Tomorrow is the first day of summer, also known as burger season — and then, just around the corner, comes the green chile harvest. Celebrate both at Five Star Burgers, the New Mexico transplant that recently made its way to Broadway…
Taco Bell is going upscale? When I heard this, I thought it was a joke — and the Demolition Man lines were coming hard and fast. Still, it’s true: Taco Bell has officially announced that it’s taking on fast-casual Mexican food chains like our own Chipotle with the July 5…
Cafe Society serves up a mixed menu: posts on restaurant openings, posts on restaurant closings, posts on bad customer behavior, posts on bad server behavior…and yesterday, Jenn Wohletz’s list “five things I’ve found in men’s refrigerators that made me not want to date them.” The comments have been pouring out…
Food Network’s Cupcake Wars winner and vegan-evangelist Doron Petersan will sign copies of her new cookbook, Sticky Fingers’ Sweets: 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover, 2526 East Colfax Avenue. Petersan will also be slinging vegan treats, alongside local vegan vendors. Watch for an interview…
The world is divided between beet lovers and haters — and I definitely fall in the former category. I love the earthy, elemental taste of the root vegetable. And this beet cocktail, made with gin, Aperol, Canton Ginger Liqueur, lemon, mint and beets (of course), not only perfectly balances all…
We’ve all had the unique pleasure of visiting a date’s domicile and opening the refrigerator door for the first time. This can be a very telling moment. I’ve been treated to sights in men’s iceboxes that no human being should ever witness, and as if I didn’t have enough good…
We’ve got all sorts of takeaways from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in Glitter Gulch over the weekend, and we’ll be posting stories throughout the week about the new Chefs Club in the St. Regis, along with surprising observations and confessions from…
Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant is donating 10 percent of sales from all six of its locations to High Park fire relief today. The chain, which is famous for its strong margaritas (limit three per person), got its start in Fort Collins 26 years ago…
Denver was in the mood to party on Saturday. And while things were getting wet, wild and just plain weird elsewhere in town, Great Divide Brewing was cooling things down with a suds-soaked party celebrating its eighteenth anniversary…
“We’re not chefs; we’re cooks,” insists Derek Dietz, the 23-year-old Philadelphia native who will open Bocadillo, a Spanish-influenced sandwich shop, tomorrow with partner Andrew Minhinnisk. “When we’re fifty, we can call ourselves chefs — that’s what we’re striving to become — but this restaurant is our playground, our secondary schooling,…
Delis are the ideal spot for a quick lunch: An efficient crew assembles sandwiches, salads and sides for those who have only a few minutes to grab a meal, wrapping everything in butcher paper or plastic and handing over a portable package. But while Denver delis are usually quick, they’re…
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 recipe is quick and easy to prepare the way we’ve laid it out — complete with a few shortcuts. But even…
Cafe Society posted five Guess Where? contests last week, two of which — a “smurf fart” and mochi ice cream — are still up for grabs. The bibimbap, however, was correctly linked to House Korean BBQ, while the Vieux Carré was concocted (correctly) at The Kitchen. The same can’t be…
As a service-industry professional/lifer, Sean Kenyon Lori Midson’s list of the “ten rudest things customers do to make servers wish you’d never come to their restaurants,” all of which he’s seen all too many times during his 27-year career in service. But even worse, he suggests, is when people in…
Kirk’s Soul Kitchen, a new soul-food eatery in Aurora, is opening its doors tomorrow at 11 a.m, offering the first 100 customers free dessert and a 10 percent discount…
The Vieux Carré was invented in 1938 by Walter Bergeron at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans. It’s one of my favorite classic cocktails, a mix of rye, cognac, sweet vermouth, Benedictine and Peychaud’s and Angostura bitters. When made well, it’s a fantastic drink — when made poorly, it’s undrinkable…
This experience probably would’ve been a lot more informative after an inappropriate amount of drinking the night before. The team behind a product called the Hangover Recovery Shot stopped in Denver yesterday to schmooze with potential investors at a business conference, and invited Westword to swing by and try their…
The thirteenth annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival will fill the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse next month. In addition to the usual tea-related workshops and seminars, a special tea dinner and tea parties for the kids, this year adults will be able to enjoy a different kind of tea party: a “Tea…
Happy Place: Café|Bar, 295 South Pennsylvania Street, 303-362-0227. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beer and well cocktails; $5 wines by the glass; $5-$8 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Super heroes aren’t real. Sorry. But you can drown that sad truth this weekend with a superhero beer — a collaboration between Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con, which kicked off yesterday at the Colorado Convention Center. The Fantastic Pour, a riff on the Fantastic Four, was settled on after…
For this week’s Westword review, Laura Shunk visited Karl’s Deli in Centennial, which specializes in German and Austrian food, including a wurst platter. “The fat, fennel-infused pork sausage exploded out of its casing when cut, oozing juices into a bed of sauerkraut,” she writes. “Although the wurst needed nothing to…
Qdoba Mexican Grill, which got its start in Colorado in 1995, has a present for its hometown fans: an unlimited $6 entrée coupon. The coupon reads: “Buy any entree for only $6 — use as many times as you’d like between now and July 8th.”…
