See the tricked-out bomb above? The one layered with prosciutto, melty housemade mozzarella, arugula and oven-dried tomatoes, all stacked between slices of grilled bread brushed with olive oil and paved with a green olive pistou? That sandwich — that sandwich — is full-blown deliciousness, and whenever I eat at the…
Beginning today and continuing through August 23, The Capital Grille, the terrific steakhouse at 1450 Larimer Street, is uncorking a six-week Master Wine Tasting event, whereby 12 different South African and Napa Valley wines, all selected by George Milotes, the cow palace’s corporate Master Sommelier, will be available for $10…
Today is National Cheesecake Day, which will undoubtedly send some of you sugar fiends into euphoria. Not me. I loathe cheesecake almost as much as celery and eggplant, which is to say that I really, really hate the staff. But that gorgeous salad in the above photo? It’s my favorite…
So, you know that old cliche, “If you can’t say something nice about someone, then shut the fuck up”? I’m going to follow that advice here and just spell it out: Folks, today is National Cheesecake Day, and in honor of the high-calorie, right-to-your-butt occasion, the Cheesecake Factory is offering…
It’s not quite on the same tap as the Great American Beer Festival, which flows down on Denver on September 24 at the Colorado Convention Center, but the toddler-aged Greater Boulder Beer Festival, which turns two this year, isn’t exactly a slacker when it comes to suds. Sure, it’s small…
Argyll Public House, Robert Thompson’s swanky gastropub at 2700 East Third Avenue, is hosting a service industry night from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, August 1 to benefit the Colorado Autism Society. If you work in the restaurant biz and have the cred to prove it — “Bring…
Tonight from 6 to 9 p.m., Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, at 1937 Market Street, will kick off its tenth anniversary celebration with a series of ten-minute cooking demonstrations (audience participation and sampling absolutely encouraged), followed by a cook-off between four finalists, all of whom submitted original recipes using…
Fresko is Mexican casual cuisine, a unique place, an experience, and a taste only known in Mexico. Fresko is honored to be in Colorado. Fresko is genuine, culture, quality, passion, freshness, ambiance, with a staff that loves to share. Experience metropolitan Mexican dining for a fast lunch, or a comfortable…
With catchy names like “Mango-a-go-go,” “Strawberry Surf Rider,” “Aloha Pineapple” and “Razzmatazz,” it’s not as if Jamba Juice has to actually do a whole lot more to thrill its smoothie fans, but, damn, those healthy-beverage pushers at the top of the California-headquartered smoothie chain are sure going to try. How,…
Okay, so I was obviously hungry last night, which I invariably get after four or five beers, plus a handful of french fries at the Fainting Goat, the fallback bar for us Westworders who write about things like a Medieval-sized lamb shank, a loaded baked potato with fresh chives, Gorgonzola…
Today marks the first day of the Wine Festival at Steamboat, a four-day food-and-wine event that includes cooking demonstrations, food and wine seminars, grand tastings, fly-fishing and mountain biking, food and wine day trips, and the uncorking of more than 800 domestic and international bottles of vino. Headlining Colorado’s culinary…
Randolph’s, the in-house restaurant at the Warwick Hotel, 1776 Grant Street, is hosting a wine-tasting on its great patio from 5 to 7 p.m. today. (The patio is like a mountain park in the heart of the city, filled with red rocks and plantings…and, with any luck, some umbrellas.) The…
Took the kid out for dinner last night to his first Vietnamese restaurant. Originally, we were hot on the trail of sushi, until Elliott (the kid) reminded me (his mother) that he would not eat rice, and since his weekly allowance is way less than two pieces of sashimi, we…
After twenty years slinging naan against the blazing tandoor at his Tamarac Square location at 3333 South Tamarac Drive, Krishan Kapoor, the owner of India’s, is moving a couple of blocks south to 7400 East Hampden Avenue. That’s the Tiffany Plaza space that most recently held Kermen Mongolian BBQ Restaurant,…
Tonight, Z Cuisine À Côté, the utterly charming bistro and bar at 2239 West 30th Avenue, is hosting a French wine-tasting tour from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The sip fest, priced at $20 per person, includes twelve wines from the Provence and Méditerranée regions of France and appetizers from Z…
The menus were still at the printer when I dropped by Samba Brazil, a new Brazilian restaurant that started serving pastels, empanadas and coxinha, or Brazilian sandwiches, yesterday at 5075 Leetsdale Drive. “The printer promised me the menus would be here by 6 p.m.,” sighed co-owner Christiane Barros, who, along…
It would be really easy to simply divert you to the Youtube video above and leave it at that, but the constant bleeping of the F-bomb gets annoying — fast — and the dude in the video doesn’t actually have the fax facts. I do. And here they are: Tonight,…
When the Hotel Teatro was named one of the top 50 large hotels in the United States and Canada in Travel + Leisure magazine’s 2009 World’s Best Awards survey, the boutique slumbering pad at 1100 14th Street could have re-wallpapered their guest rooms with gratuitous copies of the travel zine’s…
Well, that sucks. Just called Johnie’s Bar-B-Cue, the new, late-night smokehouse at 5280 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater, only to get a voicemail greeting announcing the following: Thank you for calling Johnie’s Bar-B-cue. At this time we are sad to announce the closing of Johnie’s Bar-B-Que due to issues with…
Last night I witnessed the Greatest Caesar Salad competition, an annual battle of the romaine hosted by the Colorado Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food, that pitted seven local restaurants — Squeaky Bean, Root Down, Campo de Fiori, Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza, Opus, Black Pearl and Izakaya Den…
Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Tyler Wiard (Elway’s in Cherry Creek) and Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s) will join host chef Jamey Fader at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, tonight at 6 p.m., when all five chefs will convene in Fader’s home kitchen to prepare a…
Seven Denver restaurants – Squeaky Bean, Izakaya Den, Root Down, Opus, Encore, Campo de Fiori and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza – are fighting for the Caesar salad crown in this year’s Greatest Caesar Salad Competition, a no-holds-barred smackdown that gets tossing at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 26 at the Magnolia…
