Big Hoss Bar-B-Q , at 3961 Tennyson Street, has been hot since it first opened back in December 2006, and earned raves from Jason Sheehan a year later. But this is ridiculous: After a cook left the smoker open on Saturday, the Big Hoss kitchen caught fire — and the…
All-Bran Yogurt Bites Kellogg’s Rating: One-and-a-half stars out of four Cereal description: Large, hearty, darkish brown wheat flakes supplemented by clusters made of wheat, oats and rice and coated in vanilla yogurt. The resulting shapes look alternately like stray jism globules or melting, misshapen faces of the sort that pop…
Opus, Michael Long’s longstanding restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, is hosting a wine and food pairing dinner honoring Italian winemaker and lettuce lord Lucio Gomiero, who, along with being a wine jester, just happens to grow more radicchio than anyone else in the world at his farm…
A few days after my return from Aspen Food and Wine, I’m still digesting the experience. The worst part of the event was listening to everyone’s opinion about everything there. Opinions on food (if I heard one more person opine about pork belly I was going to lose it). Opinions…
What you might have missed this week on your favorite food blog…Asked and answered: Denver’s best continental breakfast? Bistro Vendome.Twice as nice: Biker Jim opened a second location.HIghlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.Counting down to Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty: an appetizer and amuse bouche.Hello to…
We live, as the Chinese might say, in interesting times. And one of the consequences of living in interesting times is the interesting ways in which the world’s police forces, armies and weaponsmiths devise new ways for hurting each other. Thus, do we have this, fresh from the laboratories of the…
For the past several weeks, we’ve been following the progress of Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the new pizza and pasta emporium at 2700 South Broadway. And, now, we just got word from co-owner Caroline Momo-Torres, that on Saturday, June 27, the kitchen will start slinging pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads seven…
This week? Total Heart-of-Darkness trip with my voyage through the chintz end of the American cultural spectrum. White Fence Farm blew my mind and, in the process, served me one damn fine plate of fried chicken. Thinking about that got me considering some of those other only-in-Colorado places where one…
Just got off the phone with Enrique Guerrero, co-owner and chef at Mangiamo Pronto — which means “Let’s Eat Now!” — a fast-casual Italian joint in Santa Fe, New Mexico that’s coming to downtown Denver in early September, specifically to 1601 17th Street, in the former Common Grounds space. Guerrero,…
Just in case you missed Hosea Rosenberg, the exec chef at Jax Fish House, Boulder (928 Pearl Street), drop his jaw in disbelief when he was crowned top cooker on the season 5 finale of Top Chef, or at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last weekend, when he…
Tonight, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.,Morton’s in the Denver Tech Center, 8480 East Belleview Avenue, is uncorking five different Argentinian Malbec wines for oenophiles willing to fork over $45 for plenty of sips, plus hors d’oeuvres, including cheeses, sliced tenderloin with chimichurri sauce, broiled sea scallops and miniature hot chocolate…
Earlier today, while walking out the door of the Icehouse Tavern (only a mere seven hours old at the time of this writing), Highway to Hell, the 1979 cult ACDC album title and hit of the same name, was blaring over the speakers. And in the kitchen, the crew, headed…
Take solace in the present folks, because tomorrow is the day you’ll stop eating like you did yesterday. That is, of course, if you go and see the documentary Food Inc. The film opens in Colorado tomorrow at the Landmark Chez Artiste, located at 2800 South Colorado Boulevard. I recently…
We like our chamoy and tamarind candy just as much your average Joe. Okay, probably a lot more, since the combination of sweet, salty, and spicy isn’t exactly a flavor fusion well represented in your typical American candy aisle. But we think there’s a place for this fun mixture, and…
The boys from Larimer Square have been making us wait seemingly forever for LoHi SteakBar to open in the former North Star space at 3200 Tejon. Their last neighborhood venture (beyond Larimer Square) was the wildly successful Billy’s Inn, which has been packing them in since its opening. Like Billy’s,…
It was just a matter of time before the Ritz-Carlton, Denver’s swankiest slumbering pad at 1881 Curtis Street, realized that you’re only as good as your happy hour, which has never been one of the Ritz’s gazillion amenities – until now, anyway. Now, if you’re a guest at the hotel,…
As of late, Denver’s boutique ice cream war has been getting hot and heavy — or should we say cold and sticky. Sweet Action Ice Cream opened on Broadway in March, launching an icy broadside against the other super-premium ice cream joints in town, such as Red Trolley and Little…
Tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., TrueChild, a national organization that works to abolish child stereotyping, is hosting a reception, silent auction and the “True Flavors Celebrity Cook-off” at Mise En Place, 1801 Wynkoop Street. The match-up features two culinary teams, one led by Top Chef’s Melissa Harrison, who cooks…
Everyone who lives along the Front Range must visit Casa Bonita once. Really, you’re not a resident if you haven’t seen the cliff divers and suffered the mariachis, climbed through Black Bart’s cave, muscled your way through the knots of sticky, rapidly greening children and eaten the sopaipillas. I’ve been…
Fried chicken isn’t the only thing worth eating at White Fence Farm. The place also makes some really mean fudge. I’m not a fan of fudge. I like my chocolate mostly in bar form, mostly plain and un-fucked with. Hershey’s is fine. I’ve got a weakness for Toblerone (though I…
“This here’s an Indian hangout,” Gary reveals to me and three friends just a few minutes after we’ve bellied up to the bar he’s tending. Although there are no Native Americans present right now, he says that during the March PowWow, the owner brings in three bouncers at night just…
After experiencing the tacky shlock and awe that is White Fence Farm, I headed for the one place that could stand toe to toe with its down-home country-cooking style and pure Americana weirdness. The one place where, I am not ashamed to admit, I have eaten more than once on…
