When it comes to sugar, downtown Littleton is on a high. On Main street alone, there’s the relatively new Lola’s Sugar Rush (2490 West Main Street), which would make Augustus Gloop go bat shit. The town’s main drag also houses the Chocolate Therapist (2560 West Main Street), a confectionery run…
Over 22 breweries and 70 different beers are on tap at the Summer Brew Fest, which comes down tonight at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue. The indoor/outdoor event begins at 7 p.m. for general admission ticket holders ($30 in advance; $35 at the door) and at 6…
I don’t believe I’ve ever had a “buffete” before, and I’m definitely not a huge fan of buffets, but when I stopped in at The Front Page, a quirky new joint at 7700 East Colfax Avenue whose name is fashioned, inexplicably, after the front page of a newspaper and whose…
Fogo de Chao (pronounced fo-go dee shoun), the Brazilian churrascaria at 1513 Wynkoop Street, just three blocks down the street from Rodizio Grill, Denver’s first Brazilian steakhouse at 1801 Wynkoop Street, opens tonight for dinner, but last night, I got a sneak peek of the meat of the matter and…
Call me weird, but there’s something about the word “pupusa” that makes it sound like a furry animal whose head you want to cuddle in your lap and stroke. In fact, I’ll bet you anything that at least five people reading this post today will have a bunny, dog, cat,…
The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, parades four of…
Sean Huggard, the former executive chef at Black Pearl (1529 South Pearl Street) and Encore (2550 East Colfax Avenue), hung up his whites on July 9, got hitched and is currently on his honeymoon. But he’ll return in plenty of time to open his own place, Newport’s, late this…
Just what South Federal Boulevard needs: Another godforsaken taqueria. No, I’m serious, because if you ever read this space, then you know by now that the whole reason why I was born was to eat and breathe tacos, that my documented unwholesome addiction to carnitas, barbacoa and al pastor is…
Without question, breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, although I rarely touch food in the morning (unless you count coffee with cream as a food group), so the all yolk-y eggs, bacon (and more bacon), ham (one slice is never enough), sausage (double that), fresh blueberry flapjacks, eggs…
Solera Restaurant & Wine Bar, 5410 East Colfax Avenue, is hosting a wine tasting happy hour tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. in the bar, which is as good a place as any to sip from a half dozen (or more) different South African wines, for $15 per person. (And…
Chopsticks China Bistro, the excellent Chinese restaurant whose name is a complete misnomer, insomuch that there is nothing remotely bistro-ish about it, is closing its location at 2990 West Mississippi Avenue in mid-August, only to open a few days later in the former Bourbon Street Pizza space at 5117 South…
Lunch: There are all sorts of terrific lunch deals throughout our fine city, but every day, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the fine folks at Pollo Cabana, a great little Mexican joint at12131 East Iliff Avenue, dole out some of the best bargains around, including nine lunch specials for…
Starbucks is apparently feeling flush, or maybe they’re just trying to pass off their pastries to all those cynics (like me) who normally bypass the glass counter shelved with muffins, apple fritters, bagels, banana bread, oat bars and oatmeal cookies in favor of a good ‘ol cup of java. Either…
Yesterday afternoon, Denver’s best chefs rolled out the culinary red carpet and rubbed tongs with smitten admirers and other do-gooders who showed up in droves at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a charity event that benefits anti-hunger organizations in Colorado and across the nation. The celebration was chef-chaired…
Beginning at 6 p.m. tonight — and then every Monday night until you hear otherwise — TAG, Troy Guard’s new restaurant in Larimer Square at 1441 Larimer Street, will transform its lower level into “TAG-Underground,” a subterranean food hall, movie house and cocktail emporium geared toward industry types. But even…
At last night’s Taste of the Nation event at Mile High Station, nine Colorado mixologists muddled, shook, stirred, poured, begged, stole and offered bribes to the throngs of charitable party-goers who voted with dollar bills and tokens to determine which mixologist had whipped up the top cocktail. The contenders –…
Yelp, a well-known website where opinionated voices discuss and review restaurants, bars and other local businesses, is kicking off Yelp Eats!, a seven-day dining celebration, which begins today and continues through Sunday, July 26 with fifteen metro area restaurants offering multi-course dinner menus for $25 per person, exclusive of tax…
Since I speak enough Spanish to get me nowhere fast, I have absolutely no idea what “gran control remoto” means, but I do know that “tacos gratis” means FREE TACOS. And I know that free tacos, whether from Taqueria Los Gallitos (2360 West Alameda Avenue) or some other taco joint…
Lunch: The delicious scratch-made soups are the specialty at Spices Cafe, 1510 Humboldt Street, but today’s recession-buster lunch special — cheese enchiladas with beans and rice– for $3.95 — is nearly as good a deal as the early morning breakfast bargain, when $1.95 gets you two eggs, toast and hash…
The kitchen crew at Cook Street Fine School of Cooking, 1937 Market Street, is searching for a kick-ass judge to sound off at the school’s upcoming cook-off, an Iron Chef-like duel on Friday, July 31, that’s all part of Cook Street’s ten-year anniversary celebrations. If you’d like to voice your…
One of Denver’s best annual culinary celebrations comes down on Sunday, July 19, at Mile High Station (2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue), this site of this year’s Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a fantastic food-centric event that raises funds to eradicate childhood hunger in Denver and across America…
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 191 Inverness Drive West in Englewood, is hosting its second summer Friday Night Flights fundraiser at 6 p.m. tonight to benefit the Excelsior Youth Center, a local non-profit. The cow palace will serve a selection of appetizers paired with three wines for $25 per…
