No. 36: Pop-tarts from Devil’s Food Bakery and Cookery…

Who says that waffle cones have to be filled with ice cream? Here, you have two choices: the conventional way, or you can order a savory cone stuffed with everything from macaroni and cheese to root vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…

Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part two of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I really like going to Euclid Hall. Anywhere I can go…

Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, among other things, to interpret a dish based on the line “eight maids a-milking” from the Twelve Days of Christmas carol; others stored energy by helping themselves to the dried fruit and cheese spread on the…

If you wanted a rock-solid reason to become a member of this private country club — which I’m not — all you need to do is wrap your lips around its burger, a towering skyscraper of bacon, blue cheese, an onion ring, lettuce, tomatoes and peppercorn-crusted beef. It’s called the…

Not that we need to remind you, but today — whoo-hoo! — is National Margarita Day, which means that bars and restaurants all over the metro area are liberally pouring the popular tequila cocktail, including Pica’s Mexican Taqueria, in Boulder. And earlier this week, we held a contest, giving one…

Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part one of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Before Jeremy Kittelson opened Ambria in mid-November, he conducted a tasting, and while he was visibly excited…

There aren’t many chicken wings in this city that fly right, but these meaty suckers, rubbed with bold spices, are an exception. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool…

Wednesday, February 22, is National Margarita Day. Unfortunately, it’s not a paid holiday. Nonetheless, any day is a good day to down a margarita, which, incidentally, was allegedly the invention of a woman in San Antonio, Mrs. William (Margarita) Sames, who poured what she claims was the world’s first margarita…

The James Beard Foundation has just announced its crop of restaurant and chef semi-finalists vying for a coveted 2012 James Beard award, and several Denver chefs, one Boulder restaurant and one mountain distillery are all named as contenders…

If you’re going to choose just one day of the year to binge, tomorrow — which is both Fat Tuesday and National Pancake Day — should be on your short (stack) list, if for no other reason than Snooze, Denver’s proliferating breakfast joint that’s gone national, is marking the occasion…

No. 37: Dolmades from Axios Estiatorio…

Carrots: It’s the new dessert. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver dining deck, worth up…

Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a superb pizza that hails from Slice Works to a trio of tacos obliterated by lettuce from Yolanda’s to a hot mess of burrata at Crimson Canary that makes us wistful for the simpler things in life to…

A guy sitting at the bar at Hops & Pie makes a declaration: “This,” he claims, pointing to his slice of pizza pronged with pineapple, “is the best crust outside of Italy.” World traveler needs to wrap his pearly whites around a sandwich, which are new additions to the Hops…

Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs marks its six-year anniversary this month, but the festivities begin today, and while you can gorge on Twinkies and cupcakes for free as part of the celebrations, we’re also giving away a pair of gift certificates: one to Steve’s and a second to the Bull & Bush,…

In the two days since Bombay Bowl, Denver’s only fast-casual Indian restaurant, was featured prominently in the dining section of the New York Times, owner Amar Singh has been inundated with franchising offers from all over the globe…

Six years of slinging wieners! That’s the milestone that Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs will mark this weekend, Friday through Sunday, when the hot dog hut on East Colfax celebrates its anniversary with lots of freebies, including Twinkies and cupcakes. “We’ve came a long way since our humble beginnings serving up our…

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. “We have a…

If you want to get to the meat of the matter, you’ll need to battle a barrage of lettuce first. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…

Tony Clement Roam 1033 East 17th Avenue 720-382-2935 www.denverseafoodrestaurants.com This is part two of my interview with Tony Clement, exec chef of Roam. Part two of our chat ran yesterday…

The pizza oven has flown the coop at Stingray, the bar and pizza joint that Leigh Jones of Jonesey’s EatBar and her partner, Margaret Moore (together they also own Bar Car and the Horseshoe Lounge) opened eight months ago at 2911 West 38th Avenue. And that’s not all that’s changed:…