Yesterday, while having lunch, I made the dire, dire mistake of ordering a Cuban sandwich that was served — not grilled, not pressed, not melted — on challah bread. I shoved it away after the first soggy bite, setting my sights, instead, on the hummas and falafel that my dining…
American Craft Beer Week starts in a little less than three weeks, but the nine (yes, nine!) breweries in Fort Collins have already banded together to brew a collaboration beer that celebrates the seven days that Congress dedicated to the quaffing of craft brew. C.B. & Potts, Coopersmith’s, Crooked Stave,…
What can three or four million dollars buy you? A summer home in the Hamptons, a small company or, if you’re Taco Bell, sweet, meaty vindication…
Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part one of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part two of my interview will run in this space tomorrow. Justin Cucci has spent the majority of his life in…
Happy 4/20, Denver. We suspect that many of you will be partaking in weed-related activities today, and guess what? A number of restaurants are ready to serve all of your subsequent needs, offering up 4/20 deals to help you stuff your blazed face (or your sober face, for that matter)…
Doritos, pizza rolls, almost every form of snack cake and the entire dollar menu are all in the Hall of Fame for stoner munchies. Still, there’s a certain point when all culinary standards go up in smoke. And that’s where these ten foods come in:…
Sean Kenyon’s discussion of whisky — no “e,” please — prompted this story from Harvey: On a plane recently, a passenger asked the flight attendant, “What kinds of whiskey do you have?” She proceeded to list a few, when he interrupted, in a whiney, patronizing tone: “That’s Scotch!” And she…
UPDATE: This event has been rescheduled due to weather and will now take place on May 5. Vine Street Pub (& Brewery) will host a Smoking Hot Anniversary Party with barbecue, Chupacabra anniversary beer and guest beers, as well as live music. The fun starts at 4:20 p.m. and proceeds…
When Mt. Everest Restaurant & Bar opened late last year, I had high hopes that it would be a true Tibetan-Nepalese restaurant, with a board full of blood sausage, yak, water buffalo and all the other exotic, high-altitude animals…
Alcohol bombs, beer bottled in dead animals… if you’ve been wondering what those crafty brewers over at United Kingdom-based BrewDog will think of next, wait no longer. In a stunt inspired by the upcoming Royal Wedding, the brewer is unleashing Royal Virility Performance, a beer laced with Viagra…
When Patrick’s Nite Club closed a few years ago, Aurora lost one of the only places in that town where you could hear live jazz. But with the opening of Wine & Roses Jazz Supper Club on April 8, that void is now filled. Wine & Roses promises to host…
On Friday, April 27, Jorge Hinojosa Alonso and Jean-Claude Delville will head to the Wellington Webb Building at 1:30 p.m to attend a hearing that’ll determine whether their new watering hole, Vinue Food and Wine Bar, located at 2817 East Third Avenue, will get its liquor license. The wine bar,…
Mexican-style craft-brewed lagers are set to make a splash in Denver this summer, with a couple of new ones joining the fiesta in the run-up to Cinco de Mayo. Because of its lighter, more mellow profile, Mexican lager isn’t a style that’s common among craft brewers, who typically push the…
US Thai Cafe is one of our favorite Thai restaurants in Denver; the Edgewater spot landed our Best Thai Hot award in the Best of Denver 2011, and I just sang the praises of its fiery curries in a Second Helping review. So we were thrilled to learn that Ma…
Dan Ohlson, the former owner of Chez Jose, the burrito joint in Cherry Creek that shuttered last December after a seventeen-year run, swore up and down that he’d never open another restaurant in Cherry Creek. Never. He vowed, too, that he’d never have an underground space. Ever. Ohlson is now…
There are a few key elements that seem to magically define what makes a perfect spring wine. Much like the lighter foods you’re likely craving come April or May every year, your ideal wine should be as clean, bright and flavorful as a salad of just-picked berries and as aromatic…
The chef of the mountain restaurant where the above snap was flashed is obsessed with lamb — and I was equally obsessed with shoving it down my throat. 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…
Severely pissing off a shload of soap-opera viewers is probably not the most strategic career move that chef Mario Batali has ever made, but then, again neither was his alleged Food Network blackmail attempt — and he’s still sitting on a fat pile of cash. But will his latest television…
April is the cruelest month, not the least because street sweepers take to the roads in Denver, leaving lots of tickets in their wake. And, in the case of the Famous Dave’s at Stapleton, a fair amount of havoc: A privately owned street-sweeping vehicle ran into the barbecue restaurant early…
The orange slice outraged Sazerac lovers who spied Lori Midson’s Guess Where I’m Drinking post yesterday morning. The King had several choice words about the cocktail, including these: It may have tasted good, and it may have been made with rye, but it wasn’t a Sazerac. Just like slapping a…
What, you didn’t know that today is not just National Garlic Day, but also National Amaretto Day? Gaetano’s did. Today, the venerable Italian eatery will be offering free garlic bread and amaretto drink specials in honor of these major holidays. For more information, call 303-433-3172 or go to www.gaetanositalian.com. For…
Do you want more goat?” A tiny man was watching as I made my way along the buffet, ladling bright-orange chicken tikka masala and dark-green saag paneer onto a pile of rice, then adding a couple of golden-brown vegetable samosas, their flaky pastry too hot to touch. I’d already speared…
