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    May 17, 2012

    Einstein Bros. Bagels: Little shop of horrible

    Every time I leave Einstein's, I feel like I have just left a cathouse -- I'm sticky, covered with crumbs, and my wallet is considerably lighter...because I just got f*cked.

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Domino's new gluten-free pizza is actually worth ordering

    Domino's Pizza is not known for having the best pizza crust in the big-box pizza chain sphere of influence. Hell -- it isn't known for having the best pizza, either. So I was actually surprised when Domino's became the first major pizza-delivery chain to offer gluten-free crust (doing what smaller s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    District Meats is changing its concept and its name to Charlie Palmer's District Tavern

    "So, to what do I owe the privilege?" That's what rolled off my tongue earlier today when I picked up the phone and heard the booming voice of star chef and restaurateur Charlie Palmer on the other end, calling from New York with an update on what's transpiring at District Meats, the restaurant he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Reader: Denver is being flooded with pizza places

    Yesterday's news that Fired Up, a new pizza joint, will soon be opening in the Golden Triangle inspired this comment from Manfrenjensen: WTF is up with all the new pizza joints opening up all of a sudden?? I thought the upscale burger, cupcake, and DIY frozen yogurt trends were something, but I thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Reader: No chowder? Clam up about the best seafood restaurants!

    Denver may be landlocked, but our ship occasionally comes in -- loaded with fresh fish. Yesterday we served up Denver's five best seafood restaurants. Says UncleDave8: I can totally back this list. Refreshing change from most Denver diners' choices like The Fresh Fish Company, Pappadeaux, Oceanair ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Denver's five best seafood restaurants

    Anyone who says you can only find good seafood on the coasts is just plain wrong. A number of restaurants in Denver are helmed by chefs who really know their way around fish. They bring in the best specimens they can find, and they turn out some truly exceptional ocean-focused dishes. Some spots d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Organic Pizza Company expands downtown

    The Organic Pizza Company outpost at 891 14th Street in the Spire has expanded from a take-and-bake pizza joint to a "full-service pizzeria," and will host a grand reopening event Thursday, April 19. The expansion includes more seating, a flat-screen TV, a new menu and, most important, a liquor lic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Zabaglione

    Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Pinch pie, says Barb, is what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Health department puts a stop to raw milk sampling at Denver Urban Homesteading

    On the frontier of urban homesteading, you frequently encounter uncharted territory. James Bertini, the founder of Denver Urban Homesteading, recently ran into a gray area in the state law regarding raw milk.

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Milk and cookies with Lefthand's nitro stout and some Chocolove

    I had a case of the munchies the other day and knew from experience that chocolate chip cookies would cure it. An old neighbor and I used to get "safe" on a fairly regular basis (for more on safety, follow my man William Breathes) and as cliche as it sounds, the chocolate chip cookies he'd randomly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Reader: Does South Pearl have too many pizza joints? Or too many hipsters?

    Is South Pearl Street being overrun by pizza joints? Last week Sexy Pizza opened in the former home of the Crushery, just a block away from the popular Kaos. But the comments have Harris wondering if South Pearl has really been overrun by hipster doofuses and douchebags:

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Foodography: James Mazzio opens Red Star Deli in the Icehouse

    By noon, there was a line slinking out the door of Red Star Deli, James Mazzio's new sandwich shop that opened at 6 a.m. yesterday inside the Icehouse, 1801 Wynkoop Street, which is also home to Studio F, a behemoth space complete with a state-of-the-art professional kitchen that Mazzio will use, st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Chile Billy hits the pavement at 16th and Boulder this Wednesday

    Bill Yalch may be a Pittsburgh native, but it took just a few trips to the southwest for him to become utterly obsessed with New Mexican food -- namely green chile. "If you live in Pittsburgh, you have no idea what good huevos rancheros are," he admits, adding that he first sampled worthy huevos on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Red Star Deli, pop-up dinners and a chef series all part of chef James Mazzio's vision for Mise en Place Cooking School

    It's been an interesting past few years for James Mazzio, whose culinary career took a giant leap forward in 1999, when the then-Boulder chef of the long-gone 15 Degrees, snagged a Food & Wine magazine Best New Chef crown. Since then, Mazzio has cooked in numerous kitchens throughout the state, incl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Is the Cuban sandwich actually Cuban? Who cares, if you're eating a good one!

