Food & Drink

Last week, we reported that Denver’s groundbreaking pay-what-you-want SAME Cafe inspired national bakery and cafe chain Panera Bread to get into the non-profit biz itself. Built on the model used by SAME and other community kitchens like Salt Lake City’s One World Everybody Eats, Panera opened a pay-what-you-can cafe outside…

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, which is owned and operated by Denver based Alon Mor, has signed a deal with Doherty Enterprises to expand its dining concept to the East Coast…

Pete Ryan Cook Street School of Culinary Arts 1937 Market Street 303-308-9300 www.cookstreet.com After a fifteen-month pan-pounding stint at Z Cuisine, in March Pete Ryan became the executive chef/instructor at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, a move that brought him back to the institution where he’d been a student…

The blots of yellow that you see on the pizza in the above pic are not yellow cheese, but canals of yolk from a just-cracked egg that wind through the valley of mushrooms, bacon and tender pea shoots. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…

Be careful when you search for Sugar House. If you want the restaurant at 1395 West Alameda Avenue, which touts its big burgers — and calls itself the “sweet spot” for lunch and happy hour — you want the Sugar House Grill.. If you want the nightclub in the same…

David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, concede that Denver has nearly as many burger barns as Colorado has cattle, but Eco-Burger, their new Cherry Creek North burger joint taking up residence in the former Soleil Mediterranean Grill space (which the couple owned and closed in March) at 2817…

No tater tots or fruit cocktail were harmed in the upbringing of Congressman Jared Polis. No Cheetos or Little Debbie snack cakes either for that matter. In fact, Colorado’s second district congressman says he brought his lunch to school every day when he was growing up. What was packed? Usually…

At last night’s Denver FIVE dinner at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, Jamey Fader, culinary director of Big Red F Restaurant Group, the empire that oversees Lola, had this to say about his partners in cooking: “There are great things going on in Denver right now because of the incredibly talented…

Big plates of fries and big burgers crowned with just about every conceivable topping — in this case, arugula, caramelized onions and roasted poblano peppers bolstered with a side of “secret” sauce jolted with cayenne. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…

Brothers Bar & Grill — a link in a Wisconsin-based chain — is slated to open May 27 in the former home of The Real World: Denver at 1920 Market Street. And there’s enough drama around this project to rate a reality show. When Theorie, the building’s most recent occupant,…

The clown at the center of the controversy had nothing on the clowns outside the annual McDonald’s investor meeting in Chicago last week. Ronald McDonald has been under fire recently as a provider of both bad meals and bad lessons to the nation’s chunky, un-educated toddlers, and with Michelle Obama…

Unfortunately, the website for “Jerk and Go” was already taken (har), so Brian Levin settled on naming his company “Perky Jerky.” While the name is a step down on the Crude-O-Meter, it’s a step up in the accuracy department. Perky Jerky is caffeinated meat. Levin, a Colorado native, and friend…

Memorial Day is all about barbecues: in the backyard, at the park and in the woods, near the pee tree, if you’re so inclined. But if you don’t feel like throwing wood chips on the grill this year, there are plenty of barbecue barns in and around Denver that can…