Bacaro Venetian Taverna, the Italian bar and restaurant that boasts a raucous nightlife,just unleashed a summer cocktail menu filled with sangria and other fruity cocktails, perfect for sipping on the rooftop patio on the West End of Boulder’s Pearl Street, as the sun sets over the Flatirons. But while we’ll…
First we had Odell’s Twitter Brew, a beer recipe that was workshopped and designed on Twitter. Then came Trinity’s Double Rainbow Collaborative Saison, a beer dedicated to a viral YouTube video. Now, there’s a beer named for the newly famous photo of an underpants-clad boner that New York Congressman Anthony…
Jared Brant Satchel’s on 6th 1710 East Sixth Avenue 303-399-2560 www.satchelson6th.com This is part two of my interview with Jared Brant, executive chef of Satchel’s on 6th. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: That’s a very hard question to answer. There are…
It started with a simple question: New York has the Manhattan, Kentucky the Mint Julep. But does Colorado have a defining cocktail? (Besides craft beer, that is.) Months later, our mission to determine what this state tastes like is about to culminate in the Colorado Cocktail Project. On June 26,…
Chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson of Frasca Food and Wine chose Comida, the Boulder-based Mexican food truck, as his favorite restaurant in Colorado for Travel + Leisure’s feature on chef’s darlings around the country. He especially likes the bistec tacos, costillas de res tacos and “truck-made” guacamole and chips, Mackinnon-Patterson told the…
For this week’s reviews, Laura Shunk visited two old standbys in Denver’s hottest new restaurant neighborhood: Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli and Lechuga’s. The description of the area prompted this from Steve065: You called it northwest Denver instead of Highlands! For those of us who grew up here, it was always…
Chances is celebrating its first-year anniversary with a three-day bash that starts tonight and ends on Saturday. The festivities will include fifteen-plus DJs providing bass-thumping tunes well into the night, along with free food and drinks until they run out. “It’s been a great year, and getting better and better,”…
Talk a walk on the wild side tonight at Do at the Zoo at the, um, Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele Street. This bash is always one of the major parties of the summer, filled with food samplings, drinks, live music and more. It runs from 7 to 10:30 p.m. and…
Young man, you’re very tall. Would you mind switching on the air-conditioning for me?” My boyfriend and I had been standing in Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli for a couple of minutes, and we’d already scanned the grubby shelves packed with food imports from Italy, including cannoli shells, canned San Marzano…
For my review in this week’s Westword, I stopped by an old northwest Denver Italian institution, eating excellent take-away sandwiches at Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli. The shop doubles as a market, selling all kinds of Italian imports in addition to housemade sausages, which patrons can buy by the foot. And…
A new restaurant, Ghost Plate & Tap, featuring 23 beers on tap and specialties from both the Wynkoop and Breckenridge brewpubs will fill the space where the Rocky Mountain Diner closed in February. The Diner, at 800 18th Street, had been a downtown institution for two decades before a lease…
If you were hoping America’s Next Great Restaurant winner, Soul Daddy, would eventually start hawking its healthy soul food in Denver, don’t hold your breath. Despite the credentials of the panel of investors — Steve Ells, Chipotle’s founder and CEO, Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia — who selected…
Any vegetarian with a hankering for pho will be very familiar with the fact that most pho restaurants serve their noodles swimming in beef broth, which is the traditional preparation for pho. Thankfully, there are a handful of pho restaurants in the metro area that offer a vegetable broth, too,…
Saturday, June 18, was supposed to be the day of the second annual Burning Can festival, an all-canned beer bonanza featuring craft beers from around Colorado and the rest of the country. Sadly, it was not to be. Oskar Blues, which created and hosts the event, canceled it, saying logistical…
Several weeks ago, Esquire Food scribe (and restaurant critic) John Mariani sank his teeth into the Colorado food climate, noshing his way through Denver, Boulder and the mountains to get a taste of what’s cooking in Colorado. And he clearly has a sweet tooth, because he just compiled a roster…
I’ve worked my way through just about everything on the menu at this buzzy food temple that’s turning out first-rate dishes, including the mussels in the above pic. 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…
Firestone Walker, the vaunted California craft brewer that was planning to enter the Colorado market next week with celebratory events in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Fort Collins, has suffered another setback that will delay its plans — at least for a while. “The licensing paperwork is not in place and…
Jared Brant Satchel’s on 6th 1710 East Sixth Avenue 303-399-2560 www.satchelson6th.com This is part one of my interview with Jared Brant, executive chef of Satchel’s on 6th. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. If you’ve eaten at Satchel’s on 6th and loved the food, you…
It was 25 years ago today that Pat McGaughran and twin brothers Andre and Stephen Mouton opened their first Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant in Fort Collins. Since then, the chain has grown to six stores along the Front Range, all serving those killer margaritas whose recipe is still a secret…
While East Washington Park is in a tizzy over the Brown Dog Pizza liquor-license application (the very long, very big hearing was Tuesday night; the city has not yet made its decision), West Washington Park is debating what Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub might do to that bucolic stretch…
The two Elway’s locations are offering very different food-centric events today. First up: The original Elway’s, 2500 East First Avenue, is hosting the annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, when sixteen of Denver’s top chefs will join in a heated competition to make the best…
Northwest Denver may be turning over, swallowing up the old Italian institutions that once held down just about every corner of the ‘hood, but there are still a few old places where you can find a taste of what this particular part of our city once held. One is Carbone’s…
