This week, on top of the usual wine dinners and cooking classes, there are classes on preserving your summer harvest, the continuation of Empire Lounge & Restaurant’s Jim & Julia Dinner Series, and much more. Here’s a sampling of what’s on the culinary calendar menu:…
Every Wednesday and Saturday at the Cherry Creek farmers’ market, and again on Sunday at the City Park Esplanade farmers’ market, Igor and Beckie Panasewicz feed Venezuelan arepas to the masses from their vendor booth littered with bags of Harina P.A.N. white corn meal, plates of plantains, vats of black…
What’s better than a food-cart meal? A food-cart meal with booze. Realizing that it could capitalize on having snacks available alongside its brewed beer, the Great Divide tasting room, 2201 Arapahoe Street, has been inviting different mobile vendors around town to post up during the afternoon…
Get ready to enjoy the bounty of Potager’s garden and local farms. The Capitol Hill restaurant has returned from a two and a half week summer vacation, and with its reopening, brings a new menu bursting with seasonal summer faves like corn, eggplant, cucumber, tomatoes and peaches. Take a look:…
Eat Denver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouts the week of August 21, when nearly forty of the city’s best independent restaurants will pimp seasonal menus showcasing locally-sourced ingredients and products. Bur before that happens, there’s going to be a little party, and…
Perhaps I just ordered all the wrong things, especially the steamed pork buns, that, while fluffy, pudgy and served scalding hot, had that unmistakable freezer burn taste. 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…
Zeke Emanuel admits he has no qualifications to review food, and that he’s writing about restaurants for the Atlantic’s website only because he “argued with Corby Kummer about the merits of molecular gastronomy and Alice Waters’ cooking.” Still, Emanuel knows what he doesn’t like — and he really didn’t like…
We got a little too hopped up on caffeine this weekend — to the point of heart palpitations, in fact — because we couldn’t stop sucking down the cappuccinos at Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue, which reopened a month ago in a former Peaberry’s shop in Cherry Creek…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests this week, featuring everything from this very scary slice of watermelon served at a still-unidentified restaurant to a surprising cheesesteak at Den Deli to an incredible breakfast sandwich. For correctly pegging that to the Crushery, Jim Rome wins a DINR deck…
Do you have an herb garden? If so, do you have a plan for what to do with all those fresh herbs your garden is surely producing? If not, you need to visit the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street, tonight when it presents “Preserving Summer: The Herbal Harvest.”…
Last we heard, Monday was meant to be the opening day for Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski’s new tavern at 1314 Fourteenth Street, but Jasinski, her business partner Beth Gruitch and chef de cuisine Jorel Pierce quietly opened the doors today with minimal fanfare. “We did it sneakily,”…
Two-Fisted Mario’s, 1626 Market Street, has long been a unique place to sit and put down a pizza, but the digs of the eatery’s sibling restaurants are some of the most inventive interiors in town. Right next door, Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, 1632 Market Street, feels like an acid-induced tumble…
Red Robin’s onion straws and teriyaki glaze, fried eggs and garlic Parmesan butter kind of give us a headache. At the very least, they make us want to shout, “Where’s the beef!” You’ve practically got to cross your eyes a la “Where’s Waldo” to find a regular old burger on…
A funny thing happened the other day on an exploratory trip to the new Mellow Mushroom , which just opened at 1201 Sixteenth Street, in the Tabor Center. Tempted by the sweet allure of lunchtime pizza, we were actually more impressed by the drink specials than the pizzas…
Eat Denver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouts the week of August 21, when nearly forty of the city’s best independent restaurants will pimp seasonal menus showcasing locally-sourced ingredients and products. Bur before that happens, there’s going to be a little party, and…
The Hoffbrau Bar & Grill, a dark two-level dive inhabiting the plot at 1301 Santa Fe Drive, closed quietly a few months ago, but is set to reopen next week under new ownership…
The plate in the above snap comes from my own eclectic collection of weird shit, but the breakfast sandwich, mounded with sausage, cheddar and a soft egg omelet, comes from a joint in the ‘hood that’s often my go-to breakfast jaunt for a.m. sustenance. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Satchel’s Market, 5021 East 28th Avenue, was closed for summer vacation last week, leaving the colorful building dark for five days. Vacation is over, though, and as promised, the Park Hill restaurant has reopened for business…
Happily, the truce between Civic Center Eats and Cherry Creek Fresh Market has opened the doors for many vendors to make regular stops at both events. One vendor taking advantage of the new arrangement is 528˚, a wood-fired pizza oven on wheels, which has also been making regular appearances at…
If Oskar Blues Brewery was a Girl Scout, we’d all be rolling our eyes out of our heads at the merit badges crowding her sash. Fortunately, the brewery’s accolades derive not from rescuing kittens from trees or helping grandma cross the street, but from the conscientiousness of the company and…
Everyone hates Alex. The viewing audience hates Alex. His fellow contestants hate Alex. Ask any food obsessive you encounter whether Alex stole Ed’s pea puree, and the answer will be an unhesitating “of course” — though no one really knows for sure. So, perversely, I’ve been feeling kind of sorry…
If you don’t know who Ron Ben-Israel is, then we’re going to make the wild guess that you aren’t getting married anytime soon. Or didn’t get married anytime in the recent past. Or don’t follow celebrity weddings at all. Or never watch Wedding Central, the cable television network devoted to…
