Symphony of Tastes combines music and beer tonight

An wholly likable alliance has formed between the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra and Blue Moon Brewing Company, and the result will be tonight’s Symphony of Tastes, an evening of classical music and brews. See also:Ten Denver restaurants that use beer in their savory dishes…

Peyton Manning owning it…at running Papa John’s?

Besides setting touchdown pass records and putting the Broncos at 6-0, Peyton Manning also scores big in business: His Papa John’s franchises are booming since he took over, according to TMZ.com. See also: Peyton Manning wants a slice of the pie — Papa John’s, that is…

Guess where I’m eating a taco plate to satiate a crowd?

Last weekend, after I took two teenage boys to a haunted house, they were screaming with hunger pangs, so we stopped for a plate of tacos at this cantina, which my son described as “incredibly hip” — the kind of place, he said, that he’d love to go with his…

Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: slow cooker barbecued ribs

Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. As you can imagine,…

Pull up your big-boy chinos and dig into a Bubba Chinos burrito

In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…

Austrian Feast at Beast + Bottle tonight

Beast + Bottle takes pride in its “farm-to-fork” approach to food — and chef Paul Reilly and general manager Aileen Reilly, the brother-and-sister partners behind the restaurant, work closely with local purveyors and farms in order to provide their guests with humanely raised, responsibly harvested and organic (whenever possible) ingredients…

First look: African Grill & Bar opens second location by DIA

Since Adwoa and Sylvester Osei Ford-Wuo parked their mobile African food business at the brick-and-mortar African Bar and Grill in 2010, they’ve done a lot to expand Denver’s ethnic food scene. And now they’ve done a lot more: They’ve opened a second location, at 18601 Green Valley Ranch Road by…

Alfalfa’s Autumn Pie Contest will serve up a slice of community

Alfalfa’s Market in Boulder believe that organic, agricultural practices help the planet and also create community — and what better way to bring people together than pie? The market makes plenty of them. But on Saturday, Alfalfa’s wants to see what you can do. See also:Buy pie, support Project Angel…