There are so many monster zucchini ready to harvest in our garden that we’re planning to make zucchini bread. A lot of it. And take it to friends and coworkers. And probably complete strangers. This vegan recipe (adapted for mile-high altitude from The Joy of Vegan Baking) is moist and…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a sea-offending heap of worthless calamari from Odyssey Italian Restaurant, to an omelet topped with a thicket of superfluous arugula leaves from Early Bird (catches the weeds), to a bacon cheeseburger flipped by an abrupt short-order cook who…
The Denver dining scene lost two long-time restaurants this weekend. Longo’s Subway Tavern poured its last beer — for now — on West 38th Avenue; after 52 years, the Longo family sold the circa late 1800s building to Larimer Associates, and although COO Joe Vostrejs says they’re not yet sure…
West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl Street in Boulder, hosted a soft opening over the weekend in the former home of BJ’S Restaurant & Brewhouse (which has relocated to 1690 28th Street in Boulder). The new brewery tapped its keg just in time for the fall — a season definitely worth…
After an afternoon of shopping for cheap to moderately-priced unassembled end tables and bathroom shelves at Ikea — a trip that usually lasts into the early evening if you start on the top floor — there is one last spot you really can’t miss: the Swedish food market. This section…
The Lime at Landmark has dried up. Since they’d signed the lease on the spot in 2007, the troubled Landmark development had gone through bankruptcy and assorted banks, and owners Pam Savage Sims and Curt Sims decided not to try renegotiating the deal again. “The latest problem was we were…
“It’s been a good run and we’ve had a great time here, but it’s just time to move on,” says Barb Longo. And so Sunday evening, Longo’s Subway Tavern will close…after 52 years. Barb’s been there for 38 of them: She started working at the Subway when she was eighteen…
The Alpha King Challenge, a low-key hoppy-beer contest that takes place every year during the Great American Beer Festival, will move this October from the Falling Rock Taphouse, which has hosted it for thirteen years, to the Rock Bottom Restaurant. The move seems like a strange one for Hopunion, the…
Happy Place: Bar Louie, 8332 East 49th Avenue, 303-457-5900. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $4 wines by the glass; $5 martinis; half-priced select appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Beer cocktails have found a niche at bars across Colorado over the past two years, as mixologists look for new ways to blend flavors. On Sunday, September 23, eight of the city’s finest bartenders will gather at Ghost Plate & Tap and do battle with one another in the Beer…
For almost thirty years, Rodney’s has been a mainstay in Cherry Creek, a home away from home for many regulars who liked the food, but really liked the company. When Rodney Utz opened his basement spot 29 years ago, he was trying to recreate the ambience of what he called…
Mitt Romney’s “The 47 Percent Feels Entitled to Eat Free Cake” vid clip had me thinking about a lot of things, but my brain kept inexplicably drifting back to Mittens’ fifty-thousand-dollars-a-plate fundraiser, and wondering what sort of meal you get when you dump that kind of green. I’m of the…
Everybody loves bacon, but what would you give up in exchange for a precious slice of pig? That was the question Oscar Mayer set out to answer when the company loaded comedian and actor John Sankey with 3,000 pounds of its new Thick Cut Bacon (that’s about $20,000 of pig)…
Denver has not one, but two contestants on Bravo’s tenth season of Top Chef, which was filmed in Seattle and will start airing in November. The lineupincludes Jorel Pierce, the exec chef of Euclid Hall, and Tyler Wiard of Elway’s. And yes, there’s a third Colorado chef, Eliza Gavin of…
Happy Friday! There’s a full plate of events to look forward to tomorrow…and here’s a taste:…
Amuse-bouches, those tiny morsels of goodness offered by a chef to kick-start a meal, can be made of nearly anything — salmon tartare, cucumber gazpacho, asparagus mousse, etc. What they have in common is size (small) and design (creative). But what about an overstuffed sausage-and-cheese burrito or a messy smoked…
Forbes just published a list of America’s 10 Best Hot Dogs — with some help from startle.com — and Biker Jim’s makes the list. Not only makes the list, but kicks it off — although the top ten are unranked. Here’s the rave: See also: -Biker Jim on where he’d…
Smart Balance has been busy since it purchased Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods, a spinoff of Udi’s Healthy Foods, a Colorado company that got its start baking bread, for $125 million this summer. Today it will launch five new Udi’s items at the Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, the country’s premier…
The glass is empty at both Colorado Wine Loft locations: 1527 Wazee Street and 7600 Landmark Way. The Louisiana-based chain first uncorked in LoDo in 2008, with another outpost following soon afterwards in the Landmark project. See also: -The Wine Loft uncorks on Wazee, Cru in Park Meadows -The Wine…
You’ve heard them pitching their products on the radio and you’ve seen them on VT: former Denver Broncos and their branded sauces and condiments. Now the company that runs the concession stands at Sports Authority Field at Mile High has brought them all together at Legends Grill, a brilliant new…
The residents of Boulder have spoken: They want their cheese and wine. And a year after Cured opened in that town, it’s now expanded its schedule to seven days a week. “We hit that one-year mark which was pretty excited, and we realized we got the store where we don’t…
Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com Part one of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle, ran yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: They’re really quite simple. First, show up clean and ready to work before your shift…
