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Five fast-food meals to stimulate your 4/20 palate

Tomorrow is April 20, which means that you are smoking your "4/20 Eve" stash today in preparation for smoking even more tomorrow. In order to properly pay homage to this greenest of green holidays, you should stay hydrated, stay stoned -- and keep the munchies fed with the best possible eats if you ... More >>

A second helping of Cafe Society

Gretchen Kurtz reviewed True Food Kitchen, which opened last fall in Cherry Creek. Lori Midson interviewed Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, for Chef and Tell. See also: - True Food Kitchen is good...and good for you - Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, on the perfect bite and his obsession with ... More >>

The ten best Craiglist Missed Connections from a gas station, Colorado's top spot

A recent study in Psychology Today mapped the most common locations of Craigslist Missed Connections by state -- and Colorado's isn't glamorous. In the Centenntial State, the most likely place to fail romantically (and later document it publicly) is the gas station. Considering the amount of active ... More >>

My five worst school lunches

Public school students are being awfully whiny about their school lunches right now. The reason is because the United States Department of Agriculture just restructured standards for school lunches for the first time in over a decade, and now students have to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole gr ... More >>

Five worst food and beverage slogans ever

Clever, market-savvy purveyors of food and drink have spent some serious Cheddar on making sure that we, the consuming public, buy whatever they are peddling. Sometimes their efforts work like Lucky Charms, and other times the slogans are so bad that people will go out of their way to avoid the poor ... More >>

Taco Bell's Cantina Bell menu needs Lorena Garcia in the kitchen

I was as surprised as everyone else when Taco Bell announced that it was going fast-cazh with the new Cantina Bell menu -- a blatant rip-off of Chipotle's signature healthy, fresh Mexican-inspired burritos and bowls, albeit at slightly slower prices. I even attended a Taco Bell rollout dinner, host ... More >>

Since when did black beans become "higher class"?

Not-so-great moments in drunk tweeting

SXSW travelogue: Morning Clouds do laundry and play college flophouse

Thursday, March 15: Thousands of bands were packed into stages around town, fans were going nuts on every street corner. How'd the Morning Clouds spend their off day? Doing laundry. We're pretty rock like that. With piles of clean undies and non-smelly socks back in our room, we managed to catch a g ... More >>

Colorado Rockies are bums -- but if they trade Ubaldo Jimenez, they are shmucks

Ubaldo Jimenez.​We cheered when the Colorado Rockies re-signed Tulo and Cargo to huge deals before the season; we were patient as the two stars struggled... and struggled... and struggled some more; we kept our chins up as manager Jim Tracy reshuffled the lineup more times than Dexter Fowler h ... More >>

Taco Bell-Colorado Rockies giveaway deal keeps getting worse -- just like the Rockies

​A friend of mine used to sell T-shirts in college. He was putting himself through school, along with a few scholarships, and he needed every dollar he could get. So he'd come up with a creative design idea, get a small loan from his mom and have the T-shirts printed. Then he'd go door-to-door ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Take to the Oars and the Denver crew bring the ruckus to Peckerheads

Hi! How are you? The spirit of Daniel Johnston looms large in Austin​ Friday, March 18 Another one for the books... honestly, the worst part about today was that it had to end... After an ample five hours of sleep, the household hesitantly woke up, made coffee, and loaded the trailer in anti ... More >>

Winter-storm warning a relief to Denver snow sculptors: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration... Figure 96a. Wellshire: Little Air snowboard ramp.​ The photo of the "little air" snowboard ramp above was taken this past weekend. That the iced 3/4 pipe has weathered an unseasonably warm January is testament to good design and ... More >>

Reader: For whom the Taco Bell Toils

​Taco Bell has introduced two new sauces, which Jenn Wohletz reviewed here yesterday. But the chain's most fiery condiment is very, very bland compared to the comments her post inspired, including this one from Joe: Good bet that if these sauces were served at a "respectable" Mexican restaura ... More >>

The brainiacs of Das Racist offer a colorful take on current events

Is the entire notion of a band "selling out" even valid anymore in this day and age?

