Sweet Cow opens in Boulder today
Sweet Cow, an award-winning local enterprise devoted to ice cream, will open its third store today, this one in north Boulder. See also: Sweet Action is in a deep freeze until February 1…
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Showing 14257 - 14278 of 32587Sweet Action Ice Cream is in a deep freeze until February 1
Sure, it’s winter, but just because there’s a chill in the air doesn’t mean that we stop craving ice cream. For proof, just look in my freezer. Nonetheless, the crew from Sweet Action Ice Cream, one of the most popular ice cream spots in the city, is on a month-long…
A Mediterranean-style Negroni at Cafe Aion
One of the few cocktail innovations that Italy has managed to squeeze out in the past century, the Negroni is a proud member of the select group of iconic cocktails. Like the Martini and the Old-Fashioned, it’s now mandatory in any bar’s recipe book, and a talisman of Old World…
Guess where I’m eating kung pao chicken with a side of amusing service?
The dishes at this suburban strip mall restaurant are straight-ahead Americanized Chinese, which appeases my picky parents, who don’t have adventurous palates and always order their fish and meat at temperatures that would set a house ablaze. But while chicken feet, duck blood soup and fried cow stomach lining are…
Photos: Voodoo Doughnut hosts grand opening — and Mayor Michael Hancock
Has Mayor Michael Hancock ever turned down a doughnut? In September, he was first in line when Dunkin’ Donuts opened out at Denver International Airport. And yesterday, he bit into a big one at Voodoo Doughnut, an offshoot of the Oregon-based cult shop that’s now rolling in dough on East…
The Westword 2014 Food and Drink Bucket List: #5-1
Since the start of the new year, we’ve been filling our four blogs — Show and Tell, Backbeat, Cafe Society and the Latest Word — with a Colorado bucket list of the 100 things to do before you kick it. The final five Food and Drink contributions follow. See also:…
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Denver Bicycle Cafe eases back on the coffee so it can focus more on craft beer
The Denver Bicycle Cafe — which has specialized in fixing bikes, serving coffee and pouring locally-brewed beers – will put a little less emphasis on the coffee and little more on the beer starting this week when it changes its structure and its hours. Beginning on February 1, the cool,…
Sugarmill’s Noah French: “When you’re dining in a restaurant that’s busy, please be patient”
Noah French Sugarmill 2461 Larimer Street 303-297-3540 sugarmilldesserts.com This is part two of my interview with Noah French, pastry chef and co-owner of Sugarmill; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most underrated Denver restaurant: TAG|RAW BAR. It gets tons of awards and accolades, but somehow people still look at…
The ten best dive bars in metro Denver
Are Denver’s dives an endangered species? Over the past year, two of the dives featured on last year’s list of the dozen best dive bars have lost their divey status — one, the Hill-Top, closed and just reopened this past weekend as the Rocky Top Tavern, and the Squire, while…
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Reader: Folks from outta state are visiting Denver just to grub a bowl of pho on Feds
Mark Antonation has been eating his way along Federal Boulevard for over a year for our Federal Case series, but even as he moves up the street, new places open behind him. Lotus Vegetarian joined the lineup a few months ago, and now Pho Market Vietnamese will be going into…
Introduction to Greek wines at Axios tonight
Wine dinners usually focus on the more famed regions, such as France and Spain; however, there are many varietals to be had from around the world. And tonight Greek wine is making its debut in the Denver dinner scene at Axios Estiatorio. See also: Beer calendar: Caution, Cannonball Creek, cans…
Acorn: Oak’s founders branch out at the Source
When the Source opened last summer in a redeveloped nineteenth-century foundry not far from the National Western Complex, the space was electric, crackling with the unexpected juxtaposition of food, urban grittiness and vintage architectural bones. It was just the kind of place to throw down a few tacos or grab…
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Colorado Cider Company grows, releases two new ciders
Colorado Cider Company, one of the state’s cider pioneers, was founded by Brad and Kathe Page in 2011. Now, they are celebrating their success with an expansion that has enabled the cidery to triple its annual production capacity from 25,000 gallons to 75,000 gallons, and includes four new 2,100-gallon tanks…
Peyton Manning and U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter both need a few craft beer pointers
Bud Light got the Denver Broncos-related headlines last weekend after Peyton Manning told reporters at a post-playoffs game press conference that the main thing “weighing on my mind is how soon I can get a Bud Light in my mouth. That’s priority No. 1.” But in the week leading up…
Beer calendar: Caution, Cannonball Creek, cans and coffee are cause for celebration
Oskar Blues has introduced a new kind of vessel for taking beer to go from its Tasty Weasel taproom in Longmont. The Crowler, a cross between a can and a traditional growler, is a 32-ounce recyclable aluminum can that can be filled, purged of CO2 and sealed within minutes. Turn…
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Rocky Top Tavern opens in former Hill-Top Bar
The Hill-Top Bar was tiny, but had a mighty reputation as one of this city’s best dive bars. It closed last year, and was transformed into Rocky Top Tavern, which opened this past weekend. Although there’s no way you’d call the very renovated Rocky Top a “dive,” it has all…
Guess where I’m eating lots of little Japanese side dishes?
The menu at this enduring Japanese restaurant boasts, among other marvels, huge bowls of unadulterated, delicious ramen, each of which comes with seven side dishes, all of the Japanese persuasion — and if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to eat every last bite. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Sugarmill’s Noah French: “Desserts are going to become much more than an afterthought in 2014”
Noah French Sugarmill 2461 Larimer Street 303-297-3540 sugarmilldesserts.com This is part one of my interview with Noah French, pastry chef and co-owner of Sugarmil; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. It’s just before noon on a Wednesday, and already Sugarmill, the Ballpark-neighborhood dessert temple from pastry chef Noah…
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At Santiago’s, even green is orange on Broncos Sunday
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll visit every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the report…
Reader: I’d rather kick the bucket than do some things on your culinary bucket list
What are the iconic tastes and culinary institutions of this city? For our 2014 Denver Bucket List, which we’ve been filling this week on Cafe Society, we looked to some time-honored traditions: a martini at the cruise room, a burger at Bud’s, a turkey leg at the Taste of Colorado,…
Tour Denver taprooms and learn about Spanish cuisine tonight
With all the craft beers in Colorado, it can be difficult to know where to start sampling. Culinary Connecters will take you through two taprooms and one brewery in the LoDo and LoHi neighborhoods on a two-hour tour that begins at 6:30 p.m. tonight. At each stop, you’ll hear from…
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EatDenver hosting an Affordable Care Act forum for service industry employees
Back in October of last year, Don Fox, the CEO of Firehouse Subs, a national chain with thirteen outpost in the metro Denver area, had this to say about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “October 1st will be a watershed moment,” wrote Fox in Forbes magazine. “On that day, the…