Food & Drink

When Zinger’s, a mishmash of chicken wings, chicken nuggets, chicken sandwiches and green chile that wasn’t long for this world, shuttered a few months ago at 2075 South University, the corner strip mall space, which was also a Quizno’s at one point, opened itself up to another plea for food…

Clever, market-savvy purveyors of food and drink have spent some serious Cheddar on making sure that we, the consuming public, buy whatever they are peddling. Sometimes their efforts work like Lucky Charms, and other times the slogans are so bad that people will go out of their way to avoid…

Every so often, when I feel nostalgic, I’ll order a wedge salad dressed in blue cheese…with bacon, of course, because I don’t care how good the dressing is: If the iceberg doesn’t come crowned with crisp smidgens of pig candy, it’s just another salad. Can you guess where I’m eating?…

While I f*cking love California Pizza Kitchen, I generally don’t like low-calorie dishes, and I really, really can’t stand quinoa. And don’t get me started on malls, where all of metro Denver’s five CPK outposts are located. So I was a little wary of embarking on last night’s adventure: the…

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 the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Earlier this month,…

What’s your favorite homegrown fruit? Those tart cherries that inspired the Tree Line, Marnie Ward’s winning Colorado cocktail? The juicy peaches that will be celebrated at the Palisade Peach Festival this weekend? Or the beleaguered Rocky Ford cantaloupe, wrongly fingered last year as the cause of a listeria outbreak that…

Summer’s searing temperatures have finally been turned down, but this weekend will still be perfect patio weather. And there’s nowhere better to enjoy it than at a ringside seat on the 16th Street Mall, which offers the city’s best people-watching. This week, we served up our “Ten best patios on…

Eating Chinese food has several benefits: It’s usually low-cost; if you’re lucky the portion sizes are large enough that you can fill up on the first try, with leftovers for an hour later (they’re no good after that); and you can always ask for extra fortune cookies, read the messages…

In this week’s food review, we dished on the British Bulldog, the Pakistani-Brit hybrid located in a building on Stout Street with a considerable history of its own. Cafe writer Jenn Wohletz trekked down to the Union Jack-wrapped restaurant and tried bangers, mash, curry, fried pickles and aloo gosht salin,…

Yesterday Dan and Kristen Cofrades opened Early Bird restaurant, their breakfast/lunch spot in Westminster. The place was inspired by their four-year-old daughter, Izzy; not only was she born prematurely (early), but they also wanted to have a business that closed early in the day so that they could spend more…

Did you know that Elvis, who left the building for good 35 years ago today, once flew all the way to Denver in the middle of the night just for a sandwich? Well, he did — true story. But this was no ordinary sandwich. This was the Fool’s Gold Loaf,…

“I don’t want none of that rubber chicken,” declares the woman sitting next to me at the bar with a stiff mid-afternoon drink and a book. I have no idea what she eventually ordered, but the fajita burrito, while bereft of “rubber chicken,” wasn’t the perfect choice, either. Then again,…

It’s the brew-soaked dream of any drinking-age guy — or gal — to own a great bar. And to own close to twenty of them? That’s a drinking dream come true. Since he foundedThe Little Pub Company in 1994, Mark Berzins has collected nineteen Denver area bars, including The British…

Richard Sandoval Al Lado, La Sandia, Tamayo, Zengo, Cima, Venga Venga www.richardsandoval.com Part one of my interview with chef Richard Sandoval, who owns and operates dozens of restaurants around the world, including seven in Colorado, ran yesterday; this is part two of that interview. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had:…

Honest Tea just finished testing Denver’s honesty. On Tuesday, two mysterious kiosks on the 16th Street Mall (see above) were stocked with bottles of cold tea, along with a sign asking hot and thirsty mall-walkers to put a dollar in the cash box if they wanted to enjoy some tea…

New spots are popping up all over town, including Little Dragon, a Chinese take-out and delivery spot in Mayfair. Jenn Wohletz dropped by and picked up an order of hot-and-sour soup and allegedly healthy, baked crab and cheese wontons. Is it wrong to crave these wontons?…

Today the phrase “hair of the dog” refers to a hangover cure, but it originated with the theory that the bite of a rabid dog could be treated by placing a few of the dog’s hairs in the wound. Sticking dog hair into a rabies-infested gash probably works about as…