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…
If all the beer flooding this city has you coming uncorked, now could be the time to go for the grape. Alliance Francaise de Denver, 571 Galapago Street, will host Educational French Wine Tasting: Introduction to French Wine from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight. Admission is $40 and up; call…
Our cup is really overflowing with beery events this week, as local brewpubs and restaurants tap interesting kegs, hold meet-and-greets with brewers, and pair beers with food — jumping on the sudsy coattails of Denver Beer Fest and the Great American Beer Festival. But craft beer is popular in this…
Food in the mess hall at the U.S. Army base in Wurzburg, Germany, was bad. So bad that Thomas Bohne, who had never even cracked open a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, took it upon himself to make something edible. He dropped 99 cents on a Thai cookbook,…
Visit Denver has just released the dates for the next Denver Restaurant Week. And despite all the discussion of possibly splitting the event, it will once again run for fourteen consecutive days next winter, from February 25 to March 9, 2012. When Visit Denver worked with local restaurants to start…
Most places that want in on this week’s beer-y festivities have lined up unusual kegs and interesting events with brewers at their restaurants. Three years ago, Sweet Action Ice Cream, which has no draft lines in its shop, came up with another cool way to get in on the fun:…
Racines is deservedly popular with meat-eaters and vegetarians alike. The salads and veggie-friendly Mexican entrees are amazing, and a relatively new addition to the menu, the Vietnamese vegetarian sandwich, can easily be modified to suit vegan palates…
The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest, most well-known beer festival in the world. But there are only about 55,000 tickets issued for the three-day event, which starts Thursday — and they sold out in a record seven days this year. Still, sometimes the best parts of the GABF…
Allen Milham and I are sitting on the floor of the United Airlines terminal at LaGuardia airport discussing dessert, our brains still high on sugar from the James Beard House dinner, created by a fleet of Denver chefs, that brought us to New York in the first place. Denver, concludes…
Despite the really unpleasant stench that greeted me at the front door of this otherwise pleasant restaurant residing in an old house on a busy stretch of pavement, I stayed, curious because this was once an elegant haunt (with a different cuisine) that I frequented in high school on very…
“It came to me in a dream one night,” says Larry Bigay. “I have a pad of paper by my bedside, and I woke up early one morning, and started to draw what I’d seen in my dream.” What he saw were visions of hot dogs dancing in his head…
If I were shopping venues for a wedding (or really, just about any party in Denver), I’d likely overlook chain hotels — not only do most of those settings induce flashbacks of awful corporate events, but I’ve also had some pretty terrible food from the catering arms of those joints,…
Cafe Society was swimming in sushi yesterday, as Lori Midson’s latest “Guess where I’m eating” rubbed readers’ nerves raw as they tried to identify this pretty plate of sushi. And then Kyle Garratt showed more raw courage, as he attempted to conquer the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi…
Like movies? Like food? Then you’ll love FilmFeast, a new film series devoted to culinary subjects and presented by the Denver Film Center, 2510 East Colfax Avenue. This week: Jiro Dreams of Sushi, with director David Gelb in person; the short film CUT/CHOP/COOK will precede the feature-length screening. The program…
Much to the chagrin of my parents, who moved to Colorado to enjoy the great outdoors, I’ve never been big on athletic activities. But childhood is not a democracy, and they dragged me along on their mountain climbs, bike rides and ski trips no matter how loudly I cried, hoping…
There are several ways to eat a mini-cupcake: You can pop the entire thing into your mouth (unsubtle but effective); nibble at the frosting, then the cake, then the frosting, then the cake; bite it cleanly in two, so you get frosting and cake in your mouth at the same…
You could almost hear Whitney Houston singing “I believe that children are our future” playing in the background of TEDx in Boulder Saturday night, because according to the speakers, food issues start with kids. The night of lectures — offered with the tagline “ideas worth spreading” — was heavy on…
