I recently got an e-mail from Chris asking one of the classic questions posed to restaurant writers in young food cities:”Westword always posts reviews of restaurants in the metro area, but have you ever done a review of late-night restaurants? I work nights and am usually up for some food…
It looks like the Rib Shack, 4736 East Colfax Avenue, which was reviewed last October in Our Weekly Bread, has gone under, replaced by something called Atomic Wings. Not that I should be surprised. This odd looking A-frame building – possibly a former Der Wienerschnitzel – has also been home…
Clifford Crunch Cascadian Farm Organic Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four: Cereal description: Light-tan oat and barley bits formed into a variety of shapes; they resemble an arrowhead, a clover and a fish that could be mistaken for a Christian symbol by those who want to make eating a prayerful…
McDonald’s is celebrating the thirtieth birthday of the Happy Meal by bringing back a favorite Happy Meal toy: Ty Teenie Beanie Babies. The happy chain kicked off its four-week celebration this weekend in Minneapolis, which McDonald’s has named the “Happiest City for Families,” based on such “family-fun criteria” as the…
Yelp, a well-known website where opinionated voices discuss and review restaurants, bars and other local businesses, is kicking off Yelp Eats!, a seven-day dining celebration, which begins today and continues through Sunday, July 26 with fifteen metro area restaurants offering multi-course dinner menus for $25 per person, exclusive of tax…
Since I speak enough Spanish to get me nowhere fast, I have absolutely no idea what “gran control remoto” means, but I do know that “tacos gratis” means FREE TACOS. And I know that free tacos, whether from Taqueria Los Gallitos (2360 West Alameda Avenue) or some other taco joint…
What you might have missed this week while trying to guess where this pizza was from…Jason asked: what local chef would you like to see get his or her own television show?Is a restaurant screw-up worth a comped meal? Or, are Denver diners a bunch of over-pampered whiners?Check out this…
My meals at Buchi Cafe Cubano were awesome. And not only was the review a blast to write, for the first time in a long time I found myself at a restaurant where I actually wanted to eat every single thing on the menu. Twice.That just doesn’t happen that often. …
Westminster, while never exactly the center of the culinary universe, has been seeing a few interesting openings lately, and now there’s another to be added to the books: Mamma Mia Trattoria. Mamma Mia is scheduled for a July 21 opening at 9008 West 88th Avenue. As if you couldn’t tell…
Lunch: The delicious scratch-made soups are the specialty at Spices Cafe, 1510 Humboldt Street, but today’s recession-buster lunch special — cheese enchiladas with beans and rice– for $3.95 — is nearly as good a deal as the early morning breakfast bargain, when $1.95 gets you two eggs, toast and hash…
The kitchen crew at Cook Street Fine School of Cooking, 1937 Market Street, is searching for a kick-ass judge to sound off at the school’s upcoming cook-off, an Iron Chef-like duel on Friday, July 31, that’s all part of Cook Street’s ten-year anniversary celebrations. If you’d like to voice your…
PETA — the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — is a lot of things. It is a political organization dedicated to saving all the cute critters on the planet. It is a finely-tuned donation-gathering machine that preys on weepy liberals who’d rather empty their wallets than think too much…
This could have been the quietest closing in town: Sengers on the Fax filed for Chapter 7 on July8, according to a legal notice in today’s Denver Business Journal. The watering hole at 3014 East Colfax Avenue got off to a fast start when it opened two years ago, but…
If Mark Huebner got booted from The Bachelorette, it’s only because Jillian never got to try one of his Cripple Creek pizzas.We did yesterday, and the meat-heavy pie (sausage, pepperoni, Genoa salami) on an ideal crust was a big hit. “Not too thick, not too thin,” Huebner says of the…
One of Denver’s best annual culinary celebrations comes down on Sunday, July 19, at Mile High Station (2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue), this site of this year’s Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a fantastic food-centric event that raises funds to eradicate childhood hunger in Denver and across America…
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 191 Inverness Drive West in Englewood, is hosting its second summer Friday Night Flights fundraiser at 6 p.m. tonight to benefit the Excelsior Youth Center, a local non-profit. The cow palace will serve a selection of appetizers paired with three wines for $25 per…
Germany is now short one chef and the science of molecular gastronomy has claimed another victim. This, from the Daily Telegraph: “The 24-year-old chef was experimenting with a recipe involving liquid nitrogen, which is used by chefs including Heston Blumenthal to freeze food, when there was suddenly an ‘enormous explosion.'”Said…
Juan’s on Stout, a downtown Mexican joint that shared the same address at 1531 Stout Street as Mici’s Handcrafted Italian, has closed — but the space won’t be empty long. Cilanto Fusion, another south-of-the-border newcomer (La Brisa opened just last week at 375 South Pearl Street), is picking up where…
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…
The National Cattlemen’s Summer Convention is in town right now, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals responded in a way that only PETA could: by spray-painting a naked employee red and black and having her lie on a grill outside the downtown Sheraton, where the conference is being…
We must be looking a little tired around the office, because a co-worker recently bestowed this candy upon us. Hey, we don’t look gift horses in the mouth, we just put them in our mouths. The gifts, that is. The candy. Maybe we need a couple more of these…..
First, there were the white trash enchiladas at the Rio Grande, followed by the white trash au gratin potatoes at Simms Steakhouse, which, to complement those scene-stealing views of Denver’s skyline, now has a menu (and a chef in Moosah Reaume, formerly of Willie G’s Seafood & Steak) that just…
