Soup makes a fantastic cold-weather dish, and this potato-fennel concoction is thick and hearty enough to work as an entree through the chillier days ahead. The minced fennel gives the broth a beefy flavor that could fool anyone (especially if you make your own vegetable broth), but it’s vegan and…
Although it sometimes seems like the gang’s all beer the week of the GABF, there are many other events on the culinary calendar — including opportunities to do good while eating good food. Tonight, for example, you can help defeat youth homelessness by supporting Urban Peak at Vesta Dipping Grill,…
Phil Goodlaxson, owner/roster of Corvus Coffee Roasters, had hoped to hold a grand opening of Corvus’s new home at 1740 South Broadway — just two blocks away from its original home at 1947 South Broadway — at 10 a.m. tomorrow. In fact, construction was going so well that the outfit…
Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar — a transformative French restaurant downtown — just launched its fall menu, and chef John Broening, who conceived that menu, is giving us a reason to celebrate autumn’s bounty. The menu, 90 percent of which is new, is swelled with root vegetables, woodsy mushrooms…
In a town where politicians would go to the opening of an envelope, the debut of Final Approach — Denver International Airport’s new cell-phone waiting lot, which comes complete with a fancy building with four food vendors, flight information monitors and indoor bathrooms — was big news. And on September…
I like red sauce as much as the next person, but I have no desire to bathe in the stuff, and nor do I want my mussels submerged in an river of red, but that’s exactly what I got at this suburban Italian restaurant. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
The organizers of the Great American Beer Festival — and craft beer fans — will face an unusual situation when the three-day event returns to Denver for its thirty-second year on October 10: Not all of the hot, hard-to-find brewers will be inside the convention center hall. There are several…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Samm Sherman, pastry chef of Linger and Root Down, she admits that the pot au chocolat, a dessert she had at the Kitchen years ago, changed her life, pointing her down the path to a pastry career. Today, Sherman shares her own…
J.W. Lee just opened Wasabi Roll & Go at 2076 South University Boulevard, in the former home of Beantree Coffee (the Aurora location is still open). This is the first “express”-style Wasabi, which also has two sit-down restaurants. The concept here, though, is all grab and go — you pick…
“I want to be known across the board as a place that has great food, and that maybe doesn’t serve meat,” says Rachel Kesley, the exec chef of WaterCourse Foods, whichGretchen Kurtz reviews this week. And the food at WaterCourse can indeed be great, especially if you order from the…
Say auf Wiedersehen to Denver Oktoberfest this weekend. This weekend the Ballpark neighborhood will be full of rockin’ polka music, semi-traditional German foods and beer, of course. The fun starts at 5 p.m. today and runs until 2 a.m., then it picks back up at 11 a.m. Saturday and continues…
Dan Landes, owner of WaterCourse Foods (which I review this week) has brewed his share of beer over the years — so to him, beer and vegetarian food have always gone together. But he’s excited to see that the craft-brewing industry is starting to agree. “Maybe when I started, a…
It’s been a rough year for local farmers. Late spring snows wiped out a lot of early crops, especially fruit, and then — when they’d started to recover and at the height of the growing and selling season — came the flood. Some acres of crops were completely wiped out,…
You know you’re doing something right when the mayor drinks your beer and gives you a high-five. So brewer Chad Yakobson must be doing okay. On Friday, Yakobson will open his new showpiece brewery, Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, inside the Source, an indoor market in River North. Yesterday, he…
Small in stature, but big on flavor, these mini pupusas, stuffed with corn and shrimp and slicked with salsa, take a detour from the Salvadorian staple, but they suit me — and this Mexican joint — just fine. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
Epic Brewing premiered its spacious new taproom with a blowout last Saturday, serving 25 beers — from a delicate sage saison to a hearty coffee stout — and showing off the work it has been doing over the past six months. Bigger than the average taproom, Salt Lake City-based Epic’s…
Samm Sherman Linger 2030 West 30th Avenue 303-993-3120 lingerdenver.com Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 8500 Peña Boulevard (DIA) 303-993-4200 rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Samm Sherman, pastry chef of Root Down and Linger; part one of my chat with Sherman ran yesterday. Your five favorite…
There is no haute cuisine at 7-Eleven. Unless, of course, you count hard-boiled eggs swimming in misty liquid packs, gigantic “beef” and bean burritos, and those somewhat unethical “nachos,” for which you take the chips out of the plastic tray, fill the tray with free chili sauce, then try to…
Samm Sherman was in college when she found her calling — over pot au chocolat at The Kitchen in Boulder. Today she’s the pastry chef for Linger and both locations of Root Down, cooking up sweet treats. None of which contain breast milk — but as she joked in the…
Support Colorado flood victims tonight at Dazzle, the great restaurant/jazz club; all proceeds will go directly to musicians effected by the flood. The music starts flowing at 5 p.m. and runs until midnight — giving you the chance to order twice off the award-winning happy-hour menu, offered from 4 to…
I knew the day would come when my dining companions would balk at the food set before them, food I’d asked them to order so that I could kick the kitchen’s tires and peer under the hood. I just didn’t expect it to happen this particular day. Not with an…
Autogrill, a chain of roadside food stops that dot the Italian motorways, are what “Italy has in place of the oddball combination of fast food restaurants under one roof that we have at Jersey Turnpike rest stops,” writes Frank Bruni, former New York Times restaurant critic. But instead of pimping…
