What do your table manners and eating habits say about you? Plenty. That’s the basic premise behind Table Lessons: A Dining Performance, an a piece that explores the transmission of familial and cultural values through food consumption. Interested? Head to Riverfront Park, 1610 Little Raven Street, between 6:30 to 7:30…
There’s a lot going on, culinarily speaking, along East Colfax Avenue. Don’t believe it? Just $25 will put your mouth where your money was at Tasty Colfax: Eats on the Beat, which will feature such restaurants as Annie’s, Atomic Cowboy, Tommy’s Thai, Denver Biscuit Company, Goosetown Tavern and many more…
Do you feel a chill in the air? Jack Frost nipping at your nose? Hard to imagine on 90-plus degree days in the middle of summer, but the Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery will be celebrating the holiday season all this week by pouring a new specialty beer each…
Michael Long had news, but he wasn’t going to share it with me over the phone. “Let’s meet for lunch,” he insisted, “and I’ll tell you all about it.” Over xiao long bao, seaweed salad and beef noodle soup at Lao Wang Noodle House, Long detailed the plans for a…
The headline may be a stretch, but after watching wieners being destroyed in the spirit of competitive eating — dousing buns with water, shoving the franks in one’s mouth as fast as possible and eventually wearing a meat goatee — you may think twice before ordering a hot dog at…
There are plenty of dinners and tastings for oenophiles this week — plus some beer and St. Germain action thrown in for good measure. Here’s a taste of what’s to come: Monday, July 26: Frasca Food and Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, presents its weekly Monday Night Wine Dinner. This week,…
If you were planning on blowing $150 on a bottle of wine at dinner in the next couple of nights — or if you’ve been dreaming about drinking luxurious Napa Cabernet Sauvignon or racy Bordeaux in steakhouse digs — you might consider making a reservation at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle…
Going out to the ballgame? Maybe you want to eat elsewhere first. ESPN culled information from health inspection reports from every major stadium across the country and found that a majority had at least a handful of operating vendors with critical health code violations. Colorado was no exception. In fact,…
It was supposed to be a tapas joint, but the deal fell through, so instead, the Marmalade Bar & Cafe at 2796 South Broadway morphed into Bites, a sweet breakfast and lunch spot from Jim Smith, who also owns Blueberry’s Bakery and Cafe in Littleton and the Cheesecake Connection, with…
I wholeheartedly believe in the free press, so I was initially scornful when I heard via The Guardian that Fay Maschler, a seasoned UK restaurant critic, was starting Page One, a website of reviews that would require readers to pay £100 a year for access. Isn’t it the job of…
I love the molcajetes served at the restaurant where the above pic was snapped. The smoking mortar, stocked with shrimp, chorizo, beef and chicken, logs of Oaxacan queso, charred nopales and wilted green onions submerged in a swamp of tomatillos laced with green chile, was the ideal Sunday dinner. The…
Even as Snooze plans to put its fourth store in the Streets at Southglenn, Cantina Laredo opened its doors there last week. It’s part of a chain with locations in a dozen states (and the United Arab Emirates!), with two in Colorado — the new one at 6851 South Gaylord…
Snooze brought breakfast food to Denver in a big way when it opened its first location, at 2262 Larimer Street, in April 2006, proffering sassy takes on eggs Benedict and pancakes in flavors like pumpkin and dreamsicle. Apparently the Front Range is hungry for breakfast. With each Snooze that opens…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a hamburger at Black Pearl that inspired a discussion of both the French fries and when to use a tilde with the word “jalapeno” (my rule: not when I’m typing on a tiny netbook keyboard) to these still-mysterious…
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…
