With 1,500 craft breweries across the country making tens of thousands of different beers every year, it’s getting hard to come up with new names. So Twisted Pine Brewing in Boulder is asking for help by running a contest on Twitter and Facebook soliciting the perfect moniker for a vanilla-oaked…
The Place: Delite 32 South Broadway; 303-722-1278. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 until 7 p.m. The Deal: Appetizers range from $2 to $4; all beer, well drinks and select red and white wines by the glass are half-price…
If you’re infatuated with flavor-bombed curries laced with heat and intensity, keep sniffing, but the chutneys, especially the spicy chutney redolent with mint, are perfect for dunking your peppery papadums. Question is, where was I dipping?…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Pete 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. With Saint Patrick’s…
“Anything I can possibly dream up is now doable, because I’m able to really play around with food,” says Ian Kleinman, Denver’s answer to Alton Brown, the wacky culinary scientist (and only food personality worth watching) on the Food Network. Kleinman, too, is a culinary chemist — a molecular gastronomist…
After forty years, the Old Spaghetti Factory at 1215 18th Street has gotten a facelift. “Coming soon in Denver our new look!,” promises the website of the chain that got its start in 1969, and today numbers forty restaurants across this country. “We will be remodeling this location. Please excuse…
Spring is almost here, which means that thoughts will soon turn from warming plates of spaghetti to spaghetti straps. And ladies, here’s the best news yet for those of you who want to get rid of the winter wear around your midsection: Dr. Lu Wang, a preventive health expert at…
Verso Cellars is a Colorado treasure: a vineyard in East Orchard Mesa that grows six kinds of cabernet grapes, which are blended to create unique wine. Tonight you can visit Verso’s Denver outlet, 4640 Pecos Street, Unit G, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a happy hour and wine-tasting featuring…
If you tipped a microbrew in 2009, then you did your part for the craft brewing industry. If you tipped more than one – and you know who you are – then you helped contribute to a record year that saw both production and sales figures grow. Craft brewers sold…
There are a multitude of Chinese joints in Denver to satisfy your yearning for chicken feet, sea cucumber, preserved eggs and duck tongues, none of which has ever graced the menu of the Imperial, 431 South Broadway, which will mark its 25th anniversary of serving American-Chinese favorites with a month…
Last month, it was all about hamburgers. This month, it could be hot dogs. Bernie’s Hot Dog Co., at 1601 Mayberry (in the Highlands Ranch Town Center) in Highlands Ranch, introduced its new menu today, a “healthy” revision of the original, “modified based on customer feedback, market trends and a…
I’m a sucker for soups, and there aren’t too many places around town that feature a flight of them. Bummer, then, that not a single one satisfied my craving. The lobster bisque was pelted with a mine of salt; the French onion soup arrived watery and lukewarm; and I’m still…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Roasted bone marrow. Beef cheeks and fennel fronds. Lamb bacon. If you’re like most Americans, you have absolutely no idea what these foods are and you’ve never even considered eating them. Let’s try this again: Edamame beans. Free-range chicken. Balsamic vinegar and fresh mozzarella. Even if you don’t have these…
Just got off the phone with Patrick Mangold-White, co-owner of Kaos Pizzeria, the tiny pie shack at 1439 South Pearl Street that’s located just down the block from Gaia Bistro, the lovely breakfast and lunch refuge that Mangold-White also runs with his partner Jon Edwards. The reason for the call?…
While Michelle Obama concentrates on obesity reform, I’m focusing on the five most fat-inducing, artery-clogging concoctions ever prepared by man using the Twinkie as a not-so secret ingredient. And they are:…
A dark bar, a cute bartender and a BIG Manhattan are the only ingredients I need for a good night. And if the bartender hadn’t shaken my Manhattan, it would have been a perfect night, but alas, it seems that only a few of us know that a Manhattan should…
Denver Restaurant Week might be over, but there are still plenty of reasons to eat out. Here’s the best reason today: 20 percent of all food proceeds collected by Wynkoop restaurant group venues will be donated to Haiti relief efforts. Here’s a list of participating eateries:…
It’s never too early to start celebrating everyone’s favorite reason to get completely plowed — whether Irish blood runs in your veins or not. At least, that’s the philosophy at Fleming’s Steakhouse, 191 Inverness Drive West in Englewood, which is hosting a Go Green Wine Dinner at 6:30 p.m. tonight…
U.S. Agriculture Secretary marked National School Breakfast Week today by donning a hair net at a public school in Washington, D.C. and shoveling oatmeal onto trays. Not really. But he did call “for increased participation in the School Breakfast Program and advancing the health and nutrition of our nation’s children.”…
This may come as a huge surprise, but if I had to choose between having to give up alcohol or coffee, I’d probably give up alcohol. Its true! The only thing I love more than a frosty cold adult beverage is a steaming hot latte. The only hints that I’ll…
