He’s talked about it for months — and finally, after an endless hunting spree for the perfect space, salumi czar Mark DeNittis, who owns Il Mondo Vecchio, is opening Il Mondo Vecchio Mercato-Salumeria at 1284 South Pearl Street, in Washington Park…
This is our first official Veggie Girl revisit, but we felt a fresh look at City, O’ City was warranted, since the newly expanded restaurant also has a fresh new menu. While the wine/beer/tea/coffee lists are as impressive as ever, pizza doesn’t seem to be as much of a focus,…
If you like doughnuts — you know who you are — then you’ve undoubtedly popped dozens of these ridiculously addictive doughnut holes in your mouth. 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…
Pinche Taqueria, the brick-and-mortar version of the popular Pinche Tacos carts, made its debut on October 31 — the last in a potentially record-breaking roster of thirty-plus restaurants to open in a month. Here’s our restaurant roll call for October:…
In yet another burst of menu non-creativity, McDonald’s is introducing Chicken McBites: popcorn-style chicken micro-nuggets that will differ from Chicken McNuggets in that they are ostensibly made from actual cuts of chicken, rather than the bizarre breaded avian mash that gives McNuggets their superfluously spongy consistency. With this un-daring menu…
Today’s the day you can have a shipment of In-N-Out double-double burgers sent to your home in In-N-Out-deprived Colorado — if you’re willing to pay $50, plus shipping, for two of them. Deal, but no deal, says Devin: I love In-N-Out, but it is like a nice treat when I…
How awesome to forage for your own food, then turn it into a fabulous dinner. Tonight foraging expert Hank Shaw will tell you how to do it at Black Cat Restaurant, 1964 13th Street in Boulder, where he’ll be the headliner of the Hank Shaw Dinner and Book-Signing. The $65…
It was a trip to the bank, followed by a jaunt to a burger shack in San Diego, that convinced Terry Sandrin to open his own meat emporium. “I was at our local bank in Littleton last fall, and there was a couple who was grilling burgers outside in the…
Yesterday morning, sixty people huddled over rows of glasses in the new addition at The Mediterranean in Boulder, feverishly writing notes while sniffing and sipping. While they worked, a panel of master sommeliers highlighted comparisons and characteristics of wines from Burgundy, walking the group through tastes that compared village samples…
Do you like Fat Tire? How about Ranger IPA? If so, you’ll be getting more of both in February when New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins releases both beers in sixteen-ounce cans. The two beers will be the brewery’s first tallboys and they’ll be among the first to be produced…
Avery Brewing Company, which has outgrown the Boulder business park where it was founded eighteen years ago, has settled on a 5.6-acre spot in north Boulder, where it hopes to build a brand new beer compound. The location, at 4910 and 4920 Nautilus Court, would include a 30,000 square-foot brewery,…
It may be Halloween, but today also marks the opening (finally!) of Pinche Taqueria, Kevin Morrison’s taco-hustling brick-and-mortar — the follow-up to his taco wagon, which was one of the first mobile street food slingers to hit the streets of Denver…
Between sake tastings, chili and avocado competitions, and the Chefs Food & Wine Pairing Competition, Denver’s dining scene has a lot on its plate this week. Here’s a sampling of what’s on the menu:…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part three of this new series: I love booze. I try to…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. This vegetable barley soup is beef-broth-free — but the cooking sherry and barley miso add a full-bodied flavor to…
On the same menu stamped with housemade pupusas, empanadas and Salvadorian enchiladas, you’ll find conch soup, creamed spaghetti and meatballs and chop suey, which our server swore was one of the kitchen’s best dishes. Maybe next time. In the meantime, can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a meaty Friday night dinner at Frasca to a still-unidentified avocado margarita to clam linguine at a relatively new strip-mall Italian joint. For correctly identifying the dish as coming from La Scala Trattoria , Erinlstilwell wins an EatDenver…
“I was really hoping you’d go on the Jason Sheehan diet: whiskey, cigarettes, and Lucky Charms,” writes Mantonat in response to the second installment of Bar Belle, Laura Shunk’s new series about how a food critic can indeed get fit. In last Monday’s installment, Shunk kicked gluten to the curb,…
From 6 p.m. six until closing tonight, all locations of Chipotle — the homegrown big-burrito chain that Steve Ells started in Denver almost twenty years ago — will be offering a real treat to anyone in a costume inspired by the family farm. Dress like Old McDonald or a Niman…
If a weekend of Halloween parties left you thirsty for more, this is the last day to get spooky cocktails at Edge Restaurant & Bar, in the Four Seasons at 1111 14th Street. The special menu of mixed drinks includes several that are Twilight-inspired. For more info, call 303-389-3343 or…
Sorry, that headline is cruel. In-N-Out Burger, which now has locations in California, Nevada, Dallas-Fort Worth and Utah, is not opening a store in Denver, but if you don’t want to drive the 350-plus miles to get your double-double burger fix, you can have it delivered straight to your door…
Tyler Baer’s foray into the kitchen started during a year abroad in Germany. “Food is a very important thing for me and it always has been,” he says. “My mom always made things from scratch and organic ingredients, so I was really used to having good food. But during college,…
