Food & Drink

For every restaurant that closes, another one opens — or multiplies. That’s the case with Udi’s Bread Cafe, which just opened downtown, making it the fourth Udi’s Bread Cafe in the metro area. The high-ceilinging, bright and airy 2,800-square-foot space sits directly behind a substandard Quiznos, which recently saved itself…

It’s not quite the blizzard predicted by those omniscient weather forecasters, but that hasn’t stopped the safety police from urging all of us to stay housebound. We have a better idea — and so do several Denver bars and restaurants. Get your boots on, your earmuffs and your pink parka…

Kelly McBride just opened My Sweet Bakery last April, selling her homemade pies, cakes, sticky buns and cookies, as well as coffee, out of a colorful storefront on 44th and Tennyson in the Berkeley neighborhood. The California Culinary Institute alum quickly amassed a following, despite the construction mess that made…

This stack of onion rings doesn’t come anywhere close to the pyramid of snow outside my window, but on a day like this, a heap of onions rings, paired with a fat burger and a jug of whiskey, seems like a good way to spend the day. Can you guess…

There is nothing wrong with being a food snob. Food snobs offer valuable services to their communities, such as market insight, educated opinions and keeping the restaurant industry honest and on its toes. But still, there are always some culi-nazis pissing in the crab bisque; food snows who take themselves…

If you were looking for a restaurant restroom and found one labeled “Wags,” would you assume it was a ladies’ room? Would it help you if you knew that the other restroom was named “Ballers”? Those are the bathroom titles at Three Lions, but they’re far from the only odd…

There’s not much Cajun food in the Mile High City, a lack that Johanna Cooke started lamenting after her husband, a native of Louisiana native, first made gumbo for her back when they were dating. Since then, Cooke, who has worked in the food industry since she was fifteen –…

When you’re trying to answer the call of nature at a restaurant, you shouldn’t have to first answer a riddle about the names or symbols that the restaurant has stuck on the restroom doors. Still, when looking for the ladies’ room at a local watering hole last night, I was…

“I think for any business, five years is a big deal,” Andrea Frizzi, chef-owner of Il Posto, says. “For a restaurant, though, five years is a super big deal.” And that’s why today is “a super big deal” for the chef — on this day in 2007, Frizzi, a native…

No. 44: Raw carrot salad from Ambria…

Mercedes Mexican Restaurant is a home-grown chain that proliferated across the city, hawking $1.50 breakfast burritos, among other staples, from storefronts on University, Santa Fe and Sheridan…

I’ll cop to the fact that vegetarian sushi isn’t my saucer of wasabi, but I’ll also admit that if I were a vegetarian, which will never, ever happen, I’d go back for this mock substitute, mainly because the chef has a very talented hand when it comes to playing with…

I got kicked out of the Girl Scouts…something about hanky panky, but there are plenty of other civilized girls that made it through the badges, the oaths…the cookie sales. And this year, the Girl Scouts are marking their 100-year anniversary, and you can celebrate — and help to continue the…

Tom Coohill Coohills 1400 Wewatta Street 303-623-5700 coohills.com This is part two of my interview with Tom Coohill, exec chef/owner of Coohills. Part one of my chat with Coohill appeared in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Hangawi in New York City has the most interesting vegetarian food I’ve…