Big things come in small packages, and that goes double for craft brewers, who package many of their potent products in twelve- sixteen- or twenty-ounce cans and bottles. But those big things can also come with a big price. While a six-pack of craft beer usually runs from $8.99 to…
Back when Fuqua Development was still touting Walmart as the major tenant in the project planned for the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Jeff Fuqua promised that there would be a “chef-driven” restaurant on the site — inspiring some critics to ask…
When I asked the bartender if he had mezcal, his eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. “You want mezcal!? he exclaimed. “Oh, man, a gringo girl who likes mezcal. Wow.” Not only did he pour me a potent margarita but he brought out the mezcal bottle, too, egging me…
On last night’s season five episode of Top Chef Seattle, Tyler Wiard (nickname T-bone), the culinary director of Elway’s — and the exec chef of Elway’s Cherry Creek — is sent packing, along with fellow chef Chris “CJ” Jacobsen, the two of whom were bludgeoned by judges Gail Simmons, Padma…
Jay Leandro Pub 17 on Welton Street 1750 Welton Street hyatt.com/gallery/pub17/index.html 303-295-1117 Part one of my interview with Jay Leandro, exec chef of Pub 17 on Welton Street, ran yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Pho Fusion on Hampden. I used…
The update of the restaurant facilities at the Oxford Hotel was supposed to start eighteen months ago — but the sale of McCormick & Schmick’s, which runs those facilities, to Tilman Fertitta of Landry’s Restaurants late last year put the plan on hold. But Landry’s picked up the project this…
“Food programming has come a long way since Julia Child cooked her way into our hearts,” Gretchen Kurtz wrote earlier this week. “For all her affability, Child was trying to do one thing: demystify fine cooking for an audience dependent on canned soup and casseroles.” But did Child, and all…
Trillium, 2134 Larimer Street, is hosting its first birthday party this evening, and the Scandinavian-American restaurant is giving presents away rather than receiving them. Any guest who walks through the door will be offered Trillium’s signature cocktail free of charge. See also: Slide show: Trillium behind the scenes…
I can hear the noise already, a rising roar of complaint over my decision to spend a thousand-plus words on So Perfect Eats, a two-year-old eatery in Cherry Creek North that feels more like a grab-and-go lunch spot than a restaurant worthy of review. But before you rant — whether…
I can hear the noise already, a rising roar of complaint over my decision to spend a thousand-plus words on So Perfect Eats, a two-year-old eatery in Cherry Creek North that feels more like a grab-and-go lunch spot than a restaurant worthy of review. But before you rant — whether…
Updated: The contest is closed, and we’ll be in touch with those who’ll receive invitations..A delicious Drambuie cocktail at Williams & Graham, our Best New Bar in the Best of Denver 2012, got us in the holiday spirit…and spirits. And in that holiday spirit, we decided to share this delicious…
On September 29, 2011, after the first night of the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Left Hand Brewing publicly revealed a bottled beer that its owners and brewers had spent two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. See also: – Strange Brewing faces a trademark…
It seems like everybody and their neighbor wants to be in the wine business. Last week, we spilled the juice on Denver-based Club W’s first year in the monthly wine club business. While we found their edgy-cool offerings well worth the hype, as we did our research we couldn’t help…
In November, shortly after Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, thus creatiing the possibility of limited retail sales of marijuana in the state, we provided a list of Five Colorado pot-themed beers to pair with Amendment 64. Well, you can make that a six-pack. As Oskar Blues has reminded us with…
It’s incredibly difficult to do justice to the thousands of remarkable cookbooks published in 2012, but after spending days — weeks — roaming through the recipes and lush food porn of hundreds of them, I’ve picked out my favorites. These are the cookbooks that stock my selves at home, and…
Renegade Brewing, which opened in the Art District on Santa Fe just eighteen months ago, said today that it will open a pub serving pizza salads and lots and lots of craft beer near the University of Denver. The Renegade Publik House, in the former Spicy Pickle spot at 2043…
You can get chicken tikka masala here, as well as vindaloo and biryani, but this is a restaurant — Indian, obviously — that offers so much more, including a delicious cashew chicken curry strewn with cilantro. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Jay Leandro Pub 17 on Welton Street 1750 Welton Street hyatt.com/gallery/pub17/index.html 303-295-1117 This is part one of my interview with Jay Leandro, exec chef of Pub 17 on Welton Street; part two of our conversation with run tomorrow. According to Jay Leandro, it all started with a chicken. “I was…
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey will release the latest batch of its highly-prized, limited-edition Snowflake series at 9 a.m. on Saturday. This one was cask- conditioned for months in two hand-picked Malbec barrels from Denver’s Spero Winery. The distillery puts out one or two Snowflake series batches each year, an event that…
Ondo’s Spanish Tapas Bar, 250 Steele Street, is commemorating three years in business this evening with drink specials — including $3 Basque cider and $5 house wines — throughout the night. There will also be a traditional, Basque-style Pintxos bar featuring a variety of tapas for $2 each. See also:…
In honor of National Cookie Day, EDGE Restaurant & Bar unveiled a twelve-foot Christmas tree made from macaroons today, at a reception introducing new general manager Matt Barber. The tree will remain on display until New Year’s Day. See also: -Soccer Saturday at EDGE -Feast with the 1-percenters at Edge…
The forces-that-be at Kentucky Fried chicken have constructed the ultimate in culinary cross-marketing: combining KFC’s fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies with its original-recipe fried chicken to create an original-recipe cookie formula. It’s a clucking weird idea, but are these new hybrid cookies the next big thing for KFC — or an…
