Food & Drink

Man may not live by bread alone — but some sandwich shops seem out to disprove that. A super-bready breakfast sandwich in our Guess where? contest prompted guesses of Hi Rise, Heidi’s Deli (“bread for four sandwiches and meat for one!!”), Devil’s Food, Deli Zone, Gallop Cafe and Wooden Spoon,…

Years ago, when I was reviewing restaurants for another publication, I called Carbondale, a hamlet that’s down valley from Aspen, a “lowdown trucker town,” a comment that set the mountain town into a tailspin. At the time, however, Carbondale’s restaurant landscape was completely overshadowed — justly — by the glitter-gulch…

In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…

Ghost Plate & Tap, the latest venture by the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group, just opened this afternoon in the former home of the Rocky Mountain Diner, and is pouring 23 craft beers — or will, once they’re all in place. But in the meantime, the bar is open — and it sounds…

Don’t mess with spuds. That was the message sent out yesterday by the Denver-based United States Potato Board, in response to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine that states potatoes make your body resemble Mr. Potato Head. In one of the more unintentionally amusing press…

“It’s a Mexican coffee house. Like a bakery and cafe, but Mexican style,” says Adriana Cendejas of Tenoch Mexican Coffee House, the spot she opened with her brother near just two weeks ago. The pair comes from Mexico City, and they cribbed the name Tenoch from Tenochtitlán, the Aztec name…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Mark Monette, the executive chef/partner of the Flagstaff House, sounds off on sharing kitchen space with Thomas Keller, turning fifty and doing double duty at two top drawer restaurants, which keeps him firmly entrenched in the kitchen. He took some away from the…

It’s fig season, and that means that restaurant menus all over the city are pimping the sweet, fleshy fruit. Here, where the above snap was flashed, the figs are enlivened with Gorgonzola and sheeted in prosciutto. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…

We all have super-secret snacks that taste straight righteous to us, but would send other people scampering to discharge their tummy floaters into the nearest lavatory. Munchies so bizarre and immoral that a food writer hobnobbing with the gentry, sipping champagne and spearing delicate bits of seared ahi dipped in…

Mark Monette has been interested in food since he ate pounds of pancakes at the Boulder Village Inn that his father managed in the ’60s. Although his culinary training took him far afield, he ultimately returned to Boulder to run the kitchen at the Flagstaff House, which his family had…

In the 1960s, Boulder’s Greenbriar Inn transformed a building that dated back to1873 into a restaurant, a spot near Lefthand Canyon that attracted wedding parties and special-occasion celebrations with an ostentatious menu of now-dated, then-staples of fine dining, mostly heavily sauced dishes prepared tableside. The eatery has evolved since then,…

Several months ago, Peter and Mara Soutiere nabbed the tiny hallway space behind their Pearl Street-facing restaurant, Tahona Tequila Bistro, and began drawing up plans for an intimate restaurant that would share a kitchen with Tahona. At that time, the couple was still finessing plans and unwilling to divulge details…