Harvest Week is over, but the eating will continue for Tom Ward, who won an EatDenver deck for his mouth-watering description of a Harvest Week dinner at Panzano, which you can read here. Tom, send your address to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send you the deck, with $520 worth of discounts…
Le Central bills itself as the “affordable French restaurant.” While some might find that description terribly bourgeois, we dare you to find any other spot in town that offers a three-course culinary lesson and meal for a mere $26. Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue,…
Sean Kenyon is a third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar. He is a student of cocktail history and a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional; he’s a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program and has achieved his introductory sommelier certification through the…
It was only a matter of time before urban street food went suburban, and first (that we know of, anyway) to bring the street food movement to suburban asphalt are bigwigs Chris Amato, Peter Kudla and Rob Kuck, the visionaries behind the Vallagio at Inverness, which will soon unmask several…
It takes balls! There’s a new testicle-related world record, and it was set right here in Colorado. This weekend, the Lady Luck Casino in Black Hawk hosted a Major League Eating-sanctioned competitive eating contest, charging competitors with the task of downing as many Rocky Mountain Oysters as they could in…
We’re sure you’re all aware that this weekend, the Taste of Colorado will be taking over Civic Center Park. But there’s a lot more going on — including the annual Creede Salsa Fiesta — to whet your appetite. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead this week:…
A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I’ve been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger, the contestants less interesting — and the food just a secondary player. In context,…
Last week, four Denver restaurants — Fruition, Root Down, Squeaky Bean and Colt & Gray — got some major love from New York Times scribe Jay Cheshes, who spotlighted the restaurants’ field-to-fork endeavors. But The Times wasn’t the only paper doling out love to Denver: USA Today, in its round-up…
The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its first anniversary on Halloween, wasn’t around during the Great American Beer Festival last year, so the taphouse is catching up. Starting this week, and leading up to the 2010 fest, September 16-18, the Rackhouse plans to have at least a dozen and possibly as…
On August 15, the Food Network unleashed the premier of The Great Food Truck Race, in which seven teams comprised of the country’s top food truck slingers hit the asphalt to wheel around the country, all in an effort to sell the most food in whichever challenge city they’re parked…
By partnering with established Denver chefs and restaurateurs, Larimer Associates, which owns Larimer Square, has been pushing new joints not just in the Square, but in neighborhoods around the city. Each of those restaurants is strategically designed to integrate seamlessly into its surroundings, drawing on the history of the building…
See that big-ass burger up top? That’s the small version. Torpedoed with a chile relleno and other requisite toppings, It’s the newest addition to a board that’s already submerged in burger culture — although these aren’t your everyday burgers. Clearly. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Although EatDenver’s Harvest Week — a cornucopia of special menus featuring Colorado’s produce and products at Denver’s independent restaurants — just ended, there’s still one last course to serve up: a DINR deck, which gives you $520 in discounts at members of Eat Denver (formerly known as Denver’s Independent Network…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess where contests this past week (our apologies for the hellish computer glitches that affected the comments functionality), ranging from this late summer salad to some still-unidentified carne asada fries to these barbecue sauces. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jabo’s, VB wins…
If this beer vs. wine thing is a new trend, we’re not complaining. First there was a Beer vs. Wine dinner at TAG earlier this month, and now Upslope Brewing and BookCliff Vineyards will face off during a beer and wine dinner at BookCliff, 1468 Pearl Street in Boulder…
Not every fishmonger is as environmentally conscious as Seattle Fish Company, 6211 East 42nd Avenue. The company is committed to providing the freshest fish possible — but also aware that both overfishing and the presence of certain chemicals in our water sources present real problems for the planet. To celebrate…
The building at 2479 South Broadway that briefly housed the Cabin on Broadway — and Old Tyme Dawgs & Drafts before that, and the Blue Walleye before that, and Mike’s Great Divide before that — is back on the block, locked up tight with a broker’s sign in the window…
The above salad, bright with Colorado heirloom tomatoes chromed golden, eggplant, garnet and watermelon and boosted by stretchy burrata oozing cream, was exactly the kind of summer dish I was looking for after a week of gorging myself like a heathen. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, ends tonight, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the restaurants celebrating Harvest Week?…
When Penzeys Spices, a Wisconsin-based gourmet spice company with shops in cities around the country, announced it would open on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, it caused a flurry of controversy. That was because the new location is just around the corner from an outpost of Savory Spice Shop,…
The owners of Mona’s Restaurant and Mo’ Taco (RIP) will be launching a new restaurant downtown in coming weeks. Mona’s Cafe, located in the former 212 Cafe spot at 1710 Sherman Street, is slated to open its doors the week of September 20, with a grand opening planned for September…
Time and time again, in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, we read about local kitchen commanders lamenting the dearth of Denver restaurant exposure on a national level. In fact, Jeff Bolton, exec chef of Second Home Kitchen & Bar, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell Q&A,…
