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…
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…
When Stella Cordova passed away three years ago, did she take her green chile recipe with her? That’s what one reader thinks, and another suggest thats no matter which member of the Cordova family is making the green chile, no matter where he or she might be making it, the…
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…
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…
The first beer that Mayor Michael Hancock tried today at Denver Beer Co was a Sunnyside Hefeweizen. But it won’t be his last. Hancock got a crash course on the brewing process and beer ingredients when he dropped by the brewery today to help create a pumpkin beer that will…
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…
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…
Jeff Griffith, who has been making award-winning beers for Golden City Brewery for the past eight years, will head up Highway 93 to take a new job as head brewer for Fate Brewing, which plans to open in Boulder in December. Fate Brewing owner Mike Lawinski says Griffith brings “an…
It’s Oktoberfest season, and you can find out about all of the parties on the next few pages. But in the meantime, more news: Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs announced yesterday that it plans to double its brewing capacity — just four months after opening. The brewery, which specializes…
