When I reviewed H Burger Co this week, I was especially drawn to the spot as a great downtown option for lunch on a work day — an escape from the office where you can sit down to eat a good meal quickly and cheaply. That kind of lunch was…
Eric Skokan Black Cat 1964 13th Street, Boulder 303-444-5500 www.blackcatboulder.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Eric Skokan, owner/chef of Black Cat in Boulder. Read the rest of Lori Midson’s interview with Skokan. Favorite restaurant in America: Rincon Peruano in San Francisco. It’s just a crazy place…
Real or fake? Below are eleven food trends and concepts that could be real or made up. It’s up to you to guess which is which. (Let us know in the comments section.) After all, who would’ve thought there would be cupcake trucks driving around Denver selling the sugar high…
You might know Mark Kurlansky as the man who penned the non-fictino Salt: A World History and Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. His latest effort, Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts, is (as the title suggests) a venture into the world of fiction, with…
Want to brush up on your shaking and stirring skills? Head to Highland, where Visit Lola, the upscale Mexican restaurant at 1575 Boulder Street, will host Cocktail Party 101. It’s the next installment in the Lola’s 101 series of spirit and cooking classes taught by mixologist Jimmy Zanon and chef…
There was a time when my profession required me to don ill-fitting business-casual attire and commute 45 minutes on a packed train, then be locked in a windowless conference room creating “deliverables” for hours on end, where I was often doomed to the dreaded working lunch, blindly taking down a…
Back in February, when H Burger Co, 1555 Blake Street, opened its doors in the SugarCube building downtown, the restaurant’s partners told us that, if things went well, they’d want to expand across Colorado. In fact, they even changed the name — the eatery was originally going to be called…
There are times when nothing hits the spot — nothing will do — but a hot dog. As we contended when we researched the best veggie hot dog you’ll ever put in your mouth, nobody does a veggie hot dog like LightLife’s Smart Dogs brand. And that’s exactly what you’ll…
“What we eat is an expression of who we are,” said Adam Lerner, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by way of introducing the first session in the three-day Art Meets Beast project. “Food is our most immediate introduction to culture.” And there was plenty of food for…
For proof that the cupcake trend is far from wearing out its welcome, look no further than Rosie Cakes, a new cupcake rig that hit the road running in September, after the woman behind the wheel, Rosie Desjardins, gave up a gig go-go dancing in Hollywood to unleash a cupcake-mobile…
If Veterans Day makes you want to support American citizens who served in a war or, uh, American citizens who lived through war eras, consider eating out. Tomorrow, in celebration of Veterans Day, several Boulder-area restaurants are donating 15 percent of the proceeds from meals consumed to Care Connect, which…
Popular diets speak to our society’s insatiable desire to pin blame for the saddlebags and love handles on some evil type of food. But if you think stuffing yourself with meat and cheese (since you’re cutting carbs) is a surefire way to get thin, you’re probably not going to like…
Sweet Ginger Asian Bistro & Sushi will open later this month at 2710 East Third Avenue, in the subterranean space that was formerly home to Plush. “We want to try and open before Thanksgiving, and we should have our liquor license by next week,” says owner Julie He, a restaurant…
We about lost our shit this past weekend when, while meandering the aisles of a downtown specialty store, we felt our ears assaulted with — wait for it — Christmas carols. Despite the 75-degree temps Denver’s seen lately, ready or not, the 2010 holiday party season is upon us, which…
Running from the rain/sleet/snow/graupel/hail of yesterday, I ducked into one of my favorite restaurants, grabbed a stool at the bar, knocked back a Mirror Pond Pale Ale and tucked into a quartet of cheeses, all of which are made from the milk of water buffalo. Can you guess where I’m…
Eric Skokan Black Cat 1964 13th Street, Boulder 303-444-5500 www.blackcatboulder.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Eric Skokan, exec chef/owner of Black Cat in Boulder. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. In the exhibition kitchen, the Black Cat crew is breaking down…
Cantina Laredo hosted a dinner and cooking class at the Centennial restaurant, 6851 South Gaylord Street, on November 8, to present new menu offerings and offer a preview of the first Jose Cuervo Tequila Dinner on Thursday, November 11. General manager Joann Harwell and executive chef Ed Ledford hosted the…
At 6 p.m. tonight at the Mercury Cafe, still-Mayor John Hickenlooper will hand out Denver’s 2010 Mayor’s Design Awards, honoring eleven neighborhood projects that combine form and function in remarkable ways. Several of the winners are restaurants, including the Mercury, the eatery/community center that Marilyn Megenity opened at 2199 California…
At least one of your favorite restaurants is likely participating in today’s Home for the Holidays: Dine Out program. Thirty local eateries will donate 10 percent of today’s net profits to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, which is marking its 25th anniversary this week. For a full lit of…
When Pete and Ann Pflum envisioned H Burger Co, the burger joint they put into a new spot at 1555 Blake Street, they designed a space and menu that they hoped would lure downtown dinner crowds to a block that, historically, has emptied out after 5 p.m…
Yeah, it’s snowing. We can see it, too. Love it? Hate it? Either way, snow means your local neighborhood watering holes and eateries want to warm you up — and some are offering specials. Look below for a few tweets we’ve seen recently. .bbpBox2137744897740800 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1288981003/images/themes/theme10/bg.gif) #2d4f8b;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px…
Cafe Society can’t get enough of Lotus of Siam. When she was in Las Vegas last week, Patricia Calhoun twice ventured off the Strip to visit the northern Thai restaurant in its original location, a silly strip mall off Sahara Avenue. That was after a strong endorsement from Lori Midson,…
