Food & Drink

No, this bánh mì isn’t from a Vietnamese restaurant. In fact, it comes from a restaurant where you’d likely never expect to see it on the menu. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into…

Any food-nerd knows that it’s almost impossible to keep up with every new culinary gadget or cool DIY kit — but it’s almost as tough to resist them. You contemplate giving up imported cheese or cartons of duck fat for a month just so you can buy some food-tastic item…

Federal Bar & Grill is now open in the former home of Micky Manor, right across a parking lot — the bar’s own parking lot! — from Jack-n-Grill. There’s not much grill yet to the bar, which occupies a circa 1904 fire station, but there are enough craft beers to…

For almost eighty years, the Micky Manor — and that’s Micky, without an “e” — was a landmark on Federal Boulevard, its trademark-respecting neon Mickey and Minnie signs a constant. But in the fall of 2011, the mouse finally left the house. The circa 1904 firehouse at 2544 Federal Boulevard…

It’s easy to eat seasonally when the fields are full of tomatoes and the trees are heavy with peaches, as I write in this week’s review of Potager. But abundance, whether in August or May, brings its own challenges. This counter-intuitive lesson is one I learned first-hand when I was…

The space that harbors this Mexican restaurant has seen its share of dining dens — it’s a revolving door of restaurants — but this one may have the chops to stick around longer than the rest, thanks to good food and an even better tequila selection. Can you guess where…

For years — YEARS! — I’ve prayed to the Mexican food gods that someone in my Wash Park ‘hood would open a taqueria, or at least a taco joint, saving me from hiking to Federal Boulevard when I want my al pastor fix. And, now, it looks like I’m finally…

Taylor Drew Russell’s Smokehouse 1422 Larimer Street 720-524-8050 russellssmokehouse.com This is part two of my interview with Taylor Drew, exec chef of Russell’s Smokehouse; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I don’t get out to eat nearly enough, but I recently ate…

When Blake Street Tavern moved a block down Blake Street three years ago, it took over a big space with a great view of the Ballpark neighborhood — and a really big basement. After several attempts to brand that underground area, it looks like Blake Street has finally come up…

When Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, listed the “Best Ethnic Food in the U.S.” for Food & Wine, he lauded Denver for its Den-Mex — gravy-like green chile in general, and the variations served at Chubby’s and El Taco de Mexico, especially when accompanied by anything else from El…

If you’re looking for housemade honey-chamomile bitters, ice chipped off a block or a community counter where you can sit and grab a bite, don’t go to Potager. The place doesn’t have a soda gun, much less a mixologist. And Teri Rippeto, who founded this Capitol Hill institution with her…

Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, just published his list of the “Best Ethnic Food in the U.S.” on the Food & Wine website, and Denver rates high for its “Den-Mex” — a term coined, as far as we can tell, by Gustavo Arellano, the Ask a Mexican columnist who…

Talk about hitting pay dirt! A bunch of us, including my intrepid teenager, recently spent a Sunday morning around the table at a restaurant that never ceases to amaze me with its bounty of fresh seafood and fish, including these spot prawns, a sea treasure. Can you guess where I’m…

With winter finally behind us, Steuben’s Food Service has swapped out some of its heavier menu items for lighter springtime dishes that should be as “Steuben’s” as the meatloaf and fried chicken in no time. Executive chef Brandon Biederman looked to his team of chefs and sous-chefs to revamp the…