Want to get an early start on the weekend? At 3 p.m. every Thursday, Local Table Tours hosts a Cocktail Tour in Boulder. Tickets are $30; for more information and the itinerary, go to www.localtabletours.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink…
Because of Colorado’s increasingly controversial liquor laws, only one outlet of any grocery chain — Safeway, King Soopers, Target, Whole Foods and the like — can sell full-strength beer, wine and alcohol. Target’s spot is in the superstore in Glendale, but until recently, its single aisle of liquid refreshment hasn’t…
When I first stepped through the doors of the covered wagon-adorned building that houses Westerkamps Steakhouse and Meat Market, which I review in this week’s Westword, I thought I was on the way to a quiet breakfast special of pork chops and eggs. What I found, though, was a kitschy…
It’s a well-known fact in the wine industry that the majority of consumers decide which bottle of fermented grape juice to spring for based solely on their attraction to the label. If you’d count yourself as a member of that particular buying demographic, we feel compelled to tell you’re generally…
Dry Dock Brewing kicked its weekly firkin in a record 49 minutes last Friday, and since the taproom opens at 3 p.m., that means there was none left for anyone who showed up after 3:50 p.m., which can be tough since most people don’t get off work til later. So…
Last night, at Euclid Hall’s first anniversary party, executive chef Jorel Pierce wagged a fierce mustache, strutted around in a black tuxedo T-shirt, deftly broke down and butchered a beautiful 230-pound hog from Tender Belly Farm, squeezed out sausages, pulled out the dance moves, came through on his promise to…
When I reviewed Mt. Everest Restaurant & Bar this spring, I was especially enamored of the lunch buffet. Far from the boring, all-you-can-eat-of-this-mediocre food orgies that mark most buffets in this town, Mt. Everest’s buffet featured some of the kitchen’s strangest, and most enjoyable, Nepalese and northern Indian offerings. But…
Regulars did some moaning when the popular Perk Hill coffee shop abruptly closed last spring, after a celebrated tiff with the landlord over its funky outdoor seating. But in a few weeks, the place will reopen as a tapas bar. Permits are in and construction has begun on Park Hill…
No, this fresh mozzarella is not from Virgilio’s, although it certainly looks as though it could be. 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 pool — and every Monday, we…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, one of the most unusual and exciting brewing concepts to start up in Colorado, plans to release its first two bottled beers, Pure Guava Petite Sour and Wild Wild Brett Rouge, on Thursday in Fort Collins. Both “wild” or “sour” beers have been aged with…
Brett Smith Zolo Grill 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 303-449-0444 www.zologrill.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Smith, the executive chef at Zolo Grill. Part two of my chat with Smith will run in this space tomorrow. “I know it’s probably overkill, but we just butchered a pig,…
The Justice League of Street Food will throw another bash on Saturday, August 13, in the Rino/Taxi district, and while a few mobile food vendors have put their projects in park, Josh Wolkon, whose Steuben’s Food Service Truck was the first venture to get rolling in town, doesn’t see the…
Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop Street, will be the site of the Denver Burger Battle from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight. And you get to taste twelve of the best burgers in town! Tickets run from $65 to $85; for more info, go to www.denverburgerbattle.com. For information on dozens of culinary…
A few weeks ago we posted a contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers how many Cricket burgers the Cherry Cricket, a participant in the Denver Burger Battle, which takes place tomorrow night at Union Station, serves in a week. The correct number is 6,800, and the person who…
Westerkamps opened decades ago in north Denver as a grocery store serving a then-German neighborhood. The name remains, but the original owners are long gone — as is the market concept, save for the butcher counter in one corner of the space that still peddles cuts of cow…
Residents of the Ballpark neighborhood finally have a place to go on a grocery run. Dean’s Urban Market, a grocery store in the heart of the Ballpark neighborhood, opened last week, and it’s certainly a welcome addition to the hood. Owner James Dean owns another location in Fairplay, and says…
Mike and Matt Casarez have been running a restaurant in the historic Crook’s Palace since 2008, where they’ve attracted a following with their house-cured bacon, house-baked bread and house-churned ice cream. Over 1,000 flavors of ice cream, in fact, which just landed them in the Guinness Book of World Records…
Quick, what are the hottest restaurants that have opened in Denver since the last time Eater did a heat map of our fair city, chronicling where to eat right this very second?…
Downtown Denver has its share of cute, modern eateries dishing up sandwiches and salads, but the Corner Office still stands out in the crowd. Its so-hip-it-hurts yet still playful decor provides the perfect backdrop for beautiful people sipping martinis and nibbling on the food offerings. Except if you’re eating the…
Thai Wraps @ Tuk Tuk, one of four family-owned operations in metro Denver, has been sold and will change its name to Thai Mango Noodle Bar. The new owner is still a family member, however, and will keep a good part of the fast-casual menu, which focuses on fresh, American-style…
Four months ago, in April, French-born, Los Angeles-based chef Ludo Lefebvre took a road trip to eastern Colorado, where he shot, skinned and butchered a bison. To show his respect for the beast, he then dropped to his knees and took a bite of its heart, still warm and oozing…
MSNBC’s Douglas A. McIntyre recently wrote that the double-dip recession has arrived, a pronouncement that has its share of skeptics (and others who wonder if we ever recovered from the first recession), but double-dip recession or not, there’s nothing wrong with pinching pennies, which is what I did yesterday, ordering…
