I used to work at T.G.I. Friday’s — I was young, I needed the money — and when customers would ask me what they should order, I unfailingly advised them to stick to appetizers and cocktails: no mussy, no fussy, and no details for me to screw up…
Washington State wants to ship a forty-pound box of Rainier cherries to a restaurant in every state in the country, in an effort to push the product — and it’s is looking for the right recipient in Colorado. Many readers have weighed in with suggestions, including Matthewfw: Cafe 180 since…
Jenna Johansen will celebrate the debut of Bravo’s new reality show Around the World in 80 Plates at Studio F, 1801 Wynkoop Street, with a series of globally-inspired pop-up dinners starting tonight. Johansen is one of twelve chefs competing on the show for $150,000 in prize money. “I’m thrilled to…
A procession of lovely Fridays has made work very difficult when the weekend is just hours away. One recent Friday, as the temperatures crawled slowly and steadily toward the 80s, I gave up trying altogether, ditching my coffee-shop seat and computer in favor of a long lunch with a friend…
Each year Food & Wine releases a cocktail guide, which, in addition to being an anthology of recipes both classic and creative, is a window into the minds of some of the country’s best bartenders and a reflection of current drink trends. This year’s guide — Food & Wine Cocktails…
There’s only one way to eat whole romaine leaves in a Caesar salad: with your hands…just like you would the pizza. 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…
Imagine a magical tool that would bring together — in a single location — myriad information sources that fuel your passion for wine. An online (or mobile, for that matter) destination that collects on your behalf all manner of insightful information designed to keep you up to date — on…
It’s been a year since Frank and Dina Berta, who once wrote for Nation’s Restaurant News, opened Frank’s Kitchen in the Whittier neighborhood, and they’ve spent the past twelve months building a joint that, with its homey interior and eclectic menu filled with comfort food, feels like it could have…
A sign in the window of the Micky Manor indicates that the owner has a date with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses on June 8, to see about getting the liquor license back for 2544 Federal Boulevard, which started life as a firehouse — but by the early…
The Denver area has a plethora of good ice cream parlors, and no sooner was our list of the five best published last week than other suggestions began pouring in — for places like Bonnie Brae and Eis Gelato, which are worthy of note, if not a place in the…
Two of Colorado’s biggest craft brewers registered some displeasure late last month over the efforts of one of their colleagues, Breckenridge Brewery, to get a bill passed that would have allowed it to significantly expand its business model in the state. The rift shows how competitive the craft beer market…
Two years ago — long before all that crazy drama at Wild Catch — Justin Brunson, the owner and chef of Masterpiece Deli, was all set to open Lechon at 17th and Central streets with Ben Parsons, who owns the Infinite Monkey Theorem. The deal eventually fell apart, but Brunson,…
In the annual overflow of beer weeks, Colorado Beer Week kicks off today, just two days before American Craft Beer Week begins its run. The former is a series of beery events hosted around town by a private events company. The second is a national orgy of beer activities created…
Dirk Holmberg Café 180 3315 South Broadway, Englewood 303-761-4510 www.appetitesunite.org This is part one of my interview with Dirk Holmberg, exec chef of Cafe 180. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Dirk Holmberg squirms if you call him a chef. “I had always wanted to…
The premiere of Around the World in 80 Plates, a fast-paced reality show hosted by Cat Cora and Chris Stone that debuts tonight on Bravo at 8 p.m., pits two teams of six chefs against one another in a highly competitive sprint across continents that will end with one chef…
It’s the last day of the Colorado Legislature, and this session has definitely driven some people to drink — and possibly move out of state. Breckenridge Brewery, which had been pushing for House Bill 1347, which would have allowed the company to grow in Colorado (craft breweries are currently capped…
An all-chefs — from the properties owned by Tillman Fertitta in Denver, at least — dinner will take place this evening at Simms Steakhouse, 11911 West Sixth Avenue in Lakewood, and will feature a collaborative menu from the chefs of Morton’s The Steakhouse, Willie G’s Seafood & Steak House, Simms,…
Two decades ago the Ballpark neighborhood was home to pawn shops, dive bars and empty buildings, an area of town that you didn’t want to drive through late at night, much less wander through on foot, looking for a place to eat…
I really hate it when fast-food restaurants are out of major items. Like Taco Bell not having tacos, Dairy Queen being out of ice cream, and Burger King not having burgers. I get that working in fast-food places is not all pissing rainbows and shitting kittens, and that running out…
It’s been just over a year since Danny Wang and his fiancee Betty Fey opened CAUTION: Brewing Company, a brewery that was initially a wholesale operation that would supply Lao Wang Lager to Lao Wang Noodle House, owned by Wang’s parents, as well as other Colorado restaurants…
A few years ago, the partners behind The Hornet looked around at small, upscale restaurants that were getting into farming and began to wonder, “Why not us?” “Other restaurants were having success as far as farm-to-table,” Sean Workman, the Hornet’s general manager, explains, “but it doesn’t just have to be…
Ian Kleinman lives in a Willy Wonka world. He’s the mad scientist, the crazy culinary genius who long ago ditched traditional cooking methods to concentrate on molecular gastronomy, for which he’s now known nationwide. And starting this Friday, you can win a golden ticket to a pop-up dinner that will…
