It’s likely to be the Academy Awards of pickelers, salumieres, cheese-makers, chocolatiers, brewmasters, jam makers and coffee roasters at the Good Food Awards, a new national competition for those who rule — or think they rule — the world of hand-crafted foods and suds…
A longtime Pueblo restaurateur is packing his bags and relocating to Denver to open a new Mexican bar and restaurant early next month. Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina, which will occupy a space on the basement level of the Champa Square building at 1600 Champa Street, will feature familiar Mexican…
Yesterday, Cafe Society posted its roll call for restaurants that had opened (and closed) in July. But the big news so far this summer is the vibrant gourmet mobile vending scene that’s rolled into town — and doesn’t have a real address. So many chefs/restaurateurs are announcing plans to hit…
A water park in Dale City, Virginia, got some unwanted pool accessories over the weekend: a heap of fast food and furniture. The vandals started flinging food, trash and furniture into the pool sometime after the last lifeguard left late Friday night — trespassing, and also violating the Waterworks rule…
When the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street, opens its doors for guests this fall, it will also give Denver a new place to eat: EDGE Restaurant & Bar. Defined by the Four Seasons as a “contemporary steakhouse,” the eatery will also feature wild game and a tapas menu, as…
No joke, people. That watermelon you see in the above pic is actually on a menu. Draped with crème fraîche and garnished with fresh mint, it made our jaws hit the table and our eyes go buggy — just as it will yours. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Searching for a lunch venue for a friendly reunion today, I was pleased to stumble upon H Burger Co’s Facebook page, touting the advent of Monday Funday. Echoing H Burger’s Tuesday deals, Mondays at the five-month-old burger joint, 1555 Blake Street, now feature a new list of specials, including $1…
Now you can have your pie and eat it, too. This is, if you were wondering, a three-pie cake (cherry, apple and pumpkin)…
Last week, at a secret gathering of street-food vendors, these mobile entrepreneurs conducted a test run for what Josh Wolkon, owner of the Steuben’s Food Truck, called Denver’s own version of the Portland pod, a frequent meet-up of trucks and carts in that Oregon city that draws the crowds and…
Diego Zhang’s Burger Cafe invites you to “taste the adventure,” but there’s one less place where you can do that. The owners — who just took third place in a business-plan competition — have closed their outpost at 12073 East Arapahoe Road and are focusing on their store at 6851…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN JULY * Applebee’s (re-opening after remodel), 410 South Colorado Boulevard, Glendale Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue Bites, 2796 South Broadway…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from this molten molcajetes at Agave to a still-unidentified order of Mexican eggrolls to a mysterious, maligned cheese plate to a plate of pig at Vita . For correctly identifying Vita (“that place is wonderful!”), Shawn wins a DINR…
In the event that you missed our best bites of the week, here’s a recap. Laura Shunk reports that Zona Moore, the 84-year-old matriarch of her namesake tamale hut, got busted, along with her son, for trafficking stolen goods — specifically cigarettes. Moore is out on bond, and smokes are…
Let’s start with the big question: How many dollar bills are you going to have to part with? “Nothing on our menu will be more than four bucks,” promises Ian Kleinman. Thank Jesus for that, otherwise those of you hyperventilating over the $20 lobster rolls being doled out from the…
It’s not the best cheese plate on the planet, but it is a new addition to a menu that hasn’t undergone a revamp in years. And while the mozzarella, which is made in-house, definitely needs some attention, the fact that the kitchen is making an attempt at crafting their own…
Our recent story on the cost of Denver’s street food brought out plenty of snarky opinions, as you debated the value of lunch from a truck. Most of you seemed okay with paying prices between $5 and $10, but the Mexican feast and the $20 lobster roll, especially, were the…
Dylan Moore, chef of Deluxe, Delite, Deluxe Burger and the proud owner of the Little Orange Rocket, the new Deluxe streetmobile, sat down with us last week to discuss his growing empire of restaurants, his fetish for fish sauce and tacos and how he managed to fuck up fish for…
Last week, Scottish brewery BrewDog released a beer called The End of History. It’s 55 percent alcohol and it comes encased in a dead animal — specifically, a stoat or a squirrel. Oh, and the brewery only made eleven bottles, so it’s charging $764 for the stoat, $1,070 for the…
A South Carolina woman who thought her car was running “rugged” late last week took the vehicle to a local mechanic — and what he found did not ease her anxiety pangs. As the mechanic ran a diagnostic check, he was surprised to find a cheeseburger and pickle at the…
Okay, so I was drunk and really hungry, which are the only two reasons why anyone could possibly be persuaded to order the Mexican egg rolls in the above pic, which arrived with hollow interiors harboring, well, next to nothing. The thin tarps of cheese on top? Trickery. Can you…
The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge Aaron Schock, a very young Republican Congressman from Illinois, explained, legislators aren’t allowed…
“No cigarett” [sic] read the chalkboard sign outside of Zona’s Tamales at 713 East 26th Avenue today. The ordering window of the tiny restaurant was littered with new paperwork, too: “No tabacco products” was scrawled on a sheet of paper. Another slip assured visitors that Zona’s would be open regular…
