Food & Drink

We’ve raved about Tocabe before — it won a Best of Denver award in 2009, and former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan gave it a stellar review. And even better: Tocabe is vegetarian- and vegan-friendly…

I sneaked away over the weekend, taking a jaunt to the mountains, where I found myself in a little town, population just over 100, that doesn’t have a whole lot going on, save for scenery gazing and a single restaurant with a gorgeous bar. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…

Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. “It’s June, which…

Chris Cina Hideaway Steakhouse 2345 West 112th Avenue, Westminster 303-404-9939 www.hideawaysteakhouse.com This is part one of my interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Chris Cina wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, didn’t have…

According to a recent article in 24/7 Wall St., a handful of beloved breakfast cereals are steadily declining in popularity — and may end up in the annals of cereal history rather than being shoveled into the eager mouths of children every morning. The cereals currently on life support are…

Linger, the latest restaurant to join the increasingly crowded lineup in Lohi, opened yesterday, in one of the buildings that once housed Olinger mortuary. Just down the street, another former mortuary facility now houses Vita and Lola. The location prompted this memory from NW Denver: How can people eat in…

It’s finally — blissfully — patio season, and that means that one of the best tables in town on a weekend morning is at Gaia Bistro, where the tables on the patio and sprinkled across the lush garden are usually full of regulars, brunching lazily in the sun…

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: There can never, ever be too many breakfast emporiums, and over the weekend, Tangerine, a new restaurant from Alec Schuler, opened in Boulder directly next door to Arugula, Schuler’s farm-to-table dinner restaurant. The fifty-seat space — contemporary, bright and bedecked with…

Several months ago, Brian Laird, who’d been spearheading the burners at Barolo Grill for more than a decade, parted ways, amicably, with Barolo owner Blair Taylor and his venerable Italian restaurant. Laird took a few weeks off to soak up the sun in Hawaii and mull over a new offer…

The Kitchen [Next Door], the next eatery in the family of restaurants that started with The Kitchen seven years ago, had been slated to open its doors this Thursday. But there’s been a hitch — and now it won’t start serving until next week. “It’s a combination of things,” explains…

Six months after Que Bueno closed for renovations, every frequent flier’s favorite spot at Denver International Airport has finally reopened on Concourse B. The spot has expanded from 1,118 square feet to 1,490 square feet — and, more important, the liquor offerings have also expanded, with a full bar now…

My favorite meal of the week is brunch, especially when it involves the man of my dreams and something French — in this case, a near-transcendent croque madame crowned with a trembling egg spilling yolk the color of sunflowers. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…

Andrew Knowlton, the Bon Appetit food scribe, who, in the fall of last year, named Boulder the “foodiest town” in the United States, is now throwing around the culinary “F” word — fusion — in a story that trumpets the top six restaurants in the country to “Taste the New…

So McDonald’s is issuing a “surprising, embarrassing and uncharacteristic” apology to its Australian customers because McCafé coffee sucks. “We are the largest coffee chain in Australia, but we know we are not the most loved,” Helen Nash, McDonald’s Australian COO, told The Australian. “Customers have told us we can do…

With Civic Center Eats rolling into Civic Center today for a new summer season, and trucks tooling around other parts of town, Denverites will get to test some new mobile barbecue, including Bubby’s BBQ and N.Z’s Smokin’ Guns, which will hit Civic Center Park Thursday. Still, the responses to our…