Making a date dish can be challenging — especially if you’re not in the bloomin’ mood. Serve one of these onion appetizers to your significant other, and we guarantee you won’t need that condom that’s been sitting in your wallet for the last three months. The top five onion appetizers…
There’s nothing better than a burger that’s been slapped with blue cheese and prosciutto, which is my go-to guilty pleasure at this beef depot that also turns out fantastic skin-on french fries. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
“I love this little truck, so much, in fact, that I could seriously put a little bed in there and sleep in it.” Kathleen Nevin, the baking mistress behind Big Fat Cupcake, 129 Adams Street, just bought herself an antiquated ice cream truck for $900 in Colorado Springs, and while…
This is part two of Juliet Wittman’s Q&A with Kelly Liken, chef/owner of Restaurant Kelly Liken. To read part one of that interview, click here. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vail 970-479-0175 Do you turn to food books or cookbooks? I read Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle…
If you have a hankering for the food cooked up by chef/owner Jeff Osaka at the almost-two-year-old twelve, head there tonight — because tomorrow, the restaurant at 2233 Larimer Street will close for an eleven-day “break to rejuvenate.” Until twelve reopens, appropriately enough, on October 12, you can get a…
I wasn’t thrilled with the margaritas at this Mexican spot opened this spring by a couple of restaurant veterans, but the beers were icy cold. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
“I’m really, really passionate about food, and we have so many food events in Denver that fly under the radar that I wanted to create a way to capture people who might want to be in the know about those events.” That’s the premise behind Food Events in Denver, a…
“I’m tired. I’m 85 years old. I want to get my head back and figure out what I want to do all day,” says Zona Moore, speaking from her screened-in office in the blue-and-orange building from which she’s sold tamales, pig’s ears sandwiches and soul food for the past forty…
Govinda’s Buffet, the restaurant in the Krishna center at 1400 Cherry Street, has reopened after a year-long hiatus, with a buffet that features “karma-free spiritual vegetarian food” cooked by a Brahmanical chef and blessed by Krishna. What that translates to: all-you-can-eat vegetarian fare that might expand your horizons, mind –…
Twelve years ago, bison ranchers in the West were feeling fenced in. While demand from restaurants and consumers for steaks, roasts and other prime cuts was just beginning to increase, nobody wanted the rest of the beast — the parts that get ground up and turned into hamburger. In fact,…
Feed Denver, a local nonprofit that teaches sustainable farming methods and builds community-based urban greenhouse farms in an effort to offer fresh, local produce year-round, wants you to help swell its belly, which you can do tonight, between 4 and 9 p.m., by simply eating pizza, salads, calzones and sandwiches…
New menu, new cookbook and a new charcuterie and cheese plate that’s large enough for a little league team, but easily consumed by two. 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…
This is part one of Juliet Wittman’s interview with Kelly Liken of Restaurant Kelly Liken. Read part two of the Kelly Liken interview here. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vail 970-479-0175 One of Kelly Liken’s finest moments on Top Chef D.C. came when the contestants were challenged…
The Counter, part of a California-based chain, may not have been able to cut it in Colorado, but the homegrown Smashburger continues to smash the competition. Since it got its start at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard in June 2007, the company has grown to eighty stores, with hundreds more on…
As much as I’d like to be a better representative of womankind, I am not girly. I’d rather smoke a cigar over Scotch than comment on cute brunch tartlettes filling some silver platter. I’d rather yell obscenities at a baseball game than teeter around on high heels during a girls’…
I may not be girly, but like any female who doesn’t have some sort of social disorder, I’ve got a group of delightful women with whom I like to spend an inordinate amount of time, typically bitching about my most recent significant other, predicting whose marriage is about to fail,…
I got off to a rough start during a recent meal at the Village Cork, 1300 South Pearl Street, mostly because I was having trouble integrating myself into the feminine fold. The restaurant, full of charming knickknacks and smiling women, could sell you a lifestyle with dinner. And given that…
Pinkberry, the cult of frozen yogurt, with two stores in Denver, recently unleashed its 100th outlet, and to mark the milestone, the pink and green swirl machine is holding a contest that will make at least one person rich…with a Pinkberry gift card worth $1,000. Here’s the deal: Starting September…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
The block-long shoppette that runs along the east side of Jersey Street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, seems like a great location for a restaurant. Located in the Mayfair neighborhood, it is close to lots of homes, offices and Mayfair Park. But owner Alex Pappas has had a hard time…
Tavern Hospitality Group just broke ground on the project that will debut as Tavern Littleton in April 2011. Last year, THG owners Frank Schultz and Terry and Al Papay purchased a building and lot at 2589 West Main Street in the heart of the historic district, where they plan to…
See that photo up top? That’s the former home of Ron & Dan’s Keg, and the future address of Lou’s Food Bar, Frank Bonanno’s new restaurant, which was gutted yesterday after Bonanno, who also owns Bones, Luca d’Italia, Mizuna , Osteria Marco (and soon, Wednesday’s Pies), sealed the deal on…
