Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods introduces five new products

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 Wine Loft dries up in Colorado

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…

Round two with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle

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…

Munson Farms Corn is candy on the cob

This is the sixth in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Is there an ingredient that makes Colorado chefs salivate quite so much as Munson Farms corn? They simmer it into chowders. They bake it into biscuits. They sprinkle kernels, raw, over…

Tonight: garden-to-table dinner at Greenbriar Inn

The Greenbriar Inn, 8735 North Foothills Highway in Boulder, not only has one of the best wine lists around, but also cultivates over 7,000 square feet of its own crops. And tonight at 6 p.m., the Greenbriar will celebrate the last of this year’s harvest with a four-course farm-to-table dinner…

The meat-centric Red Star Deli is a rising star

James Mazzio isn’t a new kid on the block. A Food & Wine Best New Chef recipient, he’s been earning his keep in the restaurant business since long before some chefs in town were born. After climbing his way up the proverbial pot rack, he landed at Boulder’s now-defunct 15…

Rockbar liquor license renewal hearing tonight

Jesse Morreale has spent much of the summer in meetings with the city, which on July 10 slapped a “notice to vacate” on his First Avenue Hotel – which holds Sketch and El Diablo, as well as Morreale’s offices. And those meetings aren’t over yet. But his next meeting with…

Five of the most annoying wine trends we’ve seen on TV

Seems like no matter what channel we tune into lately, we’ve spotted a character or two drinking wine. Which is something you’d think we’d applaud — if the wine-related antics on the particular handful of shows we stumbled upon hadn’t ranged from mildly annoying to downright depressing. But before we…

Guess where I’m eating a bacon cheeseburger?

I’m on my way to the Big Apple for a few days to cover the FIVE dinner at the James Beard House, where Denver chefs Samir Mohammad, Hosea Rosenberg, Jenna Johansen, Jessica Scott and Tyler Wiard will be cooking — but the NYC culinary cognoscenti won’t be getting cheeseburgers. And…

Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle, on the “Hamdog” bomb

Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com This is part on of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Here’s what you’ll find in Duncan Smith’s refrigerator at home: a six-pack of beer, several types of…

Dine out for a good cause tonight

The thirteenth annual Flavors of Denver takes place this evening from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street. The event features signature dishes from twenty local chefs, including Daniel Asher of Root Down and Linger, Mitch Mayers of Black Pearl, Jensen Cummings of Row 14,…