During this weekend’s “A Taste of Art” festival, Boulder will explore the intersection of art and food with chef competitions, a food photography exhibit, food-themed films, workshops, performances, exhibits, demonstrations, tastings and more. The festival gets cooking tonight with “Artful Hors d’oeuvre” at the Dairy Center for the Arts. See…
Restaurateur Mary Nguyen fashioned Olive & Finch after the traiteurs, or prepared-food purveyors, she encountered while traveling in France. Though not everything on the menu is French, some, like the poached-pear tartine, took our restaurant critic back to her own European travels. What else does the restaurant have to offer?…
Even the co-owner of Boulder’s best Chinese restaurant knows his limitations. “I knew that I had to come clean with a secret: I’m not Italian,” quips Edwin Zoe, who, along with his mother, owns Zoe Ma Ma, a stellar Chinese restaurant in downtown Boulder and, up until quite recently, Radda…
In a state where new craft breweries and new beers debut every week and beer festivals and events run nearly every weekend, it’s hard to notice when one goes missing. But that’s what happened last February, when Wynkoop Brewing decided not to host its Beerdrinker of the Year competition, which…
The perfect deli sandwich, says Frank Bonanno, goes something like this: “a ton of meat, sliced to order and paper-thin; shredded iceberg lettuce; paper-thin, sliced tomatoes; and a slightly crunchy, soft and toothsome hoagie roll.” That’s the kind of sandwich that Bonanno, who will open Salt & Grinder, a New…
There’s a large bus with peeling white paint parked at one end of 13th Street for the Boulder Farmers’ Market Saturday; it’s part of Boulder Valley School District’s School Food Project. The school lunch program has been being revamped since chef Ann Cooper was brought on board to shake things…
Denver Beer Co is just a few weeks away from firing up the kettle at its new production facility, dubbed “Canworks,” and brewing its first batches of Graham Cracker Porter and Incredible Pedal IPA in Sunnyside. The brewery’s second location should begin canning those two beers before its third anniversary…
The guy who cooks the food at this diminutive Mexican joint always has a twinkle in his eye, and his chalkboard of south-of-the-border eats, especially the al pastor with pineapple, always turns a good day into a great day. Awesome housemade horchata, too. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
DJ Nagle Humboldt: Farm, Fish, Wine 1700 Humboldt Street 303-813-1700 humboldtrestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with DJ Nagle, executive chef of Humboldt: Farm, Fish, Wine; the second installment of our chat will run tomorrow. Even though it wasn’t a requirement, DJ Nagle always sported a tie when…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Driving to Aurora to eat Ethiopian cuisine seemed a little counterintuitive, at…
Denver has been rolling in doughnuts lately, with new Dunkin’ Donuts outlets popping up all over town and the first out-of-state store of the Portland-based Voodoo Doughnut making magic on East Colfax. And this Friday, Glazed & Confuzed will finally open its brick-and-mortar spot on Leetsdale. That, coupled with last…
The Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, which benefits the Denver Health Foundation and its work on men’s health issues, will be sizzling on the patio of Elway’s Cherry Creek tonight, when some of Denver’s elite chefs will face off in a “Sliders n’ Sides” competition. This is the hottest ticket in…
Olive & Finch 1552 East 17th Avenue 303-832-8663 I dropped by Olive & Finch for a salad, and what I got was certainly green. But rather than a jumble of leaves and vegetables on a plate, my order came in a tall, clear cup, a product of this Uptown eatery’s…
If you journey to the far edge of RiNo at 3800 Walnut Street, you’ll find a cozy sports bar with an awesome, dog-friendly patio:Jake’s Food & Spirits. This watering hole has built up a good community feel over the last couple of years with theme parties for Walking Dead and…
Brace yourselves. The World Cup is coming. Every four years, nations come together as they try to earn soccer immortality, and bar managers work their asses off to get you in their doors and keep you there. By the time the games start on June 12, almost every sports bar…
In March, Glaze: the Baumcake Shoppe, a gorgeous Japanese bakery in Congress Park, shuttered, leaving a litany of ardent admirers of the bakery’s macarons and baum cakes starving for news that co-owner Heather Alcott would make a comeback. And she has, collaborating with Wayne Conwell, chef-owner of Sushi Sasa, on…
The restaurants I reviewed over the past two weeks both had names featuring an ampersand: Work & Class and Chai & Chai. For the hat trick — that’s for all you soccer fans out there — I’m about to review one more: Olive & Finch, Mary Nguyen’s fast-casual eatery that’s…
The small cocktail syllabus at this neighborhood hangout doesn’t require a mixologist and a bag of tricks, but the admittedly sleep-deprived bartender who mixed my cocktail — a concoction of whiskey, berries, lemon and basil — rose to the occasion, making me a strong cocktail was just what the long…
You may not be familiar with Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, but in Wisconsin, he’s a big deal. In the early 1800s, the botanist, geographer and explorer traveled through the state in search of the source of the Mississippi River. He eventually found it in 1832 (it’s Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota);…
When Robert Thompson opened Brasserie Rouge in LoDo a decade ago, it ran away with our Best New Restaurant award. And when — after a bumpy stretch that saw Brasserie Rouge close and Thompson leave town for a while — he returned to open Argyll in Cherry Creek, that restaurant,…
At 5 p.m. today, Session Kitchen will host the kickoff pre-party for the ninth annual Climbing for Kids mountain climb benefiting Children’s Hospital Colorado. Session Kitchen will be donating 20 percent of all food sales and 100 percent of specialty beverage sales to Climbing for Kids. Learn more here. See…
“I didn’t even know that Cinsault was grown in Colorado,” says Rob Corbari, bar manager at The Populist. But once he found out it was, he incorporated a wine made from the Cinsault grape into a drink that won the Colorado Wine Cocktail Competition last week at Green Russell. See…
