Dear Mr. President. As you are no doubt aware, the Kellogg Company recently announced that it is experiencing a catastrophic waffle shortfall owing to a sort of “perfect storm” of circumstances: scheduled maintenance and upgrades to their army of waffle-making robots, flood damage in the vast waffle fields of the…

It’s what you like that matters. And I like science fiction movies and books about sailing ships and celebrity memoirs and amateur pornography. I like music made in the years that music really mattered to me — those years I spent in high school and in kitchens and had very…

Twenty-eight hours and sixty-five entries later, we know one thing for sure: You people out there in Hotcakesland certainly do love your dick jokes. And your Colfax jokes. And your vegan jokes. And your vegan-on-Colfax dick jokes… Still, we had to go with just one caption for our last set…

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 –…

Yes, we’ve scored two more pairs of tickets to the Anthony Bourdain event that we’ve been so relentlessly hyping for the past several days — and earlier today, we asked all you slavering readers to come up with interesting ways in which we might give them away. And since my…

Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for–the winning entry in our “win a dream date with Tony B” contest! After several days and 55 entries (most of which actually stuck to the rules for a change), we have chosen our favorite. The mission was to provide three places for Denver-hating…

We’ve got two closures to report in Boulder, both of them somewhat surprising. First to go down? Spud Brothers at 2010 10th Street, which closed the doors on August 28, much to the disappointment of Micks and stoners city-wide. According to the official report from Spud Brothers management, the big…

The new Broadway location of Tony’s Market (right across the street from the Westword offices, at 950 Broadway) was giving away nibbles of their complete Thanksgiving dinner feast today during the lunch hour. Unfortunately, if you’re reading this now, you already missed the fun. The good news? They’re doing it…

As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 98 Mac-and-cheese fries from Jonesy’s EatBar…

846 Broadway has been a lot of things over the years. Failed restaurants have come and gone; bars have landed here, done well for a little bit, then died. I’ve spent time at every one of 846 Broadway’s incarnations over the past seven years and, with the exception of their…

This week’s review of Fogo de Chão contains one important bit of wisdom: No man can live solely on giant hunks of skewered meat delivered by strapping young Brazilian men. Trust me, if it could be done, I’d already be doing it. As would my darling wife, in a heartbeat…

On my first visit to Fogo de Chão, I was like Augustus Gloop in the chocolate factory — set loose in Wonka’s main room, eyes like saucers, jittery with excitement and trying desperately to shove everything into my mouth that would fit. And each time I half-cleaned a plate, some…

For some of us (like me), there just aren’t enough hours in the day to eat all the barbecue that we want. There are barbecue sandwiches for lunch, pulled pork for dinner, ribs and sides for a midnight snack, maybe a little cornbread and chicken picked off the bone at…

I just got the news twenty minutes ago. Ian Kleinman buzzed my cell shortly after. “So, you’re unemployed, brother,” I said. “Congratulations, I guess.” “Yeah, well, not completely unemployed,” Ian said, laughing. “But yeah.” Yesterday, Ian was let go from his gig as chef and chief liquid nitrogen wrangler at…

Fogo de Chao is not a place that any mortal man could visit with any regularity while remaining mortal, without ending up just flat dead from a meat overdose. Zeus, perhaps, could eat here three times in a week. James Beard or Escoffier could’ve probably managed four in their portly…

These Guess Where I’m Eating posts usually go the same way: One of us puts up a picture, offers a few words, then asks you to guess where the dish is from. You good folks guess Chubby’s (if it’s a burrito, which it usually is), or West End Tavern or…

I recently raved about Chili Verde — the new, kinda-upscale Pueblan restaurant at 3700 Tejon Street. Poblano crepes, perfect ceviche, all kinds of seafood — I loved the grub, the service, the room, everything about the place. The only thing that had me slightly concerned? The fact that the Yanez-Mota…