I was out in Stapleton last night when I found myself with a late-night craving for pupusas, the El Salvadoran staple that looks like a fat corn tortilla stuffed with cheese, pork or vegetables. And since it wasn’t practical to drive up to Boulder to Pupusas Sabor Hispano, our pick…
It’s been a busy spring for Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan-Guard, who opened TAG | RAW BAR in a below-ground spot in Larimer Square just before they became operating partners at Madison Street, the Larimer Associates project over on 12th Avenue and Madison Street. And now, they’ve announced a couple…
Strange Brewing will celebrate a bittersweet anniversary Saturday, April 23, with a slightly sweet beer, a Belgian trippel that has been waiting for a year. The brewery actually opened on May 19, 2010, but owners Tim Meyers and John Fletcher brewed their first Strange beer a few weeks earlier, called…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Last September, Rich Wong and his partner, Sharyn Nissen, rolled out a food cart, named it Street Eats and began pimping everything from Hawaiian-style kalbi ribs and Peking barbecue pork buns to chicken and andouille sausage gumbo and wild boar dogs tricked-out with cranberries and apricots from behind the confines…
In honor of Earth Day, participating Starbucks stores are giving free brewed coffee or tea, hot or iced, to everyone who brings in a reusable mug or tumbler. But the big news today is the return of Alfalfa’s to the same Boulder location at 1651 Broadway where the store first…
News of Williams & Graham, a speakeasy opening in Highland in June, has people licking their lips — “darling,” “awesome,” they rave — but also worrying about the crowds it might attract. Bigskrimping, for example, offers this: Sound super sweet! But really why tell people about it on this blog,…
Head for the hills: Devil’s Thumb Ranch, 3530 County Road 83 in Tabernash, will present a Steamworks’ Beer Dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. It’s a benefit for Trout Unlimited and the endangered Fraser River and $35. Reservations are required; call 800-933-4339 or visit www.devilsthumbranch.com. For information on dozens of…
What started as girlish gossip between Ashley Routson, a California-based beer blogger better known as the Beer Wench, and Jess Hunter, a Denver Off the Wagon booze blogger and beer aficionado, quickly became a discussion among female beer geeks nationwide focused on answering this burning question: Who is the most…
Almost two months after Jorge Pingarron first told Cafe Society that he was opening a “Mexican, but not Mexican” restaurant on South Broadway, the native of Acapulco has made good on his word: El Olvido opened last night with a fiesta, and when we stopped by today, there wasn’t a…
There are some restaurants that start off with a bang and falter, others that never even make it off the ground, and still others that put their best foot forward straight out of the gate and never stop evolving. The above snap was flashed at a restaurant that, while still…
Three months after Shannon Aten moved back to Boulder to make her dream of owning a pastry truck a reality, she’s ready to debut her wheels. The Tasterie Truck, which Aten and company have affectionately named “Madeline,” is getting wrapped in shades of teal, purple and green today, and it…
AC Golden Brewing, the tiny MillerCoors-owned beer maker located inside the Golden factory, will begin packaging its signature Colorado Native in cans for the summer; it will be sold in twelve-packs starting May 1. “Our retailers and drinkers have been requesting cans, especially for summer, so they can take Colorado…
For the past several months, behind the walls of a two-story, converted apartment building in Highland, Todd Colehour, a former executive with Kona Grill, along with his business partners and startender Sean Kenyon, who works behind the bar of the Squeaky Bean and writes our weekly “Ask the Bartender” column,…
Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part one of my interview with Cucci ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t have one. Like…
Lori Midson’s new Chef and Tell interview with Justin Cucci, chef/owner of Root Down, has people talking. From booyah: this man gets it From Lipster: It’s interesting that he uses “pussies” as a derogatory term and then, in nearly the same breath, refers to all of the women who work…
At 7 p.m. tonight,McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant will present a Spring Halibut Season Dinner, featuring cuisine by chef Stephen Vice paired with Mondavi wines; sommelier Kevin Arndt will be on hand to discuss the pairings. Tickets are $55; for more info, call 720-200-9339 or go to www.mccormicksandschmicks.com. For information…
Batch 19, a Coors-made lager that is brewed based on a recently rediscovered pre-Prohibition recipe, is finally coming home to Colorado. The recipe for the beer was discovered in an old log book at the Golden brewery in 2004, after a small flood in the basement. The book — and…
On Saturday night, the new incarnation of Satchel’s on 6th unlocked its doors, uncorked the wines and unearthed a small, tidy menu that trumpets the talents of exec chef Jared Brant, who’s done time in the kitchens of Bones and Mizuna. The fifty-seat space, kitted out with exposed red brick,…
When Wolfe’s closed in December, it took one of the town’s best vegetarian barbecue options with it. But at least there’s still barbecued tofu on Colfax Avenue, thanks to OiNKs! BBQ…
Pete Contos came to Denver in 1955, and when he bought his first restaurant here seven years later, it was the start of a restaurant empire. In the Best of Denver 2011, we crowned Pete’s Kitchen as the Best Pete’s Restaurant: We end a lot of nights at the 24/7…
Yesterday, while having lunch, I made the dire, dire mistake of ordering a Cuban sandwich that was served — not grilled, not pressed, not melted — on challah bread. I shoved it away after the first soggy bite, setting my sights, instead, on the hummas and falafel that my dining…
