Mother’s Day is Sunday — so if you haven’t yet made arrangements for a beautiful bouquet and fabulous brunch for Mom, get moving. Also on the culinary calendar this week: Cinco de Mayo and a little race called the Kentucky Derby…..
Ron Bryant and Chris Casson, both of whom work in the enterprise business development department of Shamrock Foods, have spent the past year and a half bantering about the attributes of burgers — and how they could erect a burger treasury of their own that would stand buns apart from…
Chad Yakobson has a master’s degree in beer. And like most academics, he’s putting that degree to use for the greater good, namely by researching different kinds of yeast strains — primarily brettanomyces, which is used in certain styles of “sour” ales — and brewing beers based on what he…
There’s only one restaurant in Denver where I’ve seen this golden Italian beer being poured — and I’d gladly go out of my way to track it down again. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
The metro area gained a cheesesteak spot and lost a cheesesteak spot, it gained a Larkburger and lost a Walk-In Burger (although that venture promises to relocate)…and Hart’s Corner made a comeback. Here’s the Restaurant roll call for April:…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the liver and onions at El Tejado to the green chile hash at Lola to a wet-your-whistle drink at a whistlestop on the edge of town. For correctly whistling up the Copper Rail in Brighton, Dawn wins…
The first party of the Food Truck Warriors was postponed from Saturday because of sorry weather forecasts, and this answer didn’t fit the contest criteria to win free food/drink at the Food Truck Warriors party in any case. Still, we were charmed by this reply from Todd, which shows just…
Temple Emanuel, 51 Grape Street, is the site of the annual WomenCook!, featuring female chefs who prepare delicious treats — and all for the benefit of Work Options for Women. Tickets ($125 and up) for tonight’s event are all gone — but you can still learn more about this very…
Of all the magical morning eats, few are more versatile than the breakfast sandwich. Meat, eggs and cheese between two halves of a roll — it’s the perfect morning take-out meal, an excellent way to cure a hangover and an also an ideal option for a lazy weekend when paired…
Quick! Before it even thinks about snowing…. Burger night is back at Marczyk Fine Foods, which just celebrated its ninth birthday last weekend, and will be grilling burgers on 17th Avenue from 5 to 7:30 p.m. tonight. The burgers are all Niman Ranch burgers, ground on site. It’s $6.99 for…
It’s supposed to snow tomorrow, but it’s a balmy 75 degrees today, and that makes us antsy to go out and socialize — and maybe score some digits to make a date. In Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date thanks to…
Happy Place: Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, 303-296-1970. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $3-7 Colorado beers and spirits; $2-6 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Here in Denver, 8 Rivers Cafe owner Wanda James is getting lambasted by Yelpers who don’t take kindly to her calling out Yelp for its questionable filter algorithm. And while she insists that she has no problem with the reviews — and, therefore, no beef with the Yelpers themselves –…
Snow’s in the forecast for the last day of April, and because that’s the worst kind of weather for an outdoor bash devoted to street food and booze, the Food Truck Warriors — a group that includes Street Eats, the Crock Spot, Biscuit Bus, Steuben’s, Max Lunch, Brava Pizzeria, Stick…
Suspicious that Yelp was filtering reviews of 8 Rivers Cafe just because she and her husband, Scott Durrah, didn’t advertise, Wanda James took her grievances to the Yelp discussion board. That’s where she started a thread called “Yelp is fake and is destroying businesses that don’t advertise with them.” In…
Turn that frown upside down! Yesterday, a bill that would remove restaurants and bars from the archaic, post-Prohibition laws regulating the sales of low-alcohol beers in convenience and grocery stores made it out of the House Economic and Business Development Committee — 13 to 0. Senate Bill 60 has already…
The revelation that downtown might get a grocery store had urban residents clipping coupons and packing up their cloth bags. here’s how Carly greeted the news: If Denver was set up to have a city block (or has one currently) where you could get meat, cheese, produce, sundries, etc on…
It’s William Randolph Hearst’s birthday today, and we know one restaurant celebrating in style: Randolph’s Restaurant and Bar will celebrate the birthday of the restaurant’s namesake today with Hot Off the Press Paninis: California-style paninis served with a glass of wine for just $10. And from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m…
Come Saturday at 2 p.m., the parking lot at Ninth and Bannock will morph into a food orgy, when nearly a dozen Denver street-food trucks and carts commune on the pavement to feed a bumper crop of gastronauts, all of whom will be part of the Food Truck Warriors kick-off…
Vicente Domingo closed the doors on his young restaurant, Viejo Domingo, in March, saying he was taking a break and that he’d be back in May. And indeed, there’s activity in that location again — but we’re not entirely sure Domingo is behind it. Caminito Tango Restaurant is taking over…
It’s burger week over at Eater National, and in addition to burger history, burger food porn and burger chain analysis, the website plotted fifteen of the country’s hottest burgers on a map… and included Denver’s very own Tarbell’s Southglenn…
