If you don’t have big plans this weekend, then head to the hills for the Mesa Verde Country Food, Wine and Art Festival, which kicks off Saturday and continues Sunday. The mountain festival peddles foodstuffs from several local and regional restaurants, farmers and producers (if you do nothing else, seek…
One of the loveliest patios in downtown Denver is finally being resurrected. Since February 15, the day Buenos Aires Grill served its last dinner at 2191 Arapahoe Street, that patio has been off limits, but now that the crew from the Whiskey Bar has snapped up the space, we’ll soon…
After closing earlier this week for a quick remodel, Andrews on Lincoln, at 1111 Lincoln Street, will reopen tonight with a full menu and an alter-ego: While one side of the space will remain a bar/restaurant, the other will be The Stage at Andrews, with live entertainment. For full details,…
Yesterday, I talked about my infamous Richard Nixon mask — which hung in a place of honor at my desk for years before being packed away in a box to await our move to more expansive editorial digs. Today, the story behind memento that hung right next to Tricky Dick:…
The eating event of the weekend is the inaugural Cherry Creek North Food and Wine festival, a three-day eating and drinking blowout on Fillmore Plaza that celebrates the culinary arts. The festival includes chef demonstrations by Tyler Wiard (Elway’s), Michel Walthere (MiniBAR) and Jeff Bolton (Second Home Kitchen & Bar);…
If you have a killer spoon collection, you may as well open a restaurant. That wasn’t quite the way it happened for Tracy Zimmer, the owner and executive chef of Hutch & Spoon, a breakfast-and-lunch joint that opened two weeks ago in the 125-year-old Charpiot building at 3090 Larimer Street…
We’re suckers for a beautiful sucker. We can appreciate the way that candy on a stick is both form and function — a stylish way to eat a favorite treat while keeping your hands free from stickiness. Sadly, this Hello Kitty marshmallow pop, while strangely beautiful with its shimmering sugar…
I am not, nor have I ever been, a sweets person. For the most part, chocolate does absolutely nothing for me, although I do have an affinity for Vosges milk chocolate bar with smoked bacon. Because, you know, it’s BACON. But you could pretty much shove a box of chocolates,…
“Around 1996, two guys were sitting around discussing their future. It was soon decided to leave the Midwest and travel to the base of the Rockies to seek fame and fortune, and that’s when they developed a ‘nugget’ of an idea for a fast food operation,” says the Silver Mine…
Because of an office construction project, I had to clear off my desk — which meant moving seven years of accumulation. Every morning, I’ll share another uncovered item with you. Yes, folks, that is it. The famous Richard Nixon mask which I wore to protect my precious anonymity at all…
My first date was in a Tex-Mex restaurant. Actually, I should say that my first real date was in a Tex-Mex restaurant — real date meaning the first date which had, at its conclusion, a reasonable expectation of a girl touching me where my bathing suit covered and not, later,…
I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest — and usually crazy…
Like La Loma, La Cueva has some history behind it. Both places opened in the mid-’70s, both places quickly became destinations for Denver’s Mexican food fans. Over the years, both restaurants have prospered, but unlike La Loma’s owners, the Nuñez family has kept La Cueva in its original home on…
Miscreants have been stealing letters from Bastien’s sign, prompting this new version that’s now showing at the venerable steakhouse…
Two years ago, when Mark Dym, his wife, Kristy, and their three kids left the balmy beachfront of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the jagged mountain peaks of Colorado, to open a pizzeria in downtown Denver, Mark was up for the challenge, despite the fact that he’d never run a restaurant…
…stop staring at that spreadsheet; everyone knows you’re not paying attention, anyway. Instead, I’ve got something upon which you can really feast your eyes. But fair warning, if you’re even slightly hungry, this is going to be painful.I’m talking pure, unctuous food porn. The type that makes Food and Wine…
With more than thirty restaurants across the country (including one that opened at 303 Josephine Street in Denver in April), the Houston’s chain falls under the fourteen-month-old New York City rule that requires it to put calorie information its menus. But as Crain’s New York reports, Houston’s is refusing to…
The sandwich: Jalisco Torta What’s on it: Marinated steak and chicken, beans, cheese, mayonnaise, avocado, tomato and onions Where to get it: Las Tortas (5307 Leetsdale Drive, 720-379-7269) How much: $6.99 There’s an old Mexican adage that, when translated, reads: Ain’t nothing about a sandwich that can’t be made better…
While cleaning my desk last week, I discovered that one single packing box could hold a couple hundred menus. Mostly take-out menus and dozens of single sheets stolen from fine dining joints, but also a few sleeved menus still in their fancy folders as well as entire press kits. So…
I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest – and usually crazy…
No good deed goes unpunished. This summer, Chipotle sponsored 32 free screenings across the country of Food, Inc., the documentary that’s more frightening than any Friday the 13th movie. As thanks, this morning activists will deliver petitions with 16,000 signatures to Chipotle’s headquarters in LoDo, calling on the homegrown chain…
Most of the gardening operations I’ve been exploring as part of “Urbavore’s Dilemma,” my summer-long series on the local urban agriculture movement, are grassroots affairs: compost bins made from recycled plastic barrels, chicken coops built in old kids’ playhouses, garden fences born out of back-alley wood scraps. That’s why when…
