Love your knife? Your mixing bowl? When Lori Midson interviewed many of the town’s top chefs for Dish, our annual restaurant guide, she also asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Their answers prompted this one from Dan: My favorite kitchen gadget? My grandmother. Watch for the second installment on…
It didn’t take long for Breckenridge Brewery, one of Colorado’s first brewpubs, to spill over from Summit County. In 1992, Richard Squire and his team came down from the hills and picked up a massive spot just blocks from the future Coors Field, where they opened a second brewing facility…
I’m not a huge fan of dessert. Growing up in a somewhat sugar-free household, I never developed much of a sweet tooth. Moreover, I find the course itself tends to be unnecessarily lavish, like a double encore at an otherwise amazing show. Alas, there are exceptions to every rule, and…
If you’re looking for something that diverges from the typical suburban chains, culinary options are somewhat sparse in Broomfield. But Azitra, which opened at Flatiron Crossing earlier this month, represents an alternative…
Knives, meat grinders, tweezers. Every chef has a favorite kitchen gadget, and as part of my Dish interviews with many of the Denver chefs who make culinary magic in this city, I asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Not surprisingly, knives are sacred (although for several different reasons), and…
Depending upon which region of Mexico you happen to be stuffing tacos down your throat, the pot-steamed, greasy and golden corn tortillas folded with different meats posing in the above snap are called tacos al vapor, tacos cazuela, and, in Mexico City, tacos de canasta, which you can buy for…
I never went to the joint on East Colfax simply called “Mexican Grill,” but when Ramon Campos, who runs the original Empanada Express Grill in Golden, as well as a second outpost in the Berkeley Park neighborhood, opens his third Venezuelan restaurant — another Empanada Grill — in early October…
Has a culinary trend fad ever rolled into town — rolled over a town — as quickly as food trucks did in Denver? Steuben’s Food Service launched the first gourmet truck in June 2010; two months later, more than a dozen had taken to the streets. And it was just…
Virtually unknown after Prohibition, vodka long ago passed gin as the country’s most popular clear spirit, and then moved up to become the country’s most popular spirit, period — partly because of its neutral flavor, partly because of the smart marketing campaigns that have pushed it, campaigns that feature slick…
Food in the mess hall at the U.S. Army base in Wurzburg, Germany, was bad. So bad that Thomas Bohne, who had never even cracked open a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, took it upon himself to make something edible. He dropped 99 cents on a Thai cookbook,…
Visit Denver has just released the dates for the next Denver Restaurant Week. And despite all the discussion of possibly splitting the event, it will once again run for fourteen consecutive days next winter, from February 25 to March 9, 2012. When Visit Denver worked with local restaurants to start…
Racines is deservedly popular with meat-eaters and vegetarians alike. The salads and veggie-friendly Mexican entrees are amazing, and a relatively new addition to the menu, the Vietnamese vegetarian sandwich, can easily be modified to suit vegan palates…
Allen Milham and I are sitting on the floor of the United Airlines terminal at LaGuardia airport discussing dessert, our brains still high on sugar from the James Beard House dinner, created by a fleet of Denver chefs, that brought us to New York in the first place. Denver, concludes…
Despite the really unpleasant stench that greeted me at the front door of this otherwise pleasant restaurant residing in an old house on a busy stretch of pavement, I stayed, curious because this was once an elegant haunt (with a different cuisine) that I frequented in high school on very…
“It came to me in a dream one night,” says Larry Bigay. “I have a pad of paper by my bedside, and I woke up early one morning, and started to draw what I’d seen in my dream.” What he saw were visions of hot dogs dancing in his head…
If I were shopping venues for a wedding (or really, just about any party in Denver), I’d likely overlook chain hotels — not only do most of those settings induce flashbacks of awful corporate events, but I’ve also had some pretty terrible food from the catering arms of those joints,…
Cafe Society was swimming in sushi yesterday, as Lori Midson’s latest “Guess where I’m eating” rubbed readers’ nerves raw as they tried to identify this pretty plate of sushi. And then Kyle Garratt showed more raw courage, as he attempted to conquer the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi…
Much to the chagrin of my parents, who moved to Colorado to enjoy the great outdoors, I’ve never been big on athletic activities. But childhood is not a democracy, and they dragged me along on their mountain climbs, bike rides and ski trips no matter how loudly I cried, hoping…
There are several ways to eat a mini-cupcake: You can pop the entire thing into your mouth (unsubtle but effective); nibble at the frosting, then the cake, then the frosting, then the cake; bite it cleanly in two, so you get frosting and cake in your mouth at the same…
You could almost hear Whitney Houston singing “I believe that children are our future” playing in the background of TEDx in Boulder Saturday night, because according to the speakers, food issues start with kids. The night of lectures — offered with the tagline “ideas worth spreading” — was heavy on…
Five. That’s how many times the specials board describing the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi said “very” before “spicy.” Ten. That’s how many ice cubes were on the plate owner Jay Chung gave me before I started inhaling this tuna roll topped with liquid fire. “Just in case,” he said…
When Trios Enoteca, the nearly 15-year-old wine bar, shut its doors a month ago, it left a prime piece of LoDo real estate up for grabs. So predictably, it didn’t take long for someone to snatch up the space and move in…
