a 40th high school reunion: “I’ve been seeing some of the football team and it looks like they traded in their six-pack abs for kegs.”
Did you hear that I have a new column, “Mile High Life,” in Colorado Community Media’s 17 weekly newspapers circling Denver? Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here’s where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com. Want to advertise your business here? Contact Trisha at trilind@hotmail.com.
The Big Apple comes to the Mile High City when acclaimed New York City restaurateur Danny Meyer brings the Big Denver Barbecue Block Party to Skyline Park Aug. 4 and 5.
Meyer, whose cadre of restaurants includes Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, The Modern and Shake Shack, will send chefs from Blue Smoke, his barbecue spot, along with eight other pitmasters representing barbecue joints from across the country to the Denver event.
Pitmasters include Kenny Callaghan from Blue Smoke; Patrick Martin of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint in Nashville, Tenn.; Tommy Houston from Checkered Pig in Danville, Va.; Frank Ostini of The Hitching Post II in Buelton, Calif.; Jake Linzinmeier from Telluride Ski Resort and Drew Robinson of Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q in Northfield and Aurora.
“When we first learned that Danny Meyer was exploring the idea of expanding the Big Apple BBQ event to an additional city, we wanted to see Denver be that city so we actively competed to roshe run hyp demonstrate that Denver could handle the event and that we are a great city for the event,” said Joe Vostrejs, chief operating officer of Larimer Associates. “Now we have the event coming to Skyline Park in August, I am thrilled to not only have such a nationally recognized name behind it, but to also have such a distinctive event in our city. I am confident it will be a huge success for Denver and I cannot wait to see what it will do for the Downtown Denver food scene!”
Tami Door, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership, teamed with Vostrejs to snag the event that’s been held in New York for 10 years.
“We are so excited to have an event like this come to downtown Denver,” Door said. “The Big Denver Barbecue Block Party is another example of a fun and unique event that will bring people to the heart of downtown, Skyline Park, and provide an opportunity to experience a unique food scene! We are pleased to be helping present this event through the Downtown Denver Partnership’s events entity, Downtown Denver Events.”
Admission is free; barbecue will be sold for $8 per plate, desserts for $4, beer for $6 per glass and soft drinks for $2. Proceeds will benefit Skyline Park programming. More information: www.bigbbqblockparty.org; click on Denver.
Family fun
It’ll be a hot time in the Olde Town when Olde Town Arvada breaks out the 15th Annual Blues & BBQ for Better Housing Block Party from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Grandview Avenue between Olde Wadsworth Boulevard and Upham Street will close to cars in favor of foot traffic for families who will be treated to 18 rock and blues bands on three stages and 70 booths with food, beer and bobbles.
Ranger Miller launched the Blues & BBQ benefit with his bandmates in The Duke Street Kings, a longtime metro area blues and rock act. This year’s goal is to raise $30,000 for Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver.
Tickets are $10; kids under 12 are admitted for free. More information: www.bluesnbbq.com.
Denver hotel earns top honors
The Four Seasons Hotel Denver was the only Denver hotel named to the coveted Travel + Leisure 2012 World’s Best Awards readers’ survey list, announced Monday.
“We are thrilled to be selected by the Travel + Leisure magazine World’s Best Awards readers’ survey,” said Thierry Kennel, general manager of Four Seasons Hotel Denver. “As one of Denver’s newest hotel properties, it’s a tremendous honor for our team to be given this award—especially as the only hotel in Denver to make the top 50.”
Four Seasons Hotel Denver, a 239-room property in downtown Denver, was included in the list of Top Large City Hotels in the Continental U.S., ranking 31 out of 50. The results of the 17th annual Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards survey revealing readers’ favorite hotels, cities, islands, cruise lines, airlines, car-rental agencies, spas, safari outfitters and tour operators are at www.TravelandLeisure.com, and will be included in the August digital editions on iPad, Nook Color and Kindle Fire, and is the cover story of the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands a week from today.
Free yoga
Yoga fans and wannabe fans can take a free class during Yoga Rocks the Park Free Day from 9:30 a.m. to noon Sunday at Alamo Placita Park, Emerson and East Third.
The event is sponsored by prAna clothing, a performance-wear retailer with stores in Boulder and Cherry Creek North.
More information: http://yogarocksthepark.com/denver/.
Double entendre deals
Euclid Hall, at 1317 14th St., is rolling out Hump Day Happy Hour (tittering intended) from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays.
Beer and shot combinations with naughty names are featured in the five weekly specials. Four of the beer-and-a-shot combos are priced at a conservative $5 with one duo that goes for a walk-on-the-wild-side $14.
Brace yourself, here’s the list:
* El Estilo de Perro (I can’t go there, Google it): Orale Mexi-lager Michelada and Pueblo Viejo tequila.
* The Pile Driver: Boulevard Tank 7 and a screwdriver shot.
* The Lotus: Deschutes White IPA and gin and juice.
* The Reverse Cowgirl: Today’s Tallboy with an Old Forester bourbon.
* The Missionary: Avery Reverend and 80/20 Chartreuse (the $14 combo).
