After reviewing Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli , Laura Shunk rounded up four more of the town’s superlative sandwiches for “Denver’s five best spots for sandwiches.” Readers served up their own favorite shops, including Snarf’s (a Boulder institution now open in the Spire), Udi’s, the Old-Fashioned Italian Deli, Marczyk’s Fine Foods…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from a sidewalk bloody Mary at Gallop Cafe to a great bowl of Pueblo green chile at Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina. And in between, we stopped off at a new food temple for this dish of mussels,…
Hundreds of people converged on the Denver Zoo last night for Do at the Zoo, where they observed the animals — both four- and two-legged — and ate amazing food served up by some of Denver’s top restaurants. Photos by Kate Levy. View the full Do at the Zoo slideshow…
Over the past several months, Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger have amassed a loyal following for their sack lunch barbecue business, delivering pulled pork and chicken sandwiches and an assortment of Southern-style sides to businesses all over Boulder County. And when they weren’t dropping off food, they were cooking it…
Top Chef Angelo Sosa and Lon Symensma didn’t make good on their promise to come out in Speedos for dessert at Wednesday night’s Celebrity Chef Tour dinner benefiting the James Beard Foundation at ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro Wednesday night, but that was the only disappointment at a very delicious event…
No question, I ate awesome sandwiches during my trips to Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli for this week’s review. But the flavor of those sausage, meatball and salami subs was also enhanced by the place making them, a relic of the kind of Italian market that once stood on just about…
It was a little too early to dive into the vats of margaritas that this new Mexican joint mixes every day, but it’s never too early to dive into a bowl of green chile, especially one that’s pungent with Pueblo chiles. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
Every week in Chef and Tell, Lori Midson serves up a heaping helping of wit and wisdom from a local chef. Some work for big national outfits, some are struggling in their own tiny kitchens, but they all share a love of food — and serving that food to Denver…
The original Elway’s hosted the annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge last night, when sixteen of Denver’s top chefs competed to make the best slider. The winner? Troy Guard of TAG and TAG | RAW Bar, for his kangaroo slider with piquillo pepper remoulade, spinach and pickled cipollini onions (with a…
Denver Yard Harvest, a new urban farming initiative, is kicking off its cause at a fundraiser from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight at Fuel Cafe. The non-profit group’s goal is to harvest surplus fruits and vegetables from residential properties throughout town and distribute them to daycare facilities, homes for the…
WTF? There’s nothing I loathe more than a bona fide taqueria that goes gringo on me. But that’s exactly what’s happened at this Mexican outpost that’s suddenly tainting its gorditas with yellow cheese, watering down its salsas to appease a shy palate and serving barbacoa that tastes as though it’s…
Jared Brant Satchel’s on 6th 1710 East Sixth Avenue 303-399-2560 www.satchelson6th.com This is part two of my interview with Jared Brant, executive chef of Satchel’s on 6th. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: That’s a very hard question to answer. There are…
Chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson of Frasca Food and Wine chose Comida, the Boulder-based Mexican food truck, as his favorite restaurant in Colorado for Travel + Leisure’s feature on chef’s darlings around the country. He especially likes the bistec tacos, costillas de res tacos and “truck-made” guacamole and chips, Mackinnon-Patterson told the…
For this week’s reviews, Laura Shunk visited two old standbys in Denver’s hottest new restaurant neighborhood: Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli and Lechuga’s. The description of the area prompted this from Steve065: You called it northwest Denver instead of Highlands! For those of us who grew up here, it was always…
Young man, you’re very tall. Would you mind switching on the air-conditioning for me?” My boyfriend and I had been standing in Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli for a couple of minutes, and we’d already scanned the grubby shelves packed with food imports from Italy, including cannoli shells, canned San Marzano…
If you were hoping America’s Next Great Restaurant winner, Soul Daddy, would eventually start hawking its healthy soul food in Denver, don’t hold your breath. Despite the credentials of the panel of investors — Steve Ells, Chipotle’s founder and CEO, Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia — who selected…
Any vegetarian with a hankering for pho will be very familiar with the fact that most pho restaurants serve their noodles swimming in beef broth, which is the traditional preparation for pho. Thankfully, there are a handful of pho restaurants in the metro area that offer a vegetable broth, too,…
Several weeks ago, Esquire Food scribe (and restaurant critic) John Mariani sank his teeth into the Colorado food climate, noshing his way through Denver, Boulder and the mountains to get a taste of what’s cooking in Colorado. And he clearly has a sweet tooth, because he just compiled a roster…
I’ve worked my way through just about everything on the menu at this buzzy food temple that’s turning out first-rate dishes, including the mussels in the above pic. 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…
Jared Brant Satchel’s on 6th 1710 East Sixth Avenue 303-399-2560 www.satchelson6th.com This is part one of my interview with Jared Brant, executive chef of Satchel’s on 6th. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. If you’ve eaten at Satchel’s on 6th and loved the food, you…
While East Washington Park is in a tizzy over the Brown Dog Pizza liquor-license application (the very long, very big hearing was Tuesday night; the city has not yet made its decision), West Washington Park is debating what Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub might do to that bucolic stretch…
