“I’m tired. I’m 85 years old. I want to get my head back and figure out what I want to do all day,” says Zona Moore, speaking from her screened-in office in the blue-and-orange building from which she’s sold tamales, pig’s ears sandwiches and soul food for the past forty…
Govinda’s Buffet, the restaurant in the Krishna center at 1400 Cherry Street, has reopened after a year-long hiatus, with a buffet that features “karma-free spiritual vegetarian food” cooked by a Brahmanical chef and blessed by Krishna. What that translates to: all-you-can-eat vegetarian fare that might expand your horizons, mind –…
We’re eagerly anticipating Friday’s Justice League of Street Food party, because in addition to eating ourselves sick at the Deluxe Little Orange Rocket, the Inventing Room, Sully’s Slice Truck, the Cupcake Truck, Biker Jim’s, Steuben’s, the Biscuit Bus, Pinche Tacos, Steamin’ Demon and the Gastro Cart while drinking ourselves ridiculous…
Twelve years ago, bison ranchers in the West were feeling fenced in. While demand from restaurants and consumers for steaks, roasts and other prime cuts was just beginning to increase, nobody wanted the rest of the beast — the parts that get ground up and turned into hamburger. In fact,…
Feed Denver, a local nonprofit that teaches sustainable farming methods and builds community-based urban greenhouse farms in an effort to offer fresh, local produce year-round, wants you to help swell its belly, which you can do tonight, between 4 and 9 p.m., by simply eating pizza, salads, calzones and sandwiches…
New menu, new cookbook and a new charcuterie and cheese plate that’s large enough for a little league team, but easily consumed by two. 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…
This is part one of Juliet Wittman’s interview with Kelly Liken of Restaurant Kelly Liken. Read part two of the Kelly Liken interview here. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vail 970-479-0175 One of Kelly Liken’s finest moments on Top Chef D.C. came when the contestants were challenged…
The Counter, part of a California-based chain, may not have been able to cut it in Colorado, but the homegrown Smashburger continues to smash the competition. Since it got its start at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard in June 2007, the company has grown to eighty stores, with hundreds more on…
Mimis Cafe is a national chain with a downhome, New Orleans accent — and today and tomorrow, local Mimis locations will be doing a downhome good deed for Work Options for Women, giving 15 percent of all sales of food and drink to the non-profit.There are a half-dozen locations in…
The camaraderie fostered at Firenze a Tavola’s Community Table dinners is a wonderful reason to dine family-style — but it’s not really family-style if you can’t bring the kids, is it? Firenze a Tavola will change that tonight with a kid-friendly Community Table…
As much as I’d like to be a better representative of womankind, I am not girly. I’d rather smoke a cigar over Scotch than comment on cute brunch tartlettes filling some silver platter. I’d rather yell obscenities at a baseball game than teeter around on high heels during a girls’…
I may not be girly, but like any female who doesn’t have some sort of social disorder, I’ve got a group of delightful women with whom I like to spend an inordinate amount of time, typically bitching about my most recent significant other, predicting whose marriage is about to fail,…
As a native Denverite, I both hate and love Boulder. Its self-righteousness sends me over the edge: Give Boulderites a chance, and they’ll recite all the statistics about how they are healthier and better educated than everyone else, and know exactly which local farm each morsel of food on their…
I got off to a rough start during a recent meal at the Village Cork, 1300 South Pearl Street, mostly because I was having trouble integrating myself into the feminine fold. The restaurant, full of charming knickknacks and smiling women, could sell you a lifestyle with dinner. And given that…
Pinkberry, the cult of frozen yogurt, with two stores in Denver, recently unleashed its 100th outlet, and to mark the milestone, the pink and green swirl machine is holding a contest that will make at least one person rich…with a Pinkberry gift card worth $1,000. Here’s the deal: Starting September…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
The block-long shoppette that runs along the east side of Jersey Street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, seems like a great location for a restaurant. Located in the Mayfair neighborhood, it is close to lots of homes, offices and Mayfair Park. But owner Alex Pappas has had a hard time…
Tavern Hospitality Group just broke ground on the project that will debut as Tavern Littleton in April 2011. Last year, THG owners Frank Schultz and Terry and Al Papay purchased a building and lot at 2589 West Main Street in the heart of the historic district, where they plan to…
Great Divide Brewing will challenge some of the big boys of bold brewing this week as it takes its Yeti Imperial Stout, Titan IPA, Hercules Double IPA, Smoked Baltic Porter and other beers to Southern California bars and stores for the first time. The Denver brewery recently added several fermentation…
See that photo up top? That’s the former home of Ron & Dan’s Keg, and the future address of Lou’s Food Bar, Frank Bonanno’s new restaurant, which was gutted yesterday after Bonanno, who also owns Bones, Luca d’Italia, Mizuna , Osteria Marco (and soon, Wednesday’s Pies), sealed the deal on…
Last week’s Swirl Girl blog taught you everything you needed to know about scoring value wines, which pack the biggest bang for your hard-earned buck. This week, say hello to four insanely good wines that also happen to be good buys…
I’m fresh off a long weekend in New York City, where it’s possible to buy a big, floppy slice of pizza on just about every block in Manhattan. But to go to New York and eat just those renditions, dripping with grease and kept warm under a heat lamp or…
