Food & Drink

Tomorrow we’ll post our monthly Restaurant Roll Call, chronicling the spots that opened and closed in January. Eleven months from now, we’ll compile all those Roll Calls into a comprehensive look at the past year, just as we did with our 2010 Restaurant Roll Call. To create these lists, we…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a pair of milk shakesat Park Burger to a pan of sizzling shrimp at Farro to this suburban meat and cheese platter. For correctly identifying Wine & Cheese Restaurant and Wine Bar, AM2011 wins an EatDenver deck…

Maurice Couturier, the French-born chef/owner of Le Mistral, which opened December 28 in the former Mel’s space at 5970 South Holly Street in Greenwood Village, struts an impressive curriculum vitae: The chef, who owns Grappa Mediterranean Bistro and Cafe, which he opened three years ago in Golden, was also the…

Things just keep getting better for Biker Jim, aka Jim “the wiener wonder dog” Pittenger, who’s already spoiled us with the city’s best hot dogs, originally fleshed out from a stainless steel cart on the 16th Street Mall. Over the past several years, however, Jim has introduced exotic sausage seekers…

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…

After a soft opening yesterday, Spuntino is now open officially. The comfortable spot — which took over the former home of Red Trolley at 2639 West 32nd Avenue — will focus on serving quick and casual Italian dishes ranging from soups, salads and panini to gourmet popsicles and gelato. Owners…

After getting its start in Greeley and then moving on to Loveland, an outpost of Pizza Street opened last Wednesday at 1600 Champa Street. “We’ve had a lot of requests for our great-tasting food in the city,” explains Tom Williams, the owner of this Colorado-based group…

Larimer Associates, the real estate investment company that manages the upscale Larimer Square restaurant district, has purchased Montclair Plaza, a small strip mall at the corner of Quebec and Severn streets, near the Lowry development. The somewhat run-down row of buildings, which total 9,539 square feet, is home to three…

This pissing match just keeps getting weirder. In light of lab tests alleging that Taco Bell’s “meat” is actually only 36 percent meat, Louisiana-based law firm Beasley Allen filed suit against the Mexican fast food chain for false advertising. Angry and insistent that the claims are totally false, Taco Bell…

Yesterday we finally got to chat with Larry Gutierrez, the president of Albuquerque-based Little Anita’s, and he seemed confused as to what, exactly, constitutes vegetarian cuisine. Earlier this week, we reported that Little Anita’s — which veggies had long thought served vegetarian green and red chile at its five locations…

There’s nothing quite like the sizzle of butter — like bacon, it makes everything taste better — and here, where the sputtering puddle is the platform for pudgy shrimp specked with parsley, butter is a key ingredient in the kitchen overseen by a veteran chef who also has a knack…

The Denver market has given rise to several of this country’s fast-casual concepts, and one of those is Qdoba, which opened its first restaurant here in 1995 and has since expanded into a chain of over 500 restaurants in 43 states. Now the burrito-monger is pushing a bit of brand…

Taco Bell’s beef tacos are mostly filled with meat…mostly. Or maybe not so much. That’s the meaty claim in yet another fast-food lawsuit — but this time, it’s not about supersized asses or a coffee-seared crotch. And strangely enough, so far no one’s asking for any punitive damages, just for…

An Alabama law firm has a beef with the amount of meat in Taco Bell’s tacos, which has set off a stampede of claims, counterclaims and an opportunistic campaign by Mercy for Animals,, which is suggesting that the chain solve its problems by going vegan. Which prompted this from sararoxyoursox:…

You might know Kris Carr from the hit TLC documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer; when she was diagnosed with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma — an extremely rare, and supposedly incurable, form of cancer — she transformed her life through diet and healthy living. She’ll be signing Crazy Sexy Diet, which she describes as…

New Belgium Brewing Co. is teaming up with Outside Magazine to take advantage of dog owners’ desires to take pictures of their dogs and eagerly share them with anyone who’s alive. Coinciding with the release of Mighty Arrow Pale Ale is a Facebook campaign through which friends of both the…

Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina officially opened for business on Tuesday on the 16th Street Mall, and so far the place appears to be mighty popular — in part, no doubt, because the employees are passing out coupons for free full-sized chips and queso appetizers at the corner of 16th…

Taco Bell has been sued by Alabama-based law firm Beasley Allen, which claims the chain was using too little beef in its “beef.” And because this country loves meaty litigation, Taco Bell turned around and sued right back, claiming that not only was it proud of its meat sources, but…