Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in this series: It’s been almost a year since that full-length mirror-initiated wake-up…
A McAlister’s Deli opens today at 13950 East Mississippi Avenue in Aurora — in a space formerly occupied by a Bennigan’s and one of the doomed BenchWarmers. There’s already a McAlister’s Deli at 3471 Salida Street, also in Aurora…
The New York Times showed Denver’s craft beer scene a little love on Saturday with a story that featured one of the newest — and smallest — breweries in town, Wit’s End, along with Strange Brewing, Denver Beer Co and author Ed Sealover. But it was the photo of Wit’s…
Bill Yalch may be a Pittsburgh native, but it took just a few trips to the southwest for him to become utterly obsessed with New Mexican food — namely, green chile. “If you live in Pittsburgh, you have no idea what good huevos rancheros are,” he admits, adding that he…
Last March, Food & Wine magazine introduced a “People’s Best New Chef” competition to go along with its own yearly listage of the top ten best new chefs in the country, all of whom are introduced at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic in June. Max MacKissock, chef of the…
Fried chicken, pan-fried pork chops, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and sweet tea equals a soulful Saturday lunch — and a crane to carry your weighted gut and butt out the door. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Split peas are a kind of superfood, an excellent source of protein for vegetarians and vegans. Homemade split-pea soup is much, much…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a caddy of salsas from Machete to a beer poured in the deserted bar at the Stanley hotel to a fruity caipirinha from Fogo de Chao that went down easy to a plate of stunningly fresh clams from…
On Friday we posted our Restaurant roll call for February, a compendium of that month’s openings and closings. The big surprise was the closing of The Crushery; on February 28, owner John Davidson signed a deal to sell the spot to Kayvan Khalatbari, who’ll turn the space at 1579 South…
The Kitchen Table Cooking School is doing double duty on meatless Monday. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, it will offer a cooking class on “The Incredible Edible Egg”; from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, the course is “Meatless Monday: Contemporary Mexico.” Each class is $80, and includes food;…
Michael Pollan — journalist, advocate and patron saint of sustainability in our food system — was in Denver this week to speak to a crowd at the Paramount about the importance of understanding where our food comes from. After his talk, he headed to Fuel Cafe, where he had a…
In this interview, Root Down bar manager Mike Henderson weighs in on the formation of the Colorado Bartenders Guild, counting to four and the rise of the beverage professional…
No. 35: Savory waffle from City, O’ City…
Gary Lee Bomar first inked the deal on an abandoned garage on South Broadway last year, and since then, he’s been working hard to overcome a series of liquor license fights that have derailed the opening of Gary Lee’s Motor Club & Grub. There was light at the end of…
Some of the best food I’ve had this year came from the kitchen of Ambria, a Mediterranean-New American restaurant on the 16th Street Mall, whose line was built — and quarterbacked — by Jeremy Kittelson, a brilliant kitchen magician whose culinary background is more than impressive: He cooked at Vong,…
The Louisville-based Lucky Pie closed out the month’s action on February 29, when it opened a second Lucky Pie in (half of) the former home of Dixons. But other local ventures have not been so fortunate with their expansion plans: The companies behind both the Spicy Pickle and Mercedes Mexican…
I wanted brain tacos, but the kitchen was fresh out of brains, so I changed my mindset and ordered chips and salsa instead, along with a potent margarita that made my head spin. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, the pastry chef of Duo and Olivea, where her husband, John Broening, is also the executive chef, was a regular at Spuntino, an Italian cafe in Highland, owned, in part, by Simone Parisi, who also runs a namesake pizzeria and deli, as well as its downstairs restaurant, Firenze…
MiniBar opened in Cherry Creek nearly three years ago, when Bill Ward, the Denver club owner who once ran now-defunct Below Bar and Slim 7 in Larimer Square, picked up the space below the old Village Inn and installed a lounge…
Cappuccinos for kids? On a recent episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert tipped his hat to Brooklyn baristas for creating the diminutive coffee drinks and “hooking babies on the foam dragon.” And why not? Getting our nation’s spawn to recognize the dual benefits of espresso addiction and effective niche…
Patrick Canfield, the sous chef at the Trinity Grille who’s the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, has won new fans — for his position on gluten-free diets, his memories of old Denver restaurants, and this answer to a question about what would be his dream restaurant: “I…
The Great Harvest Bread Co., 5910 South University Boulevard in Greenwood Village, is having a one-year anniversary celebration in honor of its new owners, who took over the spot last February. The joint will be offering family activities — face painting and balloon animals — from 3 to 4 p.m…