    There have probably been a bazillion sandwich combinations invented since the first prescient human stuck filling between a couple of slices of bread, but only a handful of those have become icons of culture and cuisine. There's the pastrami on rye, of course, which embodies the spirit of a New York ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Five meaty ways to satisfy carnivorous cravings in Denver

    Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of fasting, giving up ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 26, 2012

    At Hana Matsuri, the chef knows his way around good fish

    Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of fasting, giving up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Pizzeria Locale rolls out a new Aperitivo hour

    Rob ChristensenPizzeria Locale rolls out a daily Aperitivo hour.​One year ago next week, Pizzeria Locale finally opened its doors, revealing the Napolitano pizzeria that Frasca owners Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson had been working on for months, pushing forward even after their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Epic Grills shut down, but one Fatburger remains standing

    ​Late last summer, every Front Range location of Fatburger -- the California-based burger chain that has expanded nationwide since it first started slinging patties in the early 1950s -- abruptly parted ways with the parent company, becoming Epic Grill.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Reader: Only green chile spelled with an "e" for me!

    Cafe Society took a quick break in all the opening and closing action at the end of 2011 to stir the pot of a long-simmering discussion: Who makes the best green chile in Denver? Lori Midson served up her list of the ten best green chiles in Denver, which inspired yet another debate over how you spe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Green chile discussion -- over sources, over spelling -- heats up in the new year

    As an end-of-the-year public service to those who were going to need hot, hot green chile to cure their hangovers on January 1, Lori Midson offered her list of "Denver's ten best green chiles." Any discussion of green chile always stirs the pot. Fans of those that didn't make the list complain -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Denver's ten best green chiles

    If you were born and raised in Denver, you are, by default, a green chile geek. And for those of you who popped out elsewhere (New Mexico notwithstanding), and simply don't get why we're so besotted with suffocating our burritos, enchiladas, rellenos and French fries with verde, we can only assume y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    A food critic figures out how to lose weight without eating diet food at home

    ​Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don't punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part eight of this series: "Just hope you got your dad's metabolism," my grandmother whispered in a tone full of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Mad Greens tosses out custom salads perfect for vegetarians and vegans

    The biggest misconception about a vegetarian diet is probably that it consists of salad, salad and more salad. And although these Veggie Girl posts have showcased the wide range of dishes available to vegetarians, the truth is that when you stop eating meat, your tastebuds can change -- and you actu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Foodography: District Meats, Charlie Palmer's new restaurant, opens in the former Big Game space

    Lori MidsonCharlie Palmer and Jeff Russell, the chef at District Meats, which officially opens tonight in LoDo.​District Meats, insists Charlie Palmer, is not a steakhouse. It is, however, a meat-centric fortress of flesh, where, says Palmer, a New York-based chef and restaurateur who's unlea ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 17, 2011

    Get hooked on the fresh fish at Land of Sushi

    Lori MidsonCharlie Palmer and Jeff Russell, the chef at District Meats, which officially opens tonight in LoDo.​District Meats, insists Charlie Palmer, is not a steakhouse. It is, however, a meat-centric fortress of flesh, where, says Palmer, a New York-based chef and restaurateur who's unlea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Denver's ten best burgers

    The Steakburger​This town is already stuffed with burgers, and today another meaty addition joined the ranks: Steak 'n Shake, which opened in Centennial. While we have no doubt that this link in the Midwestern chain will quickly endear itself to Denverites, the Steak 'n Shake burger has some f ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 10, 2011

    Like a good neighbor, Frank's Kitchen is there

    The Steakburger​This town is already stuffed with burgers, and today another meaty addition joined the ranks: Steak 'n Shake, which opened in Centennial. While we have no doubt that this link in the Midwestern chain will quickly endear itself to Denverites, the Steak 'n Shake burger has some f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    The history of candy -- very short and sweet

    Flickr photo​There's something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it, and were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren't covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Pig & Block Charcuterie opens in Highland

    Lori Midson​Earlier this year, Jeff Bauman and his brother, Marc, signed a lease on a small storefront at 2009 West 32nd Avenue with the intent of opening a charcuterie and butcher shop. But after a myriad of construction and electrical issues stonewalled the process, the brothers, who are th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Have a taste for truffles? Cured has you covered

    Coral FergusonWhite truffles at Cured.​Ah, fall. The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, pie and soup are back on the menu, and coats and boots are back in the stores. And across the pond in France and Italy, it's also the height of truffle season.

  • Dining

    October 20, 2011

    Slow down at Argentine restaurant Caminito Tango

    Coral FergusonWhite truffles at Cured.​Ah, fall. The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, pie and soup are back on the menu, and coats and boots are back in the stores. And across the pond in France and Italy, it's also the height of truffle season.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    ZaZa's Pizzeria will soon start slinging slices near the University of Denver

    Lori Midson​Late last year, Pete Kallas, the owner of Steakhouse 10, the Athenian, Undici Ristorante and Greeks Gone Wild, a fast-casual joint in the DU 'hood, snapped up the digs of a former Fuhgidabowdit Pizzeria outpost -- directly next door to the Greek den -- which has sat dark for the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    In the kitchen with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Wild mushroom soup

