Need some help with your food-related New Year’s resolutions? Elizabeth Somer, author of Eat Your Way to Happiness: 10 Diet Secrets to Improve Your Mood, Curb Your Cravings and Keep the Pounds Off, will discuss her book at the Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch, 9315 Dorchester Street, at 7:30 p.m. tonight;…
At 7 p.m. tonight, Opus Restaurant, 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, will offer a dinner for its Adventurous Eaters Club; $40 buys a three-course meal that includes sea urchin “pho” and tempura Asian tripe with chili pepper noodles; pan-fried sweetbreads, mustard-roasted lamb kidney salsify and syrah oxtail juice; and…
The mixologists at the Bitter Bar, in Happy at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder, are offering a series of cocktail classes titled “Shake, Swizzle, Stir.” Get a jump on what you’ll be pouring out for your lover on Valentine’s Day at El Amor Cocktails, which runs from 2 to 3…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were getting your morning groove on at the new Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, which opened right around the same time as the Denver Biscuit Company. Cupcakes: out; biscuits: in. After hyping and hyping and hyping…
The trailer for Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution, has been released. According to ABC, Oliver will attempt to transform the eating habits of a bunch of rednecks in Huntington, West Virginia, and rumor has it that he bawls when he realizes what he’s gotten himself into. We don’t…
It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also got the…
Have you ever watched one of Gordon Ramsay’s shows — he’s the temperamental chef who owns a string of restaurants and throws tantrums on such television tirades as Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares — and thought, “I’d really love to see him try that shtick with me”? Well, here’s an…
Oh, ick. In one of the worst mouth picks of the week, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, a national trade organization representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry, plucked Sarah Palin, the former beauty pageant bimbo, governor of Russia Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential…
I thought I’d had the worst margarita ever — until I took a sip of this one. I don’t know why bars insist on using crappy sweet and sour mix. Hey, 1965 is calling and wants their shitty mixers back. That said, I do like their televisions for watching football…
The delicate, crisp little cookie is technically a tuile, but not to Minney Beasley’s founder Harmon Canon. “I just never use that word,” he confesses. To Canon, they are simply almond lace cookies, made from a recipe handed down from his great aunt Minnie Beasley. What makes them tuiles is…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Shanahan’s just opened on Christmas Eve at 5085 South Syracuse Street, and there was a one-hour wait for a table in the 130-seat dining room, even with a reservation on Saturday night. But if you were waiting for the duck or osso bucco on the opening menu, you could wait…
Yes, we Westworders love our charcuterie. And this plate, stripped down to the quintessential French style (the proprietor of this establishment would have it no other way), comes courtesy of a charcutier who graduated from Johnson and Wales. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who…
If you’ve turned on the tube lately, you’re aware that some psychopath almost blew up Detroit with his underwear on Christmas, you’ve watched certain talking heads make complete idiots of themselves regarding the devastation in Haiti, and you’ve seen Kim Karsdashian’s new soft porn commercial for Carl’s Jr…
Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, releases its Black Tot Imperial Oatmeal Stout (aged in Gosling Rum barrels) today; the limited, one-time release will be celebrated with Black Tot Day: Then and Now. Visit the tap room between 5 and 8 p.m. for a taster ($3 a piece)…
Spell-check screwed Bradley Smoker when the company sent out a press release yesterday with a chicken wings recipe that called for “a little fine grated ptarmigan.” What they meant to write, of course, was Parmesan, but somehow the grouse sneaked in there instead. This is either the result of a…
Thunderbird Burgers and BBQ, 1530 Blake Street, has apparently given up the thunder, since a Sanborn and Company for sale sign now resides in its window. If you were partial to the joint’s Kahuna burger with grilled pineapple and teriyaki sauce, or the BBQ burger, you’ll need to make the…
“Rise & Shine was started by Seth Rubin after he decided working for others was a bad idea. He combined his love of great coffee and good, old-fashioned, Southern-style biscuits to create the concept of a biscuit kitchen and cafe.” According to its Facebook page, that’s the back-story behind Rise…
Kyle Fitzgerald, kitchen magician of the Old Blinking Light and the subject of last week’s Chef and Tell interview, is making plans now for Super Bowl food, which includes the following recipe for tequila cocktail sauce, a boozier version of the classic that pairs well, says Fitzgerald, with spicy crab…
It’s a fact: Post-holiday season, everyone is broke — and, ironically, pretty much everyone could really use a cheap drink. Randolph’s, 1776 Grant Street, is here for you with its Thirsty Thursdays promotion. Enjoy a Breckenridge Avalanche amber ale draw for only $1 when you present your Randolph’s VIP card…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
This is part two of Midson’s interview with Sheila Lucero, head chef of Jax Fish House. To read part one of the interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: My dad. He’s a great cook who’s got an unbelievable passion for food. I’ve always wanted to cook like him. The seasons are…
