Milking It: Apple Jacks Gliders

Apple Jacks Gliders Kellogg’s Rating: Three spoons out of four Cereal description: Corn, wheat and oat flour provides the foundation for this crunchy treat, but the colors of the pieces, which include “limited edition” gliders (a.k.a. puffy triangles with a whole in the middle) along with the familiar bespeckled doughnuts,…

Tonight at Lola: The Denver Five roll out the first of five dinners

Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Tyler Wiard (Elway’s in Cherry Creek) and Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s) will join host chef Jamey Fader at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, tonight at 6 p.m., when all five chefs will convene in Fader’s home kitchen to prepare a…

Sunday’s Caesar salad battle tosses competitors

Seven Denver restaurants – Squeaky Bean, Izakaya Den, Root Down, Opus, Encore, Campo de Fiori and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza – are fighting for the Caesar salad crown in this year’s Greatest Caesar Salad Competition, a no-holds-barred smackdown that gets tossing at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 26 at the Magnolia…

Second Snooze set to rise Friday, July 31

Friday, July 31st at 9 a.m.–that’s the opening that Snooze owner Jon Schlegel is promising for the second location of his two-unit breakfast empire. “I don’t know if you’ve peeked inside,” Schlegel said to me this morning (I have), “but it’s so close.” And man, it better be.  Because while the public…

Downtown Littleton is high on sugar

When it comes to sugar, downtown Littleton is on a high. On Main street alone, there’s the relatively new Lola’s Sugar Rush (2490 West Main Street), which would make Augustus Gloop go bat shit. The town’s main drag also houses the Chocolate Therapist (2560 West Main Street), a confectionery run…

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill plans fifth Denver location

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Centennial fast-casual concept restaurant with four stores, plans to open a fifth location at the Cherry Creek Hotel, 600 South Colorado Boulevard, according to a sign hanging on a fence in front of the hotel, which is being completely renovated. A Panera Bread outlet will also…

Meet your meat at Fogo de Chao

Fogo de Chao (pronounced fo-go dee shoun), the Brazilian churrascaria at 1513 Wynkoop Street, just three blocks down the street from Rodizio Grill, Denver’s first Brazilian steakhouse at 1801 Wynkoop Street, opens tonight for dinner, but last night, I got a sneak peek of the meat of the matter and…

Candy Girls: Icicle Pop

This cool-looking candy seemed like just what we needed on a hot day.  Distributed by Kid’s Brands, the Icicle Pop does its best to invoke the brand Popsicle without actually using it.  The familiar shape and colors in the logo make it clear that this double lollipop is designed to…

Guess where I’m eating?

Call me weird, but there’s something about the word “pupusa” that makes it sound like a furry animal whose head you want to cuddle in your lap and stroke. In fact, I’ll bet you anything that at least five people reading this post today will have a bunny, dog, cat,…

Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today

The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, parades four of…

Sexy Pizza is good, hot and tasty- natch

I’ve been eating a lot of pizza lately. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve made two trips to Brooklyn M.C.’s for both pizzas and calzones, stopped by Famous for a slice, and one night, too lazy to think it through any further, Laura even called in an order to…

Yo quiero Taco Bell no more

Man, it is a tough time to be a celebrity these days.  They just seem to be dropping like flies.  Michael Jackson?  Dead.  Walter Kronkite?  Gone.  Karl Malden?  In the dirt.  Even Mollie “The mere sight of my pussy drives him mad” Sugden (who played the inimitable Mrs. Slocombe on…

Our Weekly Bread: Delaney’s Deli

The sandwich: Meatloaf Sandwich What’s on it: Meatloaf, grilled onions, white American cheese, and BBQ sauce or ketchup on toasted sourdough bread. Where to get it: Delaney’s Deli (7007 West Alaska Drive, Lakewood, 303-936-3354) How much:$6.95 Meat Loaf. It was your mom’s fallback – for good or for bad -…

Cooking Dirty, the book-signing: Round two

I had a pretty good turn-out for my first book signing at Katie Mullen’s a couple weeks ago.  There was a good crowd, plenty of drinking, lots of laughs.  Surprisingly, lots of people seemed to be very excited about finally getting their hands on a copy of my book (Cooking…

Another spot of genius from PETA

Q: What’s the highest rated television show in the history of everything? A: American Idol. Q: And who is the most high-profile judge on American Idol? A: Simon Cowell. That’s right.  And if there’s one organization in the world that knows how to exploit celebrity (even if it happens to be “celebrity”…

Coming soon to South Federal Boulevard: Tacos El Fogoncito

Just what South Federal Boulevard needs: Another godforsaken taqueria. No, I’m serious, because if you ever read this space, then you know by now that the whole reason why I was born was to eat and breathe tacos, that my documented unwholesome addiction to carnitas, barbacoa and al pastor is…

Raw data on Sushi Den’s new Den Deli

As reported here last week, Toshi and Yazu Kizaki are expanding their empire on South Pearl Street. The brothers who own Sushi Den and Izakaya Den just slapped down over seven figures to buy the building at 1501 South Pearl, and plan to transform the longtime Seams Like Olde Times…

Guess where I’m eating?

Without question, breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, although I rarely touch food in the morning (unless you count coffee with cream as a food group), so the all yolk-y eggs, bacon (and more bacon), ham (one slice is never enough), sausage (double that), fresh blueberry flapjacks, eggs…