The first Mellow Mushroom opened back in 1974 in Georgia. More than a hundred locations and 35 years later, the “bohemian-chic” pizza chain has finally landed in metro Denver, where today a Mellow Mushroom will open at the Streets at Southglenn. Morris and Sharon Purcel, their son Shane and their…
Another day, another weird item from my desk. Although really, the only weird thing about it is that there was anything left in that bottle at all when I took the picture. I don’t like cleaning, you see (as should be painfully obvious to anyone who saw the picture of…
Corn Flakes Touch of Honey/Toque de Miel Kellogg’s Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Yes, they’re flakes made of corn. But unlike other flakes made of corn — or corn flakes, if you insist — they give off a glossy bronze glow, as if they’ve been spending most…
Tonight at 6:30 p.m., self-described chocoholic and local book author Julie Pech, who penned The Chocolate Therapist: A User’s Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate, is the featured guest at the International Chocolate & Wine Pairing seminar at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton…
The headline pretty much says it all: In celebration of fifteen years of barbecue-slingin’, Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que is offering free ‘cue for anyone named Dave. If your first name is Dave, you get one entree free (maximum value $15). Middle name Dave? Then you’re only half as lucky, and get…
What you might have missed this week while chowing on some Nut Poppers…Green chile mania! Jason ranked the top ten green chile joints in Denver, and even got some input on the best vegetarian versions. We pitted El Taco de Mexico’s chile against Santiago’s and found a surprise victor.We took…
If you’ve been following the pizza war between Virgilio’s and Belmar, a turf battle over Belmar’s upcoming Festival Italiano and its refusal to allow Virgilio’s to participate, then you know there’s a heated debate in the comments section (seventy and counting, last time I looked). One of those comments is…
Pho is the most recognizable example of the Vietnamese canon, a street food lifted whole from the avenues of Saigon and Bien Hoa and brought to the United States by waves of immigrants who came here following the war and the reconstruction. Many of those immigrants washed up in Denver,…
Just got word from Jack Martinez, the patriarch behind Jack-n-Grill, the New Mexican joint at 2524 Federal Boulevard, that he’s opening a second outpost of his chile shrine at 2630 West Belleview Avenue. That’s the vacated space bordering the banks of the Platte River that the Santa Fe Tequila Company…
Later today, we’ll post my list of the town’s best spots for pho, which includes Pho 95, a wonderful place I review this week, and several other pho shops along Federal Boulevard. My all-time favorite spot for pho was in Aurora. Sadly, Pho 2000 closed years ago, but it stucks…
Worst. Product. Idea. Ever. I get a lot of dumb and worthless shit sent to me — worthless shit being essentially any sample product that doesn’t come in a nice glass bottle with “Product of Ireland” written somewhere on it. But in the history of dumb and worthless shit, this…
The Colorado State Fair kicks off today in Pueblo with rodeos, carnival rides and parades, but the real reason to hit it up? The frosty lemonades, ice-cold beer, meatball sandwiches, tacos, nachos, menudo, green chile, pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, roasted corn, pork chops-on-a-stick, Thai food, blooming onions, funnel cakes, ice…
Okay, so we’ve never read or seen anything from the Twilight series. Clearly the success of the books-turned-movie has not suffered the loss of two candy-obsessed ladies, but we are always willing to entertain a new themed confection that comes with the promise of “secrets” and “forbidden fruits.”The box is…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
I think I may have just found my new obsession. It’s another Mexican joint, of course, but while the twelve-page menu lists tortas (and “super mega” tortas), huaraches, enchiladas de mole, ensadada de nopales and fried jalapenos soaked in soy sauce, salt and lime juice, the kitchen also turns out…
Yesterday, I posted a picture of the alien head that had maintained a position of honor on top of my monitor for a couple of years before our office remodel relegated him to a cardboard box. In that picture, said alien head was wearing a baseball hat with a virtually…
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Encore, at 2550 East Colfax Avenue, is hosting a party-on-the-patio winemaker dinner showcasing all carbon-neutral, organic and sustainable wines from Parducci and Paul Dolan Vineyards. The eight-course menu, created by exec chef Paul Reilly, is a smorgasbord of Colorado-inspired plates, including Colorado bass crudo with lemon…
We all watched as the little girl with the blue leotard and blonde hair staggered on the mats. We all watched as she stood there, staring blindly out into the crowd, glancing up at the uneven bars, furrowing her small brows. Everyone in the place was watching. The room was…
You’re the first person who’s asked for hot sauce since I opened,” says Troy Guard. The owner and executive chef of TAG, a three-month-old restaurant in Larimer Square, isn’t quite scolding me, but he’s made it perfectly clear that his steak tacos, a plate of which sits in front of…
There was a time when the pho shop at 1036 South Federal Boulevard was one of my favorites. I would go out of my way to have lunch there, skip out on meetings and blow off interviews just for an early dinner among the friends and neighbors who gathered in…
It’s hard to imagine anything more meaty than BBQ. It is a cuisine based entirely on the flesh of the pig, the cow and, in some cases, the chicken. So it’s no surprise that a BBQ joint owner might hang up on a sales rep trying to sell him vegan…
Just in case you’ve been living in between the bun and haven’t feasted your eyes on Biker Jim’s hot dog blog, this is just a little heads-up to let you know that every Wednesday, before lunch, Jim delivers a post all about the weird, wacky and wonderful dogs he’s doing…
