“No cigarett” [sic] read the chalkboard sign outside of Zona’s Tamales at 713 East 26th Avenue today. The ordering window of the tiny restaurant was littered with new paperwork, too: “No tabacco products” was scrawled on a sheet of paper. Another slip assured visitors that Zona’s would be open regular…

Brunch is the best time to eat at Satchel’s Market, but don’t try it this weekend. The restaurant is dark right now, with a note on the menu posted on the door at 5021 East 28th Avenue noting that Satchel’s is on summer vacation until early August. When the spot…

If you’re lunching at the Steuben’s Food Truck in Civic Center Park today, you could win a free slice of coconut cake if you’re one of the first two people to tell the crew where Steuben’s found its truck, which has since named Pearl. We’ll give you a hint: The…

It’s Sunday night at Yak and Yeti, and most of the tables in the upstairs alcove are full. I find myself whispering over our feast, desperately trying to keep my table’s conversation private. “WHAT?” my father yells. “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU WHEN YOU MUMBLE.” I feel so self-conscious that…

When news came down that an empanada vendor had set up a cart on the 16th Street Mall, I leapt from my desk chair and barreled toward the door. Lay off me, I’m starving. Starving, at least, for empanadas, which are magical little pockets of golden dough filled with meats…

PETA may be blocked– at least for now — from erecting a chicken statue in the middle of the 16th Street Mall here in Denver, but the group managed to pull off a pretty gruesome stunt yesterday in New York City. Around noon, nearly naked protesters covered themselves with fake…

The plush digs at Restaurant Kevin Taylor in the Hotel Teatro reflect the decade in which it was built, channeling the boom of the 1990s with lavish gold touches and opulent furniture. We’ve come a long way since then — two recessions to be exact — and now, the gold’s…

How do you feel about eating in public? How about eating in public with a bunch of strangers while onlookers examine your personal eating habits? That’s what artist Tsehai Johnson is asking people to do at tonight’s performance piece in Riverfront park, where adventurous diners will gather at 6:30 p.m.,…

There’s bad food, and then there’s airline food, barely edible foil-wrapped meals that command a category of terrible taste all to themselves. Unsurprisingly, a couple of airlines out there are realizing that if they improve the quality of their meals a bit, especially in first class, they’ll have a competitive…

Thai Patton is serious about espresso. He’s a smooth operator behind the bar at The Cup Espresso Café, 1521 Pearl Street in Boulder, pulling shots using a rhythmic routine, creating perfect foam, shouting out morning orders over the din of an ever-present crowd. There’s more to making a latte than…

Going out to the ballgame? Maybe you want to eat elsewhere first. ESPN culled information from health inspection reports from every major stadium across the country and found that a majority had at least a handful of operating vendors with critical health code violations. Colorado was no exception. In fact,…

I wholeheartedly believe in the free press, so I was initially scornful when I heard via The Guardian that Fay Maschler, a seasoned UK restaurant critic, was starting Page One, a website of reviews that would require readers to pay £100 a year for access. Isn’t it the job of…

Snooze brought breakfast food to Denver in a big way when it opened its first location, at 2262 Larimer Street, in April 2006, proffering sassy takes on eggs Benedict and pancakes in flavors like pumpkin and dreamsicle. Apparently the Front Range is hungry for breakfast. With each Snooze that opens…

When Chris Elam, program director at Meatless Monday, told us his side of the veggie-movement story, he hinted that a national chef would soon be signing on to the cause. We mused that Emeril Lagasse, Tom Colicchio, and Wolfgang Puck were very much in play…

In solidarity with Michelle Obama’s war on childhood obesity, the Daily Beast put together a nice little slideshow about the 25 unhealthiest kids meals in the country. Every gut bomb on the list contains more than 800 calories, but topping the charts was a Mac & Cheese Quesadilla meal from…

We tend to agree with Bon Apetit editor Andrew Knowlton who recently decried pork-hating bandwagon jumpers on Twitter: “Enough with all the ‘pork is over’ nonsense. Overdone? Perhaps. Overrated? Please.” That said, the era of bacon-mania is drawing to a close, having had its run as accoutrement to everything from…

In the olden days (uh, one year ago-ish), when street food usually meant ordering a gray hot dog or a mystery-source tamale from a rickety cart instead of scoring quinoa or a wood-fired pizza from a tricked out trailer, we would have been up in arms if our lunch total…

Asia Like It Danny Wang likes beer. A computer scientist by trade, he started crafting ales at home a couple of years ago, fascinated by the mathematical and chemical processes that characterize brewing. Turns out he was pretty good at it, too. The deeper he went into homebrewing — he…