Gomez, the Mexican pit stop at 3600 Park Avenue West, just off 38th Avenue and I-25, is beating the recession big time with all-day, every day 99 cent specials on the joint’s housemade pork-studded tamales and its egg, potato and cheese or bean and cheese burrito. If you want your…

Eleven East Colfax restaurants will take part in tonight’s Feast on the Fax, an annual event organized by the East Denver Colfax Partnership and local businesses that encourages foodophiles to walk, bike or hop on a free shuttle bus that takes patrons from restaurant to restaurant — where they can…

Westword’s Jonathan Shikes, who keeps all you serious bread heads in the know with his sandwich chat each week, doesn’t give a baguette’s butt that Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, which started its sandwich monopoly in Illinois in 1983 and now has sixteen locations throughout the metro area, is a big-ass chain. …

Being a somewhat reluctant advocate of the salads at Green Fine Salad Company and Mad Greens, both Colorado-based weed joints (in the gourmet lettuce kind of way, people), I thought I’d check out the new Choppers Custom Salad Works at 5302 DTC Boulevard, in Greenwood Village. It, like the others…

Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the latest in a line of Italian cafes owned by the folks who run Cucina Colore at 3041 East Third Avenue and Cafe Colore at 1512 Larimer Street, is scheduled to open June 15 at 2700 South Broadway. When I dropped in on Friday and spoke with…

Gelazzi, the gelateria at 1411 Larimer Street, with additional shops in Fort Collins and Highlands Ranch, is making its television debut tonight, June 8, at 7 p.m. on Food Network’s Unwrapped, the popular show hosted by Marc Summers that explores America’s most classic foods. (Think peanut butter, bubblegum and fried…

If you follow Rialto Cafe on Twitter (@rialtocafe), then you already know that the restaurant at 934 16th Street is handing out free brews today to its Twitter groupies. If you’re just learning about this deal from reading our blog, here are the details: Between now and 4 p.m., belly…

Denver radio station Hot 107.1 FM is currently holding a “Chipotle Office Invasion” contest, whereby if you’re willing to part with all your personal information — phone, address, date of birth, etc. — by registering on the station’s website, then you (and up to 24 of your colleagues-in-cubicles) might get…

It’s gearing up to be a big food and wine weekend, kids. On Saturday, Ace Hardware, Alameda Station, 417 South Broadway, is holding its first-ever “Big Green Egg” grilling competition, a smoking and grilling face-off between students from the Art Institute of Colorado and other participating hopefuls, all of whom…

I first heard about the giant burritos at Burrito Giant, 4501 West 38th Avenue, from poster “Penguin 18,” who commented on a recent Westword blog about the breakfast burrito wars between Jack-n-Grill, 2524 Federal Boulevard and Santiagos XII, which just took up residence directly across the street from Jack’s joint…

Relying on a sardonic sign, inscribed with the words “2nd Largest Brewery in Golden” and an arrow directing potential beer imbibers to its off-the-beaten path location in a residential Golden neighborhood, Golden City Brewery is everything that Molson Coors isn’t: a ramshackle roadhouse that hands out free pretzels (hey, nothing’s…

New York-based food industry publication Nation’s Restaurant News just announced its 2009 Fine Dining Hall of Fame winners, and Barolo Grill, Blair Taylor’s Italian restaurant at 3030 East Sixth Avenue, was one of ten temples of gastronomy inducted into the elite winner’s circle. But while Taylor was “hugely, hugely, truly…

As if Clint Hurdle’s recent dismissal by the Colorado Rockies wasn’t enough to piss off rabid baseball fans, now comes word that PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has bestowed a decidedly unsettling honor on Coors Field — you know, home of the foot-long Rockie hot dog…

Each month this year, Gateaux, the elaborately whimsical bakery at 1160 Speer Boulevard, is donating a portion of its proceeds to a local charity — and this month, that charity is Work Options for Women, a nonprofit that offers a sixteen-week culinary program to impoverished women who want to work…

I was in hot pursuit of a tow truck yesterday, which is neither here nor there, except that my chase landed me in Aurora, and whenever I’m in Aurora, I’m in taco country, and whenever I’m in taco country, I’m happier than a lizard lapping up flies. Today was no…

Luca D’Italia, 711 Grant Street, marks its six-year anniversary throughout the month with a march of visiting Denver chefs, including Wayne Conwell, exec at Sushi Sasa, 2401 15th Street, who will team up with Luca (and Mizuna, Osteria Marco and Bones) chef-owner Frank Bonanno tonight, June 3, for a five-course…

“I’m absolutely exhausted, and I want a bath,” declared Carla Stevens, co-owner of Giovanni’s Italian Cafe, at 3355 South Yarrow Street, when I caught her on the phone this afternoon. As reported here last week, Stevens and her husband, Salvatore Giacalone, had hoped to unveil their new space on the…

 Calling all grape geeks: Tonight, between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., Lala’s Wine Bar, 410 East Seventh Avenue, is uncorking five wines from several countries in the Southern Hemisphere — New Zealand, Australia, Chile and Argentina — which is as good a cure as any to wash away the rainy day…

This past weekend, when I sneaked through the open doors of Fogo de Chao, the new Brazilian churrascaria going into 1515 Wynkoop Street, to take photos of the space, a pair of hands came between my camera and the construction dust. “Absolutely no photos are allowed!” yapped the guy with…