Last week, Scottish brewery BrewDog released a beer called The End of History. It’s 55 percent alcohol and it comes encased in a dead animal — specifically, a stoat or a squirrel. Oh, and the brewery only made eleven bottles, so it’s charging $764 for the stoat, $1,070 for the…
A South Carolina woman who thought her car was running “rugged” late last week took the vehicle to a local mechanic — and what he found did not ease her anxiety pangs. As the mechanic ran a diagnostic check, he was surprised to find a cheeseburger and pickle at the…
The Crested Butte Annual Arts Festival kicks off today and runs through Sunday, August 1; among the fabulous culinary offerings are cocktail seminars, gourmet dinners and free demonstrations. But the real draw is tonight’s five-course dinner prepared by the infamous Denver FIVE (Troy Guard of TAG; Matt Selby of Vesta…
We all know that upstart Echo Mountain, at 19285 Highway 103, is the closest ski/snowboard area to Denver — but what goes on there during the summer? Weddings, it turns out, plus tonight’s Brewmaster’s Dinner with Boulder Beer’s David Zuckerman. If you’d like to take part in the optional guided…
Okay, so I was drunk and really hungry, which are the only two reasons why anyone could possibly be persuaded to order the Mexican egg rolls in the above pic, which arrived with hollow interiors harboring, well, next to nothing. The thin tarps of cheese on top? Trickery. Can you…
The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge Aaron Schock, a very young Republican Congressman from Illinois, explained, legislators aren’t allowed…
“No cigarett” [sic] read the chalkboard sign outside of Zona’s Tamales at 713 East 26th Avenue today. The ordering window of the tiny restaurant was littered with new paperwork, too: “No tabacco products” was scrawled on a sheet of paper. Another slip assured visitors that Zona’s would be open regular…
Randall Layman, a bartender at Vesta Dipping Grill, is just back from New Orleans, where he attended his first Tales of the Cocktail. We’ll be printing his dispatches — here are the first and second installments — all week. Day Three: With the curtains closed tight over the window in…
The bikini barista coffee shop trend may have only begun in Colorado (for more on two stores in Colorado Springs, see below), but it has reached full, mature size in the Seattle area, where a “pop-punk” band called Quickie recently released a song and video dedicated to the java princesses…
In September 2009, Denver’s convention and visitors bureau decided to piggyback on the success of the Great American Beer Festival and this city’s reputation as a beer Mecca by throwing Denver Beer Fest, a hastily organized but all-encompassing ten-day extravaganza featuring beer-related events of all kinds. This year, Visit Denver…
My father’s family hails from the East Coast (more or less), so I chalk up my cotillion classes and love of fancy restaurants to that part of my blood. But my mother is born-and-bred Midwestern, from Missouri, where I also spent six years going to school. If you’ve ever lived…
Brunch is the best time to eat at Satchel’s Market, but don’t try it this weekend. The restaurant is dark right now, with a note on the menu posted on the door at 5021 East 28th Avenue noting that Satchel’s is on summer vacation until early August. When the spot…
“We want people to understand the quality of produce that we use here at the restaurant,” says Max Mackissock, exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, the seasonally-driven, New American restaurant with an alter to the late Farrah Fawcett and a thimble-size kitchen that’s rolling out its summer farm stand today…
If you’re lunching at the Steuben’s Food Truck in Civic Center Park today, you could win a free slice of coconut cake if you’re one of the first two people to tell the crew where Steuben’s found its truck, which has since named Pearl. We’ll give you a hint: The…
Karen Laszlo started Zisboombah.com this past November to encourage kids to make better choices when it came to deciding what to eat. Six months later, she found her Boulder-based company in Michelle Obama’s contest, competing against 90 other kids’ nutrition technology applications from across the country for a $10,000 prize…
Dylan Moore Deluxe 30 South Broadway 303-722-1550 Delite 32 South Broadway 303-722-1278 Deluxe Burger 5325 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-5683 This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Dylan Moore, exec chef of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger. You can read part one here. Culinary inspirations: Fresh ingredients. I try…
Food writer Eugenia Bone will be at the Denver Botanic Gardens tonight, discussing “The Kitchen Ecosystem” as part of the Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series. We recently caught up with Bone and asked her what it means to call your kitchen an “ecosystem.”…
No need to cook tonight — head to northwest Denver instead. Get a taste of several excellent restaurants in the neighborhood at “Tasting Tennyson: A Gourmet Progressive Dinner.” It starts at 6 p.m. at Parisi, 4401 Tennyson Street, then moves on to Tastes Wine Bar, House and Brasserie Felix. Admission…
Popsicles are a summer staple for any family with kids — and you can learn to make your own using fresh produce (and taste the results) today at Sunflower Farmers’ Market, 8601 West Cross Drive in Littleton. The free “Homemade Popsicle Tasting” class will run from 1 to 2 p.m;…
It’s Sunday night at Yak and Yeti, and most of the tables in the upstairs alcove are full. I find myself whispering over our feast, desperately trying to keep my table’s conversation private. “WHAT?” my father yells. “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU WHEN YOU MUMBLE.” I feel so self-conscious that…
I am a creature of habit. In the past, when I found myself at the bar at Capital Grille — which was quite often, since this steakhouse in Larimer Square is both an easy spot to start an evening and a handy place to end one — I always ordered…
After 22 years, 14th Street Bar and Grill, the Boulder restaurant that’s been slinging California cuisine from its address at 1400 Pearl Street since 1988, is calling it quits. One of Boulder’s first restaurants to instill a real wood-burning oven, which produced some killer pizzas and smoky burgers, the popular…
