Food & Drink

In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting people…

The Justice League of Street Food — Denver’s elite fleet of food truck movers and shakers — are back with a vengeance after last summer’s incredibly successful debut, and this Saturday, from 5 to 10 p.m., the motorcade is revving up for its first party of the summer season, pimping…

While the pipsqueaks at the Squeaky Bean have spent the last few weeks monkeying around — pilfering pigs, for example — this past year hasn’t exactly been a playful wallow in the mud for owners Johnny Ballen and Josh Olsen, executive chef Max MacKissock, bar manager Sean Kenyon and the…

Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…

The Smiling Moose moved its corporate offices to Boulder last year; tomorrow that town finally gets its own Smiling Moose Deli, in the Twenty Ninth Street development. (Update: The opening was originally slated for Thursday, then today, and was just pushed back to tomorrow.) “Smiling Moose Deli is a perfect…

The days are getting hotter, which means it’s prime time for barbecue, whether in your backyard or one of “Denver’s five best BBQ joints,” as listed yesterday by Laura Shunk. Mr Sauce would add Moe’s, a homegrown chain that got its start in Vail. JimRome is nominating Serious Texas BBQ,…

While I feasted on dozens of ant eggs, prepared every which way, in Mexico City a few weeks ago, I didn’t come across one restaurant that was serving anything close to a molcajete stew, but here, in Denver, I’ve found quite a few joints that do. Can you guess where…

Here’s the start of our capsule review of the Northwoods Inn, a Colorado institution that opened on South Santa Fe Drive back in 1961, then moved to 8109 Blakeland Drive in Littleton a decade ago: “Not surprisingly, the menu at this veteran steakhouse is mostly meat.” And how! Turns out…

Just when you thought your kids were not getting a real education, a field trip has justified our faith in the teaching profession. A group of eighth-graders from Berwick, Pennsylvania, recently went to Baltimore on a school-sponsored field trip to visit the National Aquarium. The group of a hundred students…

No. 62: Crue fries from D Bar Desserts…

Arik Markus Row 14 891 14th Street 303-825-0100 www.row14denver.com This is part two of my interview with Arik Markus, executive chef of Row 14. In part one of that interview, Markus dishes on crashing kitchens, the day he was fired by Eric Ripert and the echo of Daniel Boulud. Favorite…

When McCormick’s Fish House & Bar opened in the corner of the Oxford hotel in 1987, it was an oasis in a lower downtown desert that desperately needed a new watering hole. Twenty-four years later, LoDo is overflowing with bars — and McCormick’s has achieved the status of an institution…

Department of Homeland Security agents, along with members of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, raided Wildcat Dairy yesterday — and found that 89 percent of the workers there were not authorized to be in the U.S. But so far, only the employees are being punished — not the employer. According…

Caminito, a small street in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, is lined with bright, colorful houses and buildings that are often filled with tango dancers. That’s the vibe that Tirso Abarca is trying to bring to northwest Denver with his new restaurant, Caminito Tango. That, and excellent Argentinean…

It’s not easy to find quality sushi in the suburbs, but Fontana Sushi, 8601 West Cross Drive, #F4 in Littleton, is an oasis in a desert of Olive Gardens and Chili’s storefronts. Yes, it’s also part of a chain; this branch is owned by brothers Quiang and Sky Chen (Kevin…