The sauce and shells at Shells and Sauce, the cozy Italian spot in Congress Park, may not bowl me over — but the restaurant’s very cool new rooftop patio, which was months in the making, is certainly more than enough to lure me up the steps and onto one of…
Because I live and work in Colorado, and because my livelihood revolves almost entirely around food, I get asked quite a lot about that one food item for which Colorado will always be known: the Rocky Mountain oyster.Yes, we’re talking about balls. I’ve eaten them a couple of times, and…
Dan and Michelle Landes, owners of WaterCourse Foods and City, O’ City, Denver’s award-winning vegetarian restaurants, have a new venture in the works — and this one will actually be on the water. Along with partner Dave Paco, they’re opening an international hostel in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, named Osa Mariposa…
See the tricked-out bomb above? The one layered with prosciutto, melty housemade mozzarella, arugula and oven-dried tomatoes, all stacked between slices of grilled bread brushed with olive oil and paved with a green olive pistou? That sandwich — that sandwich — is full-blown deliciousness, and whenever I eat at the…
If you somehow don’t get enough Jason Sheehan from chewing on the novela’s-worth of words he spews each week in the food section of Westword and on this very blog, or from digesting his new memoir Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then…
Raisin Bran Extra! Kellogg’s Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Whole wheat flakes are joined by the usual number of raisins, plus the (very) occasional cranberry, almond slices and yogurt wads with an interior consisting in part of “palm kernel,” which I didn’t know existed until I read…
Today is National Cheesecake Day, which will undoubtedly send some of you sugar fiends into euphoria. Not me. I loathe cheesecake almost as much as celery and eggplant, which is to say that I really, really hate the staff. But that gorgeous salad in the above photo? It’s my favorite…
What you might have missed this week while chowing on local chocolate-covered bacon…What do you wish Denver’s restaurant scene had more of? Jason Sheehan wants your opinion.Pop-Tarts and Bagelfuls: The ten stupidest “breakfast foods” ever.Local brew Blue Moon makes it to the White House’s beer summit, though we would have…
I’ve been writing a lot about burgers lately, so this week’s list reflects nothing more than my personal obsession du jour. Below are my top five burgers in Denver (and beyond).If I miss your favorite, be sure to add it in the comments. With any luck, together we can come…
I’ve got good news from Happy Noodle House, at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder. Not only did this joint that I reviewed two months ago start offering lunch-delivery service to its fans, but it has a new menu. This one, it seems, has bent even further in the international direction,…
So, you know that old cliche, “If you can’t say something nice about someone, then shut the fuck up”? I’m going to follow that advice here and just spell it out: Folks, today is National Cheesecake Day, and in honor of the high-calorie, right-to-your-butt occasion, the Cheesecake Factory is offering…
Argyll Public House, Robert Thompson’s swanky gastropub at 2700 East Third Avenue, is hosting a service industry night from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, August 1 to benefit the Colorado Autism Society. If you work in the restaurant biz and have the cred to prove it — “Bring…
Two local restaurant ventures will expand today. Snooze is slated to officially unveil its second location, at 700 Colorado Boulevard, this morning; like the original in the Ballpark neighborhood, it will be open for breakfast and lunch. And at 10:30 a.m., Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual chain focusing on…
Tonight from 6 to 9 p.m., Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, at 1937 Market Street, will kick off its tenth anniversary celebration with a series of ten-minute cooking demonstrations (audience participation and sampling absolutely encouraged), followed by a cook-off between four finalists, all of whom submitted original recipes using…
Fresko is Mexican casual cuisine, a unique place, an experience, and a taste only known in Mexico. Fresko is honored to be in Colorado. Fresko is genuine, culture, quality, passion, freshness, ambiance, with a staff that loves to share. Experience metropolitan Mexican dining for a fast lunch, or a comfortable…
There’s little left that hasn’t been baconed. Mints, vodka, lip gloss, gum, ice cream: all products upon which the salty meat flavor has been imparted. Adding chocolate to the mix seems, for some, an inspiration from the heavens, while for others the mere thought of bacon playing in chocolate triggers…
Yesterday I was called out of a very important Cafe strategy meeting at the Fainting Goat to take a call from a fellow scribbler, up against a deadline at the Chicago Tribune and looking for a few words about local chain Smashburger. “Tell me,” he said, “on a scale of one…
With catchy names like “Mango-a-go-go,” “Strawberry Surf Rider,” “Aloha Pineapple” and “Razzmatazz,” it’s not as if Jamba Juice has to actually do a whole lot more to thrill its smoothie fans, but, damn, those healthy-beverage pushers at the top of the California-headquartered smoothie chain are sure going to try. How,…
Okay, so I was obviously hungry last night, which I invariably get after four or five beers, plus a handful of french fries at the Fainting Goat, the fallback bar for us Westworders who write about things like a Medieval-sized lamb shank, a loaded baked potato with fresh chives, Gorgonzola…
Hoss Orwat had hoped to get Big Hoss reopened a few days after a kitchen fire in late June, then hoped for anytime in July. But now it looks like it will be August 14 before Big Hoss, his barbecue joint at 3961 Tennyson Street, finally is back in business…
Sitting in the bar, I knew I needed a burger. A couple of them, maybe. Big, fat burgers, mid-rare and bleeding juice over the sides of the buns. I needed the kind of burgers they show in commercials — straight-up porn-star burgers, all greasy and fat and bad for me…
Park Burger, which I review this week, has almost a Sideways feel — what with its wine list and stocked bar, its air of excess and guilty luxury. The toppings even include brie, one of those old-school, upscale benchmarks. But there ain’t no brie on the menu at Old School…
