Top Chef does Telluride? Well, sort of. It was more like Iron Chef than Top Chef during last week’s culinary competition pitting a clutch of Telluride chefs against one another during the “World Wine Tasting & Telluride Top Chef Competition Fundraiser.”…
There are days, I admit, that I’m utterly devoid of discipline — days where you can shove a plate of carne asada fries under my chin, all doped up with cheese, sour cream and guacamole, and I’ll inhale them as though they were my last meal before being sentenced to…
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Black Cat Restaurant, 1964 13th Street in Boulder, presents In Our Own Backyard Wine Dinner, a multi-course collaboration between chef/farmer Eric Skokan and master sommelier Richard Betts. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $85; call 303-444-9110 or visit www.blackcatboulder.com. For information on dozens of culinary…
There are plenty of distractions at El Paraiso. The ostentatious color scheme is dizzying from the second you spot the facade of the massive restaurant, stained mustard yellow, through the surrounding trees. Inside, every inch of wall space not covered with Mexican pastoral murals is adorned with streamers and dollar-store…
When I was a teenager looking for trouble in Denver, I had relatively few choices downtown. There was always Larimer Square, though, where I got into more than my fair share of shenanigans at Soapy Smith’s Double Eagle Bar, the Bratskellar and Josephina’s. Today Larimer Square is more popular than…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouted on Monday, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the restaurants celebrating Harvest…
After opening El Paraiso, the restaurant at 4690 Harlan Street that’s the subject of my review this week, Luis Ochoa discovered how hard it was to find certain Mexican items in Colorado. So he took matters into his own hands and opened El Mercadito at 3125 Federal Boulevard, lining the…
The Place: Brasserie Ten Ten, 1011 Walnut Street, Bouder, 303-998-1010 The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: Food specials, $2 to $6; cocktails, draft beer and wine, $3.25 to $6…
FreshCraft, which quietly opened its doors last week, held a grand opening last night, complete with a horse-drawn beer delivery from the Wynkoop Brewing Company — which has its Tut’s Royal Gold on tap at FreshCraft — giveaways and other events. The LoDo restaurant, at 1530 Blake Street, uses the…
If you ask Lawrence Yee whether he’s had it up to his crown with the construction mess at the Beauvallon, whose barrage of scaffolding nearly blocks the front door of his new restaurant, Japoix, he’ll accentuate the positive. “I have a lot of confidence that after the Beauvallon is finished…
Today is the 200th birthday of the can, and the Can Manufacturers Institute is inviting Americans to “by acknowledging its consistent relevance in our past, present and future.” The can was born – according to CMI — on August 25, 1810, “when Englishman Peter Durand was granted a patent for…
Bring a lawn chair or picnic blanket to Governor’s Park, the public green space next door to the Governor’s Mansion at Seventh and Logan, for Movie Under the Moon, a free screening of Bottle Shock sponsored by LaLa’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria. The film begins at 8:30 p.m., and proceeds…
Jeff Bolton Second Home Kitchen + Bar 150 Clayton Lane 303-253-3000 www.secondhomedenver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Jeff Bolton, executive chef of Second Home Kitchen + Bar. To read the second part of Midson’s Q&A with Bolton, check back here tomorrow. Jeff Bolton plops himself down…
In spite of a massive outbreak of salmonella poisoning (1,300 cases at last count), and the resulting recall of more than 380,000 million eggs, Denver restaurants aren’t scrambling to remove eggs Benedict, Cobb salads, croque madames or other egg dishes from their menus…
We thought we’d seen everything at McDonald’s, but the new “Mouthwatering Angus Snack Wrap” — essentially a burger in a flour tortilla — looks like a new low. Until you consider some of the dishes that the Clown of Darkness has inflicted on the rest of the world. Herewith, the…
Chicago-style pizza will soon be filling the void at 1209 East 13th Avenue, in the space formerly occupied by Cricket on the Hill. Come October, Nicolo’s, currently tossing dough at 1205 East 13th Avenue, is expanding its digs into the former club space next door…
Over the past few years, Boulder has become rife with wine educators, serving as the home for a high percentage of the country’s few master sommeliers. And that is, in large part, due to Wayne Belding and Sally Mohr, owners of the Boulder Wine Merchant, 2690 Broadway, and among the…
I was sucked into the hellish pandemonium of El Paraiso the very second I spotted the restaurant at 4690 Harlan Street, rising up beside the road in its mustard-yellow glory. Waiting for me inside was a flurry of commotion, a circus of stimulation for every sense…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouted yesterday, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the nearly 40 restaurants celebrating…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, taking place now through Friday, celebrates Colorado’s local bounty, and it doesn’t get any more local than Andy Brown’s back yard. Brown, the head brewer for the Wynkoop Brewing Company, has whipped up a couple of kegs of the pub’s Wixa Weiss aged with crushed apricots from…
We stopped by Brava! Pizzeria, 16th and Arapahoe streets, for lunch and made an exciting discovery: Peroni, the light Italian beer that happens to pair quite excellently with Neapolitan pizzas…
What do you get when you cross a baby, a tire and a locust’s ravenous appetite? A munchkin who’d make baby Godzilla blush with envy. Lei Lei carries forty pounds on his ten-month-old frame, and weighs what a healthy six-year-old might weigh. His girth has earned him a nickname, “the…
