As I reported here last week, Park Burger, this week’s obsession for us Westword food freaks, was skedded to open last Friday, at precisely 5 p.m., but any of you who attached your watch to your eyeballs so that you could be first in line now knows that 5 p.m…
Last Thursday, a pizza and a calzone mysteriously appeared in the office, addressed to me. Because I wasn’t actually in the office at the time, said grub was immediately devoured by a variety of salespeople, editors and one very hungry music critic — trusting souls that they are — and…
As you may have noticed, Denver is getting into the urban homesteading movement in a big way. Homeowners are replacing sod with vegetable beds and building chicken coops by their garages. Power players are turning prime downtown real estate into miniature farms and citizens are fighting for their right to…
On Saturday, El Camino could have been Swimclub 32 all over again when a parade in honor of Seamen on Hooker — an annual, nautically themed neighborhood party on the 2900-3100 blocks of Hooker Street — parked in front of the restaurant at 3628 West 32nd Avenue for a refreshing…
You can’t get Cheli’s chili in Chicago anymore — the Cheli’s Chili Bar there closed when Chris Chelios was traded to the Detroit Red Wings. You can get it in Michigan, of course; the hockey player has three Cheli’s Chili Bar restaurants around Detroit. And now you can get it…
Drove by the Denver Pizza Company last night, the pie palace at 309 West 11th Avenue reputedly owned by Mark Huebner, a self-described “pizza entrepreneur” and our homeboy contestant on The Bachelorette, whose season premiere aired last night on ABC. (Huebner will be around for the next prickly rose ceremony,…
Let’s talk burgers. At Westword, we have no problem spending hours deconstructing the mechanics of ground beef, a bun and then who-knows-what-else. Which means we’ll probably be discussing Park Burger for quite some time. I strolled into the neighborhood joint last night with Westword web editor Joe Tone, who fell…
During a weekend scouting mission for new restaurants, I’m pretty sure I scared the shit out of Andy Koncsik. He’s the guy who, along with his wife, Estela, is opening La Brisa Mexican Restaurant in the former Cafe Etoile space at 375 South Pearl Street. And I don’t blame him…
I’m a huge fan of Lost. Have been since episode 1, will be until the day it rolls the final credits. And like all Lost fans, I am currently going through the first, worst stages of withdrawal now that this season’s final episode has aired and I’m staring at something…
Considering it is currently 86° outside, the Boulder Farmers’ Market might want to set up a Slip ‘n Slide right along the row of booths, so farmers can throw bags of arugula, chicken thighs, candy stripe beets and everything else they have on hand into my satchel as I gleefully…
Sultry cocktails, social food and a whole gaggle of really sociable Denver chefs, many of them still wired from a recent cooking stint at the James Beard House in New York, made for one helluva fun Sunday preview night at TAG, Troy Guard’s new restaurant at 1441 Larimer Street that…
Got off the phone thirty seconds ago with someone at the original Tony’s Market at 4991 Dry Creek Road in Centennial, and she just told me that the plan — as it stands right now — is to have a soft-open for the new Tony’s at 950 Broadway (right across…
In this corner — weighing in at seven pounds (if you’re going for the official Big Burrito challenge, as Adam Richman did on a recent episode of Man v. Food), or a more reasonable pound or so, if you just want to grab a breakfast burrito when the place opens…
Trix General Mills Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Puffed corn orbs in a variety of notably radioactive colors: a light green that would result in thousands of casualties if it was ever used on camouflaged uniforms, an orange that looks like a nugget of hellfire, a yellow…
Big Papa’s BBQ is about to get bigger. Andrew Besemer’s homegrown chain — which Jason Sheehan raved about a few years ago, earning himself a “This I Believe” slot raving about barbecue on National Public Radio — is about to get another link. Big Papa’s, which already has a store…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society…Jason Sheehan got people talking about the best barbecue in Denver. Have an opinion?We had a crush on cans for American Craft Beer Week. Check out our profiles of local breweries perfecting the art of canning craft beer.It was also World…
Here it is, halfway through the month of May, and we nearly forgot to tell you: May is National Hamburger Month. That’s right, the hamburger, and its sexier sibling, the cheeseburger, get an entire month devoted to their all-American virtues. Coincidentally, May also marks the eleventh anniversary of CityGrille, the…
Okay, so even though the name — Highland Micro-Market — clearly refers to a market on a miniature scale, I laughed out loud when I pulled up to the itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie patio at Generous Servings Cooking Classes and Cafe, the site of the new Highland Micro-Market, or MiMa, which debuted yesterday…
It’s 1:30 in the morning and, regardless of what substance I may or may not be on, my stomach is yelling at me to eat. I scour my kitchen but finding nothing pre-made, stare at some beets, hoping they will miraculously become a meal. This is about the time when…
When Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant at 2257 West 32nd Avenue, closed right after the start of the year, its phone message promised to announce a new location within a couple of weeks. Cebiche’s Sergio Iraola says he’s still looking for the perfect spot — and in the meantime, there’s some…
When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that’s moving into 3200 Tejon Street — the old home of North Star Brewery — would be open in June. He just didn’t know when in June. “We…
Chefs and restaurateurs in New York City (Jeffrey Chodorow, in particular) are likely breathing a collective sigh of relief at news that Frank Bruni, restaurant critic at the New York Times, is kicking his food beat to the curb to pimp his new memoir, Born Round: the Secret History of…
