Subject: Taco de Mexico

• Chile Today, Hot Tomorrow

  May 2, 2006

• Cat's Turn!

  March 28, 2007

• Best of Westword Winners: 1989

  November 16, 2007

• Best of Denver Winners from 1996

  January 3, 2008

• Best of Denver Winners from 1998

  January 17, 2008

• 2001 Best of Denver Winners

  February 6, 2008

• Boot Hill

  Parking management may be down, but it's not immobilized yet.

  March 7, 2002

• Is Chile Rojo ready to take off?

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  December 8, 2008

• Check, Please!

  January 20, 2000

• South of the Border Patrol

  January 27, 2000

• Best of Denver Winners from 1995

  Ah, 1995: a time when entire Best Of categories were devoted to the O.J. Simpson trial, Bernie Bickerstaff and Dikembe Mutombo were still dominating the sports pages, and Mel's Bar and Grill was still new. Check out the winners from our 1995 Best Of issue after the jump.

  January 1, 2008

• 2005 Best of Denver Winners

  How does a city change in four years? A look at Westword's twenty-second Best Of Denver awards, bestowed in 2005, give a sense. We called Devil's Food Bakery the Best Waffle joint, "a dangerous place firmly dedicated to helping those with a weakness for the venal wrongs of gluttony to pave their way to hell with waffles." Best Hangover Breakfast went to El Taco de MĂ©xico, for its menudo, that "hearty, spicy, slow-cooked stew made from hominy, chiles and stock, plus tripe, feet, knuckles, trot

  February 21, 2008

• Best Original Big Burrito

  March 29, 2001

• The Bite

  May 16, 2002

• Bite Me

  September 26, 2002

• Small Bites

  September 26, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  October 3, 2002

• Best Place to Get Head on Santa Fe

  March 27, 2003

• Best Mexican Mexican

  March 27, 2003

• Best Menudo

  March 25, 2004

• Best Gallery Openings

  March 25, 2004

• Bite Me

  March 3, 2005

• Best Hangover Breakfast

  March 24, 2005

• Best Burrito

  March 24, 2005

• The List: Team Bonanno

  My review of Bones -- Frank Bonanno's new restaurant at 701 Grant Street -- was a love letter, a total crush note from one shameless omnivore to another, to the kind of guy who would put bone marrow, ice cream, escargot and udon all on the same menu, from the kind of guy who would gladly eat all of that in a single sitting.After I finished the review, I got to thinking about Bonanno's other restaurants in town -- both those still operating and those that failed, and it occured to me t

  March 23, 2009

• Culinary memo to IACP conference-goers: Eat ethnic

  El Taco de MexicoBetween April 1 and 4, more than 700 professional foodniks -- writers, editors, columnists and critics, culinary directors, cookbook authors, food stylists, recipe developers, nutrition experts and food and restaurant PR flacks -- are expected to share in a little culinary camaraderie, namely the kind that comes packed into a food conference like the one hosted by the International Association of Culinary Professionals at the Sheraton Downtown Denver. It's cool that a bun

  March 31, 2009

• El Noa Noa

  Order in the courtyard.

  July 3, 2008

• The Rest of Denver

  Pleased to eat you…

  March 30, 2006

• Lost in Translation

  Milagro Taco Bar is far from the talk of the town.

  October 27, 2005

• Bite Me

  Brain Drain

  January 15, 2004

• The Brains of the Operation

  El Taco de México goes to the head of the class.

  September 26, 2002

• Santa Fe Style, Part Two

  Another trip down Santa Fe Avenue.

  November 18, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  July 8, 1999

• Artsbeat

  March 12, 1998

• Mouthing Off

  June 6, 1996

• Mikuni makes sushi for the masses

  July 9, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 14 edition

  Photo by David BarberJohn Baxter and Matty Clark play skins and skins. In the flesh. Today in Backbeat Online: • Westword Music Showcase Awards Wrap Up. • Q&A with Asher Roth. • Deejay Diabolic competing to spin at Lollapalooza. • Fake Problems cancels Larimer Lounge date. • Tickle Me Pink covers that are anything but "Typical." Today in Cafe Society: • Tonight: Bastille Day bashes at Bistro Vendome, Brasserie Felix and Le Central. • Civic Center Eats: Crepes at the Cowboy Cart.

