Since when does a 30 percent chance mean it’s actually going to rain? I mean, come on — this is Denver we’re talking about. I know we’re in a drought, but you’d think the clouds could have had the decency to hold their drops until the afternoon: Monday mornings are…
President Barack Obama has been drinking beer on the campaign trail, trying to convince undecided voters that he’s a regular guy. In 2008 Obama got branded a wine-slurper, but he’s got a distinct alcoholic advantage in this year’s race against teetotaling Mormon Mitt Romney. But as Jonathan Shikes notes, Obama…
Pizza Fusion, the pizza joint that opened last year at 571 East Colfax Avenue, now offers a monthly buy-one-get-one deal to raise awareness for social justice. On select dates throughout the year, customers can purchase any size pizza and get a second one of equal or lesser value for free…
The last time I was at this Middle Eastern restaurant, I left shrugging my shoulders, and while a return visit didn’t convince me that I’d struck gold, the food was far better than the first time around, and the server — just one guy overseeing the whole house — was…
Need an appetizer to impress some guests — or just to tickle your own tastebuds? This vegan Thai-style coconut soup (adapted from a recipe in Forks Over Knives: The Cookbook) is smooth, complex and satisfying. You can buy mung bean sprouts at the store, or sprout them yourself — but…
Twenty-five years ago, Noel Cunningham, along with Pat Miller, the “Gabby Gourmet”, launched Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a nonprofit childhood hunger relief organization that Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, worked tirelessly to grow and advocate. It soon blossomed into an annual event, where dozens of the…
President Obama has been making a point of drinking beer on the campaign trail this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Florida. It was a sore spot for him in 2008 when he was seen more as a wine-slurper than an an everyday beer-drinking kind of fellow, but it’s a…
A poet could compose endless lines about the pleasures of eating, and infinitely more about being in love, but a sonnet could never quite capture what it’s like to experience both in an instant. It’s hard to describe how it feels to look someone in the eye during a meal…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified sub-par sub sandwich to a divine dessert platter at Bocadllo to a plate of carne adovada from a long-standing suburban Mexican joint…
Today was the original deadline for Jesse Morreale to make required repairs to the First Avenue Hotel in order to keep it open — a deadline set by the Board of Appeals on July 30, twenty days after the city had slapped the building with a notice to vacate, resulting…
The Denver dining scene saw plenty of action in September — much of it in the 900 block of Lincoln Street, where Japoix finally gave up the ghost in that haunted spot in the Beauvallon that had previously swallowed up Nine75. But other outfits haven’t been discouraged from the area,…
A hipster neighborhood may have hip restaurants, but hip restaurants do not a hipster neighborhood make. And when Forbes recently included Lower Highland in its list of “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods,” the party as already over, one reader suggests:…
There are a variety of events on Denver’s plate this week, including an excellent lineup of free music at Chipotle’s fledgling Cultivate Festival — a celebration of “food, ideas and music” in City Park this weekend. Here’s a taste of the rest of the board:…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Taste of the Nation, a national nonprofit that has its own Colorado chapter, which was started 25 years ago by humanitarian Noel Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, who passed away late last year. The annual event, which features a bounty of foodstuffs…
Happy Place: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, 1745 Wazee Street, 303-295-2664. The Hours: Monday through Wednesday, and Friday, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $6 house cocktails and martinis; $6 wines by the glass; $6 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Public school students are being awfully whiny about their school lunches right now. The reason is because the United States Department of Agriculture just restructured standards for school lunches for the first time in over a decade, and now students have to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and…
The Great American Beer Festival is coming, and you want to make sure you’re properly tubbed and scrubbed, but ordinary ablutions aren’t going to cut it — not for the biggest beer festival in the world. For that, you are going to have to put beer on your body as…
Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it’s the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the…
Amy Vitale, co-owner of Tables, which I review this week, knows how to use a whisk, sauté pan and chef’s knife. But as it turns out, this talented chef has quite a green thumb, too. In the backyard garden of the Park Hill home she shares with Tables co-owner, chef…
I keep trying to find a great sub sandwich in this city, and aside from Carbone’s, I keep coming up short — and this sub only added to my discouragement. Can you guess where I’m eating? And while you’re at it, tell me where I should go to satisfy my…
“New York City is the culinary mecca of our country, if not the world,” declares Hosea Rosenberg. “It’s a place like no other, where ingredients and techniques of every conceivable style congregate. It’s where the best chefs on the planet come to shine.” See also: – The Denver FIVE culinary…
Since it opened six years ago, Rockbar has been a hipster hangout — the go-to place for Hollywood celebs during the Democratic National Convention, but also a regular stop for people out and about on the weekend, or who’re just looking for a place to park (the All-Inn that holds…
