Hasbro’s Easy-Bake Ovens are getting a masculine makeover fifty years after the toy was introduced, thanks to a market-savvy thirteen-year-old girl in New Jersey who wanted to buy her little brother one as a gift — and found only purple and pink ovens. Her campaign got a media-smooch after a…
Cost Plus World Market is usually a one-stop gift shop for foodies, but during the holiday season it becomes a wonderland of seasonal edibles, drinkables and everything to create and serve them, including winter-themed cookware and dishes that you’ll only use once a year. The prices are reasonable for imported…
Yesterday marked the glorious return of America’s favorite onion-ed, pickled, sauce-slathered, probably-pork sandwich. Much to my delight, the McDonald’s location at 505 East Colfax Avenue is now serving the McRib sandwich — and thanks to McDoo’s extremely persuasive “Get a second McRib for $1,” I not only got one McRib…
The concept of “the backup” is a pretty familiar one in sports, electrical generators and dating, but you don’t usually see it applied to restaurants. But the International House of Pancakes is my idea of the perfect backup restaurant: It’s not a first choice for dining, but it’s a suitable…
This year has seen some random — and downright nutty — food heists. Stealing enormous amounts of edibles is a strange crime, especially since rarely are the thefts committed to feed starving people or to make significant political statements. What sort of greedy, soulless riffraff steals pilfers foodstuffs? Since none…
Smashburger, a homegrown burger chain, just opened a new location in Costa Rica. And so far, it’s been a smashing success, with a special, indigenous burger and fries combo and more international flavors to come. See also: -Smashburger and New Belgium team up on burger-and-beer pairings -Smashburger capitalizes on Manning…
Local goths often have a general attitude of deep, dark despair — and now they have a reason for it: They will soon have to crawl back to Hot Topic to buy their gear…at least for a little while. Rave’s Oh My Goth, the brick-and-mortar store at 1516 Emerson Street,…
Last week I did something I’d never done before: I had lunch at Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar. It wasn’t that I’d never been to an Applebee’s before. I had, dozens of times, the visits usually consisting of me getting off work at a neighboring chain restaurant; ordering the biggest,…
Johnny Carino’s very first location was in Colorado Springs, and Chris Peitersen, the chain’s executive chef who’s also vice president of Culinary Development, was born in Denver (he still holds season tickets to the Denver Broncos). So it’s fitting that Johnny Carino’s is rolling out its new menu items –…
Do you know what a “Dirty Sanchez” is? How about “The Rickshaw” or “The Ambush?” Hint: all of these are sex positions, and sexy knowledge like this will come in handy for competing in the X-Rated Spelling Bee on Saturday, December 8, at Rooster & Moon. There will be sexy…
We must eat to live — but sometimes what we eat and drink also kills us. The oddest things can cook our goose. This past year saw many food-assisted expirations and accidents that were peculiar, creepy — and very, very unappetizing. Here’s our list of the five weirdest food deaths…
The forces-that-be at Kentucky Fried chicken have constructed the ultimate in culinary cross-marketing: combining KFC’s fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies with its original-recipe fried chicken to create an original-recipe cookie formula. It’s a clucking weird idea, but are these new hybrid cookies the next big thing for KFC — or an…
The phrase “say my name” may get you slapped at a bar under normal circumstances, but today it could net you a free Sweet Jim Beam Bacon Swiss burger at Red Robin. That’s because on December 4, participating locations of Red Robin will give a free burger to anyone whose…
Why did the original- recipe fried chicken cross the road? To get away from the breasters and nesters at Kentucky Fried Chicken during its all-you-can-eat Monday special. Any unlimited eat-hole cram promotion will attract a few opportunists short on dining etiquette, but a flock who lacked even basic social skills…
Fat Jack’s Supersubs, a local sandwich chain, is adding a few new things, including a fourth location in Stapleton, local art…and chairs. Until now, none of the Fat Jack’s locations have had inside dining options — they’ve been carryout and delivery only — but the store at 1245 East Colfax…
Guy Fieri is getting more bad press than Congress and/or Lindsay Lohan right now — okay, maybe the same amount of rotten press, but that’s still plenty — all apparently inspired by the review that Pete Wells, restaurant critic for the New York Times, just gave Fieri’s brand-new restaurant, Guy’s…
Denver’s Sexy Pizza is considering going where no local pizza chain has gone before: into the comedy-club business. And it may not be all that much of a stretch, since people tend to like things that are both sexy and funny. After all, where there is deli luncheon meat, there…
There are many things that are better in threes — including pizza shops. And now Denver-born Sexy Pizza is looking to add a third store to its current two for a Sexy Pizza threesome. See also: -Sexy Pizza gives pot-positive police a slice of the action -Sexy Pizza’s sexy facelift…
The former CEO and current chairman of Waffle House, Joe Rogers Jr., has his waffles in the iron right now over sex tapes allegedly made of him and his former housekeeper, who claims that Rogers demanded sexual acts as part of her job duties over the eight years she worked…
I’d love to see chains bring back some of my old favorites that have been erased from menus over the years: the Bellbeefer from Taco Bell, the McOnion nuggets from McDonald’s, the 5 Alarm burger from Red Robin. And now that the folks at the Denver-based Red Robin are giving…
Thanksgiving is a fly-over holiday. While other holidays, such as Valentine’s Day, have an entire month’s worth of ramp-up –and special heart-shaped candy to boot — year after year this noble-sounding, federally-approved holiday is relegated to a mere day’s worth of turkey-munching and football-watching, followed by a trail of stores…
Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter has been outspoken about cutting employee hours to less than thirty hours per week so that he doesn’t have to pay their health insurance costs — as mandated Affordable Health Care Act — or Obamacare; he has cited concerns over the estimated $5 to 8…
