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…
Jonah Munson Walnut Room 3131 Walnut Street 303-295-1868 2 Broadway 303-736-6750 thewalnutroom.com This is part two of my interview with Jonah Munson, exec chef of the Walnut Room. Part one of our conversation ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Working with my hands with simple, wholesome…
After enduring a crush of demand from craft breweries across the country that wanted to attend the Great American Beer Festival, the Brewers Association announced to its members last night that it will change the registration process in 2014. Breweries will now have a set number of days to register…
More than two dozen restaurants opened in the metro area in July, serving everything from empanadas to tacos to pizza…and beer, of course. Leading the way in the eatery action? Glendale, whose CitySet project will soon have eleven restaurants — but the town also lost its oldest saloon, Jack Casey’s…
Sit back, relax and watch Caddyshack under the stars at BMW’s Ultimate Dining Event in Larimer Square tonight. The restaurants of Larimer Square will be extending their patios for the evening for those who wish to dine during the movie, which will be playing on two giant screens. The movie…
Did you ever get in trouble as a kid — not for something small, like tracking mud through the kitchen, but for something really big, when your mom’s brain would freeze and she’d rattle off the names of all your siblings and pets before finally calling yours — (both first…
Pizza Public — the pizza-tapas-wine restaurant/bar that took over the former home to Veronica’s Bases Loaded at 3109 Federal Boulevard last year — has shuttered. According to the restaurant’s Facebook page, the closure is due to “unforeseen personal reasons.” See also: – Latkes, burgers and lots of beer: Restaurant Roll…
We’re gathered here today to celebrate the start of a prosperous tomato season — and all that comes with it, including this tomato soup that gets a wallop from a jolt of curry. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
