Food & Drink

Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, including a great breakfast at Hash, another great breakfast at the Local, and one of Lori Midson’s worst meals ever. For identifying the offending plate shown above as coming from Kiki’s, KB wins an EatDenver deck…

For thirteen years, Martine Chavez has been turning out baked goods in a windowless space behind Turin Bicycles, Lenny’s Sub Shop and an MMJ dispensary. But at least she now has a door: Martines Bake Shop has opened down an alley at 700 Lincoln Street. The hours are limited –…

Travel + Leisure just released its 2011 roster of this country’s best American cities for “foodies” — and New Orleans came out on top of the 35 major metropolitan areas considered in the annual America’s Favorite Cities survey. (New Orleans also ranks as an endangered Food Heritage site; read more…

In this week’s review of Country Time BBQ, I didn’t have much to complain about. But I did lament that I couldn’t try the peach cobbler because co-owner Jennifer Barkers only makes it on Thursdays and then sells it through the weekend. That was remedied after my review went to…

Beginning tomorrow, Izakaya Den, one of three restaurants on South Pearl Street overseen by brothers Yasu and Toshi Kizaki, who also run Sushi Den and Ototo, will begin dishing out ramen noodles in addition to its regular lunch menu…

While the breakfast board at this neighborhood joint is good, it’s the characters, one regular in particular, who really liven up the atmosphere. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a…

Earlier this week, Fortune named Chipotle one of the country’s fastest growing companies, noting that the Denver-based burrito chain, which raked in $2 billion in revenue between June of last year and June of this year, grew 23 percent in the process. Not bad, considering it’s fast food (okay, fast-casual)…

There’s been a lot of commotion in downtown Denver restaurants over the past few weeks. First, a flash fire at Rock Bottom shut down two blocks of the city, and now, another fire forced Larimer Square’s Tamayo to close for lunch. The details of this fire are far less dramatic…

It’s been a good year for Lon Symensma, the chef/owner of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, the leading-edge Asian restaurant that he opened downtown last October…

Brad Arguello, who I interview in this week’s Chef and Tell, spends his days slinging sausages at the Uber Sausage, the hot dog hut he opened in August. Several of his dogs are topped with apple coleslaw, a housemade recipe that thumbs its nose at mayonnaise in favor of apple…

Crema Coffee House has become more than its name implies. After building a kitchen and expanding the seating area, this spot is now offering breakfast and lunch in the heart of RiNo, a developing area just past the Ballpark neighborhood that’s hungry for more dining options. “There was definitely a…

Local restaurateurs are feeling sick about Initiative 300, the Paid Sick and Safe Time proposal that will be on the Denver ballot arriving in mailboxes next month. At an EatDenver meeting Wednesday, independent restaurateurs talked about how many of them already offer paid time off for their employees — but…

Last November, Food Network personality Guy Fieri rolled into town with a camera crew, making pit stops at Tocabe, Bang! and The Sink in Boulder, where he joked with staffs and sampled dishes for the show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Nearly a year later, those episodes are finally airing: Tocabe…

The best city in America for foodniks? According to the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine, which just released its 2011 roster of the best American cities for “foodies,” New Orleans is the best city in the country to feed your gullet. The magazine, which unleashes its America’s Favorite Cities…

Frozen yogurt joints are a common sight in the metro area, but Boom Yogurt Bar, which opened Saturday at 3303 30th Street in Boulder, wants to be a place where you can get more than dessert. “A couple years ago, my wife and I went to a yogurt bar in…

More money, more problems, right? And life is apparently very problematic for Front Rangers who not only prefer, but demand, organic, all-natural, raw and you-name-the-buzzword products in their lives. Fortunately, yesterday’s Naturally Boulder’s Pitch Slam had 25 companies with new natural products all vying for a $26,000 prize package –…

B.U.F.F. Brothers sold four of its bars — College Inn, Gibby’s, Dirk’s and Pifler’s — to the Little Pub Company last year, keeping only FuNuGyz in Parker. But B.U.F.F. is already rebuilding its bar empire. The group opened the University of Colorado-themed Ralphie’s (not to be confused with the new…

My assessment of the food at this Japanese restaurant can be summed up in a litany of adjectives that, as a chef or restaurateur, you hope will never be applied to your own: Bland. Flat. One dimensional. Insipid. Characterless. Wearisome. Vapid. And the service completely sucks, too. Can you guess…