    Roman and Kaz Marczyk, the next generation of foragers.​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Want more of Deluxe? Chef/owner Dylan Moore introduces lunch

    Lori Midson​While Dylan Moore, the chef/owner of Deluxe and Delite, dumped his food truck earlier this summer and shuttered Deluxe Burger last month, he isn't lazying on a beach somewhere on the tropics, sipping umbrella drinks and building sand castles. Instead, Moore, who recently remodeled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    New York-based Murray's Cheese opens its first Colorado shop in the Glendale King Soopers

    Lori Midson​"Nine years ago," says Liz Thorpe, "when no one cared about cheese, we started selling cheese at Murray's, a small cheese shop in New York, and thanks to some amazing people with a genuine love and passion for cheese, we've become one of the best cheese shops in the country." Mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    In the kitchen with Brett Smith: Habanero-mango salsa from Zolo Grill

    Lori Midson​In this week's Chef and Tell interview with Brett Smith, the executive chef of Zolo Grill in Boulder, Smith admits that you won't find too many dishes on his menu absent of chiles -- a staple (along with pig) in his kitchen. While I was having dinner at Zolo, Smith brought out a b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Three Colorado cheesemakers, including Fruition Farms Dairy and Creamery, win American Cheese Society Awards

    Lori MidsonAlex Seidel's sheep's milk ricotta​Colorado creameries Fruition Farms Dairy and Creamery, Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy and Avalanche Cheese Company took home prizes from the American Cheese Society's annual competition held last weekend in, of all places, Montreal, Canada. With 1, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    A pizza the pie: Food Network magazine names Pizzeria Locale one of Top 50 in the country

    Lori MidsonFood Network magazine heralds the pizza at Pizzeria Locale​Six months ago, editors from Food Network magazine zigzagged across the country in search of the holy grail -- or, more precisely, the best pizzas in the United States, and in the September issue, on newsstands August 9, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    A beer nerd's beer bread, with Odell Double Pilsner

    Philip Poston​I've been presented with many, many versions of beer bread over the years, and despite my love of both beer and bread, I've yet to try a loaf that I actually liked. Nothing against the people kind enough to share theirs with me, but they tended to choose darkish, full-bodied ale ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 21, 2011

    The only thing bittersweet about Bittersweet is that you'll have to leave

    Photos: The Summer Menu at Bittersweet

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery: a bakery that doesn't bake bread

    Mark MangerThe cinnamon rolls are baked in-house -- but the bread isn't.​Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery, which I reviewed last week, is now my weekend haunt, and I regularly hang out at one of the tables in this small spot, digging into pastries baked in the open kitchen just behind the counter. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Tuna salad and Avery's White Rascal make a good case for a condiment

    Philip Poston​When I was a kid, I hated mayonnaise -- or at least thought that I did. It looked gross, and that was reason enough for me to avoid the stuff for nearly twenty years. But once I started falling in love with food -- coincidentallly around the same time I was legally allowed to i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Scallop ceviche

    ​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Yesterday was the summe ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 16, 2011

    Carbone's Italian Sausage Deli makes nearly perfect sandwiches

    ​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Yesterday was the summe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Denver's five best spots for sandwiches

    ​It's hard to really screw up a sandwich, since it requires just enough skill to slap a couple of slices of meat and maybe a little cheese between two pieces of bread. But by the same token, it's also hard to elevate the sandwich into something truly extraordinary. There are a few spots in D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Food Channel's top ten dessert trends for 2011: two out of ten ain't bad

    ​If you hear it from the Food Channel, then it must be true. This crew's latest list -- of top ten dessert trends -- includes mass wedding cake genocide, tableside theatrics, Cinnamon Twists from Taco Bell, beer paired with doughnuts, two-fisting nuts (and yes, "two-fisting" is being used as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Ice Cream Alchemy is behind the goods at one of Denver's five best spots for ice cream

    Peter Arendsen and his company, Ice Cream Alchemy, is behind TAG's ice cream.​A week ago, we brought you a list of the five best spots for ice cream in Denver, including a couple of restaurants that happen to serve up great scoops. But while one of those -- Frasca Food & Wine -- makes its gela ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 2, 2011

    Lola's cold bar is hot

    Peter Arendsen and his company, Ice Cream Alchemy, is behind TAG's ice cream.​A week ago, we brought you a list of the five best spots for ice cream in Denver, including a couple of restaurants that happen to serve up great scoops. But while one of those -- Frasca Food & Wine -- makes its gela ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    Masters Plan

    Peter Arendsen and his company, Ice Cream Alchemy, is behind TAG's ice cream.​A week ago, we brought you a list of the five best spots for ice cream in Denver, including a couple of restaurants that happen to serve up great scoops. But while one of those -- Frasca Food & Wine -- makes its gela ... More >>

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