The plate you see above was yesterday’s lunch. That’s brazenly hot chili sauce in the ramekin and on the sides of the plate. I always ask for extra, a request often met with raised eyebrows from the staff. What can I say? I’m a sucker for the stuff. Where was…
If you don’t have big plans this weekend, then head to the hills for the Mesa Verde Country Food, Wine and Art Festival, which kicks off Saturday and continues Sunday. The mountain festival peddles foodstuffs from several local and regional restaurants, farmers and producers (if you do nothing else, seek…
One of the loveliest patios in downtown Denver is finally being resurrected. Since February 15, the day Buenos Aires Grill served its last dinner at 2191 Arapahoe Street, that patio has been off limits, but now that the crew from the Whiskey Bar has snapped up the space, we’ll soon…
After closing earlier this week for a quick remodel, Andrews on Lincoln, at 1111 Lincoln Street, will reopen tonight with a full menu and an alter-ego: While one side of the space will remain a bar/restaurant, the other will be The Stage at Andrews, with live entertainment. For full details,…
Yesterday, I talked about my infamous Richard Nixon mask — which hung in a place of honor at my desk for years before being packed away in a box to await our move to more expansive editorial digs. Today, the story behind memento that hung right next to Tricky Dick:…
The eating event of the weekend is the inaugural Cherry Creek North Food and Wine festival, a three-day eating and drinking blowout on Fillmore Plaza that celebrates the culinary arts. The festival includes chef demonstrations by Tyler Wiard (Elway’s), Michel Walthere (MiniBAR) and Jeff Bolton (Second Home Kitchen & Bar);…
If you have a killer spoon collection, you may as well open a restaurant. That wasn’t quite the way it happened for Tracy Zimmer, the owner and executive chef of Hutch & Spoon, a breakfast-and-lunch joint that opened two weeks ago in the 125-year-old Charpiot building at 3090 Larimer Street…
We’re suckers for a beautiful sucker. We can appreciate the way that candy on a stick is both form and function — a stylish way to eat a favorite treat while keeping your hands free from stickiness. Sadly, this Hello Kitty marshmallow pop, while strangely beautiful with its shimmering sugar…
I am not, nor have I ever been, a sweets person. For the most part, chocolate does absolutely nothing for me, although I do have an affinity for Vosges milk chocolate bar with smoked bacon. Because, you know, it’s BACON. But you could pretty much shove a box of chocolates,…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
Small plates, big flavors. Where am I drinking — and eating — and drinking?…
“Around 1996, two guys were sitting around discussing their future. It was soon decided to leave the Midwest and travel to the base of the Rockies to seek fame and fortune, and that’s when they developed a ‘nugget’ of an idea for a fast food operation,” says the Silver Mine…
Every kid knew it: lunchboxes meant something. And it wasn’t just that you were a fan of whatever it was that you sported on your lunchtime luggage. It was your proclamation of identity. A window into your third-grade, paste-eating soul. So the question was this: with what are you aligning…
Because of an office construction project, I had to clear off my desk — which meant moving seven years of accumulation. Every morning, I’ll share another uncovered item with you. Yes, folks, that is it. The famous Richard Nixon mask which I wore to protect my precious anonymity at all…
Tonight, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., the Wynkoop Brewery, 1634 18th Street, is hosting a beer and tequila tasting dinner with tequila honcho Modesta Catagena, an agave expert with Brown Forman, one of the largest wine and spirit companies in the country. To complement those half dozen tequilas and craft…
What is the taste of Colorado? I have been asking this question — in various forms, in various places — almost since the day I started this job. One of my first columns was about the way green chile changes on the way from southern New Mexico to Denver, from…
My first date was in a Tex-Mex restaurant. Actually, I should say that my first real date was in a Tex-Mex restaurant — real date meaning the first date which had, at its conclusion, a reasonable expectation of a girl touching me where my bathing suit covered and not, later,…
I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest — and usually crazy…
Who doesn’t love an occasional gin and tonic? During the summer in landlocked Denver, a gin and tonic makes me feel like part of the yachting set, like I should be wearing Docksiders and screaming, “Hoist the mainsail! Batten down the hatches!” The gin and tonic is an invention of…
Like La Loma, La Cueva has some history behind it. Both places opened in the mid-’70s, both places quickly became destinations for Denver’s Mexican food fans. Over the years, both restaurants have prospered, but unlike La Loma’s owners, the Nuñez family has kept La Cueva in its original home on…
Miscreants have been stealing letters from Bastien’s sign, prompting this new version that’s now showing at the venerable steakhouse…
Two years ago, when Mark Dym, his wife, Kristy, and their three kids left the balmy beachfront of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the jagged mountain peaks of Colorado, to open a pizzeria in downtown Denver, Mark was up for the challenge, despite the fact that he’d never run a restaurant…
