You can find pizza anywhere in the city — but finding vegan-friendly pizza is a slice more difficult. Pizza Fusion made the hunt much easier when it opened a few months ago; its vegan pie is topped with casein-free soy cheese (Follow Your Heart mozzarella — which, as you can…
Breakfast is served all day, every day, until 5 p.m. at this neighborhood java joint with a palpable hippie vibe. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…
Theo Adley The Pinyon 1710 Pearl Street, Boulder 720-306-8248 www.thepinyon.com This is part one of my interview with Theo Adley, executive chef/owner of the Pinyon in Boulder. Part two of my chat with Adley will run in this space tomorrow. Theo Adley failed algebra three times in high school. As…
Brauns Bar and Grill, which had been a prime hangout for Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets fans since it opened in 2002, has left its giant warehouse spot on the Auraria Parkway; the Pepsi Center, which owns the building, did not renew Brauns’s lease. But the Brauns concept lives on…
We’ve got dozens of cupcake shops in the Mile High City, and the past few months have seen an onslaught of frozen yogurt shops, too. But there have been few — if any — places that offer both. Until now. 32nd Treat, “part self-serve yogurt bar, part gourmet cupcake and…
Comments have been springing up about our tour of the Cherry Creek Fresh Market this past weekend — which had very little that was fresh and Colorado-grown. Bsquared hits the issue squarely: So much prepared food, so little fresh produce…This is the problem with all farmers markets in Colorado. WE…
You could, we suppose, say that the writing was on the wall. The Comfort Cafe, a donation-based, non-profit community kitchen and restaurant in Berkeley Park, whose philosophy is pay-what-you-can-afford, recently posted a note on its Facebook wall, pleading for volunteers:…
One of downtown Denver’s newest architectural assets is the Spire, a skyscraping complex of sleek condominiums located directly across from the Convention Center. In addition to stylish condos, the building houses a handful of restaurants, including the posh Row 14, which holds down a corner street level spot…
A friend called me a while back to let me know he was coming to Denver for an indefinite amount of time and needed a place to crash. That’s just the way the guy is: spontaneous, which is one of his many charming traits (his strong Southern drawl is another)…
It took a while, but Ricky and Anna Choi finally have what they want: a second restaurant to complement their successful Purple Ginger in Lakewood. Last fall the Chois had opened Zi Fusion, a restaurant at 7340 South Clinton Street in Englewood; they closed it in April for what was…
A long time ago, Basil Doc’s pushed a fantastic white clam pizza (it now sucks). Several other pie palaces also toss white clam pizzas, none of which are great, but this one — save for the deluge of flour beneath the crust — is good. Can you guess where I’m…
Jason and Jeanette Burgett’s Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery is a regular stop for Highland neighbors who can’t get enough of the spot’s pastries, breakfast sandwiches, egg scrambles and baguettes. Weekends are particularly busy, and after a three-day 4th of July stretch that called for extended hours, the cafe is…
We came, we saw, we took pictures and now we’re sharing them with you. There were all kinds of products available at VegFest 2011 on Saturday, but we managed to settle on five favorites, starting with this gourmet mushroom kit that grows ‘shrooms in recycled coffee grounds. (Oyster mushrooms, of…
I spent Saturday morning meandering around the Cherry Creek Fresh Market — a market, frankly, that I’ve never been terribly fond of, mainly because much of the produce is unseasonal and trucked in from outside state lines, plus I was tired of seeing vendors pimping acres of dried pasta, soaps…
More than eighty years after Maid-Rite got its start in Muscatine, Iowa, the chain has finally made it as far west as Denver, where Ralph’s Maid-Rite Sports Diner opened last week in Littleton. Ralph’s serves the loose-meat and breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches that are hallmarks of Maid-Rite, but it’s also…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, ranging from a summery bowl of gazpacho at Vert Kitchen to a jaw-breaking bagel sandwich to a marg on Taco Tuesday in Cherry Creek, right before the crowds descended for the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. For correctly identifying that drink…
On Friday, we posted our “Restaurant roll call for June,” a compendium of the town’s recent openings and closings — some of them quite surprising, including Squeaky Bean (looking for a new home, this one with a kitchen), Baur’s Ristorante (Robert Thompson of Argyll will turn the space at 1512…
I wanted a burger. I wanted a big, fat, meaty burger that would smear condiments and grease across my face as I attempted to stuff it down my gullet. I wanted a protein bomb that would sit like a dead weight in my stomach all afternoon, inducing a food coma…
Row 14 isn’t the only eatery that’s taken up residence on the ground floor of the Spire. Just around the corner, Organic Pizza Co. turns out take-home pies, and next door to that is an outpost of Snarf’s Sub Shop, the beloved sandwich shop that got its start when Jim…
In January of 2010, Virgilio Urbano, the pizza slinger — and owner — of his namesake pie palace, issued a humongous challenge: In two hours or less, stuff your gullet with eleven pounds of pizza without puking, taking a bathroom break or falling over dead, and your success (or stupidity,…
Dazbog Coffee understands that its undercaffeinated, too-tired-to-function customers may not always remember their wallets — and so the stores are offering a payment method that doesn’t require a wallet. “Everyone has their cell phone before their wallet these days,” says Leonid Yuffa, co-owner of the thirty-store chain that’s based in…
Along with Rackhouse Pub, this week I paid a visit to Pints Pub, the quirky British brewpub that claims to stock the largest collection of single malt whisky outside of Great Britain. I had my doubts — a number of restaurants make the same claim, including Dundee Dell, an Omaha…
