It doesn’t matter if the sky is pounding the pavement with rain, or dumping flakes of white powder on grassy surfaces, because the forecast is always pouring chile at this Mexican joint. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess…
AC Golden brewer Troy Casey is one of Colorado’s foremost experts on wild and sour ales, which means he has to sample a lot of them (oh, the misery). But all that drinking means he looks forward to trying tart beers that are lower in alcohol. Enter Berliner weisse, a…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests posts last week, ranging from a cup of curried tomato soup from Gather, to a corned beef sandwich from Finley’s Pub, to a parade of curries from an Indian restaurant…
What’s the oldest family-owned restaurant in the metro area? So far, we haven’t found anything to top the Blue Parrot, the red-sauce emporium that the Colacci family opened in Louisville back in 1919, and has been run by members of that clan ever since. Within Denver city limits, we’d thought…
Great American Beer Festival tickets went on pre-sale last Tuesday for members of the Brewers Association and the American Homebrewers Association, and the complaints to the Brewers Association started seconds later. There were so many, in fact, that the organization posted an apology on Facebook later that day: “Your staff…
The third annual Ballpark Plates will hit it out of the park on Thursday, August 8, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For $30, enjoy complimentary food and drink samples at the following participating establishments: River North Brewery, Blake Street Tavern, Zi South, Breckenridge Brewery, Cheesesteak Connection, iFish Sushi, Chino Latino…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz tested the “Colorado Bar-B-Que” at Tin Star Smokehouse in Golden, Lori Midson headed to the Walnut Room to toss pies with executive chef Jonah Munson, and Mark Antonation paired sandwiches from Baker’s Palace Vietnamese with traditional brews from Wit’s End Brewing. Keeping reading for more of…
UPDATE: The correct answer to our contest question — How many kegs of beer has the Justice League of Street Food untapped since its first event in 2009? — is 131 kegs. The person who came the closest to that number, actually nailing it on the head, is ebethcheese. Ebethcheese,…
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…
So, this is adulthood. Grown men and women jostling for the last drops of spicy Bloody Mary mix. Zombie-eyed hangover victims marching grimly back and forth to fill their glasses. Is this what I have to look forward for the next fifty years, until I’m forced to take my booze…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, I chat with Jonah Munson, chef of the Walnut Room, a restaurant and bar that’s popular for its pizzas. Munson, who makes his own dough, also bakes desserts, a skill he learned at an early age, when he started baking cakes from scratch,…
Despite a menu that boasts a large vegetarian section — and mock meat — it’s not all carrots and mushrooms at this Chinese restaurant that also turns out an excellent plate of fried rice…liberally pelted with pork. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
McDonald’s recent posting of a hypothetical household budget for its minimum- wage employees has birthed an Occupy-style French fry revolution. Frustrated, vastly underpaid fast-food workers across the country are now asking their employers to raise their earnings from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $15 per hour,…
You can’t miss Little Man Ice Cream, that giant milk can in LoHi with a welcoming patio and lines that wind down the street, has been scooping handcrafted, locally sourced ice cream since 2008. And now, it’s are opening a pop-up shop on the 16th Street Mall. See also: -…
So you missed on getting tickets to the Great American Beer Festival — again? That’s a bummer, but it’s also an opportunity. Over the past five years, the annual festival has evolved from being the greatest show on earth into being just one stage in a multi-ring beer circus that…
The second Marczyk Fine Foods, at 5100 East Colfax Avenue, is celebrating its second anniversary with a New England-style clam bake tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. For $24.99, party-goers can enjoy a one pound lobster, Massachusetts steamers, an ear of Colorado sweet corn, Colorado rose potatoes, and butter; all…
Examples of true Southern hospitality are few and far between in Denver — but you certainly find it at Jezebel’s, which will feed your soul with authentic barbecue delights, comfort food and cocktails from the friendly bar. While the menu features specialties like tender brisket, skillet mac n’ cheese and…
Tin Star Smokehouse, which I review this week, offers two homemade, sweet, ketchupy, Kansas City-style barbecue sauces. I tried squirting each of them on the meat on my BBQ plate, but they both left me craving sauce of another kind…from Carolina. See also: – Tin Star Smokehouse review: Everyone in…
The third annual SaddleUp! gallops back into town tomorrow, giving guests a chance to win a grand-prize culinary weekend experience in Vail hosted by Top Chef contestant Kelly Liken and her husband and business partner, Rick Colomitz, who own Restaurant Kelly Liken in the heart of Vail Village. See also:…
Northeast Denver residents have been a little hot under the collar over the past two years as they’ve watched brewery after brewery open on the other side of town. But this fall, Station 26 Brewing will cool off those flames when it opens in a former fire station at 38th…
Despite a familiar menu that mimics its counterparts, this is not your average curry-in-a-hurry Indian joint — not by a long shot. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and every…
Eel is my favorite protein, in an “if-I-had-a-last-meal-request-on-death-row” kind of way. I was very disappointed in the eel I tried at Tokyo Joe’s, but at least my review of that sad meal inspired an insightful Westword reader to steer me toward local mini-chain Kokoro. And as it turns out, the…
