Of all the entrees, only one was even vaguely edible: a piece of swordfish, nicely cooked, napped with a chive crème fraiche – and mounted on a ratatouille that was like mush and bled oil like it’d been knifed on its way out of the kitchen. But still, somewhere in…
The cupboards are almost bare at Metro CareRing — and that’s bad news for the approximately 35,000 Denverites who rely on the non-profit emergency food pantry. The organization provides more than 2,000 pounds of food and personal-care items a day, but its budget is stretched very thin these days. Over…
The annual American Dietetic Association Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo is drawing to a close in Denver. One of the world’s largest organizations of food and nutrition professionals, the ADA focuses on the latest food-service trends and nutrition science information. Naturally, I was curious to find out if convention…
Okay, so the name is downright silly, and the curious location — a sketchy strip mall with more vacancies than occupancies — doesn’t appear to be prime real estate for a new restaurant, but the sign is up at 5950 South Platte Boulevard for Pho Bowlevard Vietnamese Grill.According to owners…
At first, handing out lame treats on Halloween seems like a victimless crime. Kids are already getting bags of candy as it is, so what’s the harm with one fewer awesome treat. Part of the harm is that they’re not the victim, really–you are. You, your house, your cars, your…
Chipotle is going verde — er, green. The Denver-based burrito chain plans to install solar panels in approximately 75 of its restaurants over the next year. Solar sites include Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and, of course, Denver. Chipotle says the restaurants were selected based on their electricity consumption, solar- power…
The staffers at Lenny’s Sub Shop at 726 Lincoln Street watch a lot of traffic roll by their windows every day, especially at rush hour, when that traffic rolls very slowly. So what did these enterprising sandwich makers do? They set up a little curbside stand where a Lenny’s employee…
Tonight marks the last in a series of farm dinners at Duo, 2413 West 32nd Avenue, the Highland restaurant where John Broening was cooking before unleashing the kitchen at Olivea, Duo’s sister restaurant at 719 East 17th Avenue. But tonight, Broening will be back in his former galley, now run…
Michael McGill grew up in Kansas City and moved to Boulder for college, where he poured his first drinks. He has been behind a bar since 1998, and today can be found managing the bar at Osteria Marco in Larimer Square. Now serving: Michael McGill. How did you get into…
Want a chance to win $10,000? Just watch for the Bananaman. Jamba Juice has started its Feel Good Moment Campaign and Sweepstakes. From now through the end of December, you’ll be able to win the dough through a variety of ways: telling the smoothie giant your ideal feel good moment,…
Hosea Rosenberg may have won last season’s Top Chef, but his luck didn’t hold for Big Red F colleague James Lee, the Boulder mixologist who placed fourth at this weekend’s Iron Bar Chef contest at the annual Santé Restaurant Symposium in New York. Which means Lee didn’t get the $1,000…
Dear Tyler,This is just a quick note from the alternate you, the one who didn’t drop out of school and who didn’t sign away his future to the restaurant life. First off, it feels fantastic not having a burn on your hand that ballooned up like a certain memorable floating object this…
Wish you were in Italy? The next best thing could be “Visions of Venice,” a wine dinner at Pizza Republica, 5375 Landmark Place, tonight at 6:30 p.m. The four courses, which cost $50, will tour you through the foods and wines of the great Italian regions — and none of…
Actually, I guess it’s probably not on fire any more. But Deluxe and Delite, Dylan Moore’s two excellent, side-by-side operations at 30 and 32 South Broadway, respectively, were on fire an hour or so ago. Both places took a hit. By the time I got there, the flames were gone…
If you want people to eat at your restaurant, why not have them pick the menu? That was the idea behind the new fall menu debuting tonight at Randolph’s Restaurant and Bar at the Warwick Denver Hotel. “We thought the people who came to select the menu would also be…
A uniformed off-duty cop was working the door at Hai Bar, at 3600 West 32nd Avenue, on Saturday night. It wasn’t entirely surprising, considering the altercation that occured at the 3,000-square-foot lounge below Sushi Hai two weeks ago, when a fight allegedly broke out and spilled out to the street,…
Novella Carpenter is a badass. No, seriously. Bad. Ass. And her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, is basically a chronicle of her bad-assery. What is it that makes her so tough? What is it that makes me heart her big time? Simple. She became a farmer…
We’re dealing here with the nasty bits: the offal, the often-maligned parts of cows, pigs and other critters that get thrown aside by more easily grossed-out foodies who think that only the best, most pricey parts of animals are worth sinking their teeth into. Late last week, I heard from…
You know what would make this week infinitely better? Free access to caffeine. And it turns out that Red Trolley, the ritzy ice cream joint at 2639 West 32nd Avenue, agrees. Sign up for Red Trolley’s monthly newsletter on its blog and you’ll get a coupon good for free coffee…
You know it’s fall when the Nutty Apple Crisp returns to the Ted’s Montana Grill menu — and this year, corporate chef Chris Raucci is sharing the secrets of the dessert. “Our guests can’t wait for Nutty Apple Crisp to return each year,” he says. “We receive letters and emails…
Peter Boyles is holding his annual haunted house event at Yak and Yeti, the Nepalese restaurant that took over the former home of the Cheshire Cat Brewpub and Restaurant, at 7803 Ralston Road in Arvada. (There’s a second Yak and Yeti at 8665 Sheridan in Westminster.) The ghosts on Ralston…
The Mexican hamburgers at this joint are legendary — as are the chiles relleno, and the green chile that smothers everything in sight. In a town crazy for Mexican food, that’s no tiny achievement. Guess where I’m eating?…
