The second the story broke that Bon Appetit had named Boulder its foodiest town of 2010, the local Twitter-sphere was a swirl of self-congratulations. And in the past 24 hours, the link has been reposted thousands of times, accompanied by commentary from the CEOs and graphic designers and tech wizards…
WE won’t spoil it for you but… Have you spent this seventh season of Top Chef glued to your television on Wednesday nights? Were you wracked with grief when hometown-favorite Kelly Liken was eliminated last week? Are you eagerly awaiting tonight’s season finale, revealing once and for all whether Angelo,…
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…
WaterCourse Foods, at 837 East 17th Avenue, joined the dozens of other restaurants participating in Denver Beer Fest and offered up a beer dinner last Friday — four courses, six beers and one damn fine cup of coffee for just $35. Here’s a look at the spread:…
Tomorrow night, the second Justice League of Street Food party will take place in the same vacant lot at 29th Avenue and Huron Street that hosted the first. This time, though, more vendors and more space will alleviate the long lines, and extended hours — this party starts at 5…
Brandon Biederman Steuben’s 523 East 17th Avenue 303-830-1001 www.steubens.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Brandon Biederman, exec chef of Steuben’s. Part two of that Q&A will run in this space tomorrow. Brandon Biederman is having a difficult time coming up with ten words to describe himself,…
You know the boarded up Big Lots on First and Broadway — the behemoth, 23,000-square-foot space that was reportedly going to be a Sunflower Farmers’ Market, then a Staples store and, most recently, an auto body garage? Yeah, well, it’s not not going to be any of those things. It’s…
Billed as pommes frites on the menu, the above plate of fingerling potatoes smooched with truffled salt and sided with lemon aioli, could have been called anything — and it would still elevate the lowly tuber to culinary nirvana. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, 1535 Pearl Street in Boulder, may be the closest you’ll ever get to drinking homebrew on tap. The restaurant devotes about fifteen taps to the ales it brews in-house: hoppy IPAs, creamy stouts, a fruity blackberry wheat and a variety of rotating porters, ryes, pale…
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…
After overhauling the former Lizard’s Bar & Grill space at 1920 Blake Street for the last month and a half, Hayter’s & Co. officially opened today. Mike Hayter and Mike Refling moved down from Bozeman, Montana, to start the sports bar with a bit of a throwback feel. Hanging on…
Pat Boone, that icon of pure American goodness, has partnered up with a Colorado Springs company on a line of Pat Boone All-American Meats and will start selling his “delicious, tender, juicy, USDA, hand-trimmed, aged beef” on November 1. Here’s the official word from the All-American website:…
As the rest of us lament the end of Colorado’s growing season, buying up the last of the state’s summer produce to make gazpacho and ratatouille (and anything that lets us satiate our taste for vegetables straight from the ground until next spring), Dakota Soifer and his kitchen at Cafe…
For decades, Mori was one of our favorite Japanese restaurants, a real find tucked behind the Nisei lodge at 2015 Market Street, in an area that was far from a hipster hangout before the ballpark moved in. The place never quite recovered from a remodeling that turned the dark, cozy…
Terry Jones, the batshit crazy pastor of the obscure fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) in Gainesville, Florida, who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of September 11 because he’s opposed to the building of the “Ground Zero mosque” (he later called off the combustion),…
It was here, sitting among eighteen people, all of whom were typing away on their Macs, that I decided to go to the dark side and get a Mac of my own, which should arrive any day. Woo-hoo! In any case, most of those same people were noshing on sandwiches…
In 2008, shortly after she finished reading the Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, Lisa Rogers was trolling the Internet when she found statistics related to the Colorado food supply. The Denver area spends over $5.7 billion on fresh food every year, she learned, but just $4 million of that total…
Last Friday afternoon, on Larimer Square, hundreds of hardbody firefighters from local and national fire and rescue units across the country battled it out in the 23rd annual chili cook-off, a spirited combat whose proceeds benefited the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The firefighters, some of whom went to great lengths to…
After a slight delay created by a thirteen-inch problem with a neighboring wall, Smashburger is ready to smash into downtown Denver, where it will unveil a new store in the Tabor Center, at 1203 16th Street, on Wednesday, September 22. Since the chain opened its very first Smashburger just over…
Loaner tables still riddle the fully remodeled dining room of the old Aztec Sol , and the POS system has yet to be installed, but the Highland Tap and Burger, 2219 West 32nd Avenue, is at least partially open for business. “We had our soft, soft opening on Friday night,”…
Well, shit. Among the hundreds of events taking place this week in honor of the Great American Beer Festival and Denver Beer Fest, the one I was looking forward to the most has been squashed. Sunk. Torpedoed. Axed…
We can’t even count the number of times we’ve stood agonizing over our decision in front of the seafood case, pondering the conundrum of farm-raised versus wild-caught salmon and whether our choice of tilapia or ahi grade tuna or fat silver prawns is going to single-handedly have an effect on…