A selection of Euclid’s appetizers are featured roshe run hyp femmes in the Hump Day deals including marrow bones at $5 per bone, oysters on the half shell for $2 each, and chocolate covered banana pops for $3.
Hump Day specials are in addition to Study Hall, Euclid’s every day happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. with selected draught beers, well cocktails and house wines for $3 each. See the full menu at www.euclidhall.com.
Eavesdropping on two women: “Fifty Shades of Grey? My love life is more like Fifty Shades of Blah.”
Did you hear that I have a new column, “Mile High Life,” in Colorado Community Media’s 17 weekly newspapers circling Denver? Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here’s where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’m now the social-media liaison for the Mile High Chapter of the Colorado Restaurant Association, so read my latest restaurant news there. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com.
Despite golf ball melting temperatures, 100 duffers hit the links at Valley Country Club Monday to raise money for the Colorado Restaurant Association Education Foundation’s ProStart Program.
“Now in our 12th year, we raised about $10,000 to support the Colorado ProStart Program currently serving 27 high schools and 800-plus students across the state,” said Mary Mino, president of the CRA’s Education Foundation. “We use these funds to buy curriculum for our high school programs and to provide scholarships for ProStart graduates pursuing their post-secondary education in the food service and hospitality industry.”
The golf tournament winners were: first place $400 prize and traveling trophy to Sysco Denver, second place $300 prize to Egg & I and third place $200 prize to the air jordan 6 Colorado Restaurant Insurance Agency. Longest drive awards went to David Yamamoto and Sarah Hoffman. Joe Coe and Deanna Brown took closest to the pin honors, and longest putt awards went to Alvin Lucero and Barb Meyer.
Our team, the Fearsome 50s, with CRA membership director Barb Simmons, Four Seasons Denver general manager Thierry Kennel, Shanahan’s Steakhouse managing partner Marc Steron and I, left with our pride in tact for not finishing dead last.
Patio peeps
Elway’s Downtown in The Ritz-Carlton Denver is adding an outdoor patio with 42 seats, two TVs and an outdoor fireplace around Aug. 1.
The patio will be surrounded by frosted glass wall panels, a wood trellis and multiple planters. When the temperature dips, the terrace will have standing heaters.
The opening of the outdoor dining area will feature a new appetizer and cocktail menu to celebrate the expansion. Inside the restaurant’s bar, guests can expect to see a new corner booth, extended bar seating and personal HDTVs.
Meanwhile, The Four Seasons Hotel Denver will debut its al fresco dining on Thursday with an evening event sponsored by Hudson Whiskey. Hudson will offer complimentary tastings of its barrel-aged whiskey, and the evening will include a demonstration of cigar rolling and an acoustic guitarist.
Newly added to the patio is a hard canopy providing coverage from the elements, and heaters for chilly nights. The patio is available on a first come first served basis for dining and cocktails.
Sunday supper
EDGE Restaurant & Bar inside The Four Seasons is now offering a 5280 menu with a set three-course dinner for $52.80 per couple ($26.40 per person) on Sundays.
The menu includes a wedge salad with applewood bacon, an eight-ounce New York strip steak or a lemon-grilled whole golden trout, two side dishes to share and sticky toffee pudding with Stranahan’s Whiskey ice cream for dessert. No substitutions.
Barbecue bash
Whole Foods Market on Colorado Boulevard is holding a air jordan 7 barbecue and Colorado craft beer festival on Tuesday to benefit Elephant Talk, a local hunger prevention agency. The barbecue and beer bash from 5 to 9 p.m. (beer tasting starts at 7) precedes the City of Glendale’s fireworks show that starts between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m.
Cost is $7 for food and $12 for beer tastings from Colorado breweries. Whole Foods is located at 870 S. Colorado Blvd.
Swine time
Ambria, the fine food restaurant at 16th and Larimer, is holding a pig roast Friday through Sunday. Grab a pork sandwich and two Great Divide draft brews for $12.
Reservations for lunch and dinner: ambriadenver.com or 303-623-8646.
Eavesdropping on a woman to a man: “What do you do?”
“I’m an attorney.”
“I figured you were an attorney.”
Man’s wife: “Was it the tie?”
Did you hear that I have a new column, “Mile High Life,” debuting in Colorado Community Media’s 17 weekly newspapers circling Denver? Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here’s where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’m now the social-media liaison for the Mile High Chapter of the Colorado Restaurant Association, so read my latest restaurant news there. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com.
Food-truck foodies be forewarned: Metro Denver’s largest gathering of gourmet meals on wheels returns to downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park on Tuesday.
Proceeds from the seventh-annual Civic Center Eats Outdoor Cafe help support Civic Center Park revitalization through the nonprofit Civic Center Conservancy.
The food wagons will circle (or line up) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays through Sept. 27 with the exception of July 3, Aug. 30 and Sept. 20.
On Wednesdays when the park isn’t already booked for other events, air yeezy 2 femmes the smaller scale Civic Center Hump Day Cafe will feature one to four food trucks. You can follow Denver’s Civic Center Park on Facebook for updates on the weekly Wednesday food truck line-up.
