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Tonight: A special wine dinner at Coohills

Coohills, 1400 Wewatta Street, is welcoming Michael Honig of the Honig Winery this evening for a five-course dinner paired with the family-owned vineyard's wine. Keep reading to view the full menu. See also: - Coohills is a safe standby for those special-ish occasions - In the kitchen at Coohills i ... More >>

Crooked Stave will triple in size in 2013, sell sour beers out of state

Chad Yakobson talks fast and he doesn't stand still -- not when there is so much to do. The founder, owner and head yeast whisperer at Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project is in the midst of a major expansion at his northwest Denver Barrel Cellar, adding employees, barrels, storage space and taproom ... More >>

Culinary Calendar for the weekend: Summer's not over yet

There's a cornucopia of culinary events this weekend -- from farm celebrations both urban and rural to beer olympics, wine festivals, a toga party and more. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

Four reasons (and seven wines) that prove it's time to drink chardonnay again

"I'll have the chardonnay, thanks." After overhearing this from a nearby diner during a recent restaurant meal, followed immediately by the withering response, "Seriously? A chardonnay?" from said diner's snarky companion, we realized that chardonnay still has a bullshit reputation.

Five examples of great service in Denver

After some service flubs at Charcoal, the subject of my most recent review, I lamented the fact that the quality of service in many of this town's restaurants has not kept up with the ever-improving food turned out by the kitchens. There are exceptions, of course, and those are worth noting because ... More >>

The twelve wines of Christmas 2011: the rest of the best

​With only a few days to go until Christmas, it's time to 'fess up: Have you been naughty or nice? For goodness' sake, here's hoping you've been on your very best behavior this year -- because then you're fully deserving of these six stupendous bottles. Read on for the continuation of last ... More >>

In the kitchen with Uber Sausage's Brad Arguello: Apple coleslaw

​Brad Arguello, who I interview in this week's Chef and Tell, spends his days slinging sausages at the Uber Sausage, the hot dog hut he opened in August. Several of his dogs are topped with apple coleslaw, a housemade recipe that thumbs its nose at mayonnaise in favor of apple cider. "My wife, ... More >>

Four calls for entry: 'Tis the season for horror films, dancing calaveras, fine photos and wines

​Fall comes on under a curtain of darkness and, conversely, a celebration of the harvest and beautiful angled sunlight; this week's calls for entry occur somewhere around the place where it all intersects, suggesting Halloween, colorful ofrendas, wine labels and sharp visions from behind the l ... More >>

Spicy noodles are enough to keep you coming back to Silla

Lounge 5280 makes a DIA delay palatable

A little pre-flight salumi and riesling takes the edge off an irritating delay.​Thanks to the years I spent traveling for work, I've got my airport routine down to a science: I usually show up with barely enough time to make my flight, so as to minimize the minutes spent on any concourse -- an ... More >>

Sic Alps

Sunday, March 20, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

Four all-too-common restaurant wine service mistakes

​What the hell is up with the wine service at certain Denver restaurants lately? A slew of recent visits to a number of reputable spots around town resulted in being treated to some pretty egregious wine service faux pas. None of these restaurants were places where you'd know better than to ex ... More >>

Love Is Blind

Forbes Travel Guide gives a handful of Colorado restaurants four- and five-star ratings

​Just in time for the holiday season, Forbes Travel Guide released its annual list of four- and five-star hotels, restaurants and spas, facilitating luxury travel planning around the U.S., Canada and, uh, China. Just 23 restaurants made the five-star cut, and 152 eateries were granted four st ... More >>

Kimchi shortage in Korea threatens to cause national identity crisis

Mark MangerKimchi at Seoul BBQ​Korean barbecues have been a hot topic this week. I reviewed Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street in Aurora, and also wrote about my meal at Sik Gaek in Queens. Although both restaurants feature Korean cuisine, the two dinners could not have been more different. ... More >>

Riedel Glass Seminar at the Tivoli today

​There are a lot of rules regarding alcohol that I don't follow, but using the right glass for the right wine is a dictum that I have learned -- after hundreds of hours of personal research -- is key to giving wine the only chance to taste as the vintner wanted it to taste. You can save your ... More >>

Tonight: Wine at the Park Hill Golf Club

​Every month, the Park Hill Golf Club and Argonaut Wine & Liquor have been teaming up to offer wine tastings for a good cause. Tonight, that good cause will be Easter Seals of Colorado Head to the Park Hill Golf Club, 4141 East 35th Avenue, for the tasting, which runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. a ... More >>

Del Frisco's offering half off $300 bottles of wine tonight and tomorrow

​If you were planning on blowing $150 on a bottle of wine at dinner in the next couple of nights -- or if you've been dreaming about drinking luxurious Napa Cabernet Sauvignon or racy Bordeaux in steakhouse digs -- you might consider making a reservation at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse ... More >>

Fat, drunk and happy Fourth of July: Denver's best restaurants and bars for catching the fireworks

Samantha Webb​This Independence Day, we won't be fighting crowds in public areas, risking a ticket for an open container or grilling our own meat for all the neighbors. Instead, we're going to watch celebratory explosions in the sky while getting fat, drunk and happy on a patio around town. I ... More >>

