No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. Shepherd’s pie is a comfort-food staple that contains several of our favorite things: mashed potatoes, tender veggies and a…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from a multi-cultural stumper to a meal Lori Midson could eat every day at Crimson Canary to this plate of doughnut holes. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jelly, Skggy wins an EatDenver deck…
After reviewing Edge, the restaurant in the fancy-pants new Four Seasons, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s five best hotel restaurants.” Edge didn’t make the list. Nor did Palace Arms in the Brown Palace, a second snub for the venerable hotel that has hosted every president since Teddy Roosevelt slept there…
Distilling has been exploding in the Rocky Mountains, and we’ve added enough distilleries in the last few years to just about stock an entire bar. Further proof (no pun intended) of this phenomenon: another vodka-maker is getting ready to enter the market, specifically on Larimer Street…
Just like many East Coast transplants here in Denver, husband and wife Bryan and Carey Adler missed one culinary treasure in particular: the deli. “My husband and I both grew up on the East Coast, and we have a soft spot for deli food,” Carey explains. “Every deli out there…
No. 51: Pork tenderloin with bread pudding and green split peas from the Wooden Table…
When you think of healthy restaurants in Denver, one of the healthiest cities in the country, a couple of spots whose menus are rife with the terms “organic,” “sustainable” and “local” come to mind: WaterCourse Foods and Root Down, for example. You won’t find them on Healthy Dining Finder –…
If what Food & Wine magazine writes is true, then I guess it’s high-time to haul my ass to Jus Cookin’s, an unabashedly American-as-apple-pie farmhouse-cum-restaurant that’s hustled homemade soups, double-decker hamburgers, chicken pot pie, chicken salad sandwiches, chicken-fried steak, chicken Parmesan and fried chicken since 1988, when it opened in…
The only thing Americans love more than a buffet is a holiday buffet. We also love that the fourth Thursday every November is a thinly-veiled justification for a massive meat-and-starchy gorge by evoking images of shysty Pilgrims and wary Natives sharing corn on the cob. But the real gem of…
If someone were to ask me the age-old question: “If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?” I’d simply point them to the snap above and call it a day. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up “Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter,” including the Fool’s Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Laura Shunk…
No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner…
Forty one years ago, Jerry and Deb Sturm opened the South Restaurant, an Englewood joint that turns out a massive board of Mexican-American fare and fish bowl-size margaritas in a festive space. Now, the family is getting ready to take their concept downtown: Next year, they’ll introduce Zi South on…
On November 2, Adam Schlegel woke up to a very sunny day — and not just because he’s in San Diego, where a new Snooze (the first one outside of Colorado) will open in about two weeks. The sun had barely gone down on November 1 when he got the…
It’s all Greek to me … but 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 select one lucky winner who’ll receive a 2011 EatDenver dining…
Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part two of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part one of my Brandon Foster interview. Favorite restaurant in America: Chez Panisse. I’ve been there twice, once for lunch and once for…
Hosea Rosenberg is a ham. The former exec chef of Jax-Boulder — and victor of Top Chef season five — has hijacked my computer, typing “Hosea is soooooooooo handsome” on the screen. But even Rosenberg admits that he’s nowhere near as handsome as his eight Berkshire piglets, all of which…
What’s your favorite Chipotle? The food at each one tastes different, founder Steve Ells revealed in his recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, because employees at Chipotle actually cook. “When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food,” Ells told Gold. “They have to cook. At…
Eric Skokan’s Black Cat Farm may have started as a backyard garden, but over the past few years, it’s grown to a seventy-acre operation that provides a good deal of the food for his Boulder restaurant, Black Cat, throughout the year…
Sake, with its range of styles, light body and crisp finish, is ideal for food pairings as well as an easy thing to sip all night long. Plus, you can take down a lot of it and escape a hangover. Those factors should have long ago propelled it into a…
Hops & Pie, the pizza and craft beer palace on Tennyson Street, in Berkeley Park, is taking a huge slice out of the space next door, the square footage of which will more than double the size of Drew and Leah Watson’s neighborhood hangout…
Yesterday’s late-afternoon lunch: a little duck pâté, a dab of mustard, a few cornichons, good bread and boozy cherries. 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…
