Food & Drink

Of all the magical morning eats, few are more versatile than the breakfast sandwich. Meat, eggs and cheese between two halves of a roll — it’s the perfect morning take-out meal, an excellent way to cure a hangover and an also an ideal option for a lazy weekend when paired…

It’s supposed to snow tomorrow, but it’s a balmy 75 degrees today, and that makes us antsy to go out and socialize — and maybe score some digits to make a date. In Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date thanks to…

Here in Denver, 8 Rivers Cafe owner Wanda James is getting lambasted by Yelpers who don’t take kindly to her calling out Yelp for its questionable filter algorithm. And while she insists that she has no problem with the reviews — and, therefore, no beef with the Yelpers themselves –…

Snow’s in the forecast for the last day of April, and because that’s the worst kind of weather for an outdoor bash devoted to street food and booze, the Food Truck Warriors — a group that includes Street Eats, the Crock Spot, Biscuit Bus, Steuben’s, Max Lunch, Brava Pizzeria, Stick…

Suspicious that Yelp was filtering reviews of 8 Rivers Cafe just because she and her husband, Scott Durrah, didn’t advertise, Wanda James took her grievances to the Yelp discussion board. That’s where she started a thread called “Yelp is fake and is destroying businesses that don’t advertise with them.” In…

Turn that frown upside down! Yesterday, a bill that would remove restaurants and bars from the archaic, post-Prohibition laws regulating the sales of low-alcohol beers in convenience and grocery stores made it out of the House Economic and Business Development Committee — 13 to 0. Senate Bill 60 has already…

The revelation that downtown might get a grocery store had urban residents clipping coupons and packing up their cloth bags. here’s how Carly greeted the news: If Denver was set up to have a city block (or has one currently) where you could get meat, cheese, produce, sundries, etc on…

Come Saturday at 2 p.m., the parking lot at Ninth and Bannock will morph into a food orgy, when nearly a dozen Denver street-food trucks and carts commune on the pavement to feed a bumper crop of gastronauts, all of whom will be part of the Food Truck Warriors kick-off…

Vicente Domingo closed the doors on his young restaurant, Viejo Domingo, in March, saying he was taking a break and that he’d be back in May. And indeed, there’s activity in that location again — but we’re not entirely sure Domingo is behind it. Caminito Tango Restaurant is taking over…

It’s burger week over at Eater National, and in addition to burger history, burger food porn and burger chain analysis, the website plotted fifteen of the country’s hottest burgers on a map… and included Denver’s very own Tarbell’s Southglenn…

What are the best cocktail bars in America? Well, according to Travel + Leisure, Brooklyn’s Clover Club, New Orleans’s Cure … and Denver’s Green Russell, among a handful of others. In celebration of the “golden age of cocktails” currently upon us, the magazine rounded up ten spots making a splash…

Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part two of my interview with Jenna Johansen. Part one of this interview ran yesterday. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Opening my restaurant. I’ve done a lot of work to get to where I am, and I’ve planned…

Hugh O’Neill, who owns St. Kilian’s Cheese Shop with his wife, Ionah, always has interesting things to say, not just about food and drink (about which he knows plenty), but about life and beauty. In fact, I’d consider him both a cheesemonger and a philosopher — a natural pairing, I…

Yes, I’m a liver lover. And although I risked the wrath of my dining companions when I ordered this dish, it contained enough iron to stiffen my resolve. Can you guess where I’m eating? Follow @CafeWestword on Twitter…

Hungry for a taste of true Spanish tapas, which I’d enjoyed so much on the Iberian peninsula, I hurried to Tapas de España, which recently opened in El Señor Sol, a Mexican restaurant that occupies the Victorian building that was once the Zang Brewing Company. There’s actually no distinction between…

Downtown Denver may finally get a grocery store, as our Latest Word blog reported yesterday afternoon. But don’t grab your reusable shopping bags yet: Although ground could be broken late this year, the 42,000-square-foot store by Union Station wouldn’t open before 2013. “We are responding to market demand,” Dan Schuetz,…

The news of a pair of surprise closures — the two Mirch Indian Grill restaurants in the south suburbs and Walk-In Burgers in Edgewater– has readers serving up their own theories. Here’s how davebarnes summed up the problems at Walk-in Burger: Reasons for closing: 1. Fishy smell from Sloan’s Lake…