The headline may be a stretch, but after watching wieners being destroyed in the spirit of competitive eating — dousing buns with water, shoving the franks in one’s mouth as fast as possible and eventually wearing a meat goatee — you may think twice before ordering a hot dog at…
Going out to the ballgame? Maybe you want to eat elsewhere first. ESPN culled information from health inspection reports from every major stadium across the country and found that a majority had at least a handful of operating vendors with critical health code violations. Colorado was no exception. In fact,…
It was supposed to be a tapas joint, but the deal fell through, so instead, the Marmalade Bar & Cafe at 2796 South Broadway morphed into Bites, a sweet breakfast and lunch spot from Jim Smith, who also owns Blueberry’s Bakery and Cafe in Littleton and the Cheesecake Connection, with…
I wholeheartedly believe in the free press, so I was initially scornful when I heard via The Guardian that Fay Maschler, a seasoned UK restaurant critic, was starting Page One, a website of reviews that would require readers to pay £100 a year for access. Isn’t it the job of…
I love the molcajetes served at the restaurant where the above pic was snapped. The smoking mortar, stocked with shrimp, chorizo, beef and chicken, logs of Oaxacan queso, charred nopales and wilted green onions submerged in a swamp of tomatillos laced with green chile, was the ideal Sunday dinner. The…
Even as Snooze plans to put its fourth store in the Streets at Southglenn, Cantina Laredo opened its doors there last week. It’s part of a chain with locations in a dozen states (and the United Arab Emirates!), with two in Colorado — the new one at 6851 South Gaylord…
Snooze brought breakfast food to Denver in a big way when it opened its first location, at 2262 Larimer Street, in April 2006, proffering sassy takes on eggs Benedict and pancakes in flavors like pumpkin and dreamsicle. Apparently the Front Range is hungry for breakfast. With each Snooze that opens…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a hamburger at Black Pearl that inspired a discussion of both the French fries and when to use a tilde with the word “jalapeno” (my rule: not when I’m typing on a tiny netbook keyboard) to these still-mysterious…
Welcome to the end of another full week filled with fascinating, weird and scintillating food news. Here’s what you may have missed while you were, I don’t know, doing something else, like working, or slathering aloe vera on your sunburn…
It’s keeping the same name — at least for now — but as of a few weeks ago, Estrela Bartending School has new owners. Local businessman Chris Robbins partnered with three others, including KarshHagan advertising firm co-founder Tom Hagan, to assume ownership of the school from previous owner Tom Lucas…
When hometown hero Chipotle unveiled a new “Low Roller” menu last spring in Denver, featuring novel options like single tacos, small salads, pozole and kids items, some people heralded it as a disaster of biblical proportions – fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, human sacrifice, dogs and cats…
Vegetable cacciatore? Check. Lemon roasted chicken with pesto? Consider it done. While chicken nuggets will likely remain the most popular choice among the elementary school set, cafeteria staff at Denver Public Schools are learning how to prepare finer foods for students who will again fill cafeterias this fall. Chefs from…
By 3:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, the Pinkberry faithful had descended upon 1600 Glenarm Street to score a free cup of fro-yo during a four-hour preview party that amounted to 1,800 mouths to feed. “It was pretty crazy,” says local Pinkberry spokesperson Ellen Robinson. “A half hour before the doors opened…
“Bees like redheads.” That was Matt Kentner’s attempt to reassure me that the continent of flying insects communing above my head wasn’t going to sting me to death, a legitimate concern for someone who’s allergic to bees. But just in case you’re ready to grab the phone and order flowers…
It’s getting hard to watch Top Chef D.C. and harder to write about it. I keep waiting to feel the kind of excitement I felt about the show in the past. It may be that this is an uninteresting group of contestants, but I think it’s more the smug idiocy…
In this week’s Q & A with Brad Birky of the SAME Cafe, the chef weighed in on Denver’s meals on wheels movement, the fried plantains and homemade corn nuts he recently discovered at Pisco Sour and how his pay-what-you-can cafe has become a successful role model for similar concepts…
A friend of mine turned me on to the fantastic burritos made by Miguel, the man who runs the cart in the above snap. Roughly the size of a football, they’re mounted with rice, cubed potatoes crisped on the flattop, chicken pork or carnitas and a generous ladle of searing…
When Chris Elam, program director at Meatless Monday, told us his side of the veggie-movement story, he hinted that a national chef would soon be signing on to the cause. We mused that Emeril Lagasse, Tom Colicchio, and Wolfgang Puck were very much in play…
In solidarity with Michelle Obama’s war on childhood obesity, the Daily Beast put together a nice little slideshow about the 25 unhealthiest kids meals in the country. Every gut bomb on the list contains more than 800 calories, but topping the charts was a Mac & Cheese Quesadilla meal from…
A Loveland-based pizza shop is expanding operations to Denver in the near future. Pizza Street, which serves calzones, wings, signature “belly-o” sandwiches and pizza is moving in soon at 1600 Champa Street, next to Floyd’s Barber Shop. A person identifying herself only as the owner’s sister said it would be…
We tend to agree with Bon Apetit editor Andrew Knowlton who recently decried pork-hating bandwagon jumpers on Twitter: “Enough with all the ‘pork is over’ nonsense. Overdone? Perhaps. Overrated? Please.” That said, the era of bacon-mania is drawing to a close, having had its run as accoutrement to everything from…
In the olden days (uh, one year ago-ish), when street food usually meant ordering a gray hot dog or a mystery-source tamale from a rickety cart instead of scoring quinoa or a wood-fired pizza from a tricked out trailer, we would have been up in arms if our lunch total…
