Food & Drink

To the electrician who completely fucked up Biker Jim’s opening, you pretty much suck. Jim Pittenger, aka Biker Jim, was all set to fling open the doors of his new brick-and-mortar, Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, on St. Paddy’s Day, but thanks to a half-ass electrician, the sausage slayer has had…

Something weird and vampiric is happening to Mike Isabella and Richard Blais on Top Chef: Mike is getting chubbier and cockier by the week, while Richard shrinks visibly, becoming ever thinner and more irritable, muttering that he hates, hates, hates everything he cooks — and this after receiving praise from…

When Boulder was named America’s foodiest town by Bon Appetit last year, it won the honor despite the fact that Boulder has no specialty cheese shop. For the last few years, anyone looking for a unique cheese in this town would generally look for it at Whole Foods. And while…

A Littleton strip mall has claimed another victim: Pot of Pho has closed in the same complex that recently lost an outpost of Big Papa’s BBQ…

Will Cisa The Corner Office 1401 Curtis Street 303-825-6500 www.thecornerofficedenver.com/food/dinner This is part two of my interview with Will Cisa, executive chef of the Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar. In part one of that interview, Cisa dished on monumental cooking disasters, Euclid Hall’s boudin noir and the impossible thirty-minute…

In his effort to win, well, everything, Charlie Sheen claims he’s trying to be the first person to appear on every television network. Which, we guess, includes Funny or Die, because that’s the website that’s hosting his cooking show, Charlie Sheen’s Winning Recipes…

Last year the B.U.F.F. Brothers Group sold four of their bars — the College Inn, Dirk’s, Gibby’s and Pifler’s — to the Little Pub Company. B.U.F.F. Brothers co-owner Rob Lanphier says the sale basically came down to money: The Little Pub Company, which now owns nineteen saloons in the area,…

My review of Ototo Food and Wine Bar was originally slated to run on Thursday, March 3. I’d eaten three meals at the place, written the review and signed off on what I thought was the final version — and then on Saturday, February 26, two days before that issue…

The Vine Street Pub & (Brewery) does not take credit cards — a policy that’s led to a lively discussion following our update on construction at the pub that will finally let the place brew its own beer. As readers point out, Vine Street does have an ATM — which…

As we were finishing dinner at Ototo Food and Wine Bar, a waiter who’d had my table twice before stopped by to say hello. A true, lifelong professional who’d never planned on having any career other than this one, he’d passionately delivered information about food and wine along with my…

Denver Restaurant Week kicked off nearly two weeks ago, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and Friday, when it all comes to an end. Tonight is no exception. As…

Cafe Society writers are hard at work on the Best of Denver 2011, which will include more than a hundred food and drink categories, many of which are included on the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll. Paper ballots are due at the office by Friday — but you can vote…

Denver’s veggie food scene is decent, but nowhere except the People’s Republic of Boulder would you find a restaurant quite like VG Burgers. Its all-organic, all-vegan menu is an anomaly in the quick-casual industry — as is the fact that the facility is entirely wind-powered, and there isn’t a wastebasket,…

The pudgy, misshapen flying saucers in the above snap, draped with a potent tahini sauce and sided with rods of blushing turnip pickles, are some of Denver’s best falafel — scratch-made, herby and greaseless. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…

Part of the Pearl Street Mall has been evacuated after fire broke out this morning at Oak at Fourteenth, the recently opened restaurant owned by bartender Bryan Dayton, chef Steve Redzikowski and general manager Annie Polk. Flames burst out in the attic, a space between the ceiling of the restaurant…

We’ve been eating our share of prix fixe menus over the last week, partaking in our share of Denver Restaurant Week (or Denver Restaurant Half Month, as TAG chef de cuisine Jensen Cummings calls it). And while some of what we’ve eaten has been entirely underwhelming — and has made…

Mark “sausage czar” DeNittis, owner of Il Mondo Vecchio, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute of Meat, and one of the newest members of FIVE, has just signed on with Cook Street School of Culinary Arts to launch a state-accredited butchery certification program — the only one in Colorado. The…

Will Cisa The Corner Office 1401 Curtis Street 303-825-6500 www.thecornerofficedenver.com/food/dinner This is part one of my interview with Will Cisa, executive chef of the Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. It’s day three of Denver Restaurant Week, and Will…

The Breckenridge and Wynkoop brewing companies have finally sealed the deal on their joint venture, which we first reported in December. Under the agreement, the two companies will keep their identities and their individuality, but they will share their brewing and restaurant resources. The Wynkoop’s restaurants include the flagship Wynkoop…