  July 14, 2009

• Interstate Kitchen & Bar gears up to gas up the Golden Triangle

  First, El Taco de Mexico spruces up its digs with a new patio, and now, two blocks up the street at 901 West Tenth Avenue, brothers Aaron and Andre Lobato and their good friend Joseph Newman are turning the former Santa Fe Tequila Company space, which dried up late last year, into an ass-kickin', foot-stompin' roadhouse. The Lobato boys, who happen to be the sons of Kathy Andrade and Jack Kerner, owners of the 14th Street Bar & Grill in Boulder, got the idea while road-tripping it across Ame

  July 14, 2009

• The List: Denver's top ten green chile spots

  ​One of my first columns was about the way green chile changes on the way from southern New Mexico to Denver -- from the pure verde kick in Hatch to the thin, soupy sauce of Albuquerque, and the steady thickening as you travel north along the green chile trail until you reach the gelatinous goop of Denver, studded with pork, completely missing the original vegetable sweetness of the fruit and encompassing varying levels of heat, from granny-safe to scorching. At the time, I could not stand

  August 21, 2009

• Green Chile Smackdown! El Taco de Mexico v. Santiago's

  The green chile at Santiago's is unmistakably orange.​Since listing our top-ten green chile places last week, we've been swimming in the stuff, comparing this taste to that, defending our picks, revisiting our favorites and finally conducting a green chile smackdown. And it kills me to admit this, but in today's side-by-side comparison of El Taco de Mexico green chile and Santiago's green chile, El Taco comes out the winner. It could be that the Santiago's at 571 Santa Fe Drive, just d

  August 24, 2009

• Guess where I'm eating?

  Lori Midson​It's only Tuesday, and already we've seen a green chile smackdown between El Taco de Mexico and Santiago's and a shout-out to all you vegheads for meatless verde recommendations that won't make the PETA terrorists people pissed. And now, strictly by coincidence, comes the above photo of three rolled enchiladas smothered with -- what else? -- green chile (and, yeah, there's some red tossed on there, too, because that's the way I roll) taken at a local restaurant whose chef actually

  August 25, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  What you might have missed this week while chowing on some Nut Poppers...Green chile mania!  Jason ranked the top ten green chile joints in Denver, and even got some input on the best vegetarian versions.  We pitted El Taco de Mexico's chile against Santiago's and found a surprise victor.We took a look at the pizza battle brewing in Belmar.  Oh, the drama!We found out how Ky Belk, bartender at Elway's, really feels about chocolate martinis.Hey guys, Twilight Sweethearts too frou f

  August 28, 2009

• Chef Elise Wiggins wants you to feel good about food

  September 24, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  Lori MidsonLobby American Grille opened to big crowds on Friday, September 25.​ What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while getting your free jolt of instant java at Starbucks: A second outpost of Toast, the kick-ass pancake palace, took up residence in the former Village Inn space in Cherry Creek. Fresko, an upscale Mexican restaurant in the Tech Center ,went dark barely two months after first seeing light, while Lobby American Grille opened at the end of September to s

  October 2, 2009

• Chef and Tell: Sean Yontz of Tambien, Sketch and Mezcal

  Sean Yontz​"Hey, get up, I have something to show you," instructs Sean Yontz as he strides into Sketch, one of the five venues he oversees with business partner Jesse Morreale. And their mini-empire will soon expand to a half-dozen, because Yontz, it turns out, is booting me off my stool to show me his newest restaurant space, a 350-seater (give or take) at the corner of First and Broadway, right around the corner from Sketch. "I like doing the whole neighborhood thing, and I want to do

  October 7, 2009

• Survey says: Denver's ethnic food scene sucks, according to Travel Leisure poll

  Lori Midson​Travel Leisure, the glossy travel title that encourages readers to anchor down in Amsterdam, escape to the Cape and luxuriate in Italy -- Santorini-style, has just released its America's Favorite Cities issue -- and the results, based on 60,000 votes, from residents and visitors alike, are in. While Denver cleaned up in the public park, environmentally friendly, cleanest city, family vacation, airport design and active/athletic residents categories, apparently our ethnic food sce

  October 7, 2009

• Ask the Critic: Forget Anthony Bourdain, these restaurants stand on their own

  ​ We have been shamelessly shilling for Anthony Bourdain for the past few days, talking about his upcoming trip to Denver, giving away tickets to his lecture and Q&A on November 18, throwing up pictures of him whenever we can. Shameless? Absolutely. Not for nothing, the man is very popular -- and every time we use Bourdain's name, people seem to find their way to our little corner of the digital world and stay a while to have their say. Love the guy or hate him, he's good at what he do

  November 16, 2009

• Chef and Tell with Brian Laird of Barolo Grill

  Lori MidsonAll fired up: executive chef Brian Laird of Barolo Grill ​"It was a step off the cliff for sure, but at the same time, I just knew that I was a good fit for the job," says Brian Laird of Barolo Grill, the Northern Italian restaurant whose kitchen Laird has cooked in for the past twelve years -- the last eight as the executive chef, a position he snagged after walking off the line one night following a blowup with Barolo's former guard. "Whether or not I was prepared to take that

  November 18, 2009

• Part two: Chef and Tell with Brian Laird of Barolo Grill

  Lori MidsonBrian Laird, executive chef of Barolo Grill​This is part two of my interview with Brian Laird, exec chef of Barolo Grill. You can read part one of my interview with Laird here. Best food city in America: San Francisco. It's all about what I love most: fresh ingredients, seafood, farm-raised animals, vegetables, cheese, wine and beer, dairy of all kinds...and on and on. It's all right there at your fingertips. My new favorite place there is the Rand G Lounge, a Chinese restaura

  November 19, 2009