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…
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…
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…
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…
Colorado brewers are a proud bunch, proud of their beer, of their profession and of their state – which is why many of them have made small batches of beer that use only ingredients made or grown in Colorado. But finding those ingredients isn’t easy. There’s one one independent grain…
This weekend, the suds were in full effect as Left Hand Brewing hosted its second annual Nitro Fest in Longmont. This is the only beer festival in the U.S. with an all nitro lineup of beers — with more than 40 local and national breweries represented. Not only were the…
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…
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…
When I left New York more than a decade ago, foodies (as they were known then) felt a little sorry for me. What was a food writer to do in a town known for steakhouses and omelets? But who’s sorry now? Today this Colorado cowtown is on the national food…
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…
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…
A beer expert and a chef met a few years ago while the two were working for the same catering company. The two built a friendship while talking about beer’s affinity for fine food. The beer expert was Mike Burns, who would go on to open Happy Leaf Kombucha, and…
Denver’s eastern neighborhoods, starved for the kind of hip eateries and bars that seem to open on a weekly basis on the west side, are salivating over the impending arrival of the Stanley Marketplace, which is scheduled to open March 31 in the former Stanley Aviation Building southeast of Stapleton,…
When we think of food and Albuquerque, we tend to think of chile — red or green — and not much else, especially when it comes to exporting the culinary offerings of New Mexico beyond the state’s dusty borders. But a couple of ABQ restaurateurs are out to prove that…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The building that houses one of Denver’s most popular Southern food eateries, Tom’s Home Cookin’ in Five Points, is now for sale, according to news accounts this morning. Owners Tom Unterwagner and Steve Jankousky, who also run the restaurant, bought the property in 2001 for $185,000 and now have it listed for…
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…
