Food & Drink

No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner…

Forty one years ago, Jerry and Deb Sturm opened the South Restaurant, an Englewood joint that turns out a massive board of Mexican-American fare and fish bowl-size margaritas in a festive space. Now, the family is getting ready to take their concept downtown: Next year, they’ll introduce Zi South on…

On November 2, Adam Schlegel woke up to a very sunny day — and not just because he’s in San Diego, where a new Snooze (the first one outside of Colorado) will open in about two weeks. The sun had barely gone down on November 1 when he got the…

It’s all Greek to me … but 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 — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive a 2011 EatDenver dining…

Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part two of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part one of my Brandon Foster interview. Favorite restaurant in America: Chez Panisse. I’ve been there twice, once for lunch and once for…

Hosea Rosenberg is a ham. The former exec chef of Jax-Boulder — and victor of Top Chef season five — has hijacked my computer, typing “Hosea is soooooooooo handsome” on the screen. But even Rosenberg admits that he’s nowhere near as handsome as his eight Berkshire piglets, all of which…

What’s your favorite Chipotle? The food at each one tastes different, founder Steve Ells revealed in his recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, because employees at Chipotle actually cook. “When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food,” Ells told Gold. “They have to cook. At…

Eric Skokan’s Black Cat Farm may have started as a backyard garden, but over the past few years, it’s grown to a seventy-acre operation that provides a good deal of the food for his Boulder restaurant, Black Cat, throughout the year…

Sake, with its range of styles, light body and crisp finish, is ideal for food pairings as well as an easy thing to sip all night long. Plus, you can take down a lot of it and escape a hangover. Those factors should have long ago propelled it into a…

Hops & Pie, the pizza and craft beer palace on Tennyson Street, in Berkeley Park, is taking a huge slice out of the space next door, the square footage of which will more than double the size of Drew and Leah Watson’s neighborhood hangout…

Yesterday’s late-afternoon lunch: a little duck pâté, a dab of mustard, a few cornichons, good bread and boozy cherries. 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 — and every…

Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part one of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part two of my Brandon Foster interview. “Sweat Hog.” Those are the words inscribed on Brandon Foster’s deep-blue mechanic’s shirt. “Oh, no, are…

After a month-long renovation and expansion project, City, O’ City reopened in September to both raves and rants from fans of what had been a casual hipster hangout, and is now twice as big and much more polished. Veggie Girl had loved the original City, so she was a little…

A young woman pressed her face and hands to the window. She was wearing a tattered dress smeared with blood, which also dripped from the corner of her crimson mouth. That mouth contorted with an unheard moan as she scratched at the glass. Zombie or Occupy Denver protester? “Has to…