Food & Drink

On a snowy February night, I ate one of the best meals I’d had in a long time at Ambria. I’d been excited to try this spot, which Steve Halliday opened last November in the former Ling & Louie’s in the Tabor Center; he’d brought in chef Jeremy Kittelson to…

Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins is in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Wiggins, who recently won a Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spot award and also earned Panzano another Best Italian Restaurant award,…

Just in time for a long, sunny weekend, Denver’s about to get another ice cream parlor: Charlie’s Ice Cream Social, a ’30s and ’40s-themed soft-serve spot, will throw open its doors today, offering frozen treats to the Berkeley neighborhood…

If you’re a product of the ’70s, and spent your spare time eating a salisbury steak TV dinner while glued to Lee Majors flexing his bionic implants on the Six Million Dollar Man, then you and that goofball, Johnny Ballen, the tall, lanky bean who owns the Squeaky Bean, have…

First thing’s first: This scallop ceviche tostada is not from T|ACO, which, in addition to a lineup of t|a|c|o|s, does, in fact, serve ceviche. But if you were planning to go in that direction, you’d be mistaken. Rather, the ceviche in the above snap hails from another taco joint that…

Yes, someone just found yet another @#$% finger in his %$#@ food — and this time, it apparently wasn’t planted for the purpose of a lawsuit (but I wouldn’t be shocked if a lawsuit ensues). Michigan teen Ryan Hart was chowing down on a roast beef sandwich at Arby’s when…

Tonight, at 4 p.m., on the corner of Ninth and Bannock, a fleet of food trucks and carts are gathering for the season opener of the Food Truck Renegades, a coalition of mobile vendors that includes Crock Spot, the Steuben’s food truck, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick…

Atomic Tamale landed on the list of our top ten vegetarian meals of 2011, and the tiny spot on Santa Fe Drive was always packed (especially on Sundays, when free vegan menudo was offered up with entrees), selling tamales by the singles and dozens. But as with Denver Seitan Company,…

The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working hard to increase the mix of menu options on the 16th Street Mall, expanding hours as well as offerings. “One of the things we’ve been striving for for the last couple of years is to increase the quality, predictability and overall appearance and…

When Nancy Weagant gave up her three-decade dental career five years ago, she decided to head into the kitchen. “I grew up in San Francisco, and I watched my mom cook forever,” she says. “And I studied abroad in France and Italy. I just knew this is what I wanted…

The Justice League of Street Food hosted its first bash of the season last weekend, and on Friday, the Food Truck Renegades will follow up with a street-food party of their own. Twelves trucks and carts — Crock Spot, Street Eats, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick it…

Gabrielle Hamilton has been on top of the culinary world for the past couple of years. In 2011, she landed a James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York City for her simple fare at Prune, besting April Bloomfield, Wylie Dufresne, Michael Anthony and Michael White and quipping, charmingly,…

Best of Denver award-winner Denver Seitan Company has been mysteriously absent as of late: no presence at this past Sunday’s Neat Market, no Denver Seitan pizza at the Marquis — and we just found out why: The health department embargoed and confiscated all DSC wheat meat due to permitting issues…