Chef Jim Cohen wanted to celebrate summer while still capitalizing on the strengths of his kitchen at Louisville’s Empire Lounge and Restaurant. His solution? A “picnic menu” composed of a number of grilled items — Empire’s kitchen centerpiece is its mesquite charcoal grill — with an emphasis on being picnic-ready…
I’m not a sugar fiend — never have been, never will be. But that doesn’t stop others from trying to convince me to change my weird ways, which is what happened the other night when a friend all but forced me to lap up the orange Creamsicle ice cream with…
Steve Ballas doesn’t believe that the fact his birthday coincides with the beginning of National Hot Dog Month is a coincidence. “I believe in fate and everything happening for a reason.” Ballas, who owns Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, 3535 East Colfax Avenue, is hoping diners will bank on their own fate…
Spit-shine your cowboy boots and dig out your hats, y’all! In just two months, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill is putting its shit-kickin’ foot stomp on a 20,000-square-foot plot of land at Northfield Stapleton. According to Paul Sewell, the chain’s corporate marketing director, the mammoth restaurant, bar…
I hate it when Tom Colicchio gets sententious, as he did facing the losing four contestants on last night’s third episode of Top Chef D.C.. Stephen, Tim, Kevin and Tracey stood in front of him, shaken and close to tears, waiting to see who’d get sent home. “Your challenge was…
Despite the tiff with Cherry Creek Fresh Market, Civic Center Eats is thriving, bringing crowds of downtown lunchers to the Tuesday food court. And now those lunchers won’t have to wait until next Tuesday for another fix. The Steuben’s Food Truck has secured a permit that will allow the movable…
This is part two of my interview with Leo Harvey, executive chef of Big Game Restaurant & Lounge. To read part one of that interview, click here. Favorite dish to cook at home: Braised chicken thighs and Yukon Gold mashed potatoes. It’s a very comforting dish that’s hearty, easy to…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN JUNE:* Bar Car, 819 Colorado Boulevard Beauty Bar, 608 East 13th Avenue BenchWarmers Tavern & Grill, 6631 South Peoria Street, Centennial Cellar Wine Bar, 2556 15th Street Chances, 1135 Bannock Street Comfort Cafe, 3945 Tennyson Street East Asia Garden, 1156 South Broadway Eco-Burger, 2817 East Third Avenue…
You need a greeting card to show how much you care, but you want to send something that the recipient will cherish for days, if not hours. So you walk up and down the miles of aisles at the local Hallmark store, searching for that special card that will bond…
How in the hell am I supposed to eat this?” It was a perfect summer night in Denver. Inside the Squeaky Bean, a lively crowd was watching the Celtics and the Lakers battle it out on the bar TV, cheering over the freak folk and remixed indie rock coming from…
Since the Squeaky Bean opened in May 2009, chef Max MacKissock has found the limitations of the closet-sized kitchen an ongoing test of his creativity. Not only does he have to dream up three meals a day that satisfactorily incorporate his obsession with seasonality, he also has to figure out…
After an unexpected stay in the hospital — he fell and cracked his head the weekend that the first big press on his latest restaurant, El Diablo, came out in the Denver Post four weeks ago — Jesse Morreale is back on the phone. And on the job. And when…
Okay, so we’re usually not in the market of hunting down Denver’s most wanted, but after our post yesterday announcing Pho Havana’s takeover of Chef’s Noodle House, an Asian joint previously run by Billy Lam, a killer-genius chef especially when it comes to noodles, we’re now wondering what the hell…
Last night, while sitting at the bar where the above pic was snapped, Olivia Newton-John’s Physical was blasting over the speakers, part of some ’80s mix that, thankfully, got progressively better, as did the trio of tacos, which the menu claims are grilled. But judging from the persistent grease dribble…
Last night, I had the best cup of coffee of my life. It was the Novo-roasted Brazil Cup of Excellence poured from a French Press, hot and complex, and so good I wanted the owner of Crema Coffee House, who sells the java, to relinquish the whole pot, letting me…
You know what’s really annoying? When you’re having a cookout for some kind of holiday — say, the Fourth of July — and one of your guests mentions they don’t eat meat anymore. What the hell do you feed those people? We’ll be covering hot dogs in July, in honor…
Since the fleet of food trucks and gourmet mobile carts hit the streets of Denver,, there have been relatively few regulatory obstacles, and the vehicles have been proffering goods to the masses from curbs and parking lots all over town. Now, though, there could be a roadblock in the most…
Leo Harvey Big Game Restaurant & Lounge 1631 Wazee Street 303-623-1630 This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Leo Harvey, exec chef of Big Game Restaurant & Lounge. To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Leo Harvey is shaking his head, bewildered and befuddled…
The cupcake trend appears to be gasping its last breath in a fully saturated market, and national eat blogs and food writers are having a heyday with bidding farewell. Dessert must go on, though, and Jezebel just polled its readers on what sweet they thought would become the post-cupcake trend…
Health.com just called out the most fattening foods in all 50 states, and the seven-pound breakfast burrito at Jack-n-Grill, a gut bomb that Man v. Food host Adam Richman forfeited after barely making a dent, was awarded the fattiest food in Colorado…
A recent CNN investigation uncovered a dirty little secret about the difference between Chicken McNuggets in this country and their British counterparts: BP may be polluting the Gulf, but the Brits are at least getting chemicals out of their food. McNuggets in the USA were found to contain an “anti-foaming…
Morton’s Steakhouse isn’t part of tonight’s LoDo Bites, the eating orgy featuring twenty restaurants and watering holes in lower downtown, but it’s still offering something special tonight for diners who duck out of the heat and into the cool confines of the Morton’s at 1710 Wynkoop Street: Two new items…