Dad’s day
The Four Seasons Hotel Denver wants to treat the man of the house like the king of the castle on Father’s Day, June 17.
Why not take dear old dad (and I use the term affectionately since I lost my “dear old dad”) to brunch at EDGE Restaurant followed by making an appointment for a test drive at of the elite Fisker Karma, an electric-powered luxury car?
EDGE is serving a three-course brunch for $48 per person, which includes a choice of appetizer, entree and dessert buffet. The boffo buffet includes items such as prosciutto-wrapped melon, seasonal fruit, roasted tomato soup and Dad’s Custom EDGE Benny Bar with several eggs benedict choices.
Post brunch, dad can take a sneak peek of the Karma car on the front drive of the hotel, pose for photos and sign up for a test drive. Because of Colorado’s ridiculous Blue Laws, test drives are a law breaker on Sundays. A Rickenbaugh Fisker rep will be on hand to sign dad up for a Monday through Saturday appointment.
If dinner is more your dad’s delight, EDGE is serving a three-course Hops & Pops dinner, which includes a choice of starter, entrée and side dish and dessert. The dinner is $50 per person with the option of an additional local craft microbrew pairing for $10.
If the dad in your life would prefer a spa treatment over tasty treats, The Four Seasons has gift certificates for “he-time moments” such as a stress-relieving sports massage or a men’s Moroccan facial.
For brunch and dinner reservations call 303-389-3343; for a spa appointment or to purchase a gift certificate, call 303-389-3020.
Dog day
Canine Companions dogs will be the greeters to guests attending a fundraiser from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Highland’s Garden Cafe at 3927 W. 32nd Ave. in the Highland neighborhood.
“Our front door hosts are some of the most talented and adorable I have ever seen,” said Pat Perry, owner of Highland’s Garden Cafe.
Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults with disabilities by providing trained assistance dogs.
Since 1975, Canine Companions has placed more than 3,000 assistance dogs in homes free run 3.0 v2 femmes across the United States. Dogs are training in one of four programs: service, skilled companion, facility and hearing.
The Sunday event includes a buffet dinner and wine by Cru Vin Dog. Tickets are $25 per person at 303-458-5920.
Eavesdropping on a divorced woman talking about throwing out almost all the pictures in her wedding album that included her now ex-husband:
“I saved one picture of him in case I have to identify him in a line-up.”
Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here’s where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’m now the social-media liaison for the Mile High Chapter of the Colorado Restaurant Association, so read my latest restaurant news there. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com.
So the Stray Cats aren’t going to be here, but most of the rest of the rock ‘n’ roll world wil be during the Denver Day of Rock, a free day of music on May 26 when 25 bands take to five stages for Concerts for Kids, the third annual fundraiser honoring children’s charities from 2:30 to 9:30 p.m. along the 16th Street Mall.
Included in this year’s line-up are TOTO, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Samples, Fishbone, Something Underground, John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light, Go Home Joe, Jeff Brinkman, I-Tones Brass Band, Offbeat Revolution, Lee Avenue, Alicia Witt, Tracksuit Wedding, Tatanka, Smack Thompson, Strange Americans, Jet Edison, WhiteWater Ramble, Amanda Capper, match supreme txt femmes Air Dubai, Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Heallraisers, The Railbenders and The Peacemakers.
In addition, the Downtown Denver Arts Festival will take place featuring 125 Colorado artists who will exhibit and sell their wares from May 25-28.
“Denver’s music and arts scene come together with Denver Day of Rock on 16th Street and the Downtown Denver Arts Festival, kicking off the summer outdoor festival season in Mile High style,” said Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver.
For a full list of concerts and events, go to visitdenver.org.
Tebow trivia
From Adam Schefter, NFL commentator for ESPN and former football writer for The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post on Twitter: “Tim Tebow clearly is in a New York state of mind. (Tebow) said his dog Bronco has been renamed Bronx.”
Racines rocks!
Congrats to Racines the fab eatery that celebrated its eighth year in the second location on Sixth and Sherman across from Denver’s 7. Denver gadfly and all around good guy Tim Jackson, chief of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, sent Racines owners Lee Goodfriend and David Racine a bountiful bouquet, which reminded Goodfriend of the anniversary date.
Delish
D Bar, the fabulous dessert joint next to Strings on 17th and Humboldt, is opening a second spot next to Denver-based breakfast place Snooze in San Diego.
D Bar, owned by husband and wife team Keegan Gerhard (of Food Network fame) and Lisa Bailey, celebrates with a pre-opening party from 7 to 10 p.m. May 23 at 3930 Fifth Avenue, San Diego.
Everybody in the pool
The Four Seasons Hotel new jordan Denver opens Level 3, the poolside bar, beginning Thursday and continuing from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursdays throughout the summer. Opening night will be a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
“There’s nothing else like our rooftop pool scene in town,and we’re looking forward to re-opening Level 3 for the season,” said Thierry Kennel, Four seasons general manager. “Plus, our opening night will give back to charity – what better excuse to enjoy a martini?”
Eavesdropping on a woman: “Stop the world I want to get off, and the world never stops!”
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