Starting today, the glitterati of the food world will descend upon Aspen, when that glitter gulch town uncorks the Food & Wine magazine Classic, four days of over-the-top gluttony overrun with super-star chefs and their wide-eyed Food Network groupies who fork over nearly $1,200 to catch a glimpse of Mario…
Seven hundred and twenty-six steps. Every morning she counts the steps, one by one. She counts them as she walks past frat brothers staggering back home from the night before, past early-morning hipsters in Wayfarers burning butts, past yogis traveling from the cafe to the studio. This is not Indianapolis,…
Following in the footsteps of fellow Colorado-based fast-casual chains like Chipotle, Noodles & Company and Qdoba, Bombay Bowl is swinging for the fences. Amar Singh, founder of the restaurant at 12023 East Arapahoe Road in Centennial, expects to open two dozen more restaurants within the next five years in Colorado…
A Japanese/French fusion restaurant is going into the one-time nine75 spot in the Beauvallon building. Lawrence Yee, former front-of-the-house man at Jing, plans to open Japoix at 975 Lincoln Street in mid-August. While the Beauvallon building, which is still swathed in scaffolding, has seemed jinxed, one former tenant is optimistic…
Man V. Food guy, no shot; the fat baldie who eats it all, nada. Anthony Bourdain? No way — although Paula Deen might have a chance. What is it that these culinary whizzes won’t dare do? They wouldn’t go near these creations cooked up by lunatics. For example, the blog…
The New York food scene is renowned for all sorts of things, but green chile isn’t one of them. That, as we all know, is a Colorado thing. But Dennis Krieger, a New Yorker, insists that his pork green chile, a family recipe, will put all others to shame. “I…
In March, Adam Richman traveled to Boulder — 926 Pearl Street, to be precise — to tackle the Wing King Challenge at the West End Tavern: fifty chicken wings in thirty minutes. Since the West End introduced the contest a year ago, only fifteen people have managed to finish, even…
Lakewood’s Cafe Jordano has gotten some love on these pages before, from a series of Best Of awards (including 2009’s Best Strip-Mall Italian Restaurant) to a glittering review in 2004 by Jason Sheehan. It deserves all of those accolades. But I like the place for a different reason — although…
Five bucks for three cheese-blanketed mini burgers in one of the most expensive restaurants in town is a good deal, not just here, but anywhere. 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…
El Diablo may be the most appropriate name ever for a restaurant. Jesse Morreale, who took on the massive project of renovating the old First Avenue Hotel at First and Broadway, turning the front area into a restaurant he named El Diablo (an adjacent portion is already Sketch), was in…
There are good chefs and chefs who do good: Jon Emanuel is both. During his career, the head cooker at Project Angel Heart has fed everyone from rocket scientists to garbage men, but his position at Project Angel Heart — a Denver nonprofit that dishes out 800 meals a day…
A swell of Denver’s top kitchen masters are playing with fire tonight at Elway’s Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, the stamping ground for the second annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, a blowout bash and smokin’ chef competition that benefits men’s programs through the Denver Health Foundation. Twelve of Denver’s…
Phil’s Place, 3463 Larimer Street, is a family enterprise. Phil Garcia bought the former home of Our Place in 2002; in 2004, he turned the game room into a kitchen for his mother, Junie, who had nearly 25 years of cooking expertise under her flower-print apron at the Bamboo Hut…
Comfort Cafe, one of Denver’s forthcoming pay-what-you-can restaurants, won’t be opening its doors this week as originally planned. It’s looking more like next week, says Jan Bezuidenhout, the brains (and much of the brawn) behind the restaurant, located at 3945 Tennyson Street. “There’s just a tremendous amount of red tape,”…
The Civic Center Eats Outdoor Cafe returned to Civic Center Park today for its weekly run through the summer, and what was once a somewhat half-hearted farmers’ market has fully morphed into an orgy of gourmet mobile food vendors…
Earlier this afternoon, Ryan Hardy, chef of the glitzy Little Nell Hotel and Residences in Aspen, braved the drivel of Today Show hosts Kathy Lee Gifford and, to a lesser extent, Hoda Kotb to wax poetic about pork shoulder and chimichurri sauce. Gifford, who predictably didn’t recognize fresh oregano and…
A new coffee shop going into 710 East 26th Avenue, in the heart of Five Points, hopes to fill the void left by the recent departure of Blackberries, but the former tenant left a pile of debt that the city of Denver is still trying to recover. Much of a…
Believe it or not, the Hooters girls aren’t just about big tits and big tips. Turns out, the tight white T-shirt-clad females have a thing for pantyhose — namely donating 100,000 pairs of shredded and torn close-fitting legware in an effort to help clean up the disastrous Gulf Coast oil…
The rubber-band installation in the back room of the Corner Office, 1401 Curtis Street, snapped a while ago, but its been replaced with a far cooler piece of art: a mural created by renowned graffiti artists David Villorente and Robert Cartwright, who created New York street art under the name…
I spent Sunday afternoon shopping in Boulder and Sunday night at this longstanding Boulder restaurant that proffers an incredible happy hour, which includes, among other things, roasted bone marrow smeared on grilled bread. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Wendy’s, which touts its “real” food, had a real mess on its hands at a Kalamazoo, Michigan outlet when a fight broke out after an order wasn’t filled correctly. Officers were called to the scene, where they “encountered a loud disturbance between unsatisfied customers and frustrated employees inside the business,”…
Since it first came on the scene in 2003, the Blake Street Tavern has been a prime spot to pre-game a Rockies game. Last Friday, it opened the doors to a busy first weekend in its new location, one block away from the old–and one block closer to Coors Field–at…
