I found out about TAG’s new ice program through the Facebook status update of bar manager Mike Henderson: “Kold-Draft, you had me at hello…” It’s hard to explain to non-cocktail geeks why mixologists find Kold-Draft ice so exciting. Kold-Draft is the slowest melting ice available, and it’s a much harder…
As the weather finally starts to warm up, invitations to springtime parties are sure to arrive in your mailbox (or inbox, as it were). A thoughtful guest will always inquire as to what they might bring as a thank-you for being invited; a lovely bottle of wine is a no-fail…
This could be the most politically incorrect sandwich in all of Colorado. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll…
While Kroger is making efforts to improve its seafood sourcing practices, it is doing so at a “painfully slow pace,” according to a “supermarket scorecard” recently issued by Greenpeace. That King Soopers’s parent company might not be ultra-conscientious about where it gets its swordfish and orange roughy comes as less…
“The Thing,”at King’s Chef Diner, is a messy, four- to five-pound landfill of Texas toast, hash browns, eggs, green chili, cheese and meat. Outrageous? Who could disagree? The Food Network recently featured the dish, a main attraction at the Colorado Springs diner, on an episode of its Outrageous Food show…
When you go out to eat, no matter how hard you fight, you may lose the battle of the bulge. That’s because if your server is overweight, you will order more food and like it, according to a new scientific study. The universities of British Columbia and Arizona, in conjunction…
The original Tamales by La Casita.Tamales by La Casita just got approved for a liquor license. No, not the original Tamales by La Casita at 3651 Navajo Street that’s owned by Paul Sandoval and his wife, state legislator Paula Sandoval, one of ten candidates vying for the District 1 Denver…
Nothing says “summer” like a cold, refreshing alcoholic beveragel — and you can get a jump on the season tonight at Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, which is hosting a Summer Cocktail Party fundraiser from 5 to 7 p.m. The beneficiaries are the Women’s Foundation of Colorado and the Empowerment Council,…
I haven’t had the chance to visit Crabtree Brewing, which started four years ago as Greeley’s first microbrewery, so I was happy last week when I saw a six-pack of their Boxcar Brown at Argonaut (their beer isn’t widely available outside of northern Colorado). Any excuse to drink a new…
It’s not all bourbon and KFC. Kentucky may know a thing or two about food after all, and it’s bringing its know-how to Colorado. Wild Eggs, a Louisville-based breakfast super-mini-chain with Colorado roots is expanding into the state in the near future, according to the Denver Business Journal. The paper…
From culinary delights prepared by women to Cinco de Mayo to a huge array of Mother’s Day happenings, we’ve got a whole lineup of great foodie events taking place this week. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead: Monday, May 3: The city’s most respected and creative women chefs cook at…
You better like brown rice and romaine lettuce. Freshii, the growing, Chicago-based fast/healthy food chain started by a former Oscar de la Renta public relations manager, opens in Republic Plaza today, bringing its wraps, rice noodles, organic oatmeal, and a multitude of other options to a broader cross-section of Coloradoans…
Vine Street Pub 1700 Vine Street 303-388-2337 www.mountainsunpub.com…
As of May 1, soda pop and candy — “a preparation of sugar, honey, or other natural or artificial sweeteners in combination with chocolate, fruit, nuts, or other ingredients or flavoring in the form of bars, drops or pieces,” according to the Colorado Department of Revenue — are no longer…
A traditional Scotch egg tucks a not-quite-hard-boiled egg inside a sausage casing — but from there, this brunch starter breaks with all traditions. Can you guess where I was eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into…
It’s time for our monthly round-up of restaurant opening-and-closing action — and there was plenty in April, much of it caffeine-fueled: RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN APRIL*: Abrusci’s, 300 Fillmore Street Backcountry Provisions, 1617 Wazee Street Bardo Coffee House, 238 South Broadway Big Game, 1631 Wazee Street Boulder Organic Pizza, 1175 Walnut…
There are several links in the homegrown Mercedes Mexican Restaurant chain around the metro area, but perhaps none more welcome than this new outpost, which occupies a former Taco Bell at 14th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive. Which means that not only does this Mercedes offer the same great $2…
Jared Jacang Maher’s February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky’s restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue stands for So All May Eat, and speaks to the…
Cafe Society served up six Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from the view from the door of the Squeeze Inn to a giant (and still unidentified) breakfast burrito to the new fois gras on Shanahan’s revamped menu. For identifying that starter — which may be one…
It’s one of the great culinary paradoxes: While most household-name chefs are men, in most households, women are the ones wearing the aprons. But the annual fundraiser for Work Options for Women — a nonprofit enterprise that teaches impoverished women the skills they need to become gainfully employed in the…
In the four hours that David Bravdica had been slinging pizzas, the skies rained, sleeted, snowed, dropped gropple and kicked up enough wind to blow flour from here to Tuscany, which is where Bravdica, a former airport manager, learned the art of making pizza — pizza that he began peddling…
Picture this commercial: In a split screen, two attractive young women are both in rumpled beds with the silhouette of a man in the shower behind them. The girls talk into the phone at the same time: Girl 1: “Did you…” Girl 2: “We did…” Girl 1: “It was..” Girl…
