Welcome to the end of another full week filled with fascinating, weird and scintillating food news. Here’s what you may have missed while you were, I don’t know, doing something else, like working, or slathering aloe vera on your sunburn…

By 3:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, the Pinkberry faithful had descended upon 1600 Glenarm Street to score a free cup of fro-yo during a four-hour preview party that amounted to 1,800 mouths to feed. “It was pretty crazy,” says local Pinkberry spokesperson Ellen Robinson. “A half hour before the doors opened…

“Bees like redheads.” That was Matt Kentner’s attempt to reassure me that the continent of flying insects communing above my head wasn’t going to sting me to death, a legitimate concern for someone who’s allergic to bees. But just in case you’re ready to grab the phone and order flowers…

In this week’s Q & A with Brad Birky of the SAME Cafe, the chef weighed in on Denver’s meals on wheels movement, the fried plantains and homemade corn nuts he recently discovered at Pisco Sour and how his pay-what-you-can cafe has become a successful role model for similar concepts…

A friend of mine turned me on to the fantastic burritos made by Miguel, the man who runs the cart in the above snap. Roughly the size of a football, they’re mounted with rice, cubed potatoes crisped on the flattop, chicken pork or carnitas and a generous ladle of searing…

Earlier this week, Mark Dym got the good news: His sensational Neapolitan pies, snatched from the blistering wood-burning ovens inside the open kitchen of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, 2129 Larimer Street, had just landed in a top ten pizza parlors in America list, sharing space with cult pizzerias like Pizzeria Bianco…

The pizzas get most of the accolades, but the pastas, in particular, the one in the above snap tarped with prosciutto and garnished with shards of fresh basil, deserve their own wall of fame. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Brad Birky, chef/owner of the SAME Cafe. To read part one of this interview, click here. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Starting SAME Cafe with really no kitchen experience to speak of. True, I managed to get some culinary classes under…

I suppose I should take responsibility for stupidly ordering lettuce wraps at a restaurant that’s not a P.F. Chang’s. But the kitchen at this something-for-everyone hangout could certainly benefit from learning how to do them right. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…

Eleven years ago, Wade Kirwan wandered into Vesta Dipping Grill, at 1822 Blake Street, and snagged a gig as a line cook. Just five weeks later, he was elevated to the sous chef position, which was followed by an executive sous chef stint and then five years as executive chef…

Brad Birky SAME Cafe 2023 East Colfax Avenue 720-530-6853 This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Brad Birky, executive chef/owner of the SAME Cafe. You can read part two of this interview right back here tomorrow. It’s 3 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, an hour after closing time,…

Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Throughout the rest…

Just heard from Robert Thompson, owner of Argyll, the Cherry Creek gastropub that snapped up our Best of Denver 2010 Best New Restaurant award, that he got a call from the brass at the Food Network, who’s sending a film crew to Denver in August or September to shoot the…

We interrupt today’s regularly scheduled programming to bring you … the deranged, acid-tripping kitties of Quizno’s. It seriously doesn’t get any more freakishly bizarre than this, folks…

You never know what you might find cruising down East Colfax, but along with hookers, drug dealers and their desperate, drugged out disciples, you can usually count on new restaurant signage. Pisco Sour, a new Peruvian restaurant, bar and club at 8501 East Colfax Avenue, opened in June to good…

Someone in the kitchen is obviously obsessed with squiggles of Mexican crema, but that same person is also dead set on delivering far better than average combo plates, like the one in the above snap, which includes, among other usual suspects, a chicken enchilada and a chimichanga zigzagged with a…

In less than an hour, Jean-Philippe Failyau, who owns Park Burger in Platt Park and a small interest in Osteria Marco, will lift the garage doors and fling open the front door of Park and Co, his new burger joint that took over the Bump and Grind plot at 439…

More than 400 people ate and drank themselves into oblivion last night at Mile High Station, the venue for Denver’s annual Share Our Strength benefit, which raises funds to wipe out childhood hunger both locally and across the country. “It was a really great night all the way around,” says…

I love a good burger, and the one up top, made with bison, topped with bacon and guacamole and smeared with a jalapeno cream cheese, was awesome. So were the fries. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…

Maybe it’s the ridiculous, intolerable heat that made this week so weird and wacky, and the Cafe Society trolls — specifically “Recession” and “Poutiner” and all your other bogus aliases (we’ve got your IP address, schmuck) — so moronic and volatile. Whatever the cause, the last five days of foodosphere…