Jeff Bauman and his brother, Marc, have closed Pig & Block Charcuterie, their small but mighty cured meat and butcher shop, directly next door to Old Major, that opened in October of 2011 in Highland. Jeff, who also pimped wine, dried pastas, a collection of salts, salumi and fresh meat,…
Quick! Name a Peruvian food. Chances are you named ceviche — raw, citrus-marinated fish. But Bob Van Diest is hoping that will soon change. A year and a half ago, Van Diest and his family opened La Polleria, a small restaurant in Centennial serving another type of authentic Peruvian fare:…
It doesn’t matter what I order at this Japanese restaurant — sushi, sashimi, udon or oysters — because there’s never a miss. Truth be told, every time I have the opportunity to go here, I’m more impressed than the time before. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink has been a big hit since the giant eatertainment complex opened last fall, but the food has been a work in progress. “After almost three months of tweaking,” writes owner Robert Thompson, “we’ve finally landed on a menu that both we and the…
Yesterday we revealed the current Food & Drink leaders in our Best of Denver 2013 Readers’ Poll. In the Best Fried Chicken category, for example, the top five vote-getters are:Carrie’s Place, Steuben’s,White Fence FarmPopeye’s and KFC. And those last two just don’t fly with one reader. See also: – Best…
Great Divide Brewing, 2201 Arapahoe Street, is hosting its monthly beer-and-cheese pairing tonight…
Y’all know how I roll: Tacos rule my universe, and now, there’s a new spot — Moontower Tacos — giving me (and the rest of you who agree that tacos are the equivalent to enlightenment) another reason to ballyhoo their virtue. See also: – Moontower Tacos will soon be serving…
The McCormick’s Fish House & Bar renovation project is finally done. After the Cruise Room got a facelift this fall, the dining room also got an update. The last space to be spruced up was the Corner Bar, which has looked largely the same since McCormick’s opened in LoDo 26…
Cafe Society dished out three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a soul-warming hot toddy from a yet-to-be identified restaurant, to a sprawling plate of buffalo meatloaf, also unidentified, to a sign at a local watering hole that insists you’re lying to yourself if you don’t admit you want…
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who roll out of bed like normal, and those who kick of the day with beer, bacon and coffee, or coffee beers and bacon. Those in the latter category got it on last Saturday at the Denver Beer Co, which…
Despite its name, Westword’s eighteenth annual Artopia spotlighted much more than art. Across this year’s five venues, the event also featured food from Little Man Ice Cream, The Shoppe, El Camino, Little India, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Sushi by Night, Mustard’s Last Stand and DJ’s Berkeley Cafe. We asked Artopia attendees…
Right, so this was a weird experience: a friendly and earnest server who simply couldn’t get our order right — and it wasn’t a difficult one (a plate of kabobs, one of which was beyond funky and not in a good way) followed up by an employee who came storming…
Three of the most erudite beer drinkers in the country graced the Wynkoop Brewing Company on Saturday to compete in the seventeenth annual Beerdrinker of the Year competition. Only one, though — Warren Monteiro, a New York City freelance writer, beer traveler, homebrewer and beer columnist — came away with…
Pliny the Younger, which Beer Advocate ranks as the second-best beer in the world, returned to a select few Colorado bars this month — and made its hoppy presence felt in force last weekend at a half a dozen tappings in the Denver/Boulder/Longmont area. Made by California’s Russian River Brewing,…
While Denver Restaurant Week is now under way in Denver, Fort Collins is gearing up for Great Plates of Downtown Fort Collins, an annual event that runs from March 1 through March 14. See also: – Breckenridge-Wynkoop have a Fort Collins spot on tap for spring – Fort Collins Brewery…
On Saturday night, as I studied the menu at Old Major, I nearly burst into tears. At one point, some time later, I did exactly that, right after my first taste of foie gras; there would be more liberal shavings of that exquisite foie on the cassoulet, which hinted at…
For her most recent review, Gretchen Kurtz went to True Food Kitchen — a restaurant that definitely focuses on good food that’s good for you, even if the menu isn’t overt about its good intentions. But when you go out to eat, do you want someone else to have decided…
Denver Restaurant Week started on Saturday, and hundreds of participating restaurants will be offering special, multi-course menus for $52.80 (for two) through Friday, March 8. Check Visit Denver’s website for the current list of over 300 menus, and for updates on additional participantes. Here’s what else is on the culinary…
Gretchen Kurtz reviewed True Food Kitchen, which opened last fall in Cherry Creek. Lori Midson interviewed Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, for Chef and Tell. See also: – True Food Kitchen is good…and good for you – Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, on the perfect bite and his…
Pliny the Younger, which Beer Advocate ranks as the second-best beer in the world, will return to a select few Colorado bars this month, where it will be quickly tapped amid much excitement and gone even faster. Made by California’s Russian River Brewing, the triple IPA has a cult following…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company may have built a neighborhood, and launched at least one political career, but that wasn’t the only career that got started at Denver’s first brewpub. Jen Schwertman took a job there in October 1992 as one of the first bartenders in the newly-added upstairs pool hall…
The hot toddy is a cocktail steeped in history, and while there are numerous recipes for the soul-warming drink, the one in the above snap, concocted with Carpano Antica sweet vermouth, bourbon, lemon, English breakfast tea and simple syrup, and capped with a bitter chai foam, is in a class…
