The Denver Cupcake Truck rolls into town

Yeah, that’s right: Cupcake. Truck. The team behind Cake Crumbs Bakery, 2216 Kearney Street, is taking their show on the road come Tuesday, April 13, the day their new cupcake truck hits the streets. “I’ve just always had a vision of cupcakes being vended from an old time delivery truck,”…

Ska Brewing’s Mexican Logger is making his way back to Denver

After a six-year absence, Durango’s Ska Brewing Company plans to begin selling its much loved (and occasionally scolded) Mexican Logger back to Denver. The summer seasonal is, you guessed it, a Mexican-style lager that that the brewery serves with limes in its tasting room and sells in bottles throughout southern…

Guess where I’m eating?

The pile of greens in the above photo might not be the first dish you’d think about eating at this neighborhood joint, but the salad, a tangle of arugula, hits of goat cheese, and a sprinkling of apricots and almonds, does the place proud. Where did I restrain myself at…

Mountains of food and wine at the Taste of Vail

You know that spring has sprung when the crest of Vail Mountain morphs from a skier’s powdered paradise into an al fresco grazing ground for foodniks and oenophiles, a transformation that takes place every year during the Taste of Vail, a three-day gastronomic romp that begins today…

Lard of the land: John Hinman wins cherry pie fight

It started off so innocently: Elizabeth Thomas, pastry chef forWaterCourse Foods and City O’ City, was visiting her sister, who works at Marczyk Fine Foods, and got a taste of the pie that John “Haji” Hinman had been making for the market. “She said it was lame,” Hinman remembers, “and…

Tonight: Montinore Estate wine dinner at Strings

Montinore Estate Winery in Willamette Valley, Oregon, is one of the few wineries in the country to produce biodynamic wines certified by the Demeter Association. What does that mean? Find out tonight from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., when Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, is hosting a Spring Wine Dinner that will…

Tryst to re-open as Dive on 15th this weekend

Last week, when Paul Piciocchi announced that he was closing Tryst and moving the club concept down to Playa Del Carmen, he said that its former home at 1512 Larimer Street would soon become a new watering hole. Ana after less than a week of remodeling, Dive on 15th is…

Got milk? Breasts are not on the menu at this Old Country Buffet

When does breast-feeding constitute a crime? When local police officers don’t know the law. Bethany Morton was at the Old Country Buffet in Maplewood, Minnesota, for Easter dinner when her six-month-old son, Dawson, got hungry — so she started feeding him milk au natural, without bothering to cover up for…

Happy Hour Hunt: Lola

The Place: Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, 720-570-8686. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The Deals: Specialty cocktails and select red and white wines by the glass are $5; Tecate cans are $2; sangria is $4; and generously…

Boulder Farmers’ Market starts a season of shopping

The Boulder Farmers’ Market, which opened for business this past Saturday (read Juliet Wittman’s story about opening day here), is always the first farmers’ market of the season. In fact, when Boulder introduces its Wednesday hours on May 5, only a few other markets will have started up along the…

New Relaxing Tea follows in the footsteps of Mary Jane

The soda jerk who brought us Mary Jane’s Relaxing Soda has taken his love for kava to the next level of mixology and given us…the Relaxing Tea. “It’s a move away from carbonated drinks,” says Matt Moody, CEO of the Relaxing Company Inc. “Tea is a hot market, and the…

Cooking with Pete: Split pea soup

Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. “Eternity is a ham…

Chef and Tell with Jennifer Jasinski from Rioja and Bistro Vendome

Jennifer Jasinski Executive chef/owner: Rioja and Bistro Vendome Unless you’ve been in self-imposed isolation or mandatory lockdown, you’ve no doubt heard the news: Jennifer Jasinski, executive chef/co-owner of Rioja and Bistro Vendôme, is just months away from opening Euclid Hall Bar and Kitchen, an American tavern that she describes as…

Tonight: Lola hosts a blowout benefit for Dos Casas

Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, has pulled out all the stops for tonight’s Dos Casas fundraising event, which offers three options: a five-course dinner at 6:30 p.m., paired with wine, for $75; the dinner plus exclusive patio seating and a chef meet-and-greet for $125; or an after-hours party starting at 9…

Fruition’s Alex Seidel named a Food & Wine magazine Best New Chef

Just minutes ago, Food & Wine magazine released the names of the country’s Best New Chefs for 2010, and Alex Seidel, executive chef/owner of Fruition, earned one of the ten coveted spots. Bryan Moscatello, the former exec of the long defunct Adega Restaurant and Wine Bar, was the last Denver…

Backcountry Provisions about to provide for LoDo

Backcountry Provisions is shooting to open its LoDo store on Thursday morning — just in time for Friday’s Colorado Rockies home opener. The sandwich shop/deli has moved into the former Willie Matthews Gallery space at 1617 Wazee Street — and don’t worry, says Denver store manager Chelsey Moore, “We’re keeping…