Ten Denver bars for ten conversations

Dissect a new boyfriend over drinks at A Cote​The Ten10 Group, a local marketing and communications firm, posts a monthly list called the 10Spot, created by former Rocky Mountain Newser Steve Foster to give residents of the Mile High City something to think about and talk about. This month's ... More >>

Five bar types that every man should avoid during his lifetime

​ There comes a time in every adult's life when he or she starts to drink like an actual adult. In an ideal world, that time would coincide with the drinker's 21st birthday. Unfortunately, after December 6, 1933, "adults" lost their collective palates with the onset of Prohibition and became ... More >>

Five Oregon wineries to make you rethink your Napa habit

​For whatever reasons, Napa Valley is still viewed as the Holy Grail of wine destinations for a majority of American wine lovers. Don't get me wrong: I've been to Napa many times and there's no denying that some of the most fantastic juice in the world is produced there. But given the state ... More >>

Swirl Girl: Three reasons why wine tops give a good screw

Enjoy a good screw​The wine world has been buzzing all month over the latest issue of Wine Spectator magazine, which has finally acknowledged that not only are screw tops (aka Stelvin closures) perfectly acceptable for wine, they actually fared better than traditional and synthetic cork in te ... More >>

What's the perfect Colorado cocktail?

​Rich Grant, the beer-loving communications director for Visit Denver, is looking for the perfect Colorado cocktail. Denver already enjoys a reputation as the Napa of craft brewing -- but Grant thinks we could use an emblematic cocktail, too. Something he could pour out for visiting journalist ... More >>

Tonight: Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg cooks up a theme dinner

Hosea Rosenberg serves up a series.​Jax Fish House, 928 Pearl Street in Boulder, kicks off a new dinner series tonight. Every month, Top Chef champion Hosea Rosenberg will host a dinner based on a different theme. Tonight's is "Found in Translation: Inspiration from Hong Kong." Dinner starts ... More >>

Johnson & Wales chef Eric Stein dishes on vegetarian food (Denver has the worst), Michael Long (he's a genius) and peanut butter and jelly

Lori Midson​This is part two of Lori Midson's Chef and Tell interview with Eric Stein, chef/instructor at Johnson & Wales. To read part one of that interview, click here. Most embarrassing moment in the kitchen: I worked for a restaurant called Adesso in Providence, Rhode Island, that featur ... More >>

Tonight: Sip wine at a dinner or a tasting

A Flickr photo.​Citron New World Bistro, 3535 South Yosemite Street, is jumping on the wine-dinner bandwagon tonight with a meal showcasing West Coast wines -- including sauvignon blanc, pinot noir, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and riesling -- paired with lamb, scallops, duck, filet mignon a ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Learn to cook and Dine Out for Life

A Flickr photo.​Got some gaps in your culinary education? There are seven different culinary workshops, discussions and demonstrations this week, plus tons of wine tastings, Dining Out for Life and the inaugural Boulder Brew and Music Festival. Keep reading for a taste of what's ahead: Monda ... More >>

Tonight: Bourdeaux blending seminar at Strings

​Vintners blend wines made from different grapes to improve or enhance the flavors and textures of wine -- and you can do the same thing at home with a little know-how and practice. Learn more from 6:30 to 9 p.m. tonight, when Vic Bourassa of Napa's Bourassa Vineyards will host a Bourdeaux Ble ... More >>

Swirl Girl: Upgrade your wine drinking habit, part deux

​Remember all that talk about how to break up with the same boring white wines you've been holding onto for years? Now it's time to dig out of the red wine relationship ruts you've been stuck in. If you've been obsessively buying Pinot Noir ever since you saw the movie Sideways, then it's prob ... More >>

Why I hate the word "gastropub," again

Snaps courtesy of Maggie Helseth. Thanks, Maggie!​ I want to make myself absolutely clear here: I hate the word "gastropub." Just to be sure, I'm going to repeat that: I hate the word gastropub. Got it, everyone? The word. Words are my business. I take them very seriously. And as far as ... More >>

A Glass Half Full

The city pours its heart into the ten-day Denver Beer Fest.

Tonight's shochu dinner at Elway's Cherry Creek could be the blowout food orgy of the year

​By the time 5 p.m. rolls around on a work day in Japan, patrons have made their way into the nearest izakaya to knock back shochu (pronounced 'show-chew'), a clear distilled spirit, similar to vodka (sans the hangover), that can be made from rice, sugarcane, sweet potatoes, barley or buckwhea ... More >>

IACP Conference Report: Food writers are good in bed

For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason ... More >>

Drink Breckenridge

D'Vine Wine, a boutique winery, just opened at 211 South Main Street in Breckenridge, the fourth Colorado location of the California-based franchise. D'Vine makes handcrafted wines in its Colorado wineries, using freshly crushed grapes from Napa vineyards to create customized win ... More >>

Crazy Like a Fox

They like to be in America.

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie.

The Shlock of the New

War is hell. Cafe Bisque proves that.

Bite Me

Booze News

The Bite

The name game

Food Fetishes

Oil's Well That Ends Well.

Mouthing Off

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The Boston Chicken Party

Frank Erickson's revolutionary war: Fight the Golden-based chain's use of plastic.

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THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

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GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

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