I typically bypass the menu entirely at this longtime favorite, mainly because I’m always pulled in by the mole, which has always been stellar, but on this particular night, the tacos took center stage, while the mole was the understudy. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Food news is as varied as the food you’re served at restaurants. Some weeks our plate is filled with educational articles about science and technology, stories of new and exciting eats and drinks, and industry exposes that give us all something to gossip about by the office water coolers. Other…
As Gretchen Kurtz notes in her review of The Kitchen Denver, much of the menu is devoted to starters and small plates. Why? To find out, she went straight to the source, Hugo Matheson, chef/co-founder of the Kitchen empire that now includes four restaurants. “Being able to eat without having…
Last night Westword’s annual food party turned eighteen, and more three dozen local restaurants and food trucks stopped by to help celebrate the food fete. Held in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Dish 2012 celebrated the city’s culinary culture by serving up samples from some of…
The eighth annual Denver Food and Wine Classic — a three-day celebration of local food, wine and spirits — is in full swing on the campus of Metropolitan State University of Denver. And the last two days are filled to the brim with events. Here’s the schedule:…
Unleashing $40 for a steak is a big splurge in my world, but the enthusiastic server at this cattle feedlot in the hills (but within 35 minutes of the Wesword office) insisted the bone-in ribeye was worth the big bucks. She was wrong. Way wrong. Straight-up bull, in fact. And…
Dish, Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink festival in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, is only hours away and our mouths are watering just thinking about all the delicious eats that will be featured there. Here’s a sampling of more on the menu:…
Great Divide Brewing will tap its first-ever beer made with fresh Colorado hops tomorrow at 2 p.m., joining a growing list of brewers who use locally grown hops. Sticky Icky is a pale ale that has been soaked in a firkin with fresh Crystal hops from Misty Mountain Hop Farm…
Chef-slash-magician Ian Kleinman of The Inventing Room will be showcasing his unique molecular gastronomy at Dish, Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink orgy that will fill the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex from 7:30 to 11 p.m. tonight (tickets are still available). Here’s what he’s concocted for the party:…
Back in July, I got a phone call from a woman involved with Tremendous! Entertainment for the Travel Channel, the cable network that hosts, among other shows, Bizarre Foods, the fast-paced, food-centric program that showcases Andrew Zimmern, the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef, clamping his jaws down on everything from…
The Great American Beer Festival sold out in minutes — possibly seconds — this year, stealing the breath away from many beer fans and crashing plans. But the festival-related events that surround the annual beerstravaganza, October 11-13, have risen to a level in the past two years that now equals,…
Talk about coincidence: Long before this week’s review of The Kitchen Denver came out, I began mulling over the reasons for the restaurant’s starter-heavy menu. Economics? (People order more of them, driving up the bill.) Grandstanding? (A place to strut local, organic and seasonal ingredients.) Mission builders? (That whole “community…
Six89 689 Main Street, Carbondale; 970-963-6890 www.six89.com Phat Thai 2900 East Second Avenue; 303-388-7428 343 Main Street, Carbondale; 970-963-7001 www.phatthai.com The Pullman 330 7th Street, Glenwood Springs; 970-230-9234 www.thepullmangws.com Part one of my interview with Mark Fischer, exec chef-owner of Phat Thai, The Pullman and Six89, ran yesterday; this is…
Have you ever stepped into a restaurant and seen immediately that it’s meant for families rather than single people? Walking into Sweet Tomatoes, I felt like I was entering a large daycare center with a baked potato bar. Now I know how people with children in tow feel at a…
For her first Westword review, Gretchen Kurtz visited The Kitchen Denver, the fourth restaurant in the Kitchen empire that got its start in Boulder eight years ago, and finally reached LoDo in March. Her review? Mixed. And, not surprisingly, so are the comments on Kurtz’s review itself. See also: -…
With fall in the air and Thanksgiving lurking around the corner, Arby’s, our favorite purveyor of probably-roast-beef sandwiches, is introducing three new “hot turkey roasters” sandwiches, and will be offering freebies today — no coupons or Facebook-liking needed…
Update: Congratulations to Julia Woodward, ckkc, Mitch H., Leah and Val Tucker. As our final winners, you each get two tickets to tonight’s party. Please check your email for instructions on how to pick up the tickets. Thanks for reading, everyone! The table is set for Dish — Westword’s eighteenth…
In a small farming village hidden down dirt roads among shrubs and tall grass, everyone’s sleeping, and the rain won’t stop. It’s early afternoon on a Tuesday near Rosharon, a small town south of Houston, and the downpour has canvassed the paths with deep crevices and pockmarks, making driving all…
A single-engine Piper Comanche has room in its cargo hold for about a dozen big burlap sacks. Try to stuff in any more, and you’ll crush the precious green blooms inside the bags. But on this warm day in mid-August, two small planes — the Piper and a Cessna 180…
Long before Anthony Bourdain ranted in Kitchen Confidential about how brunch is for the B-team, a restaurant’s last-ditch effort to make money off of marginally fresh food, I did my best to steer clear. Potatoes formerly known as crisp and pancakes the size (and texture) of Frisbees? I’ll pass. Not…
If you’re anything like us, even the most pressing concerns — Is there life after death? By what percentage will Obama beat Romney in the presidential election? How much longer till Lindsay Lohan gets caught with hoisted diamonds in her bra? — are kicked to the asphalt at the mere…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Provided our local…
