Frasca Food and Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, presents its weekly Monday Night Wine Dinner. This week, winemaker Guiseppe Vajra unveils the wines of G.D. Vajra Winery in Barolo, Itlay; a four-course seasonal menu has been prepared to pair with the wines. Dinner is $45, and wine pairings start at $35;…
Welcome to the end of another full week filled with fascinating, weird and scintillating food news. Here’s what you may have missed while you were, I don’t know, doing something else, like working, or slathering aloe vera on your sunburn…
It’s keeping the same name — at least for now — but as of a few weeks ago, Estrela Bartending School has new owners. Local businessman Chris Robbins partnered with three others, including KarshHagan advertising firm co-founder Tom Hagan, to assume ownership of the school from previous owner Tom Lucas…
Dive Bar has already taken a dive — and owner Paul Piciocchi is bringing back Tryst Lounge tonight. “Oops, my bad,” he said in announcing the switch. “To everyone who told us that we were crazy to change the beloved Tryst name after six successful years…Yeah, you were probably right…
Local food has crept onto just about every menu on the Front Range. And if Jacob Harkins has his way, local wine will follow. Last fall, Harkins started an online magazine called ColoradoWino.com that focuses on the Colorado wine industry, aiming to expose consumers and chefs to Colorado wines that…
When hometown hero Chipotle unveiled a new “Low Roller” menu last spring in Denver, featuring novel options like single tacos, small salads, pozole and kids items, some people heralded it as a disaster of biblical proportions – fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, human sacrifice, dogs and cats…
Vegetable cacciatore? Check. Lemon roasted chicken with pesto? Consider it done. While chicken nuggets will likely remain the most popular choice among the elementary school set, cafeteria staff at Denver Public Schools are learning how to prepare finer foods for students who will again fill cafeterias this fall. Chefs from…
By 3:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, the Pinkberry faithful had descended upon 1600 Glenarm Street to score a free cup of fro-yo during a four-hour preview party that amounted to 1,800 mouths to feed. “It was pretty crazy,” says local Pinkberry spokesperson Ellen Robinson. “A half hour before the doors opened…
“Bees like redheads.” That was Matt Kentner’s attempt to reassure me that the continent of flying insects communing above my head wasn’t going to sting me to death, a legitimate concern for someone who’s allergic to bees. But just in case you’re ready to grab the phone and order flowers…
When Grimm Brothers Brewhouse opens tomorrow in Loveland, it will be the town’s only independently-owned brewery. But it will also be one of several craft beer makers around the state that focus on a specific style of suds. “There are breweries in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, Boulder, Estes Park, Lyons,…
It’s getting hard to watch Top Chef D.C. and harder to write about it. I keep waiting to feel the kind of excitement I felt about the show in the past. It may be that this is an uninteresting group of contestants, but I think it’s more the smug idiocy…
In this week’s Q & A with Brad Birky of the SAME Cafe, the chef weighed in on Denver’s meals on wheels movement, the fried plantains and homemade corn nuts he recently discovered at Pisco Sour and how his pay-what-you-can cafe has become a successful role model for similar concepts…
A friend of mine turned me on to the fantastic burritos made by Miguel, the man who runs the cart in the above snap. Roughly the size of a football, they’re mounted with rice, cubed potatoes crisped on the flattop, chicken pork or carnitas and a generous ladle of searing…
It’s not all quilting and scrapbooking, folks. Though we admit we’re a little weirded out by the “Dress Your Doll” contest on tap for this year’s Colorado State Fair, we’re going to try to overlook that in favor of the fair’s introduction of some Colorado-centric categories to its cooking competitions…
Hop heads, tonight is all about you at Mile Hgh Station, site of Summer Brew Fest. The party starts with with a brewtastic VIP session from 6 to 7 p.m. for $45; general admission, from 7 to 10 p.m., is $35. Mile High Station is at 2027 West Colfax Avenue;…
When Chris Elam, program director at Meatless Monday, told us his side of the veggie-movement story, he hinted that a national chef would soon be signing on to the cause. We mused that Emeril Lagasse, Tom Colicchio, and Wolfgang Puck were very much in play…
Some hotels provide guests with a bottle of wine; some with a little champagne. But at Hotel Monaco, beer has entered the pantheon of beverages brought to your room. And it’s about time. The luxury boutique hotel, at 1717 Champa Street, rolled out its Denver Brew and You promotion this…
In solidarity with Michelle Obama’s war on childhood obesity, the Daily Beast put together a nice little slideshow about the 25 unhealthiest kids meals in the country. Every gut bomb on the list contains more than 800 calories, but topping the charts was a Mac & Cheese Quesadilla meal from…
A Loveland-based pizza shop is expanding operations to Denver in the near future. Pizza Street, which serves calzones, wings, signature “belly-o” sandwiches and pizza is moving in soon at 1600 Champa Street, next to Floyd’s Barber Shop. A person identifying herself only as the owner’s sister said it would be…
We tend to agree with Bon Apetit editor Andrew Knowlton who recently decried pork-hating bandwagon jumpers on Twitter: “Enough with all the ‘pork is over’ nonsense. Overdone? Perhaps. Overrated? Please.” That said, the era of bacon-mania is drawing to a close, having had its run as accoutrement to everything from…
In the olden days (uh, one year ago-ish), when street food usually meant ordering a gray hot dog or a mystery-source tamale from a rickety cart instead of scoring quinoa or a wood-fired pizza from a tricked out trailer, we would have been up in arms if our lunch total…
Earlier this week, Mark Dym got the good news: His sensational Neapolitan pies, snatched from the blistering wood-burning ovens inside the open kitchen of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, 2129 Larimer Street, had just landed in a top ten pizza parlors in America list, sharing space with cult pizzerias like Pizzeria Bianco…
