This traditional eggplant spread is a savory filling for romaine lettuce leaves; paired with fresh, marinated tomatoes, it’s a delicious light lunch with plenty of flavor. You can use ground cumin instead of toasting and grinding your own, but it’s well worth the tradeoff in time if you want to…
Update: We have a winner. Congrats to annaortlieb8, who guessed 6,000. The actual number of books sold is 10,027. Original post: For beer geeks, the Great American Beer Festival is arguably the best week of the year, with restaurants and bars in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins hosting numerous suds-centric…
Larkburger, a chain of artisan burger joints founded by chef Thomas Salamunovich in Edwards in 2006, will open its ninth Colorado store today at 8555 West Belleview Avenue in Littleton. “We’re very excited to bring Larkburger to Littleton,” said Adam Baker, president of Larkburger, in announcing the opening. “It’s an…
A sweet, springy cake, smooth frosting and colorful sprinkles — a cupcake can be so pure and simple. That’s how Porche Lovely, owner of Church of Cupcakes, likes to keep it. Her congregation worships cakes made from scratch with local, organic and sustainable ingredients, which are sacred to Lovely. See…
Olive Garden just announced that it’s ditching its fifteen-year-old slogan “When You’re Here, You’re Family” in favor of the simple “Go Olive Garden.” While the old slogan was incredibly cheesy to the point of being disingenuous, at least the marketing folks put more than a cigarette break’s worth of time…
To accompany this week’s cover story on bike safety in this city, Sam Alviani rolled out a list of Denver’s five best bike-friendly bars, culminating with the Denver Bicycle Cafe. But not everyone in this city is feeling so friendly to cyclists. See also: – Denver’s five best bike-friendly cities…
As Sam Levin reports in this week’s cover story, Denver is one of the most bike-friendly cities in the country. But this is also a city that likes to imbibe. Fortunately, there are many Denver watering holes that not only celebrate the bicyclist lifestyle but feature bike-friendly amenities, from parking…
It used to be that if I wanted stacked “Christmas” enchiladas, I’d have to haul my ass to Santa Fe, but there are a few restaurants in Denver — or close to Denver — where I can now satisfy my caving, including here, at this restaurant whose chef knows a…
The seasonal, pumpkin-flavored coffees and baked goods at Starbucks are my favorite part of fall, and so I head over to my neighborhood Starbucks early — and often — to get pumpkin spice lattes, slabs of fragrant pumpkin bread dotted with roasted pumpkin seeds, and iced pumpkin scones. But this…
Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com Part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcraft, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Being able to engage with people in real time and make things happen…
Baking at altitude is no easy feat. Master the task and you could have your own blog — or at least be the bestseller at your kid’s next bake sale. So it’s little wonder that mile-high sandwich shops go to such lengths to find the right combination of flour, salt…
A crew from Food Paradise stopped in Denver earlier this year to film at My Brother’s Bar, whose JCB rated a segment on the “Hamburger Paradise 2” episode that aired last night on the Travel Channel. The Denver shots included interviews with longtime bartender Jimmy Hayde (who had a big…
“Poetry,” wrote Robert Frost, “is what gets lost in translation.” Cooking may not be poetry, but in the right hands — whether those of a culinary-school grad or a mother re-creating authentic family recipes — it can qualify as art. At La Guarida Cubana, a tiny Cuban restaurant that opened…
Update: We have a winner! Congrats to Alison Nishi, who was the first commenter to hit the right weight — 95 pounds — on the nose. The Great American Beer Festival barrels into town tomorrow, but the crew at Osteria Marco, Frank Bonnano’s popular pig-, pizza- and salumi-centric gathering spot…
Earlier this year, the crew of Food Paradise traveled the country in search of “the belly-busting best places to get your burger on — from a heart-stopping monster burger in Las Vegas, to cheese-stuffed burgers in Minnesota and wild game gut-bombs in Texas.” To the JCB at My Brother’s Bar…
There were about a dozen of us, all wrapped around a long narrow table, groaning. Sergio Romero, the exec chef of Le Grand Bistro and Oyster Bar, and the forthcoming Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, which opens next month in Baker, had decided to host a menu tasting…
The Taste of the Philippines got a taste of politics yesterday when Secretary of State Scott Gessler stopped by the food truck on the 16th Street Mall during the lunch rush for some chicken adobo, manok sa gata and lumpia. Though Gessler says he doesn’t think he’d ever had Filipino…
Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com This is part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcaft; part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. It’s crazy. It’s always crazy,” says Lucas Forgy, describing the Great American Beer Festival, which hits Denver…
I thought the Freestyle Coke machines and touch-screen, meal-ordering systems that keep popping up in restaurants were going to be all the unmanned, automated, de-humanizing product-offering and/or dispensing machines out there for a while. Nope. After finding a “Freeosk” that dispensed Rice Krispies treats at the local Sam’s Club, I…
The Great American Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow, and fans of craft-beer are already pouring into the city. Tickets to the GABF sold out in under an hour, but Cafe Society managed to snag a few that we’ve been giving away in contests. The most recent asked people to spill…
While the single guy fidgeting in the the nearby booth creeped me out with his lusty lip movements, the omelet, soft and stuffed with vegetables and bacon, and sided with Texas toast and butter-glossed hash browns, was a welcome distraction. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
No sooner had Josh Wolkon broken the news that executive chef Matt Selby was moving on after fifteen years at Vesta Dipping Grill (and then Steuben’s and Ace) that just where Selby is moving became clear: Selby will join James Iacino and Scott Kinsey as a full partner at the…
