Planning an international culinary vacation? Thinking France? Maybe you should re-route to Japan. This year’s Michelin guides are now out for perusal — and because four restaurants in Japanese cities were upgraded to three-star status, the country now hosts the same number of highest-honored eateries as the gastronomically proud French:…
It’s the holiday season, that magical time of year when we endure a couple of hours of airport torture in order to enjoy days of family torture. In honor of that, we’re serving up tips on how to eat and drink well at DIA, starting with great places for an…
Atheist author Tim Covell’s propagating a new obesity theory, and it has nothing to do with carbs, fat or high fructose corn syrup. Rather, he’s noticed a correlation between godliness and obesity…
This week, we’re dishing up tips on how to eat at DIA during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Yesterday, we brought you breakfast spots. Today, we bring you something else. If you’re one of the over one million people passing through zoo-like Denver International Airport this…
We’re willing to bet you’ve got at least one salted and cured meat enthusiast on your gift list this season, and it was for them that food writer and former restaurant critic John Lehndorff and author-illustrator Kim Long created the American Salumi Calendar…
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI With Diva and Os Mutantes 11.23.10 | Bluebird Theatre Ariel Pink (whose real name is Ariel Rosenberg) spent the better part of the last decade making lo-fi recordings of himself in his bedroom and being booed off-stage during solo tours. When he got signed to record…
In the course of my professional life, I’ve spent way more time than any human should roaming the concourses and terminal of Denver International Airport…
Zona’s Tamales, the decades-old blue and orange building at 713 East 26th Street, went dark about a month ago, after owner Zona Moore pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of theft by receiving, buying and selling stolen cigarettes. The Latest Word reported today that Moore’s son, Saalim Muhammed, and another…
On Thursday, we’ll be fighting with our relatives, stuffing ourselves into a purple-hazed food coma and passing out on the couch while a football game drones on in the background. On Friday, we’ll scratch each others’ eyes out and throw adult temper tantrums in commercial establishments, all in the name…
Paris Las Vegas Casino makes a $777 hamburger. The sandwich is one of the most indulgent-looking things I’ve ever seen, with hefty chunks of lobster meat set over a thick Kobe beef patty, topped with crispy pancetta, brie, caramelized onions and hundred-year aged balsamic vinegar — served, for good measure,…
I usually time my arrival at Denver International Airport so that I can check in, get through security, grab a snack — and then get right on the plane. But during the holiday season, when the gates of airport hell open, all that careful planning goes right out the window…
Take as much time as you need,” said a balding TSA bureaucrat as he patted the shoulder of a woman sitting in front of the X-ray machine, a thick training manual at her side. She squinted intently at the electronic box, scrutinizing each item that passed by for dangerous weaponry…
On Saturday night, YesPleaseMore, an organization that spreads the love for Colorado artistic endeavors through pop-up retail stores and events, descended on the Denver Pavilions for “Test Market,” a collaborative production featuring a bevy of creative projects from around Denver, including crafts, fashion shows and live music. And jump-starting the…
Can’t make it home for Thanksgiving? Dreading cooking a feast for your relatives? Maybe it’s a good year to go out to eat. And we’re not talking about some convoluted stereotype focused on the take-out Chinese food place down the street — we’re talking good food at good places around…
Change is afoot at Red Trolley, 2639 West 32nd Avenue, a popular spot in Highland that sells homemade gelato, coffee and hot dogs. Owners Patrick and Julie Shaw are selling the business, which they opened almost two and a half years ago, to Dorina Miller, a former school eacher. And…
BRANDON FLOWERS With Fran Healy 11.18.10 | Ogden Theatre It’s almost not fair to call Fran Healy an opener. The Scottish front man of acoustic indie rock band Travis has plenty of experience headlining shows. He’s got an engaging stage presence — and the star power to pack the house…
Forget entrance essays: If you’re looking for a few extra dollars for college, you might want to dial in your ability to express yourself in 140 characters or less. KFC just announced that it bestow a $20,000 scholarship on the person who blasts out the single best tweet between now…
A few weeks ago, when I reviewed Euclid Hall, I wrote that I’d noticed a certain shortcoming common to chefs who’d trained under Wolfgang Puck. “They’re excellent cooks with mastery of technique,” I mused, “but they’re not innovative chefs.” Plenty of readers took issue with that. And now I’m ready…
As expected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — the cop-calling Debbie Downer in a room full of people who just want to party — decided yesterday that caffeinated alcoholic beverages are unsafe and gave a handful of companies, including Phusion Products, which makes Four Loko, fifteen days to change…
“This is my seventh book tour,” said Michael Chiarello, standing in the kitchen at Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street. “But this? This is just hanging out with the guys.” Amid a countrywide tour to promote his recently released cookbook, Chiarello, chef-owner of Napa Valley’s Bottega, wine producer…
The holiday season is nigh, and that means dessert season is officially upon us. We’ll be eating our way through as many pies, cakes and cookies as we can get our hands on until New Year’s rolls around and we make our annual resolution to go back to the gym…
Last Friday, Green Russell, 1422 Larimer Street, the sexy new subterranean addition to Frank Bonanno’s expanding group of restaurants, opened to the public. And on the first night of business, a constant stream of people flowed through the pie shop kitchen door, filling the bar and tables in the low-lit…
