Food & Drink

If I were Proust, the smell of cheap steaks charring on an overworked grill would be my Madeleine — the trigger for a crashing flood of recall, of me in the warm comfort of boyhood. And walking past the back door of the Columbine Steak House, I get a whiff…

Have you been searching high and low for a way to demonstrate your fondness for the Denver Nuggets and feed your sweet-tooth at the same time? In a word, “no.” But now you can. The National Basketball Association and MyMMs.com, an M&Ms spinoff that allows folks to personalize their hard-coated…

It’s amazing how things come together sometimes. We’ve written a lot about our favorite wiener cart in the city, Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. We’ve written about the best street waffle-slangers this side of 16th Street, the Waffle Brothers. We’ve also written about what it’s like to serve food at the…

There’s much more planning required for very high-altitude cuisine than there is a mere mile above sea level, as Andres Jimenez is learning. Starting May 1, the exec chef at the Ritz-Carlton downtown will be the first of four Ritz-Carlton chefs to take on a two-month stint creating high-end, sky-high…

Now serving: Renegade Lunch Lady Ann Cooper, who’s taking on the Boulder Valley School District. Cooper is known nationally as an advocate for healthier school lunches for children, and has already created greatly improved nutritional meal programs in New York and at the Berkeley Unified School District in California. I recently…

I don’t want to make any sweeping predictions or jinx an address that hasn’t been particularly kind to previous occupants — most recently a java joint — and the stretch of asphalt that makes up Leetsdale Drive hasn’t exactly been a springboard for culinary greatness. Still, I’m going to postulize…

It may be in the sixties today and absolutely beautiful, but on Saturday morning it was demon-sleeting and I wasn’t about to walk to the Boulder Farmers’ Market, as I did last week when I was researching the second in what were to be weekly market reports. Make that almost…

Just got word from Brian Heilman, one of the partners at the Denver outpost of Lucile’s, that his spot is going to celebrate the start of Louisiana crawfish season with a good, old-fashioned crawfish boil. “It’s our first attempt at what will hopefully become an annual tradition,” Heilman said. And…

Back when I was a kid, back when I was a teenager, even back when I was only slightly less of a grown-up than I am now, one of the biggest drags about eating on the street was having to carry cash.  Today, you can add parking, the occasional vending…

Last week, I posed this question: Where should Guy Fieri eat when (and if) his show, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, rolls through Denver? The comments poured in, and the debate was both spirited and (relatively) civil. I’ve culled the best of the bunch and sent them along to the production-company…

Banana Nut Cheerios General Mills Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Those readers who hail from the planet Earth will recognize the standard Cheerios design: a circle with a hole in the middle, like a letter “O” designed to fill the diner with cheer. (Still can’t figure out…

While it was the pozole at Chipotle that pissed off Jason Sheehan, it was the ridiculous amount of time I wasted trying to get my hands on an effing kid’s menu — part of the homegrown burrito chain’s recent menu overhaul — that made me want to shove a few…

When you’ve been in business close to sixty years, as Jerry Feld has at Club 404 (he bought the bar/restaurant before he was even old enough to have a liquor license), the people who come to your place are like family, and the people who work for you are like…

These weekly lists are often easy to put together. I review a Mexican restaurant, I can make a list of other Mexican restaurants I love. I write about Chinese food, I can list a half-dozen other places to get good duck. But this week?  Not so much. I’ve been sitting…

Things you might have missed this week in Cafe Society:   If you feel passionately about whether Steuben’s qualifies as a diner, don’t miss your opportunity to let Jason Sheehan know where he should send Guy Fieri when he comes to town for his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.  …

On a day such as this, with some sort of sleet falling from the sky like God is throwing mini water balloons, walking outside is not in my best interest. As much as I love Udi’s line of granolas, trenching through slush to get some cereal just doesn’t seem worth…

This hardly needs a review, does it?…

Yet another fast-casual spot has popped up in the metro area, this time from a franchise originating in Texas. The location at 4086 South Parker Road in Aurora is the first outside of that state for the Salad Bowl, a place dishing out, well, bowls of salad. Like a reverse…