Oskar Blues kicks off a massive beer weekend up and down the Front Range on Saturday with a party celebrating the renaming of its legendary beer, Gordon, to G’Knight. Although Oskar Blues has been making Gordon since 2005, it needed to change the name to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit…
If you’re planning on really making a night of your Denver Restaurant Week reservation, either because it’s a romantic evening away from the kids, or because you’re taking what you’re saving on dinner and plunking it down on copious amounts of alcohol, it might be a good idea to look…
Although Denver Restaurant Week, which starts on February 26, is the real movable feast, two new kids on the restaurant block are offering major deals on Tuesday, February 22. El Diablo, which opened last August at 101 Broadway, is offering its second tequila dinner featuring Republic Tequila with founder Ken…
Rage, befuddlement, shock and a man who one poster described as a “total and complete loon.” If you’ve read the fifty comments following my post earlier this week in which I interviewed Ton Phairatphibon, the owner of Skew, which closed abruptly last Sunday night in the wake of what Phairatphibon…
Esquire Magazine has atoned for a huge mistake that Men’s Journal made two years ago. Unlike that mag, it’s included Denver in its list of the nation’s seven best beer cities. The Esquire issue, which just hit newsstands, lists Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, St. Louis and San Diego…
I tend not to like contrived and cutesy challenges, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching the chefs putting together cookies for Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster and his friends Elmo and Telly when they visited the set of Wednesday night’s Top Chef, seeing everyone’s expression lighten suddenly as the Quickfire was explained,…
Tart, pretentious, with a touch of bitterness. Comments have been pouring in regarding Laura Shunk’s post about wine scores — hooked to the Infinite Monkey Theorem’s recent 88 from Wine Spectator. Comments about wine scores, about Colorado wines in general, about Infinite Monkey in particular, about Laura Shunk — including…
Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, 3525 East Colfax Avenue, will celebrate five years in business today through Sunday, February 20; while supplies last, you’ll get a free Hostess Twinkie or Cupcake with your meal. And the 500th customer will get a free T-shirt and meal. The festivities last through the weekend, for…
UPDATE: This event has sold out! Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue Unit B1 in Boulder, will host the Boulder Strong Ale Festival today and tomorrow, with more than eighty strong beers (greater than 8 percent ABV) from some of the best breweries in the country. Admission is $35; call…
Thirty years ago this month, Peggy Anderson and Diane Williams opened Annie’s Cafe in a storefront attached to a drug store at Eighth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. “About ten people came that first day,” Anderson remembers. But those ten customers turned into a crowd of regulars and today, the women…
Three months after Colorado’s Rock Bottom Brewing chain was absorbed in a financial partnership with the Gordon Biersch brewpubs, the new parent company, Craftworks Restaurants and Breweries, is thinking about bottling some of the Rock Bottom beers for the first time and selling them in liquor stores. If that happens,…
Last night, after dinner at a Highland restaurant, we spotted the above sign at 32nd Avenue and Tejon, and while we’re still trying to get to the root of what, exactly, it’s going to be, the sign — Pig & Block Charcuterie — already has us squealing with glee and…
This week, I reviewed the original Bubba Chinos location at 160 Federal Boulevard, where Leonard Cordova serves up a version of the green chile that his grandmother, Stella Cordova, made legendary at Chubby’s. He’s used that sauce to turn his own restaurant concept into an expanding mini-empire, with eight current…
This past week has been more about summer salads than winter chilis, thanks to our balmy breezes, but after a server highly, highly recommended the chili from the menu where I snapped the above pic, I figured, what the hell? It was good — not great, but good. But those…
I’m sorry, Ben Parsons, but… I don’t really care that you and Infinite Monkey Theorem landed an 88 from Wine Spectator…
Last November, the James Beard Foundation summoned the public to nominate its favorite chefs, restaurants and industry professionals for the 2011 awards. And after all the self-pimping and ballot-stuffing, the poll is closed. This morning, the foundation announced its 2011 list of semi-finalist nominees. And Colorado made a strong showing…
Jim Cohen The Empire Lounge & Restaurant 816 Main Street, Louisville 303-665-2521 www.theempirerestaurant.com Pizzeria da Lupo 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 303-396-6366 www.pizzeriadalupo.com This is part two of my interview with Jim Cohen, chef/owner of The Empire Restaurant and Lounge and Pizzeria da Lupo. Part one of that interview ran yesterday…
The Platte River Valley and Highland neighborhoods will be the beneficiaries of a new brewery this summer, when Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford open Denver Beer Co in a former auto repair shop at 1695 Platte Street. Just up the street from Proto’s Pizza and Paris on the Platte, the…
JR Johnson brought Mr. Greenjeans, a vegetable market in Edgewater, to life after a couple of beers in the Providence Tavern. “I noticed people want to stay around the neighborhood,” he says. “And I looked across the street and thought it would be a great place for a vegetable stand.”…
Opinions are revving up in advance of today’s food-truck meeting at the Downtown Denver Partnership, where stakeholders — among them mobile food vendors, restaurant owners, downtown businesses, city agencies and neighborhood groups — will have a preliminary discussion of the role of food trucks in Denver, and whether regulations that…
Amendment XXI Wines will present a Single Malt Scotch Tasting with Robert Sickler, who’ll will guide participants through Scotland’s portfolio. The tasting, which starts at 5 p.m., is free; for more information, call 303-477-5646. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings…
No. 68: Risotto frutti di mare from Firenze a Tavola Upstairs, in the convivial, bright-lit dining room of Parisi, the tables are littered with irresistible airy pizzas and housemade pastas, frilly salads and hearty sandwiches, and there’s not an empty seat in the house. Downstairs, in Firenze a Tavola, the…
