As swiftly and suddenly as Carmen’s Cafe opened in April, the coffee shop at 1115 Grant Street in the Grant Street Mansion has now morphed into the Front Porch Cafe. The shop’s former namesake, Carmen Sanchez, dropped out (or was dropped, depending on who you talk to) as a result…
Grand Junction isn’t what you’d call a culinary food capital, but the mountain town does have at least one claim to fame: Enstrom’s Almond Toffee, the Colorado toffee company that will celebrate 50 years of sugar rushes later this fall with a confection of fanfare. In the meantime, Colorado’s own…
Pearl Street Grill 1477 South Pearl Street 303-778-6475 www.pearlstreetgrill.com…
Centennial’s Farro Italian Restaurant has not only tweaked its menu of rustic Italian dishes, but it’s also launched a happy hour, started serving cheap carafes of wine and introduced a three-course “recession menu.” The restaurant’s happy hour, featuring half off all appetizers and small plates, plus $3 well drinks, imports…
Andrew Lubatty The Avenue Grill 630 East 17th Avenue 303-861-2820 www.avenuegrill.com This is part two of Andrew Lubatty’s Chef and Tell interview. To read part one of that interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: When I was fourteen, I worked at this place called J.G. Melons in Bridgehampton, Long Island, that…
Today is Customer Appreciation Day at selectJimmy John’s outlets, which will be selling their 8″ Sub Sandwiches for just $1. The fine print: Only sandwiches #1 through 6 on the menu are eligible, the deal goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today only, and it’s one sandwich per person…
It’s the perfect time of year for a picnic, and the Denver Botanic Gardens will prove it frmo 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, when the venue at 1005 York Street hosts a Tapas Picnic. You bring the place setting, and then fill it with easy and delicious small bites –…
When you teach a writing class focused on food — as I did at the University of Colorado for almost a decade — you run into a lot of young food fanatics. And I noticed an interesting phenomenon among them. At first, students enrolled because the class sounded easy (easier,…
Film director Adam Green, who released Frozen earlier this year and just completed Hatchet II, which you can see later this fall, has hooked up with 1492 Pictures, the production firm that produced the Harry Potter films, The Goonies and Gremlins, to bring Killer Pizza to the cinematic screen. The…
It’s almost happy hour on hump day. Don’t feel like drinking? How about a slice of cake? Kim and Jake’s Cakes, which opened last month in Boulder’s Table Mesa shopping center, offers a hump day happy hour from 5 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday. During that hour, the shop offers…
Get your sleeping bags out, early birds. Sunflower Farmers Market is opening its tenth Colorado location two weeks from today, and if the past is any indication, things could get a little crazy. A Sunflower representative says lines started forming at 3 a.m. for the Albuquerque store’s June 2 opening…
Yes, we’re bringing it back…my name is Amber (but friends call me Ambs), and I’ll be your new Veggie Girl. Some background: I’ve been vegetarian — not vegan; that’s just plain crazy — on and off for eight of my 29 years. I love food, despite the fact that I’ve…
Viva la fresh mozzarella. “Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.” Helen Hayes “Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.” Clifton Paul Fadiman “If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I’d give up chocolate in a heartbeat.” Amanda Peet “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and…
The Bull & Bush Brewery will host an unusual vertical beer tasting on Wednesday to celebrate a gold medal it won in April at the World Beer Cup in Chicago. Guests will be able to sample five different versions of its winning beer, The Legend of the Liquid Brain Imperial…
Cafe Europa 76 South Pennsylvania Street 303-722-1024 www.cafeeuropadenver.com…
Regulars at the Pearl Street Grill, an institution at 1477 South Pearl Street for close to thirty years, were shocked – shocked! – when they sat down and looked at their menus a couple of weeks ago. Because not only had the menu design gotten an overhaul, but so had…
Andrew Lubatty The Avenue Grill 630 East 17th Avenue 303-861-2820 www.avenuegrill.com Andrew Lubatty can’t contain his excitement. The Avenue Grill executive chef is just hours away from boarding a plane and jetting off to Washington, D.C. — specifically, the White House — where he’s joining eight more Colorado chefs, all…
Just one month after celebrating its two-year anniversary, one of Denver’s best-named — and indeed, longest-named — cafes is closing its doors for good this weekend. Baked Stuffed Bunz on the Run Eatery, located at 1432 East 22nd Avenue, had earned a following for its German meat and veggie-filled pockets,…
Puppets and caffeine? Now that’s a combination we can get behind. A cafe called Zook’s is slated to open in the Denver Puppet Theater, the bright yellow landmark at 3156 West 38th Avenue, by the end of July. “We wanted to use the space more,” says theater owner Annie Zook…
Denver’s downtown farmers-market-for-a-cause is open for the season. Lunchtime last Wednesday was cloudy, so Tiri’s Garden, built last year on the corner of 15th and California streets by Concerts for Kids’ Christie Isenberg and a host of volunteers, was quiet. The few people out for the first day of the…
Tonight at 5:30 p.m., the Irish Snug, 1201 East Colfax Avenue, is hosting a pasta dinner for Ashley Kumlien, who’s crossing the country on foot to raise funds and awareness for the fight against multiple sclerosis. The dinner includes a silent auction and a slideshow of her journey so far;…
At last night’s Plates the Peak, a fundraiser/silent auction to benefit Urban Peak, fifteen of Denver’s star chefs convened in the hellishly hot kitchen of Vesta Dipping Grill to feed the sweaty gastronauts who grubbed on everything from chicken-fried steak biscuit sliders and lamb shoulder mini “Phillys” to blue crab…
