Beaujolais Nouveau Will Fill Mile High Station Tonight

The seventeenth annual Beaujolais & Beyond Festival will fill Mile High Station from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. today. The event, which celebrates the arrival of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau wine to the Rocky Mountain region, will feature a live performance by Imagination Arts Circus, a culinary challenge highlighting twenty Colorado chefs creating…

The Ten Manliest Candies Ever

In the most recent Esquire, Chris Jones extols the virtues of Jujubes, calling them “the only candy a man should eat.” This, of course, is utter bullshit, as are his claims that they should be pronounced “joo-joobs,” which is only slightly less precious than referring to Target as “Tar-zhay.” Jujubes…

Bacon Social House Will Sizzle in Sunnyside Beginning November 24

Cobbler’s Corner, a historic building at the corner of 44th Avenue and Alcott Street in Sunnyside, has been getting a major makeover this year thanks to co-owner Jack Pottle and restaurant and real-estate developer Paul Tamburello. The building, which originally housed a shoe shop operated by Pottle’s grandparents in the…

Beer Calendar: Warm Sweaters, Big Beers and Holiday Bashes

It’s brilliant marketing: Engender lots of goodwill from the buying public and plenty of national attention by eschewing profits for one day, Black Friday. Then watch that goodwill pay off later — in the form of big bucks. REI pulled off a nice PR coup earlier this month when it…

100 Favorite Dishes: Chicken and Waffles at Revelry Kitchen

No. 6: Chicken and Waffles at Revelry Kitchen We’re not one to jump on food trend bandwagons just for the sake of it. Chicken and waffles, a dish that made its way from regional act to national headliner a few years ago, just seemed like two completely different food substances…

Reader: Tom’s for Sale? And the Gentrification Continues…

Tom’s Home Cookin’ has listed its building in Five Points — where it has served weekday lunch, and lunch only, to fans for two decades. Cook/owners Tom Unterwagner and Steve Janousky say they’re just kicking the tires, to find out how much the property might go for; they bought it…

Richard Sandoval at Zengo for Meat-and-Greet, New Menu Dinner

This month Zengo is introducing a new menu featuring over twenty dishes inspired by chef Richard Sandoval’s recent tasting tours of Hong Kong, Tokyo and Thailand. In celebration, the restaurant will hold a meet-and-greet VIP cocktail reception with Sandoval from 5 to 7 p.m. today. Guests can mingle and toast with…

And the Winners of Lunch With Gustavo Arellano Are….

  Yes, those are the fried tacos at Mexico City Lounge, 2115 Larimer Street, where we’ll be hosting a lunch with Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican and an expert on all manner of Mexican food, fried or not, on Thursday, November 19. And the lucky winners of a seat…

First Look: Allegro Coffee Roasters Opens Tomorrow on Tennyson Street

The Berkeley neighborhood’s newest coffeehouse, Allegro Coffee Roasters, opens tomorrow at 8 a.m. on the corner of Tennyson Street and 41st Avenue, featuring nineteen different micro-lot coffees roasted in-house. This is Allegro’s first free-standing coffeehouse and the third Allegro Coffee Roasters (or ACR) in the country, with the other two…

Farm House at Breckenridge Brewery Introduces a New Menu Today

Given Denver’s restaurant boom, you might say there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen. But earlier this fall, when Christopher Cina of Breckenridge-Wynkoop found himself looking for a new executive chef for the Farm House at Breckenridge Brewery (the previous chef had moved out of state just a…

Honduran Espresso Americano to Open on 16th Street Mall

Espresso Americano is not a name often tossed around at the breakfast nook — at least not in the U.S. Born in Honduras, this family-owned chain operates hundreds of coffee shops throughout Central America and two in Colorado. And a third outpost is taking shape right on the 16th Street…

Reader: PETA’s “Sexiest Vegan” Contest Isn’t About Looks

Veggie Girl Amber Taufen wasn’t surprised when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched yet another campaign that, at its core, was based on objectifying human beings. This time, though, the organization isn’t posting billboards with naked supermodels on them or staging “protests” that involved nude women in cages. Instead,…

Three Dishes to Satisfy Pre-Thanksgiving Cravings

Most Americans have been programmed nearly from birth to begin craving traditional Thanksgiving dishes as soon as the days start getting shorter and there’s a chill in the air. Turkey, relegated to brown-bag-sandwich duty the rest of the year, suddenly beckons us with Rubenesque curves of leg and breast provocatively…

With Snow Comes the Holidays — Learn How to Stay Healthy Today

It’s cold outside — but that has us thinking about the upcoming holidays. So is PlainSmart Clinic, which will hold two sessions of its “Holidays Gone Healthy” seminar today at 401 West Hampden Place. Lindsey Roth, RDN, a registered dietitian for PlainSmart, will teach participants how to navigate the upcoming holiday…

Rioja Loses Friend and Top Hospitality Professional Neil Maxwell

Denver lost one of its top hospitality professionals when Rioja server Neil Maxwell passed away over the weekend after a long illness. Maxwell had been with the Larimer Square restaurant since Beth Gruitch and chef Jennifer Jasinski opened it in 2004. His was a familiar and welcoming face to the…