Food & Drink

No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. This recipes blends two cuisine styles for the best of both worlds: We’re taking the English tradition of eating baked beans on…

For more than sixty years, Gaetano’s has been a northside institution — first as a joint owned by the Smaldones, Denver’s legendary mob family, and then by the Wynkoop group, which bought the place in 2005. Now the spot is closed until September for a major facelift, which has both…

Adam Watts, the chef de cuisine at Jax Fish House Boulder and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, admits that his biggest menu bomb was a crudo of spearfish with smoked soba noodles, huckleberry broth and pickled ramps, a dish, he says, that “sold for shit.” Luckily,…

Sweet! Buddy Valastro, the Cake Boss, is coming to the Paramount Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 13, as part of the Bakin’ with the Boss Tour. Valastro, who got his start at the family bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, says he’ll bring some Hoboken flavor to Colorado next week…

Ja, mon! Ziggy Marley stopped by Vitamin Cottage at Natural Grocers in Green Mountain today on his way to Copper Mountain for the Wanderlust Festival. The reason for the stop? To promote his new organic food line…

It sounds like a spoof, but the Caveman Cafeteria — Denver’s newest (and only) food truck specializing in paleo diet dishes — is no joke. Even though its owner, Will White, is a comedian…

From the outside, this joint looks sketch — way sketch — but appearances, as we all know, can be deceiving, and the inside, which I approached with caution, is actually kinda cute (and clean). Appearances aside, the breakfast burritos, of which there are endless possibilities, are worth a repeat visit,…

After getting the boot from the Village Cork three weeks ago, chef Samir Mohammad is back in the kitchen — a real kitchen with a hood! And a stove! And brick ovens! And, he says, a “supportive environment that encourages me to be active in the community,” a point of…

I heard last week that Cracker Barrel has an exclusive CD out by a band called Eden’s Edge. I had no idea who this band was, or that Cracker Barrel did music — or even or that people still buy CDs. Last I checked, Cracker Barrel was that old-timey chicken-fried…

Many people across Colorado are turning to Kickstarter to jump-start their ventures, including the brothers behind Twin Hops Brewing. But they should consider location as well as loot…

I grew up on the far west side of town, a culinary black hole — at least in the ’70s and ’80s — that forced me and my family to drive what I believed were impossibly long distances to dinner. We went out to eat — a lot — and…

LoDo will go a little bit country when Lil’s and Lou’s Wreck opens August 2, next to Maloney’s Tavern in the 1400 block of Market Street (actually, it looks like it will be carving out a piece of Maloney’s). But right now, this second outpost of a spot that got…

After leaving Broadway at the end of June, Barker Lounge is now open in its new home at 475 Santa Fe Drive, in the building that previously housed NV Lounge, One-Eyed Jacks and the Continental Club…

The secret to not making a mess isn’t a bib, but gloves, as the astute diners sitting next me obviously had learned from previous experience. Now I know better. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts…

When Central, the new restaurant in Highland, whose kitchen is commanded by Lance Barto, a former exec chef of Strings, opens mid-month, a Food & Wine magazine-heralded confection queen will be spearheading the pastry program: Cicely Austin, who was named one of the top fifty pastry chefs in America earlier…

Just when I thought that Burger King had exhausted its creative juices creating the BK Bacon Sundae, the Whopper elves managed to turn out three new summer sandwiches, all based on barbecue…