Wait, Laura, which one is it?” There were two tamale joints at the intersection of Mississippi and Sheridan. Making a hopeful guess, Rob pulled into the full parking lot of the one on the right, a trim building with a clean facade. A smiling family was wandering up to the…
During my many trips to Tamales Moreno, I couldn’t help but wonder about all the crowds packing into Tamale Kitchen right across the street. What was I missing? One day last week, I decided to find out. It was lunchtime, and the boxy building was, as usual, packed with people:…
For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary celebration of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year’s Dish, slated for Friday, September 9, at Ninth Avenue Historic Park, promises to be bigger and better than…
Last week, Funkwerks Brewing, a relatively new and innovative brewery in Fort Collins, sparked an international incident when some of New Zealand’s native Maori people bashed the name and label on one of its beers, Maori King, an imperial saison made with Rakau hops from that country. The beer, which…
“Wanting more time to work out the kinks,” Cebiche Authentic Peruvian Dining will be sticking to its abbreviated menu for a little longer than expected, says Colleen Hutt, manager and wife of owner Sergio Iraola. Initially, this Cebiche — which is not to be confused with the Cebiche on West…
I needed a reason to get out of the house the other day, so I decided to drive to Boulder to check out the farmers’ market. I knew that I might be wasting my time in leaving so late since the good stuff gets bought up fairly quickly. But it…
For decades, Gregg Pike has served breakfast, lunch and dinner to diners, drinkers and pool players at his joint on East Colfax in Aurora: Wolf’s Restaurant & Lounge. But now he’s calling it quits. Pike lost his lease on the building, and yesterday was Wolf’s last day. When the restaurant…
The big food news of the coming week is A Taste of Colorado — but before that Labor Day weekend eating orgy, there are plenty of other palate-pleasing events. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead:…
Nothing on the regular menu of the Kitchen [Next Door] climbs above $10. But if you want to eat and drink for really cheap at this new, pub-like Boulder spot, the best time to stop by is during the newly introduced Community Hour, when a special menu of snacks and…
The University of Colorado’s football team is in a new conference this year, meaning the Buffs will be hanging with (and losing to) the likes of USC, UCLA, Oregon, Cal, Arizona, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington. And while that means Boulder will get some high-profile visitors, it also means the…
When chef/owner Justin Cucci decided to follow the success of Root Down with a makeover of the old Olinger mortuary, the result was a breathtaking restaurant space, with decor in both the dining room and the second-floor bar that’s both gorgeous and amusing, full of subtle (and not-so-subtle) references to…
Saturday was a big day for William F. Cody, the Old West icon who became the country’s first true action figure, and a marketing genius who pedaled the brand of Buffalo Bill around the world. The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, a Denver-owned facility dedicated to his memory, was recently…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a sad, gray tampiquena steak to a decorative cappucino to this rare sour ale. For correctly identifying it as coming from the Bull & Bush, Rev_Ed wins an EatDenver deck…
Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, the latest effort by Robert Thompson (Argyll, Brasserie Rouge), opens today in the former home of Baur’s. Lori Midson was there last week for a sneak peak of executive chef Sergio Romero’s menu, which Thompson calls “everyday French comfort food,” and her photos had…
Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen will host Hendrick’s Delightfully Peculiar Cocktail Academy today and tomorrow; tonight’s session focuses on the art of creating the proper cocktail, and tomorrow’s is devoted to ice. There are sessions at both 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.; to sign up, call 303-595-4255 or go to www.euclidhall.com…
When I walked into Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, all I could say was “wow.” It seemed like mankind’s greatest invention: Titular entertainment at a “breasteraunt” supplemented by table games. But somehow, Hooters fell flat. The casino is now in a Silicon valley-sized hole, in debt to the tune…
Eden is the latest revamp of the capacious space at 3090 Downing Street that previously held Swallows, Blackberries Bar and Tosh’s Hacienda, among others. Opened by the folks behind Tracks, who now own the building, Eden is designed as a lesbian bar. “We appreciate the spectrum, of course,” says general…
There are wild hops that grow in them thar mountains of Colorado, but that’s not the only ingredient you can find by hiking in the wilds. There are also pinon nuts, sumac berries, prickly pear cactus and chokecherries. And if those don’t sound like beer ingredients to you, think again,…
That’s not just any beer: That’s a sour ale — a rare sour ale that I got the last of earlier this week at a bar whose beer roster gets better by the day. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Beer name changes have become more common as craft brewers try to protect their legal rights (see stories on Oskar Blues, Dry Dock and Bell’s breweries). But complaints from the Maori people of New Zealand wasn’t something that Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins expected when it named its latest beer,…
After exploring the reinvented hamburgers at both Crave and Highland Tap and Burger for this week’s reviews, I decided to belly up to the bar at the Keg in LoDo before a concert…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Kevin Taylor, who now runs six restaurants in Colorado, including his namesake temple of gastronomy in the Hotel Teatro, reveals that his last meal on earth would be “foie gras, roast chicken and chocolate while looking out over the view of Paris.” I’m…
