Sugar Lips Mini Donuts goes mobile

Until very recently, Sugar Lips Mini Donuts was a stand at the Highland Farmers’ Market, the Old South Pearl Street Market and Civic Center Eats, turning out tiny donuts by the half-dozen, fried to order and coated with sugar or topped with a mélange of such treats as nutella and…

Restaurants go urban in the suburban Streets at SouthGlenn

The first shops and residences in the Streets at SouthGlenn opened a year ago — the development will celebrate its first anniversary on August 28 — giving the southern suburbs a sparkling outdoor shopping district in place of the decrepit mall that once stood in its place. With that development…

Former El Pollo Loco CEO Stephen Carley takes the reins of Red Robin

Red Robin may have been pegged by Zagat as one of the country’s best full-service chains, but the Greenwood Village-based restaurant company slipped in second-quarter earnings, and the major investors sacked the CEO, Dennis Mullen. Taking the reins of the bottomless fry-hawking joint is Stephen Carley, formerly CEO of another…

Ozo Coffee Co. opening second location on Pearl Street

Ozo Coffee Co., located at 5340 Arapahoe Avenue, in Boulder, has been caffeinating crowds even from its semi-distant digs out on 53rd and Arapahoe since it opened in 2007, so it stands to reason that when the shop opens its second location, on a busy block of the west end…

Opa! The Athenian serves up the genuine Greek goods

Opa!” The word burst from my lips as flames shot two feet into the air from a square of cheese and our waitress jumped back to avoid having her eyebrows singed off. My brother looked at me quizzically; given my usual aversion to dining stunts, I was just as surprised…

A carnivore’s guide to five great vegetarian dishes

We love meat. Love it. But recently, we’ve found ourselves ordering vegetarian dishes and, well, enjoying them. Maybe it’s the summer heat, or maybe we’re being subconsciously swayed by cute vegetarian campaigns. Whatever the reason for our recent decision to lay off the animal protein, we’ve amassed a list of…

Crepe Escape opens on the 16th Street Mall

Shannon Ross waited a year to secure a spot on the 16th Street mall, but now that she has one — she set up shop at 16th and Curtis on July 1 — she’s turning out sweet and savory crepes from the griddle pan in her tiny stand, which she…

Colt & Gray featured on Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate

The menu at Colt & Gray, Nelson Perkins’s restaurant at 1553 Platte Street, includes baked sticky toffee pudding, a rich, decadent and dense cakey base smothered in nut-studded toffee sauce and topped with vanilla ice cream. And it counts Food Network host and chef Claire Robinson among its fans…

Would you pay $625 for a cookbook?

A quick perusal of Amazon shows that Thomas Keller’s French Laundry cookbook regularly costs $50, the same price Grant Achatz charges for Alinea at Home. Heston Blumenthal’s larger volume of recipes, the Big Fat Duck, weighs in at a hefty $250. And Ferran Adria, of the soon-to-close molecular gastronomy mecca,…