This year’s Colorado Chocolate Festival, held at the Denver Merchandise Mart this past weekend, had everything a chocolate lover could want: Over eighty vendors from all over the country offered cakes, cookies, fudge, toffee, coffee, frozen red wine slushies — and, of course, all the chocolates and truffles you could…
A Philly cheesesteak sandwich and tater tots: This just might be the all-American meal. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll…
Spring signals the arrival of farmers’ markets across the state, and the City Park Esplanade Fresh Market at East Colfax and Columbine Street officially opened for business yesterday at 9 a.m. with around thirty local growers and vendors peddling their wares in spite of the chilly, overcast weather…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Memorial Day is fast approaching, which means cookouts and buckets of potato salad. This version (adapted from vegan king Bryant Terry) is…
There’s still no name, but the owners of Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, Southern Sun Pub & Brewery and Vine Street Pub & Brewery, are brewing up a new tap house in Boulder that will open in August directly beneath Southern Sun at 627 South Broadway…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a terrific paella at Solera, which erupted into a discussion of what, exactly, constitutes a “real” paella, to a still-unidentified Caesar salad to a respectable plate of al pastor tacos from the Pioneer. Last but not least, we…
A year after it abruptly closed its original location in Highland, Squeaky Bean will bloom again next month at 1500 Wynkoop Street. And thanks to a series of videos with owner Johnny Ballen, you can get a taste of what’s to come: a Casa Bonita for adults, he promises. “Opening…
Colorado’s second Steak ‘n Shake has opened at 3502 River Point Parkway in the River Point development in Sheridan. The iconic burger emporium first appeared in Colorado last November, when it opened in Centennial to a swarm of weeping fans. Steak ‘n Shake got its start in Normal, Illinois in…
Kong Phom, a native of Thailand who has been in the States for thirty years, doesn’t waste time: It took just a few months after he opened Thai Monkey Club, a curry and noodle parlor, on South Broadway last year to ink a deal on a second spot…
“He looks like Clark Kent, only cuter,” whispered a diner at last night’s pop-up dinner at Studio F, which paraded the culinary chutzpah of Jenna Johansen, along with her 27-year-old protegee, Iain Chisholm. A Johnson & Wales graduate who’s worked in the same kitchens as Johansen for more than a…
It’s been a whirlwind week for Jenna Johansen. The former executive chef of Dish, in Edwards, which she still co-owns, made her smashing debut on Around the World in 80 Plates, a new chef-driven reality show on Bravo that premiered on Wednesday night (Johansen, by the way, made it through…
The Boulder outpost of Hapa Sushi, 1220 Pennsylvania Avenue, will exist under new ownership beginning at 1 p.m. today, but will continue to operate as Hapa until Monday, when it will reopen as Sushi Hana Inc. “We kind of grew out of the place,” says one employee. “We needed to…
For those of you who have been begging for an update on the re-sprouting of the Squeaky Bean — and there are a lot of you — we’ve got that and more, thanks, in part, to quirky king bean Johnny Ballen, who, we now know, may have been a used…
After a more than three-decade run as BJ’s Carousel, Denver’s longest-running gay bar closed last July. Jason Tietjen, who’d worked at the Candlelight Tavern for the last decade, took over the spot and gutted the place from top to bottom. Now, after many months of work, the Dive Inn is…
I just learned that Dunkin’ Donuts has introduced two breakfast burritos: the Southwest Veggie Breakfast Burrito and the Southwest Steak Breakfast Burrito. While I do not begrudge DDs its newfound interest in the fine art of creating the breakfast burrito, I can’t help but scratch my donut hole in bewilderment…
Sugar House is gone, as is Perky Cups. But if you’re interested in wearing a hot outfit while pouring hot coffee, Hot Chick a Latte has a job for you. A sibling of the Seattle chain opened at 4736 East Colfax Avenue two years ago, and just posted a help-wanted…
Ryan Tedder, the lead singer with One Republic and a Grammy-winner for his work in the recording studio, knows his music — but does he know food? Tedder jumped on board at the Hell’s Kitchen location of Justin Timberlake’s Southern Hospitality, and now Tedder and his father are bringing the…
A glitch with the size of the front door may have created frustrating zoning issues for owner Cindy Wang, and brothers (and sushi chefs) Mike Nakanishi and Ken Zheng, but on Monday, Aoba, a new Japanese and sushi restaurant, finally opened in the former Organixx space at 1520 Blake Street…
Over a holiday meal at Elway’s a year and a half ago, One Republic lead singer and now Grammy-winning producer Ryan Tedder was telling his family about Southern Hospitality, the Manhattan restaurant started by Justin Timberlake; Tedder had jumped on board when a second location opened in Hell’s Kitchen. “Ryan…
Denver-based Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill is heading south to open its first stores outside of Colorado: in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. These are also Garbanzo’s first franchise operations. The chain, which Alon Mor started in 2007, specializes in delectable fast-casual Mediterranean cuisine; I reviewed the location on South Colorado two…
Joshua LaBure, the man behind Chomp! Vegan Supper Club and the vegan Neat Market (and a member in good standing of the vegan activist collective Plants & Animals Denver), has arguably done more for vegans in this town than anybody else. And now, he’s about to take his efforts to…
On the days that I’m hankering for al pastor tacos, I’m always on the spy for the spit, but while this bar doesn’t have a spit anywhere in sight, it nonetheless manages to turn out respectable al pastor tacos — and it doesn’t forget the grilled pineapple, either. Can you…
