Quiznos’ take on toasty oven love

Last week, I expressed my confusion regarding the Quiznos campaign for its new Toasty Torpedo. Although I still can’t get over the peculiar oven-man sexual chemistry, I suppose I can rest a little easier after this relatively ambiguous explanation for the ads from Rebecca Steinfort, chief marketing officer for Quiznos:…

Milking It: Kellogg’s Corn Pops

Corn Pops Kellogg’s Rating: Three spoons out of four Cereal description: Oversized, yellowish carb wads of varying sizes and shapes. Unlike popcorn, which suggests kernels turned inside out, these pieces seem to have been overinflated and thickened. If they were a little spongier, they could double as packing material…

Colorado Bartenders Guild hosts first cocktail competition

For Colorado bartenders, taxes aren’t the only thing due on April 15. That’s also the deadline for submitting recipes to the first cocktail competition of the year organized by the Colorado Bartenders Guild (COBG). And I’ll be helping to judge the results at 6 p.m. April 26 at Trios Enoteca,…

Stinky Cheese Tour starts at Bistro Vendome

Bistro Vendome, the great French restaurant tucked into the side of Larimer Square, will introduce its Stinky Cheese Tour de France tonight. Every week this month, the restaurant is offering a progressive dinner made from regional stinky cheeses of France; if you purchase each course, you’re eligible for a complimentary…

IACP Conference Report: Dispatches from the front lines

For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town — a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason…

Blizzard blasts the Taste of Vail…but it’s all good

or barbecued flank steak sliders (better than anything else, which isn’t saying much) — because everything edible had been dumped on.  With snow. And it sucked. But at least the people were cool, and more important, there was an Argonaut of alcohol.  The Taste of Vail runs through tomorrow, and while stuffing your face…

Cafe Society: Week in Review

In case you missed it…Marczyk’s is bringing aboard pastry chef John Hinman. Brownies, blondies, whoopie pies and bacon-chocolate chip cookies coming soon.  Hawaiian plate lunch comes to Boulder, ruined by hippies.  The International Association of Culinary Professionals conference is in town.  Our bloggers make some recommendations for dining, including mandatory ethnic joints…

Baur’s pairs smack talk with liquor and a four-course meal

With Denver’s “First Ever Denver Pairing Competition” set for this Tuesday, April 7, at Baur’s Ristorante, 1512 Curtis Street, the hype is definitely building, and Avery Brewing Company’s Ted Whitney seems confident. “I really feel badly for everyone trying to out-pair the Avery team; in many ways it’s just not…

Quiznos’ toasty oven love

I am comfortably ensconced in the 18-35 male demographic that so many companies are desperate to grab. And we are relatively easy. Give us something with closeups of food, perverted humor, boobies or LeBron James, and we will mindlessly buy your product.So, I should be enjoying the new ad from Denver-based Quiznos:…

Our Weekly Bread: Aye Conyo at Buchi Café Cubano

The sandwich: Aye Conyo What’s on it: Cuban roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, onions, mustard, pepperoni, turkey, hot peppers and Key lime mayo on Cuban bread. Where to get it: Buchi Café Cubano (2651 West 38th Avenue, 303-458-1328) How much: $8.75 I would like to tell you about the…

It’s a battle of the boozes at Baur’s

When I sit down for a fancy four-course meal, I don’t ask for too much. Just the basics: maybe some friends, some warm bread….and three separate beverage teams trying to pair each course in a battle royale for my taste buds. Next Tuesday, Denver will bear witness to what is…

Wine on First Friday

Verso Cellars, a Colorado winery, will start selling its wine (by the glass, bottle or case) at Metropolis Coffee, 300 West 11th Avenue, starting today during the First Friday Art Walk, which runs from noon to 8 p.m. For more info, go to www.versocellars.com. At Golden’s First Friday, Spirits in…

IACP Conference Report: Food writers are good in bed

For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town — a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason…

Veggie Girl: US Thai Cafe

Sometimes noodles are just noodles. But thankfully, some noodles rise to the level of the drunken noodles from US Thai Café. There must be some kind of black magic that goes into getting the sauce just right, because I’ve had a lot of drunken noodles and none of them made…

Mini Bar set to open in April

“I just got an offer to be the personal chef for the McCain family!” wrote Michel Wahaltere on his Facebook page. And, yes, he was talking about that McCain family, the one whose dithering patriarch lost the 2008 presidential election in a landslide. You know how just before you puke,…

Green energy: Jason Sheehan is right!

I was zooming down I-25 through New Mexico, trying to knock off the thousand miles from Denver to Tucson in a day, when I saw a billboard that made me hit the brakes: It was for the Owl Bar in San Antonio, just a wide spot in the road –…

Opening today: Cafe Options

Opening today, April 2, is Café Options, the breakfast/lunch spot at 1650 Curtis Street that’s brought to us by Work Options for Woman, the non-profit that trains women coming off welfare for careers in the food-industry world. WOW already runs a cafeteria at the Denver Department of Human Services building…

Who’s holding down the Fort?

The big food news in town continues to be the International Association of Culinary Professionals convention — and tonight, The Fort – the replica of Bent’s Fort overlooking Denver — is hosting a special dinner for IACP attendees. But non-members are welcome, too, for $165; chef Trevor Dierolf will be…