“He’s dead to me.” That was a good friend’s immediate response to the news that Mario Batali, patron saint of cured meat, is supporting Meatless Monday, a non-profit that’s trying to convince Americans to go vegetarian one day a week in order to reduce the country’s intake of animal protein…
What with his Food Channel fame and a restaurant empire stretching from Las Vegas to New York City, it was bound to happen: Bobby Flay is now king of all he surveys. At least he thinks so. Applebee’s recently introduced a menu concept of “regional American burgers” from such locales…
Another one bites the dust: Zuni Kitchen, at 3007 Zuni Street, had one of the town’s best-looking logos — but that wasn’t enough to save the place from an impending development in Zuni Plaza…
Casey Capper likes to hang on to stuff, which, hoarding aside, isn’t necessarily all that strange. It’s where he hangs on to stuff that’s a bit odd. Capper, the manager of Argonaut Wine & Liquor, agreed to share the contents of his fridge, which just happen to include a three-year-old…
Rudy’s is bringing its tender, oak-smoked meats, Texas sensibilities — oh, and a gas station — to Colorado. The crowd-friendly Texas-based barbecue chain opened its first Colorado location yesterday at 315 South 31st Street in Colorado Springs…
After nine months of “soul-searching,” Greg Goldfogel reports, “I have finally got my head back on straight, filed for bankruptcy, and decided to launch Amore Natural Foods, bringing back my pasta sauces, kalamata olive tapenade, bruschetta, homemade pasta, flourless chocolate torte, biscotti, etc., with the natural and neighborhood food stores…
Back in March, I shared the story of how the Brothers BBQ that catered my wedding, at 2589 South Lewis Way in Lakewood, was morphing into a Moe’s Original Bar-b-Que. It was bittersweet for me — bitter because I’ve always loved barbecue and was sad to see this location go,…
I consider myself a stalker of sandwiches — of other things, too, like any cheese from Cypress Grove, the Infinite Monkey Theorem’s just-released rosé and midgets — but when I find a really good sandwich, like the Sriracha aioli-smeared shrimp and bacon number in the above pic, I want to…
Aaron Whitcomb YaYa’s Euro Bistro 8310 East Belleview Avenue, Greenwood Village 303-741-1110 www.yayasbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Aaron Whitcomb. To read part one of that interview, click here. Six words to describe your food: Playful, classic, experimental, simple, flavorful and technique-driven. Ten words to describe you:…
The Airstream trailer that will hawk Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg’s tricked-out street food has yet to hit the road, but his business partner, Laura Rice, already has bigger plans. Think global, eat mobile, urges the Streat Chefs website…
Should we go get a horn? Dukes of Hazzard or something?” Josh Wolkon, the owner of Vesta Dipping Grill and its younger sibling, Steuben’s Food Service, is chatting with Steuben’s executive chef, Brandon Biederman, and Biederman’s wife, Emily, while they stand in front of a garage that’s the temporary home…
The era of the food truck is heading right for us, with a few kitchens already roaming the streets, supplementing less mobile, but no less hip, enterprises like Biker Jim’s, the Gastro Cart and Pinche Tacos. Use Twitter and Facebook to find out when and where you can sample these…
There’s something fun about tracking down a food truck via a cryptic address posted on a Twitter feed, then finally pulling into a parking lot and spotting a tattooed arm protruding from a big pink coach, passing out paper plates loaded with food. It’s like a treasure hunt. For tacos…
Just add water! So say the instructions for two new vegetarian meat products now available from Fort Collins-based Harmony Valley Foods. Not exactly the most appetizing way to imagine your next burger, but according to the company, the overall energy savings of its fake meat mixes handily beat out that…
Watch your backside, Hooters. BenchWarmers is coming for you. The up and coming Colorado-based sports bar chain, “where beautiful girls will serve you fantastic food, cold beer, and cocktails as you enjoy an uninterrupted view of the game” already has two restaurants in Aurora and Erie and will open a…
Just got off the horn with Dylan Moore, who was out of breath. “I’m taking all the wrapping off the new truck,” he panted. Moore, the owner of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger, just got himself a new present, namely a “cool, old van with a kitchen inside” that he…
The Porker, Chad Clevenger’s street cart, is nearly ready to push pig. “We’re going to have everything from tequila-habanero barbecue ribs and pork tamales to sweet-soy roasted pork belly with a cold soba noodle salad and smoked Kurobuta pork cheeks with feijoada beans and Verde Farms micro cilantro,” says Clevenger,…
If you read this blog, then you know all about my affinity for Mexican street tacos. They’re my midnight snack, morning grub, desert island survival kit and, in all likelihood, my last supper. I typically order tacos al pastor, a habit that I didn’t break at the joint where the…
Aaron Whitcomb YaYa’s Euro Bistro 8310 East Belleview Avenue, Greenwood Village 303-741-1110 www.yayasbistro.com Aaron Whitcomb wants to show off his new menu at YaYa’s Euro Bistro, the Greenwood Village restaurant whose kitchen he’s commanded since April of last year, and the dishes keep coming. “We’re making almost all of our…
It’s hot on the first day of June, and the vast courtyard at the intersection of the 16th Street Mall and Arapahoe Street is crowded. Business people in A-line skirts and pleated khakis are eating their to-go lunches at sunny tables, soaking up a few minutes of real weather outside…
Coffee culture in Denver has finally arrived. Hot Chick-a-Latte, one of a couple of “bikini coffee” concepts from the Pacific Northwest has opened a bright pink location (well, mostly pink; they seem to have run out of paint half way through) in the A-frame building at 4736 East Colfax Avenue…
If you missed out on the Squeaky Bean’s first anniversary party, yesterday’s porkstravaganza and birthday bash that put the fun back in Monday, then you also missed Squeaky Bean owner Johnny Ballen baring his buttocks, exec chef Max MacKissock parading around in a woman’s flower-flaunting bathing suit, and several more…
