Just in case you’ve been living in between the bun and haven’t feasted your eyes on Biker Jim’s hot dog blog, this is just a little heads-up to let you know that every Wednesday, before lunch, Jim delivers a post all about the weird, wacky and wonderful dogs he’s doing…

“You’re the first person who’s asked for hot sauce since I opened,” says Troy Guard. The owner and executive chef of TAG, a three-month-old restaurant in Larimer Square, isn’t quite scolding me, but he’s made it perfectly clear that his steak tacos, a plate of which sits in front of…

Chopsticks China Bistro, the great Szechuan Chinese on the corner of Federal and Mississippi, was supposed to pack up this month for a move to a tony new address at 5117 South Yosemite Street in Greenwood Village, but according to owner-chef David Lee, that didn’t quite happen. “We’re hoping to…

Just got word that H-Burger Lounge is planning to open in the SugarCube Building, at 16th and Blake streets, in early 2010. The restaurant, a local concept from Peter Pflum, the former operations manager for Dave Query’s Big Red F Restaurant Group and most recently the VP of operations for…

It’s only Tuesday, and already we’ve seen a green chile smackdown between El Taco de Mexico and Santiago’s and a shout-out to all you vegheads for meatless verde recommendations that won’t make the PETA terrorists people pissed. And now, strictly by coincidence, comes the above photo of three rolled enchiladas…

There’s a pizza battle brewing at Belmar and Virgilio Urbano, the owner of Virgilio’s Pizzeria, which is across the street from Belmar at 7986 West Alameda Avenue in Lakewood, is right in the thick of it. Seems that Virgilio’s has been denied acceptance into Belmar’s Festival Italiano, the shopping district’s…

I headed over to the South Pearl Street Farmers’ Market on Sunday, and guess whose smoke and sizzle stopped me dead in my tracks? That of Biker Jim Pittenger and his wiener wagon. As Jason Sheehan reported back in June, Jim has added a second downtown cart at 17th and…

I’m fully aware of how cruel it is to post a pic of a pizza that looks this magnificent, especially since I know that many of you are probably holed up in a cube somewhere, stomach gurgling, wondering if it’s going to be another Subway lunch day. But if this…

Sometime in December, Jeff Hermanson, Joe Vostrejs and Rod Wagner will add a new pizza bar to their portfolio of successful restaurants that already includes Billy’s Inn, LoHi Steakbar and pretty much every chow house on Larimer Square. Their newest place, whose name is yet to be determined, will take…

Tonight, Campo De Fiori, 300 Fillmore Street, is hosting an advance kickoff party for Harvest Week, a weeklong homage to Colorado produce and products that takes place in September at metro restaurants, all of which are members of DINR, the Denver Independent Network of Restaurants. Tonight’s pre-party, which starts at…

Things are heating up on Larimer Street. Hutch & Spoon opened two weeks ago at 3090 Larimer Street, and just two days ago, Larimer Hot House got up and running at 2810 Larimer, in the space formerly occupied by Espo Gelato. The restaurant, owned by Eric Chiappetta, the guy who…

The plate you see above was yesterday’s lunch. That’s brazenly hot chili sauce in the ramekin and on the sides of the plate. I always ask for extra, a request often met with raised eyebrows from the staff.  What can I say? I’m a sucker for the stuff. Where was…

If you don’t have big plans this weekend, then head to the hills for the Mesa Verde Country Food, Wine and Art Festival, which kicks off Saturday and continues Sunday. The mountain festival peddles foodstuffs from several local and regional restaurants, farmers and producers (if you do nothing else, seek…

One of the loveliest patios in downtown Denver is finally being resurrected. Since February 15, the day Buenos Aires Grill served its last dinner at 2191 Arapahoe Street, that patio has been off limits,  but now that the crew from the Whiskey Bar has snapped up the space, we’ll soon…

The eating event of the weekend is the inaugural Cherry Creek North Food and Wine festival, a three-day eating and drinking blowout on Fillmore Plaza that celebrates the culinary arts. The festival includes chef demonstrations by Tyler Wiard (Elway’s), Michel Walthere (MiniBAR) and Jeff Bolton (Second Home Kitchen & Bar);…

If you have a killer spoon collection, you may as well open a restaurant. That wasn’t quite the way it happened for Tracy Zimmer, the owner and executive chef of Hutch & Spoon, a breakfast-and-lunch joint that opened two weeks ago in the 125-year-old Charpiot building at 3090 Larimer Street…

I am not, nor have I ever been, a sweets person. For the most part, chocolate does absolutely nothing for me, although I do have an affinity for Vosges milk chocolate bar with smoked bacon. Because, you know, it’s BACON. But you could pretty much shove a box of chocolates,…

I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest — and usually crazy…

Two years ago, when Mark Dym, his wife, Kristy, and their three kids left the balmy beachfront of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the jagged mountain peaks of Colorado, to open a pizzeria in downtown Denver, Mark was up for the challenge, despite the fact that he’d never run a restaurant…

I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest – and usually crazy…

From 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, you can join honorary hosts Mayor John Hickenlooper and his wife, Helen Thorpe, at the D & F Tower, 1601 Arapahoe Street, for the Platteforum wine and tequila event to benefit ArtLab, an after school youth development program for high school students. The benefit,…