Ten autumn-inspired desserts to fall for

When the weather starts to cool, kitchens across the city heat up as pastry chefs concoct delicacies with the last late-summer peaches and berries and start cooking with crisp autumn apples. Here, in no particular order, are ten of our favorite desserts to ease the transition to fall. See also:…

Watch Grease in Larimer Square tonight — and help flood victims

Bill Crow, executive chef Ocean Prime, has cooked up a special dish for tonight, with all proceeds going to Colorado flood relief efforts. The Colorado Lamb Lollipop Chop is finished with a maple Digon and cabernet au jus, and served with warm, fingerling potato salad, red onion and arugula salad…

Park House celebrates its first birthday with a parking-lot party

Park House celebrates one year of serving up good, stiff drinks and good times with a party in the parking lot this weekend. Co-owner Drew Gottlieb wants the community to join in the celebration of this more-than-a-bar bar. “There’s sincere pride in seeing that the vision we had for this…

Guess where I’m drinking a Coronita margarita?

Look! A bottle holder that tips a miniature Corona into your margarita! There’s really nothing else to say about this new concoction that’s popping up in Mexican joints all around the city. Except this: #pleasedrinkresponsibly. Urp. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…

Photos: Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner opens a new location

Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner, a horse-topped diner that’s become a Lakewood landmark at 9495 West Colfax Avenue, has opened another Davies’ at 10151 West 26th Avenue in Lakewood. It’s just the latest chapter in more than fifty years of chicken-fried history. See also: Jason Sheehan’s review of the original Davies’…

Don’t go solo to China Jade Dim Sum and Seafood

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…

Readers: Will Jen Jasinski win Top Chef Masters tonight?

Denver looked good on Monday Night Football this week, but it could look even better tonight. Jen Jasinski, chef/co-owner of Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall has made it to the finals of Top Chef Masters. At 8 p.m. tonight, Bravo will air the last episode, in which Chef Jen…

Is this Jezebel’s a Southern temptress…or a dog?

When Scott Durrah and Wanda James were trying to decide what to call their newest concept, a laid-back Southern restaurant and bar, they kept coming back to Jezebel’s Jezebel’s, the name of their basset hound. They liked it for its “undercurrent of excitement,” says James, “whatever that means to you.”…

Left Hand brews throwback beers to celebrate its twentieth anniversary

Left Hand Brewing marked its twentieth anniversary last week (a trying week, considering the floods that nearly wreaked havoc on the brewery), and to celebrate, the Longmont company is temporarily bringing back five beers it no longer makes. “These are some old favorites,” says Joe Schiraldi, who is vice president…

100 Favorite Dishes: Migas tacos from Moontower Tacos

Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…

Guess where I’m eating a Vietnamese noodle bowl?

All too often, Vietnamese noodle bowls are undermined by a crop of lettuce lurking at the bottom of the bowl, but the bún at this Vietnamese restaurant brims with generous amounts of savory meats, glistening herbs, noodles with a spring in their step and crisp vegetables, which give the traditional…