Brad and Kathe Page, founders of Colorado Cider Company, are celebrating the second anniversary of their tasting room this weekend, and it couldn’t come at a better time. “We just put the expansion in,” explains Brad, “so we’re tripling our capacity. We have seven brands in the market, so things…
Denver has just come off the high of the sold-out Great American Beer Festival and a week’s worth of equally beer-geeky events, but that doesn’t mean the town has run out of brews. In fact, quite the opposite. There is still a ton going on. If you’re a brewery, though,…
Besides setting touchdown pass records and putting the Broncos at 6-0, Peyton Manning also scores big in business: His Papa John’s franchises are booming since he took over, according to TMZ.com. See also: Peyton Manning wants a slice of the pie — Papa John’s, that is…
There are so many reasons to love the month of October: crunchy blankets of leaves drifting across the sidewalks, Halloween, apple picking, ornamental gourds, Indian corn and the release of autumn menus, including the latest homage to fall from Matt Selby, executive chef of the Corner House, which opened early…
Last weekend, after I took two teenage boys to a haunted house, they were screaming with hunger pangs, so we stopped for a plate of tacos at this cantina, which my son described as “incredibly hip” — the kind of place, he said, that he’d love to go with his…
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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. As you can imagine,…
Andrea Wight Beast + Bottle 719 East 17th Avenue 303-623-3223 beastandbottle.com This is part one of interview with Andrea Wight, pastry chef of Beast + Bottle. Part two of my chat with Wight will run tomorrow morning. A lot of us can recollect the first time we baked a batch…
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 report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Beast + Bottle takes pride in its “farm-to-fork” approach to food — and chef Paul Reilly and general manager Aileen Reilly, the brother-and-sister partners behind the restaurant, work closely with local purveyors and farms in order to provide their guests with humanely raised, responsibly harvested and organic (whenever possible) ingredients…
Since Adwoa and Sylvester Osei Ford-Wuo parked their mobile African food business at the brick-and-mortar African Bar and Grill in 2010, they’ve done a lot to expand Denver’s ethnic food scene. And now they’ve done a lot more: They’ve opened a second location, at 18601 Green Valley Ranch Road by…
Colorado returned to form at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival, taking home a whopping 46 medals — spread out across breweries of widely varying ages, sizes and locations. The medal count was also up significantly from 2012 — when the state won only 35 medals as part of a…
I remember standing in front of a pyramid of potatoes at the supermarket many years ago in my hippie days, tripping on mescalin and trying to select a few spuds for dinner. It was taking a long time because every potato in that pile had its own unique and mesmerizing…
Sunny Gardens, tucked away in a strip mall on East Yale Avenue, looks like a typical neighborhood Chinese restaurant — until you open up the menu. Because there, tucked between the usual listings for fried rice, egg foo young and lo mein, is a lengthy vegetarian section, offering dishes made…
Every year, The Daily Meal does a comprehensive survey and then announces the 101 Best Restaurants in America. Yesterday, the Daily Meal revealed the worst, digging “deep into the recesses of the culinary dustbin” to discover the true bottom feeders. The result is a list of possibly the five worst…
There’s gross — and there’s gross anatomy, the deeply gruesome and gory body parts that hit the table on Halloween, the one day of the year when demonic bakers emerge from their caldrons and devise recipes that make your stomach turn green. The cakes on the following pages, all allegedly…
Alfalfa’s Market in Boulder believe that organic, agricultural practices help the planet and also create community — and what better way to bring people together than pie? The market makes plenty of them. But on Saturday, Alfalfa’s wants to see what you can do. See also:Buy pie, support Project Angel…
Federal Boulevard is a great adventure if you love ethnic food — but it’s not always easy to tell what’s vegetarian-friendly. And if you’re a vegan, you’ll have an even more difficult time separating the fish cakes from tofu. At New Saigon Bakery & Deli, though, you can enjoy a…
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re My Brother’s Bar. This Denver institution opened more than forty years ago in a building that is the city’s longest-operating watering hole; records trace the bar business at 2376 15th Street back to 1873. So owner Jim Karagas wasn’t happy when he heard…
Pumpkins are everywhere — which means pie can’t be far behind. But this Thanksgiving, instead of going through the hassle of baking pies, you can purchase your dessert from Project Angel Heart , which kicks off its Pie in the Sky campaign today. The Pie in the Sky sale, which…
There may have been a few too many beer events this past weekend as part of the Great American Beer Festival. And Oskar Blues may have suffered from the excess, given that its two-day concert, Fuh-can Beer and Guitars, benefiting the Love, Hope, Strength Foundation and victims of the recent…
The last time I ordered crab from this restaurant, I was asked to point to the one I wanted from the murky tank. The one I chose, however, somehow landed on the floor, crawling its way across the carpet in a futile attempt to escape its impending doom. Recently, during…
“Welcome back to Satchel’s,” says the sidewalk chalkboard just outside the front door of Andrew Casalini’s restaurant on Sixth Avenue. The greeting comes a day after Casalini reopened his Congress Park spot after a three-week remodel — a remodel that trumpets a stately new bar, custom-patterned wood floors, luscious red,…
