Wow. Last week’s Ask the Critic question (which had to deal with worst meals and devolved fairly quickly into a toes-to-top indictment of Denver’s FOH crews) certainly had you folks up in arms. This week, though, I’m taking things in a different direction, one less about food and restaurants in…
Last week, I professed my love for white trash enchiladas. Last night, I sat at the bar of a metro area stalwart with a new name and concept and swelled my belly with white trash au gratin potatoes, which, as you can see from the above photo, are unassailable food…
After a few weeks away, I returned to the Boulder Farmers’ Market this past Saturday. It looked like a template for any respectable supermarket’s produce section: loads of kale, turnips, radishes, lettuces, garlic, green garlic, garlic scapes, assorted onions, tomatoes, peppers, bok choy and, oh yeah, peaches. And that’s just…
As I reported here at the start of July, The Hornet (76 Broadway), one of Broadway’s most convivial watering holes, had announced it was closing for seven days to allow time for a few remodeling projects. I swung by on Friday, July 10, the projected reopening date, to assess the…
Yesterday morning, after downing a delicious plate of housemade corn beef hash at Kyle’s Kitchen, the decades-old diner at 4018 Tennyson Street, I meandered down Tennyson Street toward Gemelli’s, the East Coast Italian joint at 4363 Tennyson Street that served Jason Sheehan some of the best shrimp scampi he’d ever…
Lawmakers will finally get some balls this week, when the Western Business Roundtable hosts its annual “Taste of the West” reception at the Rayburn Office Building on Thursday. complete with Rocky Mountain oysters, the official food of Colorado. “We’ve been doing a Taste of the West event in D.C. for…
Puffed Millet Cereal Arrowhead Mills Rating: No spoons out of four Cereal description: Small, light tan beads of grain intermittently marked by dark brown specks. They resemble the tiny bits that wind up at the bottom of the popcorn bowl along with unpopped kernels and/or random seeds that attract birds…
Tomorrow marks the day when French nationals, Francophiles, Francophonies and the majority of Denver’s French restaurants celebrate Bastille Day, the national holiday of France that commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution. But Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue, is getting an…
In the current Shmuck of the Week, Joe Tone weighs in on Dan Kennedy, the University of Colorado sophomore who wants to open a topless coffee shop in a campus conference room that would only be open one day a week — but somehow could cover the costs of topless…
With this week’s review of Mikuni and a visit to the new Hapa Sushi in Greenwood Village, I figure that rookie fish-eaters are taken care of. But what about those of us who want more than fake crab wrapped in rice or deep-fried shrimp in mayonnaise sauce? What about those…
What you might have missed this week while schooling us at beer pong…Readers got crabby recounting their worst Denver dining experiences.Our local hot dog champ got his chance to eat with the best at Coney Island on the Fourth.We checked out the underbelly of Denver’s best happy hour, where the…
Back in June, I pretty much broke into La Brisa — by way of the alley, a deserted hallway and a wobbly ladder. Yesterday, the restaurant officially opened at 375 South Pearl Street, directly next door to the Candlelight Tavern, a neighbor that La Brisa co-owner Andy Koncsik wasn’t too…
I could tell you that the plate of enchiladas in today’s “Guess where I’m eating?” snap were wolfed down by someone — anyone — other than me. I could tell you that Sheehan threatened to make me lick the title page of his book, Cooking Dirty, if I refused to…
In a perfect world, every neighborhood would have its own version of Virgilio’s — a near-perfect pizzeria, pasta joint and pinwheel parlor, a place where residents, little leaguers, the mob, spunky ladies who lunch and anyone else who appreciates the spirit and soul of Italian food could convene at the…
Several readers have commented on Jason Sheehan’s recent review of Sketch, particularly his confession that he’s just not that into wine: I used to think it was me — that I didn’t have the taste for it, that there was something magical about wine, some secret I had yet to…
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 191 Inverness Drive West, is kicking off its series of summer fundraisers, named Friday Night Flights, at 6 p.m. tonight, when the testosterone-charged meatery rolls out a selection of appetizers paired with three wines for $25 per person, the proceeds of which will benefit…
It all started with Harry Potter and Jelly Belly’s realization of the fictional Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. In the books, characters indulge in the candy beans without knowing what flavor awaits them: Will they get lucky with chocolate mousse or be surprised with Worcestershire sauce or, worse, toenail? While…
After five years as an upscale club, Monarck, at 1416 Market Street, is getting back to basics. Or close enough. Lotus Concepts is reconcepting the club, which will reopen on July 16 as Oak Tavern, a more traditional saloon — and one that owner Francois Safiedinne hopes will have a…
If you follow this blog with any sort of regularity, you already know that I’m wildly addicted to tacos. I would be the first person to jump up in a room full of fellow addicts, raise my fists in defeat and bellow, “Hello! My name is Lori Midson and I’m…
First it was the King of Pop. Now, Oscar G. Mayer, the King of Hot Dogs and former chairman of the most recognizable name in wiener-ville, passed away Monday at the ripe old age of 95 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, where he was in hospice care. Mayer, who was the third…
Escape the stifling heat and head inside to the cool confines of Elway’s Downtown (1881 Curtis Street), the steakhouse in the Ritz-Carlton that’s hosting a winemaker’s dinner tonight with Jerry Murry, cellar master and assistant winemaker for Patton Valley Vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The dinner includes five courses, all…
For completely selfish reasons, I have spent years pushing for the fast-food-ification of sushi, firmly of the belief that the way people (non-foodie people, the droves who nightly flock to the Olive Gardens and Burger Kings of our bloated republic) discover and become comfortable with new foods is by first…
