Hot dog! There will be a new entree on the protest menu today: a giant, blow-up puppy on a bun that Mercy for Animals will serve up at the edge of Larimer Square, one of this city’s hottest dining destinations, this morning, along with a banner asking this question: Why…
With three days left of the Denver International Wine Festival, you can still enjoy some of the finer sips in life. But if grapes don’t twist your vines, there are culinary events aplenty to keep your body warm and your belly full this weekend. Tonight from 4 to 9 p.m.,…
Larkburger, the Colorado-based, fast-casual burger utopia, is asking its fans to help name its new customer loyalty program, a program that will reward burger hounds with discounts, perks and Larkburger schwag based on frequency of visits and milestones, in addition to anniversary gifts and longevity bonuses. “Who better to name…
Over the past few months, I’ve enjoyed breakfast drinks, sophisticated French cocktails, erudite winter warmers and a desperate cry for help in liquid form. All this fancy mixology stuff is well and good. But to quote Liberace by way of De La Soul, for my next number I’d like to…
Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery opened this week with plenty of horse power — and not just because it’s located in a building that once served as a horse stable for a local carriage company. Rather, the Jagged Mountain’s high-octane beers — designed by brewmaster and former Mountain Sun brewer Wayne…
The downtown lunch crowd might be surprised tomorrow, when they find a giant inflatable puppy dog on a bun staring into their eyes. The stunt is part of a campaign by Mercy For Animals and local animal-rights activists that asks the question: “Why love one, but eat the other?” “We’ll…
The downside: a burger half the size of the soggy bun (I hate that!); overcooked macaroni and cheese and french fries that needed the pep of Viagra. The upside: an awesome bartender, a whiskey cocktail that went down easy and flawlessly prepared Brussels sprouts. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Johnny Rockets, a chain of old-school-style diners serving up cheap burgers and American grub, has closed its 16th Street Mall location. That would seem like a prime piece of real estate for non-faux fare — but it’s going to be a 7/Eleven. See also: Gunther Toody’s southeast Denver location has…
With new breweries opening in Denver seemingly every month, it’s amazing that there is nothing yet in the Platt Park neighborhood near the University of Denver — especially since South Pearl Street is such a hotbed for restaurants. That will change next year when Denver Pearl Brewing opens its doors…
Jesper Jonsson Randolph’s at the Warwick Hotel 1776 Grant Street 303-318-7272 randolphsdenver.com This is part two of my interview with Jesper Jonsson, executive chef of Randolph’s at the Warwick Hotel; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What specific requests would you ask of Denver diners? Being that we’ve integrated…
twelve, which I review this week, will be celebrating its fifth anniversary next week with a major bash. I reached out to several of the chefs who will be contributing to the six-course feast to ask for their thoughts on what Jeff Osaka, chef/owner of twelve, means to the culinary…
The rumor started over a year ago, and Voodoo Doughnut has finally rolled into town — with the location at 1520 East Colfax Avenueslated to open later this month. “We’re bringing the circus to town,” says Tres Shannon, who founded the Portland-based chain with Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson. “And Denver…
The Source has been open for just two months, but its tenants have definitely upped the profile of the increasingly hip RiNo neighborhood. This week Comida launched its Monday night happy hour — which extends the regular happy night deal through the night on Mondays — and today Acorn will…
Remember Supermarket Sweep? Well, Guy’s Grocery Games, a new Food Network show from Guy Fieri, is kind of like that — except you have to run through the grocery store with a budget in mind, find ingredients with which you can cook a meal, and suffer through Fieri’s yapping. Although…
In marriage, the fifth anniversary isn’t insignificant — every year together is cause for celebration — but it doesn’t have the ring of the twenty-fifth or fiftieth, which are such admirable achievements that they call for gifts of silver and gold, not the pizzazz-less wood traditionally swapped half a decade…
Larimer Street has become one of Denver’s hottest dining destinations. The trend started a dozen years ago in Larimer Square, when Larimer Associates made a conscious decision to fill the block with chef-driven restaurants rather than tourist traps. Since then, ambitious eateries have continued to open along Larimer Street, and…
I think there must be a vein in my body that bleeds tacos. I can forgo the other Mexican staples — burritos, chile rellenos, enchiladas and even green chile — but there’s something about a terrific street taco that makes me all giddy. And these tacos, supplemented by a salsa…
Maggie’s could be the most exclusive bar in town — you can’t drink there unless you’re a guest of the Patterson Inn, the B&B that opened last year in the historic Croke-Patterson Mansion. But you can drink to the Patterson Inn tonight, when it’s named one of the fifteen winners…
As Denver snow lovers gets ready to strap on their bindings for the ski and snowboard season, a couple of ski-town breweries are heading in the other direction, sending their beers to the big city. The first is Aspen Brewing, which purchased a canning line from Boulder’s Wild Goose Engineering…
If you ask Darrel Truett, executive chef of Barolo Grill, to describe the fragrance — and taste — of truffles, he grunts. Loudly. “They’re indescribable,” he admits. “All I can say is that for two weeks straight, their scent permeates the kitchen, and as soon as I smell them, I…
The craft-brewing industry’s troubles with beer and brewery names aren’t going away any time soon, as the latest example shows. Former Future Brewing, which won’t open in Denver until later this year, has already been served with a cease-and-desist order over the names of its beers — beers that it…
Jesper Jonsson Randolph’s at the Warwick Hotel 1776 Grant Street 303-318-7272 randolphsdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Jesper Jonsson, executive chef of Randolph’s at the Warwick Hotel; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Bill Cosby, Clint Eastwood, Victor Borge, Caroline Kennedy, Yoko Ono, Kevin Kline,…
