Dry with an unexpected splash of everything else! That’s what Lori Gray thinks Colorado tastes like, and that entry in our Cocktail Cocktail contest just won her two tickets to the two-day Colorado Cocktail Project, which will be pouring out wisdom — and drinks — at the Museum of Contemporary…
Every week in Chef and Tell, Lori Midson serves up a heaping helping of wit and wisdom from a local chef. Some work for big national outfits, some are struggling in their own tiny kitchens, but they all share a love of food — and serving that food to Denver…
Happy Free Beer Friday! Every Friday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Rialto Cafe on the 16th Street Mall serves up a free draft beer with the purchase of any lunch entree. That should make your post-lunch Friday much more bearable! For details, call 303-893-2233 or visit www.rialtocafe.com. For information…
It’s hard to really screw up a sandwich, since it requires just enough skill to slap a couple of slices of meat and maybe a little cheese between two pieces of bread. But by the same token, it’s also hard to elevate the sandwich into something truly extraordinary. There are…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
The original Elway’s hosted the annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge last night, when sixteen of Denver’s top chefs competed to make the best slider. The winner? Troy Guard of TAG and TAG | RAW Bar, for his kangaroo slider with piquillo pepper remoulade, spinach and pickled cipollini onions (with a…
Denver Yard Harvest, a new urban farming initiative, is kicking off its cause at a fundraiser from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight at Fuel Cafe. The non-profit group’s goal is to harvest surplus fruits and vegetables from residential properties throughout town and distribute them to daycare facilities, homes for the…
For the past year, Shangri-La Cafe, the tiny coffee shop wedged into the space between Lola and Vita in the Lower Highland, has built a steady following, thanks to its Lavazza espresso drinks, coffee and pressed sandwiches — sandwiches so stellar that the shop won our Best Panini award in…
WTF? There’s nothing I loathe more than a bona fide taqueria that goes gringo on me. But that’s exactly what’s happened at this Mexican outpost that’s suddenly tainting its gorditas with yellow cheese, watering down its salsas to appease a shy palate and serving barbacoa that tastes as though it’s…
Bacaro Venetian Taverna, the Italian bar and restaurant that boasts a raucous nightlife,just unleashed a summer cocktail menu filled with sangria and other fruity cocktails, perfect for sipping on the rooftop patio on the West End of Boulder’s Pearl Street, as the sun sets over the Flatirons. But while we’ll…
First we had Odell’s Twitter Brew, a beer recipe that was workshopped and designed on Twitter. Then came Trinity’s Double Rainbow Collaborative Saison, a beer dedicated to a viral YouTube video. Now, there’s a beer named for the newly famous photo of an underpants-clad boner that New York Congressman Anthony…
Jared Brant Satchel’s on 6th 1710 East Sixth Avenue 303-399-2560 www.satchelson6th.com This is part two of my interview with Jared Brant, executive chef of Satchel’s on 6th. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: That’s a very hard question to answer. There are…
It started with a simple question: New York has the Manhattan, Kentucky the Mint Julep. But does Colorado have a defining cocktail? (Besides craft beer, that is.) Months later, our mission to determine what this state tastes like is about to culminate in the Colorado Cocktail Project. On June 26,…
Chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson of Frasca Food and Wine chose Comida, the Boulder-based Mexican food truck, as his favorite restaurant in Colorado for Travel + Leisure’s feature on chef’s darlings around the country. He especially likes the bistec tacos, costillas de res tacos and “truck-made” guacamole and chips, Mackinnon-Patterson told the…
For this week’s reviews, Laura Shunk visited two old standbys in Denver’s hottest new restaurant neighborhood: Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli and Lechuga’s. The description of the area prompted this from Steve065: You called it northwest Denver instead of Highlands! For those of us who grew up here, it was always…
Chances is celebrating its first-year anniversary with a three-day bash that starts tonight and ends on Saturday. The festivities will include fifteen-plus DJs providing bass-thumping tunes well into the night, along with free food and drinks until they run out. “It’s been a great year, and getting better and better,”…
Talk a walk on the wild side tonight at Do at the Zoo at the, um, Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele Street. This bash is always one of the major parties of the summer, filled with food samplings, drinks, live music and more. It runs from 7 to 10:30 p.m. and…
Young man, you’re very tall. Would you mind switching on the air-conditioning for me?” My boyfriend and I had been standing in Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli for a couple of minutes, and we’d already scanned the grubby shelves packed with food imports from Italy, including cannoli shells, canned San Marzano…
For my review in this week’s Westword, I stopped by an old northwest Denver Italian institution, eating excellent take-away sandwiches at Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli. The shop doubles as a market, selling all kinds of Italian imports in addition to housemade sausages, which patrons can buy by the foot. And…
A new restaurant, Ghost Plate & Tap, featuring 23 beers on tap and specialties from both the Wynkoop and Breckenridge brewpubs will fill the space where the Rocky Mountain Diner closed in February. The Diner, at 800 18th Street, had been a downtown institution for two decades before a lease…
If you were hoping America’s Next Great Restaurant winner, Soul Daddy, would eventually start hawking its healthy soul food in Denver, don’t hold your breath. Despite the credentials of the panel of investors — Steve Ells, Chipotle’s founder and CEO, Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia — who selected…
Any vegetarian with a hankering for pho will be very familiar with the fact that most pho restaurants serve their noodles swimming in beef broth, which is the traditional preparation for pho. Thankfully, there are a handful of pho restaurants in the metro area that offer a vegetable broth, too,…
