A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were places like Qdoba, Noodles and Company, Smashburger, Spicy Pickle and Chipotle.
After finding enough sustenance to make logical thought possible again, it dawned on me that all these places had tw
I have to extend an apologetic hand to both my fellow Westworder Joel Warner and, by extension, the Highland Mommies -- the web message board group in North Denver; See, at Monday's editorial meeting, Mr. Warner brought up a rumor he'd heard that Chipotle was changing its menu. There weren't many details and the story had come to him through a posting on the Mommies message board -- two things which immediately made me call bullshit on the entire thing.
"Chipotle hasn't changed their menu in fi
The Great Burrito War of 2009 has begun and, like the foil-wrapped monstrosities on which it is based, it's big, messy and is giving more than few people heartburn.
The trouble started when Chipotle Mexican Grill, the burrito restaurant chain born and bred in Denver, unveiled a new "Low Roller" menu and ad campaign in the metro area last month. That didn't sit will with the folks behind the feisty Denver advertising blog the Denver Egotist. Not only did they hate the new food items being offere
This week's Time magazine story on "America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It" cites Chipotle, Denver's homegrown success story, as one of the companies doing things right -- which made yesterday's petition delivery to Chipotle headquarters in LoDo, calling on the company to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, go splat.
"We put a lot of energy into finding farmers who are committed to raising better food," founder Steve Ells told Time, explaining Chipotle's Food With Integrity Philosop
"At long last," proclaims the Coalition of Immokalee Workers website, "a grower steps forward."
And let's not forget a restaurant company, Chipotle, which, as spokesman Chris Arnold had told us three weeks ago, was negotiating with that grower to get around a stalemate that had prevented the Denver-based outfit from raising the price it paid for Florida-grown tomatoes - a raise that will now go directly to Florida farm workers.
The grower that made it possible: East Coast Farms, one of
