For a long, long time, we had to take our uppers and downers the old-fashioned way, popping an Adderall with a beer, or drinking a vodka-Red Bull, the nightclub cocktail of champions. The big alcohol producers wanted in on the fun, so several created caffeinated malt beverages, sold in cans…
On a block just beyond the revitalized stretches of downtown, twelve, at 2233 Larimer Street, is tucked amidst dilapidated storefronts…
Just in time for the holiday season, Forbes Travel Guide released its annual list of four- and five-star hotels, restaurants and spas, facilitating luxury travel planning around the U.S., Canada and, uh, China. Just 23 restaurants made the five-star cut, and 152 eateries were granted four stars…
Bryan Dayton first started talking about his own project six months ago, when he forewent an offer from then-beverage director James Lee at Happy’s Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut Street, to pursue his own project. He’d teamed up with chef Steve Redzikowski and beverage distributor Annie Polk, and the trio went…
Have you been to twelve?” That was a question I got a lot when I first moved back to Denver, as people I met working in the restaurant industry offered their recommendations for dinner, casually tossing around the vitals of the newest places in town the way my brother throws…
In three or four weeks, another food truck will join the fleet that has taken over the Mile High City, and this one seeks to fill a notable void in the cuisine offered by mobile vendors. Ezra Malmuth and Nate Barnett are unveiling their creation, Stick it to Me, a…
If My First Bacon is too low-brow for the gift recipient on your list, and you’re shopping for little people whose toy collections are worth more than your collective assets, Dylan’s Candy Bar, a three-story sugar shack in New York City, has you covered: the sweet-monger has erected an edible…
“Things are starting to look pretty official,” says the caption under the Facebook photograph of the wooden sign hanging at Oak at Fourteenth, 1400 Pearl Street in Boulder. Official, indeed. After months of planning and renovations, the restaurant, a venture of Colorado Bartenders’ Guild president and Frasca Food & Wine…
“Perhaps it’s as simple as [Rene] Redzepi argues: it just tastes a lot better this way.” That’s where Lars Eriksen leaves his Guardian discourse on the ethics of eating a live animal. The piece was inspired by a meal the author had at Chef Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, San Pellegrino’s…
You’ve compiled a library of wine encyclopedias, amassed a cellar that’s worth more than your house and driven away your closest friends and relatives with your incessant commentary on the nose, palate and quality of every sip of magical grape juice that passes through your lips. There’s only one next…
On Monday, we reported that Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street in Boulder, had been forced to shutter for four days for violating liquor laws. Namely, the restaurant poured booze for a minor that was part of a pesky little police sting…
“What child on this planet wouldn’t want to befriend a piece of mostly meat held together with fat and love?” asks ThinkGeek, the affable producer of all kinds of geeky wares. Mario Batali jokes notwithstanding, we have the same question. Who WOULDN’T love that? That’s why ThinkGeek created My First…
Word came yesterday that inspections are finished and the bar is stocked — Green Russell, a subterranean spot at 1422 Larimer Street, will open to the public tonight at 6 p.m…
When I reviewed H Burger Co this week, I was especially drawn to the spot as a great downtown option for lunch on a work day — an escape from the office where you can sit down to eat a good meal quickly and cheaply. That kind of lunch was…
There was a time when my profession required me to don ill-fitting business-casual attire and commute 45 minutes on a packed train, then be locked in a windowless conference room creating “deliverables” for hours on end, where I was often doomed to the dreaded working lunch, blindly taking down a…
Back in February, when H Burger Co, 1555 Blake Street, opened its doors in the SugarCube building downtown, the restaurant’s partners told us that, if things went well, they’d want to expand across Colorado. In fact, they even changed the name — the eatery was originally going to be called…
If Veterans Day makes you want to support American citizens who served in a war or, uh, American citizens who lived through war eras, consider eating out. Tomorrow, in celebration of Veterans Day, several Boulder-area restaurants are donating 15 percent of the proceeds from meals consumed to Care Connect, which…
Popular diets speak to our society’s insatiable desire to pin blame for the saddlebags and love handles on some evil type of food. But if you think stuffing yourself with meat and cheese (since you’re cutting carbs) is a surefire way to get thin, you’re probably not going to like…
When Pete and Ann Pflum envisioned H Burger Co, the burger joint they put into a new spot at 1555 Blake Street, they designed a space and menu that they hoped would lure downtown dinner crowds to a block that, historically, has emptied out after 5 p.m…
Cafe Society can’t get enough of Lotus of Siam. When she was in Las Vegas last week, Patricia Calhoun twice ventured off the Strip to visit the northern Thai restaurant in its original location, a silly strip mall off Sahara Avenue. That was after a strong endorsement from Lori Midson,…
Some enticing photos have been posted on Facebook by Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski, depicting the new kitchen, dining room and bar of Oak at 14th, going into 1400 Pearl Street in Boulder. The photos are especially exciting because they show a complete restaurant. Which means that opening day of…
It was a hot summer day when I first encountered the magic of the Inventing Room. I’d hiked several blocks from the office to Tiri’s Garden, the downtown lot where a gaggle of mobile vendors had started making regular stops. Ian Kleinman’s cart was among them, that day serving everything…
