Free doughnuts and more on the culinary calendar this weekend

It’s the first weekend of June, and that means National Donut Day! It also means that Robert Thompson will finally roll out his latest restaurant, Argyll Whisky Beer. Keep reading to find out where you can find free doughnuts today, preview Argyll and enjoy other goodies on the culinary calendar…

First Look: Nuggs Ice Cream Parlor

The brothers behind the homegrown Brothers Barbecue chain apparently have a sweet tooth, because they’ve just opened Nuggs Ice Cream Parlor in the South Park Hill neighborhood, at 5135 East Colfax Avenue. The shop features a rotating list of homemade ice cream (the current lineup is posted on the Nuggs…

Ten food trucks to follow in Denver this summer

Summer heat and bountiful sunshine are bringing more food trucks to Denver’s streets than ever before this year. From events like Civic Center Eats and the upcoming Best of Denver’s Gourmet Street Food Tour — and even right to your office — thrill-seeking diners can play tourist with international cuisine…

Guess where I’m eating chicken wings?

Chefs, like the rest of us, have their guilty pleasures, and yesterday, during a late-afternoon lunch, one particular Denver chef admitted that his guilty obsession is chicken wings, and to prove his point, he horded the little suckers…but not so much that I couldn’t snatch one off his plate when…

Bonnie Brae Tavern still kicking (and cooking) at eighty!

The Bonnie Brae Tavern looks pretty good for turning eighty this Friday, and not much different than the day it opened. The roadside eatery will celebrate eighty years of family operation on June 6 with 80 cent draught beers, $1.80 orders of burgers and fries and spaghetti and meatballs, and…

Review: At Chai & Chai, man could live on bread alone

Chai & Chai is located in a stretch of fast-food restaurants serving the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The eatery is owned by Venu Alla, who enlisted dosa chef Rajesh Kannan to make Indian food and Jordanian chef Enas Khalili to make Arabian food. But rather than offer a culinary…

Maestro Dobel Tequila tasting at Black Crow tonight

Black Crow, the outdoor extension of the Rio Grande in Lodo, is hosting a Maestro Dobel Tequila tasting event from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight — and there are still a few $15 tickets left. Tequila isn’t the only thing you’ll be able to taste; there will also be an…

Natural Grocers bans confinement dairy products

The consumption of certain products can contain inherent ethical conundrums — and those are the sorts of conundrums that cause outright hostility between, say, vegans and carnivores. What you eat is part of the issue, but another equally important component is how that food product was created and, perhaps, how…

Guess where I’m eating a Caesar salad?

When the joint next door sternly turned us away, claiming that a catering order would prohibit the kitchen staff from cooking for its customers for at least thirty minutes (seriously?), we opted, in a pinch, for Italian food instead. And my kid, who’s obsessed with Caesar salads, ordered one here,…

Wott’s happening at the Queen of Sheba on Colfax

For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Last month was Hawaiian. And June? Ethiopian. Heading away from Capitol Hill…