Barrel-aged beers have become a big deal over the past year or two as more and more breweries experiment with the idea of soaking their creations in wooden barrels that once held whiskey, bourbon, rum, red wine, white wine or even cognac. One of the draws of barrel-aging is that…
I hadn’t been to Joe’s Crab Shack in well over a decade — not since that time in Missouri when I may have gotten sauced and horked in the men’s room urinal (as it turns out, those clever little porcelain wall sconces are just the right height for spontaneous beverage-expulsion…
For the past several weeks, whenever I’ve driven down 38th Avenue, passing my beloved Gaetano’s on my way to somewhere else, I’ve experienced that pit in my stomach, the pit that comes with the fear of the unknown — the dread that something you’ve come to know so well won’t…
Are you a member of the date police? (I promise, this isn’t going where you think it is.) Date police are folks who scrutinize labels and toss out food the nanosecond the expiration has passed. To a kitchen cop, if it’s past the official “use by,” it’s outta there. I…
Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com Part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Le Bernardin, in New York. For me, eating at Le Bernardin is like being in Europe,…
“We’re a family-owned Italian restaurant,” says Kim Miceli-Vela, one of the family members behind Mici Handcrafted Italian. “We’re extremely family-friendly. But you can’t have an Italian restaurant without wine.” And now, thanks to a new rule that Tom Downey, director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, signed on…
Gretchen Kurtz had good luck with the pizzas at Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House, which opened this past winter in (part of) the former home of Dixons and is reviewed this week. But a diner who’s eaten at the Lucky Pie in Louisville wasn’t as impressed with the cheesy…
The Great American Beer Festival is still weeks away, but Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, has already kicked off its “Road to GABF” — a series of intimate beer dinners.The second installment takes place tonight and will feature five beers from Avery Brewing Co. matched with creative fare from Euclid,…
Like skinny jeans and narrow ties, food is trendy. What was fashionable last year — burgers, say, or tacos — might be as out tomorrow as the boot cut. But restaurateurs can’t just go to H&M to update their menus. So what’s a chef to do? If you’re Joe Troupe,…
On Tuesday, we wrote about the debut of the beer milkshake at 460 Red Robin locations across the country and pointed readers to our 2010 list of places around Denver and Boulder where they could enjoy other beer milkshakes, floats and desserts. We also suggested the beer floats offered by…
The Highland neighborhood is smoking hot these days, and last week it got even hotter when Red Poppy Hookah Tea and Hookah Parlour opened at 2120 West 29th Avenue. Co-owners Mayes and Sakshi Mears already have a Red Poppy in Iowa; when they decided to open a second spot, they…
Talk about the ultimate photo bomb. Last night, during the Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen (you can read all about it here), which was graced by none other than Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern, there was, as you can imagine, a lot of texting, tweeting, Facebooking and…
The Colorado wine industry is having a kick-ass year. In fact, we might even say that 2012 will go down as the one in which our state’s wine biz officially blew up. Let’s rewind: In April, our fair city hosted the fourth annual Drink Local Wine conference, a national affair…
The space at 1434 Blake Street that was once home to the legendary City Spirit has gone through many incarnations over the past decade, from Andrew’s Pub & Lounge to Lure Lounge to SportsBook to Pre-Game Sports Bar to the Blake and, finally, Kraine Station, a Ukrainian restaurant that barely…
I learned several things at last night’s Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen: 1) Pig uterus is absolutely lovely and should appear on menus everywhere. 2) Parallel Seventeen chef/owner Mary Nguyen is one badass chef, who has the ability to cook just about anything, “bizarre” or otherwise, and…
The Great American Beer Festival is also a great American motivator. In previous years, it has driven local breweries to finish construction projects, open their doors, brew new beers, and generally get their acts in shape. And this year is no exception — see the Bull & Bush, which is…
The sad news broke on Monday, as bartenders and servers started telling their regulars to save the date. After close to three decades, Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue will close on October 14. But at least it will go out with a big party. “Brunch is really popular here, so…
Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com This is part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino. Part two of my chat with the Boulder chef will run in this space tomorrow. “There’s something about the life of a chef and restaurant owner that’s…
The Denver Beer Co, which just celebrated its first birthday last month, plans to spill over into a separate, 1,700-square-foot space next door that will be called the Barrel Room at Denver Beer Co. The addition, scheduled for completion in December, will allow the brewery to expand its production capacity…
Red Robin, the burger chain that calls metro Denver home, just introduced a new beer milkshake…made with beer from Boston. It’s Octoberfest from Sam Adams, a brewery that’s been pushing beer milkshakes for a while, Jonathan Shikes reports. The one that Red Robin unveiled yesterday comes with soft-serve vanilla ice…
TAG|RAW Bar, 1430 Larimer Street, is hosting an intimate, five-course sake dinner at 7 p.m. tonight — and there’s still plenty of room for reservations…
Abundant. Plentiful. Excessive. I’m not referring to campaign commercials here. I’m talking about that other seasonal annoyance: zucchini. (Not an annoyance, you say? Then you must not have a garden. Or a neighbor with one.)…
