{"id":2947,"date":"2018-01-18T05:06:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T05:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2018-01-20T01:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T01:48:22","slug":"a-tasty-and-tasteful-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"A tasty\u2014and tasteful\u2014affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jazz\u2019s Dotsero and 60 of the region\u2019s best restaurants are again the pairing at the 17th Taste of Greenwood Village, Oct. 18, at Denver Marriott Tech Center. File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Taste of Greenwood Village returns for its just desserts<\/i><\/h4>\n

BY PETER JONES<\/strong>
\nNEWS EDITOR<\/span><\/p>\n

There is always at least one way to tell how well the Taste of Greenwood Village is going down. Check and see if John Herbers is having a good time.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the event\u2019s planning committee has made the right calculus in balancing people, food and space, and sponsorships and restaurants have been well nurtured, Herbers\u2019s brow will be free of sweat and his wine glass will be half full in more ways than one.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to really enjoy the Taste this year,\u201d the CEO of the DTC\/Greenwood Village Chamber of Commerce said last week. \u201cThe committee has all the right people in all the right seats and it\u2019s not their first rodeo. It is really cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since its inception in 2001, the Taste of Greenwood Village has digested into becoming metro Denver\u2019s premier event of its kind. Tasteful aficionados say the Denver Tech Center staple is in a class of its own, with only Aspen Food and Wine Classic as comparable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe vision for the event is really to create a spotlight for all the great restaurants that we have in and around the Denver area and to match them up with a very nice event with entertainment and wines from around the world,\u201d said Herbers, who has overseen the event for the last eight years. \u201cIt\u2019s just a big party and a blast to attend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Taste will again return to Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse St. on Wednesday, Oct. 18. VIP ticket admission begins at 4:30 p.m. General admission is at 5:30 p.m. The evening of food, spirits and live music comes to an end at 8 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 60 restaurants\u2014from the south corridor\u2019s Del Frisco\u2019s and Jing to downtown\u2019s Capital Grille and Ocean Prime\u2014are slated to fill the 12,000-square-foot ballroom, each providing bountiful fare. Spirits of Colorado\u2014the state\u2019s breweries, wineries and distilleries\u2014will help wash it all down. A live dance band keeps the proceedings tasteful.<\/span><\/p>\n

A special VIP patio will feature restaurants not available in the ballroom and a special concert featuring Colorado\u2019s own acclaimed Dotsero.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herbers expects about 3,000 people to make their way to attend, with a smaller number of VIPs on the newly constructed 4,000-square-foot patio. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping for an Indian summer,\u201d Herbers said, noting there is a contingency plan in case weather becomes less than appetizing. <\/span><\/p>\n

In total, the Taste will assume well more than twice the total space it occupied in the same hotel last year\u2014but that figure of 3,000 people is not something Herbers takes lightly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStriking that balance is not always easy because you really do want that attendance,\u201d he said. \u201cYou do have to make sure the space is adequate. It\u2019s not always easy to predict because people in Colorado wait until the last minute to decide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the end, the Taste goes down well as a flavorful mix of class and fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo have high quality without the pretentiousness is really a nice thing to do,\u201d Herbers said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nonprofit beneficiary is again the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Villager<\/i> is among this year\u2019s sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Taste of Greenwood Village returns for its just desserts BY PETER JONES NEWS EDITOR There is always at least one way to tell how well the Taste of Greenwood Village is going down. Check and see if John Herbers is having a good time. If the event\u2019s planning committee has made the right calculus …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-business-news","category-features","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}