Milking It: Barbie as The Island Princess Cereal

Barbie as The Island Princess Cereal Kellogg’s Rating: Three spoons out of four Cereal description: Corn and oat flour bits squeezed into red and purple heart shapes — the latter apparently intended as a subtle tribute to our brave soldiers in uniform. These nuggets are supplemented by marshmallows available in…

Chedd’s doesn’t go down well

Gettin’ grilled. Chedd’s 1906 Pearl Street 303-386-3998 The Ultimate Gouda and havarti on Dakota bread $5.50 I wanted to like this sandwich and I wanted to like Chedd’s. The concept it so good: one of the greatest American comfort foods, grilled cheese sandwiches, some of them with added ingredients, done…

Three hours for dinner? Black Cat proves worth the wait

Have you ever dined with us before?” our server asked. She was penny-bright, scrubbed and polished in her house livery (black on black), standing with her hands folded in front of her and a spark in her eyes that bordered on fanaticism — a glow of barely contained glee at…

Toast: It’s what’s for dinner

From the minute it opened almost two years ago at the foot of Littleton’s original downtown, Toast was one of the single greatest breakfast bars I’d ever found. The kitchen brought an almost fine-dining commitment to the cooking of bacon, eggs and (of course) toast; poured great coffee; and did…

Free Chipotle in Silverthorne today

Has Chipotle got a deal for you! A free burrito or burrito bowl — but just today, and just at the new Chipotle Mexican Grill in Silverthorne, at 247 Rainbow Street, which officially opens Friday. If you live within 25 miles of Silverthorne, taking advantage of this freebie won’t cost…

Aladdin Cafe turns off its magic lamp

Ahmad Alkiteb and his hookah get the hook. Over at 2594 South Colorado Boulevard, Aladdin Café (and grill and hookah bar) has gone dark. Trying to find out when and why, I called all the numbers I had for the place, which I’d reviewed — and liked — back in…

Jose O’Shea’s turns thirty — that’s a lotta tacos

The mutt marriage of Irish and Mexican cuisine in cantina/pubs across the country is one of the least explicable combos imaginable — but it’s also one of the most successful. Witness Jose O’Shea’s, which celebrates “thirty years of stamping out gringo food’ this month. Since September 1978, Jose O’Shea’s has…

Milking It: Double Chocolate Cookie Crisp

Double Chocolate Cookie Crisp General Mills Rating: Three spoons out of four Cereal description: Corn discs sprayed with cocoa-flavored confectionery coating and speckled with dark blobs meant to suggest chocolate chips — and from a distance, they really do resemble them. Close up, however, they look more like dark, potentially…

Will the new Mel’s space add up for Adde Bjorklund?

As we’ve reported, the Masters family is looking to unload the space at 1120 East Sixth Avenue, where Mel and Janey Master got their local restaurant start thirty years ago as partners in Dudley’s. Since then, the spot has been Chives and Piscos, then Montecito when the Masters took it…

Candy Girls: Satellite Wafers

These are surely one of the most perplexing candies that we have ever come across. Graciously bestowed upon us by Liz’s helpful brother Jonathan, the package proclaims that “Gerrit’s Satellite Wafers have been on the American Market for over 40 years,” and goes on to say that they are a…

Seven Cups could be your cup of tea

From 4-8 p.m. on Saturday, September 13, Seven Cups will host a grand opening celebration with a traditional Lion Dance, a Gong Fu demonstration, free samples of Chinese moon cakes, traditional Chinese music and a tea tasting with Zhuping Hodge, a certified tea master from China who’s a co-owner of…

Lime gets juiced for new restaurant openings

First came Lime, the restaurant/nightclub that debuted almost seven years ago in a basement space with a walk-out patio in Larimer Square (1424, to be exact, once home to the beloved Cafe Promenade) and still packs in the crowds. Then came Lime XS, at 730 East Sixth Avenue, which also…

Open and shut cases: Lala’s and Prime 121

Some locations just seem doomed. The latest black hole: 121 Clayton Lane, which on Monday swallowed Prime 121 after two years of struggle and a chapter 11 filing in May. The first occupant of this address didn’t even last that long: Bob’s Steak & Chop House, home of the giant,…

Two chefs deliver our daily bread at Masterpiece Delicatessen

Libertines though they may be, chefs love making sushi because sushi is so limiting, so rigorous in what is allowed and what is not, so rooted in tradition and steeped in modernity. There is nowhere to hide with sushi, no cover for mistakes or dumbassery. You’re either on your game…

At Tacos D.F., the torta takes over for the sandwich

American sandwich-makers have come a long way. Now that serious, heavyweight chefs have begun muscling in on the action (see my review of Masterpiece Delicatessen, page 51), a boy of eclectic appetites can easily score a Cuban, a banh mi, a beef on weck, a Croque Monsieur, a panini or…

Pastrami and egg salad make magic at Heidi’s

The happy couple. Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli 831 Colorado Boulevard (and numerous other locations) 303-355-6494 Bronx Bomber Egg salad and pastrami $6.99 Pastrami and Egg Salad. The words go together awkwardly like Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts, Michael Jackson and Priscilla Presley. But unlike the other…

Spitting bachelorettes invade Cuba Cuba, ruining life for everyone

“Can I stir your mojito?” Cuba Cuba (1173 Delaware) may as well have been Cancun Cancun this past Saturday the way a gaggle of bridal-shower whore-trollops were treating the place. Fucking whore-trollops. I went there with a few college friends –- no strangers to debauchery themselves -– and as is…

North Star space snapped up by Larimer Square gang

I heard last week that recently vacated North Star Brewery space at 3200 Tejon Street (left) had been snapped up by Joe Vostrejs, Jeff Hermanson and Rod Wagner—the Larimer Square gang, in part, and the crew most recently behind the resurrection of Billy’s Inn at 4403 Lowell Boulevard. So I…

Masterpiece Delicatessen stuffs a great sandwich

Justin Brunson and Steve Allee, the masters behind Masterpiece. Sriracha has become like a badge of craft among chefs slumming it on the wrong side of the culinary tracks. You see that bottle sitting on the table, lurking around the counter somewhere, and you know you’re in a place run…