Eel is my favorite protein, in an “if-I-had-a-last-meal-request-on-death-row” kind of way. I was very disappointed in the eel I tried at Tokyo Joe’s, but at least my review of that sad meal inspired an insightful Westword reader to steer me toward local mini-chain Kokoro. And as it turns out, the…
Until recently, I avoided online games the same way I avoid Justin Bieber fans: by pretending with all my might that they don’t exist. Then came Game of Thrones Ascent on Facebook, and since I am a fan of the books/show, I started playing — and wandered into the bizarre…
Colorado foodie dreams were realized when Trader Joe’s finally decided to open two stores in this state in 2013: one in Denver at the southeast corner of East Eighth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard (with an adjacent beer and wine shop) and one in Boulder at the Twenty-Ninth Street mall. Construction…
With fast-food burger giants like McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Carl’s Jr. hogging so much attention, chains like the Original Hamburger Stand are often shrugged off or ignored altogether — even when paired with Tastee-Freez. I was definitely guilty of driving by — until I saw a banner outside the…
A couple wants a kickass wedding with all the trimmings — full band with the saxophone player, twenty-tier French cake with custard filling, individually plated sashimi selections, and a photo booth that takes those old-fashioned sepia pictures — all in an urbane, affected, pastoral setting complete with white ponies. But…
A tennis player just served a bunch of New York City restaurants — including Applebee’s, Olive Garden and Red Lobster — with a lawsuit alleging deceptive business practices, because they add auto-gratuities on meal tabs. The case may get somewhere, because under NYC rules restaurants may not add surcharges to…
It’s no surprise that Westboro Baptist Church is up to its usual well-publicized and well-hated shenanigans, but members of the “God Hates F*gs!” gang have gone and done it now — they pissed off a group of New York City Satanists (a group you really don’t wanna piss off) by…
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Colorado’s biggest homegrown success story, is on a roll. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the day its first store opened — July 13, 2013 — it’s introducing the Adventurrito, twenty days of fun, games and prizes, including twenty years of free burritos. To help get the…
There is nothing wrong with consenting adults using sex toys to spice up some otherwise boring bed-sport, and the adult-toy industry has come up with a truly dazzling selection of every possible implement for every possible body part/orifice. But for every pair of pink, fuzzy handcuffs and every benign blow-up…
America loves Sriracha. The screaming-red, medium-spicy Asian condiment — made with chiles, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt — is named for the Thai city of Si Racha, an mass-produced by Huy Fong Foods in clear plastic squeeze bottles with green caps and and signature rooster pictures , which inspired its…
There is something magical about mushrooms — even the non-hallucinogenic kind — and so I was pretty stoked about eating at Mellow Mushroom for the first time. The chain got its start in Atlanta in 1974, when three college students cooked up the idea for an artful pizza joint based…
Sriracha — or cock sauce, as it’s commonly called — is that fiery red chile sauce that comes in the squeezy bottle with the green tip and the white picture of a rooster. It’s also popular as hell right now, gracing the big-box grocery-chain aisles and the tables of fast-casual…
That Red Robin commercial hawking veggie burgers really got some vegetarians’ carrots in a boil. The ad starts with a mention of the meatless burger, followed by an actress saying, “We even have a garden burger just in case your teenage daughter is going through a phase.” This was probably…
I generally love Facebook. I spend hours a day keeping up with friendly gossip, laughing at George Takei’s often-reposted memes involving vegetables, reading filthy jokes, swapping recipes for tempura broccoli fritters and watching posted vid clips of guys getting thwacked in the balls with various lawn ornaments. But then there…
I had Paula Deen’s back (for the most part) when she finally divulged that she had type II diabetes, but I’m afraid that butter-bump’s latest scandal is indefensible. For those of you not in the butter zone (or on the earth), Deen dipped herself in a deep fryer during a…
Burger King, perpetually stuck in the number-two fast-food burger chain slot, has made a surprising and shrewd move into the delivery business. It first tested the service in a few major cities — New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. — and recently expanded its delivery service to Colorado, specifically…
The spring asparagus is off the menu at Noodles & Company, but as a consolation prize, I was invited to watch chefs Tessa Stamper and Tina Massey cook up some of the homegrown chain’s new summer offerings, while marketing veep Dan Fogarty served up a side of stats. In the…
Okay so apparently the teenagers are licking each other’s effin eyeballs to get freaky, as if the kids today weren’t already doing enough regular, everyday stupid shit like texting and driving, not learning to read and taking nude pics of their underage selves for Internet posterity. At least us Gen…
The golden arches have nixed their Angus third pounders and replaced them with three new specialty quarter pounders, one spicy, one with bacon (allegedly a new, thicker, Applewood-smoked bacon), and one with….lettuce and tomato. The new burgers are marked for the permanent-items list gracing the McMenu of ever-revolving fast food…
Pop culture can inspire some strange culinary creations; a creep-tastic example is Alamo Drafthouse’s new duo of wines based on Silence of the Lambs: “The Cannibal Chianti,” a nod to Hannibal Lecter, connoisseur of two-legged protein, and “Suit Yourself Pinot Grigio,” an homage to Buffalo Bill, our favorite lotion enthusiast…
Denver PrideFest 2013 is this weekend, and there will be music, food, drink, live entertainment and a big-ass parade on Sunday morning. the people-watching opportunities alone are worth the trip downtown and the parking hassles. But every PrideFest has its perils and pitfalls, and in order not to be named…
What is the future of pizza? Will it be rehydrated from tiny pucks, as in Back to the Future? Made available in pill form, like little pepperoni-flavored aspirin capsules, or delivered via pizza drone? These post-space-age pie ponderings are certainly amusing to consider, because here in the present there are…