​In a Q&A with GQ posted earlier this week, Steve Albini takes Sonic Youth to task for selling out when they signed to Geffen in 1990. He contends that when Sonic Youth entered the mainstream machine, it encouraged other bands to follow suit. It's kind of confusing logic if you think too lon ... More >>

Creepy, nutcase pastor Terry Jones thinks eating in restaurants is a sin

​Terry Jones, the bat-shit crazy pastor of the obscure 50-member Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) in Gainesville, Florida, who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of September 11, because he's opposed to the building of the "Ground Zero mosque" (he later called off ... More >>

Taste the Language

Taco Bell rolls out street food-inspired menu

Taco Bell's Cantina Tacos​You know you've got an exploding trend when the lowest-common-denominator, late-night guilty pleasure, drive-thru chain decides to jump on board.

The world of food according to Chuck James, chef of 1515 Restaurant

Lori Midson Chuck James, executive chef of 1515 Restaurant​ Chuck James 1515 Restaurant 1515 Market Street 303-571-0011 www.1515restaurant.com This is part two of my interview with Chuck James, executive chef of Restaurant 1515. to read part one of that interview, click here. What you'd l ... More >>

Amazing but true: Taco Bell robbed of food

​An incredible story out of Charlotte, North Carolina, where a Taco Bell was robbed -- not of money, but of food! Who knew that Taco Bell even served edible items? A car with three men had pulled up to the drive-thru window when one of the men pulled out a weapon and demanded food from the f ... More >>

Strange Sauce: The week in national food news

​ In the heat of Michael Bloomberg's quest to limit the use of salt in NYC restaurants, a recent study has found that a program aimed at reducing the nation's salt intake could shave 24 BILLION dollars from the national health-care budget. Healthy or not, we're siding with David Chang, who mak ... More >>

Strange Sauce: The week in national food news

OUCH.​ Michelle Obama appeared on Iron Chef America and challenged contestants to use ingredients from the White House vegetable garden. Mario Batali, known for his hideous orange Crocs, dubbed Michelle's dress "Obamatali Orange." Although we prefer him plump, George Costanza has agreed to ... More >>

Can Modmarket make it at Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street mall?

Come August, Rob McColgan and Anthony Pigliacamto will open Modmarket at 1700 28th Street in Boulder's flailing Twenty Ninth Street mall, a risky move that is nothing short of roulette, considering the succession of restaurants that have opened, and subsequently shuttered, in that wasteland of ... More >>

The Mexican is always packing heat

Shead's BBQ & Fish Hut gets back in the swim

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 21 edition

"Hey, this burrito is shaped like a really big, fat penis!" Take a bite. Today in Cafe Society: • Quiznos is the sandwich of choice for half-naked playmates. • Eat Here Now! at 910Arts. • Jax puts its fin into the wine game. • Up Close: The Q Worldly Barbecue. • Candy Girls: Sweet Action ... More >>

Hessini gives a unique world tour of food

Last fall, Nigerian-born Ifiok Etuk began to transform the space at 2044 Clinton Street, Unit B, in Aurora into his own workplace, his own restaurant. The result is Hessini Roots International Cafe, a unique space that fuses soul food, African food and Mexican food into a veritable world tour of cui ... More >>

The name is confusing, but Peking Tokyo takes you straight to Asia

Another week, another obsession

For more photos of Peking Tokyo, see Mark Manger's slideshow. I love ethnic restaurants that open in the abandoned shells of chain restaurants or, better yet, fast-food restaurants, and I love them even more when they keep the impedimentia and knick-knacks of those former operations and end up ser ... More >>

Rearview: The Week in Review (7/19/08-7/25/08)

Behold Bandicoots, A New Column From Eli Mishkin of Hot IQs

Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar

Only in America.

Tacos D.F.

The truck stops here.

Dark Angels

In good times, Mexicans are Latin lovers and spicy señoritas; in bad, we’re greasers and spicy señoritas.

A Night to Remember

The ChopHouse brews a perfect mix.

Margarita de la Casa

Señor Rita’s

The Need for Speed

Drive-thru, they said.

Drunk of the Week

Mezcal

Drunk of the Week

Drunk of the Week

Restaurant Japon

The Great Outdoors

Chilling out on hot patios.

Best Green Chile

Benny's Restaurant y Cantina

Backwash

Colfax cowers before a full-fledged yuppie insurrection.

The Bite

Chain Links

Not So Hot

Cool River sells Denver diners down the river.

Letters

Taken for a Ride

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