Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina officially opened for business on Tuesday on the 16th Street Mall, and so far the place appears to be mighty popular — in part, no doubt, because the employees are passing out coupons for free full-sized chips and queso appetizers at the corner of 16th…

Pat Boone, beloved oldies crooner and now carnally inclined entrepreneur, recently made his own offering to the religious community: discounted “Pastor Appreciation Steak Gift Boxes” from his Colorado Springs-based Pat Boone’s All American’s Meats. Parishioners could make nice with their spiritual shepherds by hooking them up with either a box…

Tony’s Broadway Market Bistro will host an Italian family dinner on Thursday, January 27 — and owner/founder Tony Rosacci will be there, making this definitely a family affair. “Tony invented this,” says Stuart Stevenson, general manager of the market and bistro. “It’s a good night with lots of people to…

Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle has generously agreed to give me a shift or two on this column. I’ve been in the food-service industry for eighteen years, back and front of the house. Waiting tables is one of those jobs that make you want to gnaw on the end…

Arapahoe Basin’s Black Mountain Lodge will host the inaugural Dynafit Nacht Spektakel, German Feast & Randonee on Wednesday, January 19. And what’s a randonee? Leigh Hierholzer, director of marketing for Arapahoe Basin, chuckles at the question, then says, “We take it for granted that everyone knows what it is, since…

I had never seen an episode of Jersey Shore until last week, and now that I’ve watched both the season-three opener and the second episode, I have come to a few conclusions. (Read Jersey Shore episode recaps in Show and Tell.) First, I am grateful that my debauched and misspent…

Truffles are the rock stars of the edible universe. They smell like pungent earth, sweaty sex and crushed garlic. A mere shaving of truffle atop a bowl of hot buttered pasta is enough to evoke primal passion and raw emotion in the most stoic of human beings. So watching truffles…

The McDonald’s Restaurant at 300 South Broadway (on the corner of Alameda and Lincoln) is handing out free oatmeal today from 7 to 9 a.m. Their “Sweet Harmony Oatmeal” street team is luring customers into the store parking lot to give out free, full-sized samples of their new fruit &…

This list of coitus-inspiring culinary offerings is for the gentlemen. Ladies, if you wanna score on New Year’s Eve — or any other night — you have to do just one thing: show up. Guys, the tacitly approved social mores of our fantastic American culture dictate that you have to…

Thai Basil was loud, boozy and hairy — just like my senior prom date. And I enjoyed both about the same. I ate there, specifically the Washington Park location, twice this summer, for a cumulative total of two hours of my life that I’m never going to get back…

This year M&D’s Cafe provided me with two of my favorite things in a meal: geographic convenience and a glut of roasted meat. Five Points is my ‘hood, and having a place to get plump, mealy fried catfish, a mess of dark, steaming greens and warm, spicy sweet-potato pie on…

We all know how the holiday gift-giving hierarchy works: Your best-effort gifts are given to people you like (or people whose asses you pucker up to the rest of the year); you give cost-effective, neutral gifts to those you pretend to like (bring on the Hickory Farms boxes of fossilized…

Cook Street School of Fine Cooking hosted a holiday feast class last night that had almost all the qualities of a good action movie: cut-the-crap dialogue, a flesh wound, fire, and an ending where everyone ate juicy slabs of prime rib. Almost all the qualities, since there was no nudity…

There is still time for a last-minute purge of food trends that need to take a permanent nap where the turnips grow. Like that 47-year-old guy in the club who needs to scrub the Axe spray off his hairy torso and go home, these trends have stuck around too long…

Chef Andrew Lubatty of Avenue Grill taught last night’s “Christmas Morning Breakfast” class at the Seasoned Chef Cooking School, and he was all for using pre-made puff pastry, room-temperature eggs and bacon grease. But he’s not a fan of over-adulterated fruits or substituting Danish Fontina for Italian in a frittata…

Taco Bell’s menu has changed over the years. There was once a Zesty Chicken Border Bowl, the bright spot on a menu that was otherwise cheap, greasy, sloppy, over-seasoned, and about as tasty as tongue-plundering a piece of newspaper from the floor of a dog kennel. Taco Bell no longer…

An eager crowd perched on folding chairs surrounding a makeshift kitchen at the Bo Matthews Center, enthralled by the scents of cinnamon-infused hot apple cider and the enthusiastic voices of chef Keith Denard Jones, spinning comical yarns about his past, and chef Joseph Westley, speaking about his future. After years…

Over the years, poor St. Nick has been subjected to countless glasses of room-temperature milk and endless holiday plates of instantly-stale-out-of-the-oven sugar cookies dotted with those tiny silver-ball decorations (they’re actually called dragées) that taste like a dirty nickel. For all of his annual exertions, Santa Claus deserves a better…

Tony’s Market facilitated two good holiday deeds last night: It hosted a food-tasting gala for Colorado Gives Day to benefit Street’s Hope, and it also presented guests with fruitcake that was actually worth eating. Street’s Hope is a faith-based, non-profit ministry that provides a transitional housing facility and non-resident programs…