LiveWell Colorado sponsored a nine-week after-school culinary program with three Denver high schools that culminated in the winning team from Martin Luther King Jr. Early College taking home first place at the competition last Friday. The all-female team took the prize with its own healthy school-lunch meal: Parmesan- and herb-crusted…
Chef, restaurateur and pig pusher Chad Clevenger, who already pimps fine swine from the Porker cart at Seventeenth and California streets, is gearing up to add a second cart to his repertoire, followed by a bona fide truck…
On Saturday night, YesPleaseMore, an organization that spreads the love for Colorado artistic endeavors through pop-up retail stores and events, descended on the Denver Pavilions for “Test Market,” a collaborative production featuring a bevy of creative projects from around Denver, including crafts, fashion shows and live music. And jump-starting the…
Bad enough when the real health inspector drops by a restaurant — but a phony inspector? That’s enough to get your temperature rising far above what’s considered safe for the storage of food. Over the weekend, the Colorado Department of Public Safety sent word of a phony inspector scam:…
This week is chock-full of classes you might need to brush up on your cooking and baking skills before the big feast day on Thursday — and if you’re looking for somewhere to eat out on Thanksgiving, we’ve got a full list of restaurants serving a traditional holiday spread (which…
Give a guy a Las Tortugas franchise, and what does he do? If you’re JuanCarlos Wong, you keep it for a few months before concluding that you can do your own thing — and do it better. Wong, who opened a Las Tortugas outlet earlier this year in June at…
A beer, a margarita, fresh chips ticked with salt, guacamole and piquant salsas litter the bar of this convivial hangout that turns out better than average south of the border grub to easygoing crowds of locals who often amplify their drunken debauchery with Jägermeister. Can you guess where I’m eating…
Can’t make it home for Thanksgiving? Dreading cooking a feast for your relatives? Maybe it’s a good year to go out to eat. And we’re not talking about some convoluted stereotype focused on the take-out Chinese food place down the street — we’re talking good food at good places around…
Eager winos from all walks crowded the steps and lobby of Le Central Thursday evening to get a taste of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau and sample the bistro tasting plates, all with a touch of the spirited young red in the ingredients of each miniature dish. The rich aromas wafting…
It was lights out for Thursday night’s “Scrumptious Holiday Appetizers” cooking class at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street. The event was canceled because of yet another issue with the Xcel substation at 1310 Jackson Street, the same substation that exploded back in June, and then went down again…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, including everything from a lucious piece of chocolate cake to rotisserie chcken at Cherry Creek Grill to this green curry. For correctly identifying its source as ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, Jane D wins an EatDenver deck…
Worried that your Thanksgiving meal will be a turkey? Try a test run. Generous Servings Cooking Classes and Cafe, 3801 West 32nd Avenue, will offer a Practice Thanksgiving class from 6 to 9:30 p.m. today. Tuition is $74; call 303-455-9730 or go to www.generousservings.com for details. For information on dozens…
In case you haven’t heard, homegrown chain Chipotle Mexican Grill is offering a Facebook deal this weekend whereby if you “check in” using Facebook Places Mobile on your smartphone and show your phone screen, proving that you’re not a big, fat liar to the eye-rolling workhorse behind the register, you’ll…
After numerous delays, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill finally opened this week. But before you scoot your boots over to the Shops at Northfield Stapleton to check out this giant country club, print out a copy of this I Love This Bar bingo game (courtesy of our…
Change is afoot at Red Trolley, 2639 West 32nd Avenue, a popular spot in Highland that sells homemade gelato, coffee and hot dogs. Owners Patrick and Julie Shaw are selling the business, which they opened almost two and a half years ago, to Dorina Miller, a former school eacher. And…
Barolo Grill isn’t the only restaurant that’s unearthing truffles this fall: The Flagstaff House, at 1138 Flagstaff Road in Boulder, is also playing around with truffles, thanks to executive chef Mark Monette, who’s created a five-course truffle-tasting menu for those who get all giddy during the truffle season. “They’re in…
At 8:30 p.m., FreshCraft, 1530 Blake Street, will be tapping three beers tonight from Stone Brewing: Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard and the latest bastard, Lucky Bastard. (FreshCraft is the only place in town you can taste the Lucky Bastard. Lucky … you know.) Pints are $6.50 for the Arrogant Bastard…
If you get clocked speeding, blasting through a stop sign or committing a minor offense in the city of Golden, Ronald Miller, the hamlet’s municipal court judge, is offering a far more civilized choice in lieu of paying your mandatory $25 court cost fee: the judge — the kind we…
Going one better than wearing his heart on his animal-product-free sleeve, Walter Bond, the activist who yesterday pleaded guilty to torching the Sheepskin Factory on Colorado Boulevard this spring, rocked a major tattoo in his mug shot. It might make you think he set the fire because he was peeved…
“Believe it or not, it’s been pretty calm today,” said Frank Bonanno, standing in the kitchen of Osteria Marco, the turf for last night’s Celebrity Chef Tour dinner, a gathering of five Denver chefs — Bonanno, Alex Seidel (Fruition and Frution Farms), Eric Skokan (Black Cat and Black Cat Farm),…
Forget entrance essays: If you’re looking for a few extra dollars for college, you might want to dial in your ability to express yourself in 140 characters or less. KFC just announced that it bestow a $20,000 scholarship on the person who blasts out the single best tweet between now…
Famous Dave’s may be a chain, with six locations coming to Colorado in as many years, but the latest restaurant opening in Aurora next month is out to prove that Dave’s is more than just a corporate name. “Technically, we are a chain restaurant — but we are unlike any…
