Food & Drink

Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, featuring everything from tacos al pastor at Toluca to a big burger at the Trinity Grille to this great bar in a historic mountain town. For correctly identifying it as the Gold Hill Inn, BigBoy325 wins an EatDenver deck. Follow…

Our post on a bar tab for the “dirtiest slut you have ever seen” quickly veered into a discussion of whether automatically adding a tip — as Trios Enoteca did on a three-drink check — is a dirty, slutty practice. Here’s the take from anon: I’ve worked in the service…

Howie Drummond, an Alice 105.9 personality, was one of fifteen contestants to start off season seven of The Next Food Network Star last Sunday. Drummond, who lives in Highlands Ranch, had experience in professional kitchens, had owned his own now-closed tapas place, and had plenty of experience in front of…

If you’ve got a full calendar tomorrow, clear it. Motoring on the heels of Civic Center Eats, the Justice League of Street Food bash, which kicked off its summer season last Saturday, and before that, the Food Truck Renegades grub fest that took center stage when nearly a dozen food…

The former Boulder Draft House space sat empty for months, until restaurateur George Hanna decided to pick up the lease and open Los Oasis Latin Grill & Cerveceria, an upscale spot with a menu inspired by southern Mexican — particularly Oaxacan — cooking, and a name that resurrects memories of…

Before Olav Peterson and his wife, Melissa, opened Bittersweet in an old remodeled gas station at the very end of December, they flanked the patios with massive planters. The plan was to grow their own produce and herbs. And now that summer — and prime growing season — is here,…

At last night’s Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation gastronomic romp, thirty restaurants fed hundreds of bellies at Mile High Station as part of the non-profit’s effort to end childhood hunger in Colorado. Along with sensational foodstuffs, the soiree also pimped some of the city’s best star-tenders, who battled…

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…

Always on the hunt for al pastor tacos, I found what I was looking for (and a whole lot more) at an off-the-beaten-path taqueria far from Federal Boulevard. 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…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse, the self-described “goof” talks about his biggest cooking disaster (he made a bride spill tears — but not on purpose); the culinary wizardry of Troy Guard; his addiction to acid; and the trials and tribulations…

Back in April, a street sweeper almost wiped out the Famous Dave’s in Stapleton when it crashed into the front of the building. Although the dining room reopened the next day, the bar area had suffered more damage and has been shuttered since April 18. But today the bar will…

If you can’t make it to Paris, this sweet little wine bar will do in a pinch. Can you guess where I’m drinking? 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…

Okay, I admit it: I’ve never heard of the The Vaccines, a British punk rock band that Rolling Stone magazine calls “Hopped-Up Romantics Ruling the U.K. Charts,” which is rather strange, since the music mag compares the group of four to Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain, both…

Restaurants go dark all the time — even the best ones — but nonetheless, when I read the e-mail yesterday from Virgilio Urbano, announcing that he’d abruptly closed the original Virgilio’s in Lakewood, across the street from Belmar, I was stupefied. Frankly, I was beyond stupefied. The pizzeria is one…

Eight years ago, thanks to the money she was able to scrape together from refinancing her car, Annie Vick opened the first Pinocchios, a restaurant in Longmont that serves Italian classics like chicken marsala, spaghetti and meatballs, and manicotti. Since then, she’s been franchising, expanding into four privately owned locations…

A one-time Westword Best of Denver winner for its burger, this iconic restaurant and bar still draws a posse of politicos, power brokers and influential media types, but the majority of the wheeling and dealing takes place at lunch, while the dining room sits eerily barren during dinner. Can you…