Food & Drink

It’s National Margarita Day, and although that’s not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:…

If you wanted a rock-solid reason to become a member of this private country club — which I’m not — all you need to do is wrap your lips around its burger, a towering skyscraper of bacon, blue cheese, an onion ring, lettuce, tomatoes and peppercorn-crusted beef. It’s called the…

Corey Cunningham moved to Denver from New Jersey to take the executive chef job at Baur’s Ristorante (now Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar), but after a few years, he split and headed to Boulder where he stepped into Brasserie Ten Ten as a sous. Now, he’s manning his own…

Not that we need to remind you, but today — whoo-hoo! — is National Margarita Day, which means that bars and restaurants all over the metro area are liberally pouring the popular tequila cocktail, including Pica’s Mexican Taqueria, in Boulder. And earlier this week, we held a contest, giving one…

Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part one of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Before Jeremy Kittelson opened Ambria in mid-November, he conducted a tasting, and while he was visibly excited…

Mayor Michael Hancock will learn to flip a Denver omelet today at a photo opp pushing Denver Restaurant Week. A Denver omelet? That may be the dish that’s been labeled with this city’s name, but it’s hardly the best example of this city’s cuisine. Former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan was…

When the first Spicy Pickle opened at 988 Lincoln Street in 1999, it quickly drew faithful fans with its hearty sandwiches — always accompanied by a homemade pickle. That early rush fueled lots of dreams, dreams of the kind of success that other homegrown chains, most notably Chipotle, which started…

When I bumped into my neighbor the other day, we got to talking about sausage. He’d recently acquired a beautiful new meat grinder and has been having a great time with it. I, coincidentally, have always wanted to make my own sausage, and asked if he’d show me how. “Of…

After a long day in the office, there’s nothing like kicking back with some happy-hour drinks — and maybe some happy-hour bites, so that you can still drive home safely. While the wine system at the Living Room, 1055 Broadway, is a lot of fun to geek out on, even…

It’s been nearly nine months since Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk put together the deal to take over the old Gumbo’s space, where they planned to open a Denver outpost of The Kitchen, the Boulder restaurant they put on the West End of Pearl Street in 2004. “We want to…

There aren’t many chicken wings in this city that fly right, but these meaty suckers, rubbed with bold spices, are an exception. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool…

Wednesday, February 22, is National Margarita Day. Unfortunately, it’s not a paid holiday. Nonetheless, any day is a good day to down a margarita, which, incidentally, was allegedly the invention of a woman in San Antonio, Mrs. William (Margarita) Sames, who poured what she claims was the world’s first margarita…

The James Beard Foundation has just announced its crop of restaurant and chef semi-finalists vying for a coveted 2012 James Beard award, and several Denver chefs, one Boulder restaurant and one mountain distillery are all named as contenders…

Gluttons we might be, but we’re not exactly turned on by the notion of picking candy — or, worse yet, melted fruit roll-up goo — out of our private parts, so we’ve never been partial to edible underwear. But now we’ve learned that some creative genius has invented a type…

Michelle Obama’s ski trip to Aspen over Presidents’ Day weekend created a flurry of interest in our post from this time last year, when she and the First Daughters skied in Vail and ate at Restaurant Kelly Liken. Who knew that Rush Limbaugh was a restaurant critic? “The problem is,…

A woman dressed in purple is sitting beneath the Havana skyline, her shoulders dipping and swaying to the Cuban music pouring through the speakers. “Que rico!” she shouts after taking a bite of a rib. “Like Florida!” she exults, holding out the coffee she’s just sampled, her body continuing to…