I ate out nearly 500 times last year, and when you eat out as often as I do, you’re bound to witness truly bad behavior, both on the side of the server and on the side of the guest. But recently, I’ve seen far more diners than servers exhibit the…
While Denver’s getting better and better at disguising the fact that it was once a cowtown with all the trappings of the Wild West, there are still a few holdover spots that provide a window into this state’s rough-and-tumble history. Here, in no particular order, are our five favorite spots…
Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know Dale DeGroff. The driving force behind New York’s famous Rainbow Room, Dale has been widely credited with reinventing the bartending profession, setting off a cocktail explosion that continues to this day. He’s the James Beard Award-winning author…
I’d rather have a burger (or a sausage) with my brew, but a salad with swine will suffice. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select…
Starting July 1, California will enforce a ban on foie gras — delicious, delicious, fatty goose/duck liver — and while PETA is thrilled, chefs are pissed. Why the ban on these tasty liver-lobes? Gavage, or forced tube-feeding off the animals, is seen as cruel and inhumane. But neither side in…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company was founded in 1988, just three years after Bess Dougherty was born. And this week, Dougherty became the brewpub’s first female brewer. “It’s intimidating for a lady to try to go into this because it’s a boys’ club, a super boys’ club,” says Dougherty. “It’s a…
Garden Grapes & Hops takes place tonight at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The event features food from over twenty restaurants and drinks samples from local breweries and wineries. Participating restaurants include Wazee Supper Club, Rialto Cafe, the Cherry Cricket, Marlowe’s, Bombay Clay…
Next Monday night, Samir Mohammad, the exec chef of the Village Cork, is cooking a five-course French-inspired feast as part of the ongoing dinner series hosted by FIVE — a ring of five chefs, two mixologists and a coffee roaster. And last week, we put up a contest, giving Cafe…
The historic Flagstaff House, 1138 Flagstaff Road in Boulder, recently brought on sommelier Melanie Kaman to revamp its drink program — specifically its cocktail menu, which previously featured what the restaurant describes as “old-school classics.” “Some of the new drinks are just cocktails we love that weren’t already on the…
You’re back!” booms Steve Clifton, diverting his eyes away from the flattop just long enough to greet a customer who’s on his third day straight of tortas. “It’s been like that ever since we opened,” says Clifton, who, along with his wife, Ardeni, took over the former Pineapple Grill at…
Bones, named Best Hip Noodle Bar in the Best of Denver 2012, has become even hipper: It’s now serving weekday happy hour items on a newly covered patio…
Cake batter fried in oil, then smeared with sugar icing. Sometimes I wonder how the human race managed to survive the advent of doughnuts, and then the materialization of chains like Krispy Kreme. Krispy’s has been very, very successful at tapping into the fat-and-sugar lust that people inherited from their…
Why is it so difficult for restaurants, especially restaurants that ballyhoo their burgers, to properly season their beef? The burger in the above snap, which had never been introduced to salt or pepper, is a perfect example of my gripe, plus it was way overcooked: Can you guess where I’m…
Randy Balch Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th Street 303-623-9518 www.wazeesupperclub.com This is part two of my interview with Randy Balch, chef of Wazee Supper Club. Read part one of my chef and tell interview with Balch. Favorite dish on your menu: The meat-over pizza, with Canadian bacon, pepperoni, Italian sausage…
Hammond’s Candies employees have been working overtime in the Oops Room, where they sell their mistakes. But there have been so many delicious blunders lately that they’ll spill out into the company’s fifth annual Hammond’s Candies Garage Sale, which runs today through Saturday in a tent in the parking lot…
The news that Tavern Hospitality Group will start work on a spot on South Pearl Street this summer — Tavern Platt Park is going in the former home of India’s Pearl — and has also bought a building in Highland for a future Tavern LoHi brought howls of dismay from…
Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main Street in Gold Hill, is marking its fiftieth anniversary with a four-day celebration beginning today. Festivities include live music from Tim O’Brien at 7:30 p.m. today; view the full schedule here. There are also food deals, but as Laura Shunk notes in her review of…
Creating a great cocktail is a true art. And so the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver will be raising awareness of what makes a good drink — and raising the roof in general — at its rooftop bar all summer. But tonight kicks off a particularly important show: the Bartender…
It’s only Wednesday, people. But it’s already been one helluva week for the Colorado Urban WineFest…
Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours has joined a growing list of companies offering brewery tours in Denver with a three-hour journey that begins at the Wynkoop Brewing Company (with an optional tour) at 6 p.m. and then heads to Strange Brewing Company, Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Beer Co. The tours depart…
The Tavern could be coming to a neighborhood near you. Tavern Hospitality Group, the Colorado-born and -bred company headed by Frank Schultz and his mother and stepfather, Terry and Al Papay, has enough projects on its plate to stay busy well into 2014. And that’s the very earliest that construction…
Bloom Restaurant, at 1 West Flatiron Circle in Broomfield, will shutter this Saturday after dinner service. The new American restaurant — which is owned by Fox Restaurant Concepts, headquartered in Scottsdale — has been something of a culinary oasis in FlatIron Crossing since the mall opened over a decade ago…
