2010 has come and almost gone, and Colorado still doesn’t have a Trader Joe’s. And the state has few prospects of getting one. Are you bitter? We are, especially since we got a hold of the Trader Joe’s list of its top-ten most popular products from 2010, which includes some…
The comments keep coming in response to Kyle Garratt’s initial In the Weeds: A Waiter’s Rant. Yesterday, B2 posted this: Cafe Society is becoming the service industries yelp. Its an avenue for waiters, cooks and chefs to bitch and moan about paying customers, much like yelp is that means for…
Every Wednesday, Interstate Kitchen & Bar, 901 West Tenth Avenue, will host Soul Service & SIN, with DJ Nick Sullivan playing blues, jump, delta, funk, boogie and more, from 10 p.m. to close tonight. The bar will be serving $3 wells and $2 Genny Cream Ales, and groups of four…
Know what I’m really looking forward to this holiday season? Not the gifts or the family time or the generosity of spirit or the tidings of comfort and joy. Nope, I’m looking to the fact that having Christmas fall on a weekend gives me an extra day or two to…
My mom loves a good Old-Fashioned — and this was the best I’ve ever tasted. It was so good I couldn’t help but wonder if the altitude helps make this drink so special. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
No. 89: Lemon-ricotta doughnuts from Olivéa They were an afterthought, those doughnuts. After desecrating the headcheese, swelling my jowls with pork cheeks, emptying a plate of tortellini bobbing in a pancetta-scented broth and reducing the guilt with a crock of cauliflower, the doughnuts just sort of appeared…
Boulder might be a college town, but we’re still a little surprised at the influx of pizzerias there over the last year, especially because these aren’t greasy slice joints — they offer gourmet pies, pulled straight from the depths of a wood-fired oven. Pizzeria Basta, 3601 Arapahoe Avenue, opened last…
The long-awaited Yard House opened this past weekend in the Sheraton hotel, bringing the well-recognized beer emporium into downtown Denver. It is the 29th location for the Long Beach, California-based chain founded by former Denverite Steele Platt…
For years, Gaia Bistro has been a serene breakfast and lunch spot, serving crepes, salads and sandwiches to diners packed into the charming dining room or sunning themselves at tables on the large patio. There was just one drawback: Gaia never had a liquor license. Which is part of the…
We’re into any social activity that involves eating and drinking, but something about the cozy traditional vibe of the holiday season makes us want to put on a fancy dress and head out to a high tea, where we can eat delicate cookies and drink English breakfast with our pinkies…
With only a few days to go until Christmas, it’s time to ‘fess up: Have you been naughty or nice? For your sake, here’s hoping you’ve been good enough throughout the year to merit yourself worthy to partake of some seriously good juice between now and the new year. Read…
The sign dangling from the door of Wolfe’s Barbecue plainly says “closed,” but at 3:15 p.m., fifteen minutes after barbecue nobleman Louis Wolfe has closed for lunch to prepare for the impending dinner rush, in walks an optimistic latecomer who orders two pork dinners. “We’re out of pork,” laments Wolfe,…
Food deserts — that’s what areas without grocery stores are called. And Commerce City is ready to provide some irrigation for the desert area around Reunion, a planned community whose plan has so far lacked a supermarket. The result? About 16,000 people in the northern range of Commerce City are…
Just weeks after Maui Brewing began shipping its beer to Colorado, another brewer that packages exclusively in cans will enter the market. But Tallgrass Brewing out of Manhattan, Kansas, doesn’t have as far to go. “It’s just a little eight-hour drive,” says brewery owner Jeff Gill. Tallgrass, which was founded…
Cook Street School of Fine Cooking hosted a holiday feast class last night that had almost all the qualities of a good action movie: cut-the-crap dialogue, a flesh wound, fire, and an ending where everyone ate juicy slabs of prime rib. Almost all the qualities, since there was no nudity…
After thirteen years in the restaurant business, Kyle Garratt knows what it means to be in the weeds. Still, he’s really feeling the heat after posting the first of what will be a series of weekly waiter’s rants under the “In the Weeds” title. Among the readers fueling the fire…
Every third Tuesday of the month, Lobby American Grille, 2191 Arapahoe Street, hosts Wine Happy Hour, where you can taste three to four wines paired with small plate appetizers. The fun starts at 6 p.m. tonight and costs $15; call 303-997-9911 or go to www.thelobbydenver.com. For information on dozens of…
Our family led a pretty modest existence when I was a child, but weekend mornings were sheer luxury. My brother and I would plod down the stairs and be greeted by a pile of misshapen chocolate chip- or banana-studded pancakes, steam still rising from the freshly griddled ones on top…
It’s late on a weekday morning — too early for lunch, but well past the breakfast hour, and the Egg Shell is still half full. A woman giggles to herself, text-messaging as she finishes her coffee at the marble-topped bar. A silver-haired man in the corner leans back in his…
I’ll drink alone all night as long as I have a seat at the bar — as long as I can bullshit with the bartender and other patrons, practically reach my next drink before it’s even poured. But put me at a table or booth removed from the alcohol IV…
Considering the woes of the past week, Olav Peterson is in a much better mood than you might expect. The chef/owner of Bittersweet, which, after a series of soft openings, was originally slated to open Saturday night (it didn’t), and again tomorrow night (it won’t), is frustrated by the delays,…
Whether you don’t celebrate Christmas or you’d simply rather abstain from holiday cooking, eating options constrict significantly when you’re choosing a place to dine on December 25. Thanks to hotel restaurants that cater to winter vacationers, there are definitely choices beyond moo shu pork and egg rolls, but those places…
