Knives, meat grinders, tweezers. Every chef has a favorite kitchen gadget, and as part of my Dish interviews with many of the Denver chefs who make culinary magic in this city, I asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Not surprisingly, knives are sacred (although for several different reasons), and…
One of the best things about the Great American Beer Festival is all of the beer-centric dinners at local restaurants created to prep folks for the big weekend ahead. Last night, the all-vegetarian eatery WaterCourse Foods held just such a dinner; the amuse (pictured above) comprised a spicy local winter…
Is this your first rodeo? If so, then you won’t be alone. The Boulder-based Brewers Association sold 55,000 tickets to this year’s Great American Beer Festival — and you’ll feel like every one of those people is in line with you. Maybe it’s not your first time, in which case…
If you didn’t spring for tickets to the farm-to-table pavilion, your food options at GABF are sparse: You’re either eating a pretzel necklace, or you’re choosing from a handful of mediocre options in the convention center. Or, if you’re smart, you’re showing up early and eating from food trucks…
Beginning at 7 a.m. this morning, early-rising college kids from the University of Colorado stumbled into Snooze, the fifth outpost from brothers Adam and John Schlegel, who opened the original Snooze, a breakfast and lunch joint commanding mind-blowing waits, in the Ballpark ‘hood in 2006. Since then, the duo has…
Not a pretty fish on the plate and not a pretty fish in the water. Still, at this Mexican restaurant that hooks its patrons with a seafood-centric menu, there are plenty of other dishes that are photogenic — just not this one. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
It was fun while it lasted, but the last Civic Center Eats of the season gets rolling in Civic Center Park at 11 a.m. today. The gathering of gourmet food trucks and carts has been a movable feast all summer, but after today the event will go into hibernation until…
Kim and Jake Rosenbarger, who own Kim and Jake’s Cakes in Boulder, believe that cake should be an everyday indulgence, rather than a special-occasion luxury. To encourage their patrons to eat more of the dessert, they’ve created an interesting line of unusual flavors, incorporating booze, spice and salt into sweet…
Love your knife? Your mixing bowl? When Lori Midson interviewed many of the town’s top chefs for Dish, our annual restaurant guide, she also asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Their answers prompted this one from Dan: My favorite kitchen gadget? My grandmother. Watch for the second installment on…
All this talk of beer making you thirst for another beverage? Strings will present An Evening with Joy Sterling of Iron Horse Winery at 6:30 p.m. tonight, in the midst of the most beer-centric week of the year. Admission is $65, and includes a bubbles reception and a four-course dinner…
It didn’t take long for Breckenridge Brewery, one of Colorado’s first brewpubs, to spill over from Summit County. In 1992, Richard Squire and his team came down from the hills and picked up a massive spot just blocks from the future Coors Field, where they opened a second brewing facility…
With the Great American Beer Festival in town and everyone talking about beer, describing a brew as “good” or just saying “I like it” no longer feels like enough. That’s why an oversold crowd of sixty or so swillers packed the Rackhouse Pub for yesterday’s Beer Judge School. For those…
I’m not a huge fan of dessert. Growing up in a somewhat sugar-free household, I never developed much of a sweet tooth. Moreover, I find the course itself tends to be unnecessarily lavish, like a double encore at an otherwise amazing show. Alas, there are exceptions to every rule, and…
The patios have been an attraction at Ale House at Amato’s since the place opened on the edge of Highland this spring. With breathtaking views of downtown, these decks — one complete with a firepit — are among my favorite places in the city to enjoy a pint. And like…
If you’re looking for something that diverges from the typical suburban chains, culinary options are somewhat sparse in Broomfield. But Azitra, which opened at Flatiron Crossing earlier this month, represents an alternative…
Knives, meat grinders, tweezers. Every chef has a favorite kitchen gadget, and as part of my Dish interviews with many of the Denver chefs who make culinary magic in this city, I asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Not surprisingly, knives are sacred (although for several different reasons), and…
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Well, not when there’s this much beer around. Welcome to Great American Beer Festival week in Denver — which is, for some, the most wonderful time of the year. And the presents have already started arriving. But whether you have tickets…
Colorado. You’re gonna need a bigger coozie. Oskar Blues, the Colorado company that kicked off the craft-beer-in-a-can revolution in 2002, will celebrate a decade of unconventional packaging next year by pouring its flagship brew, Dales’s Pale Ale, into sixteen-ounce tallboys for the first time…
Depending upon which region of Mexico you happen to be stuffing tacos down your throat, the pot-steamed, greasy and golden corn tortillas folded with different meats posing in the above snap are called tacos al vapor, tacos cazuela, and, in Mexico City, tacos de canasta, which you can buy for…
I never went to the joint on East Colfax simply called “Mexican Grill,” but when Ramon Campos, who runs the original Empanada Express Grill in Golden, as well as a second outpost in the Berkeley Park neighborhood, opens his third Venezuelan restaurant — another Empanada Grill — in early October…
Has a culinary trend fad ever rolled into town — rolled over a town — as quickly as food trucks did in Denver? Steuben’s Food Service launched the first gourmet truck in June 2010; two months later, more than a dozen had taken to the streets. And it was just…
Virtually unknown after Prohibition, vodka long ago passed gin as the country’s most popular clear spirit, and then moved up to become the country’s most popular spirit, period — partly because of its neutral flavor, partly because of the smart marketing campaigns that have pushed it, campaigns that feature slick…
