Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins is in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Wiggins, who recently won a Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spot award and also earned Panzano another Best Italian Restaurant award,…
With Memorial Day comes the start of camping season, and here’s a new tool to put in your pack: Patty Ruwoldt’s Open Range Cook’n: Home on the Range Cooking Made Easy — A Camp Cook’s Guide to Tasty Vittles. Not only does the book include recipes for satisfying meals you…
The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing’s Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format — one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before…
Just in time for a long, sunny weekend, Denver’s about to get another ice cream parlor: Charlie’s Ice Cream Social, a ’30s and ’40s-themed soft-serve spot, will throw open its doors today, offering frozen treats to the Berkeley neighborhood…
Imbibe, an experience-oriented deal site that’s not related to the publication of the same name, was born of Casey Berry’s desire to help people get the most out of Denver. “You know that feeling you get when you find out about someplace new and you go there and it’s awesome?…
Happy Place: Highland Tap and Burger, 2219 West Thirty Second Avenue, 720-287-4493. The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1 off draft beers; $3 house ale and cocktails; $4 wines by the glass and margaritas; $3-$7 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to…
If you’re a product of the ’70s, and spent your spare time eating a salisbury steak TV dinner while glued to Lee Majors flexing his bionic implants on the Six Million Dollar Man, then you and that goofball, Johnny Ballen, the tall, lanky bean who owns the Squeaky Bean, have…
First thing’s first: This scallop ceviche tostada is not from T|ACO, which, in addition to a lineup of t|a|c|o|s, does, in fact, serve ceviche. But if you were planning to go in that direction, you’d be mistaken. Rather, the ceviche in the above snap hails from another taco joint that…
Yes, someone just found yet another @#$% finger in his %$#@ food — and this time, it apparently wasn’t planted for the purpose of a lawsuit (but I wouldn’t be shocked if a lawsuit ensues). Michigan teen Ryan Hart was chowing down on a roast beef sandwich at Arby’s when…
Mark Dym, owner of Marco’s Coal Fired Pizzeria , is taking his pizza on the road with a brand-new mobile pizza oven — and his first stop is quirky nanobrewery Wit’s End Brewing Company. For his mobile version of Marco’s, Dym wanted an authentic Neapolitan pizza oven to continue his…
Tonight, at 4 p.m., on the corner of Ninth and Bannock, a fleet of food trucks and carts are gathering for the season opener of the Food Truck Renegades, a coalition of mobile vendors that includes Crock Spot, the Steuben’s food truck, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick…
Atomic Tamale landed on the list of our top ten vegetarian meals of 2011, and the tiny spot on Santa Fe Drive was always packed (especially on Sundays, when free vegan menudo was offered up with entrees), selling tamales by the singles and dozens. But as with Denver Seitan Company,…
The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working hard to increase the mix of menu options on the 16th Street Mall, expanding hours as well as offerings. “One of the things we’ve been striving for for the last couple of years is to increase the quality, predictability and overall appearance and…
The Food Truck Renegade posse will host its first gathering of the season tonight in the parking lot at Ninth and Bannock, in the heart of the Golden Triangle. The party starts at 4 p.m. and will feature food from The Crock Spot, Street Eats, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness,…
When Nancy Weagant gave up her three-decade dental career five years ago, she decided to head into the kitchen. “I grew up in San Francisco, and I watched my mom cook forever,” she says. “And I studied abroad in France and Italy. I just knew this is what I wanted…
Just because you walk out the door of your favorite brewery doesn’t mean you can’t take the good times with you. The majority of Colorado’s craft brewers sell growlers — 64-ounce brown glass bottles, for the most part, topped with a screw-off cap. Most will sell you the vessel for…
The Justice League of Street Food hosted its first bash of the season last weekend, and on Friday, the Food Truck Renegades will follow up with a street-food party of their own. Twelves trucks and carts — Crock Spot, Street Eats, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick it…
Gabrielle Hamilton has been on top of the culinary world for the past couple of years. In 2011, she landed a James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York City for her simple fare at Prune, besting April Bloomfield, Wylie Dufresne, Michael Anthony and Michael White and quipping, charmingly,…
Best of Denver award-winner Denver Seitan Company has been mysteriously absent as of late: no presence at this past Sunday’s Neat Market, no Denver Seitan pizza at the Marquis — and we just found out why: The health department embargoed and confiscated all DSC wheat meat due to permitting issues…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part two of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Read part one of my interview with Romeo. What’s your best piece of advice to culinary-school grads? Be open to learning things beyond what you…
I am a huge fan of noodle-sucking. I will suck noodles in such a disgusting, socially-reprehensible way that I even get filthy looks from small children. Slurp. Slurp-slurp. And Noodles & Company knows how to feed my fix. I’ve always liked the Denver-based chain for its fast-cazh convenience and prices,…
The talk continues about T|ACO, the updated taqueria with the awkward name that opened yesterday in Boulder. It’s not the first hip taqueria in the area, of course. Pinche Taqueria gave the Pinche Tacos concept a permanent home last year. And in February Comida Cantina opened a brick-and-mortar version of…
