Reader: Enjoy Your Trendy Food Trucks, Edibles and Boiled BBQ Ribs, Denver

What will be the big food trends in Denver in 2015? Paleo and pickling are both going strong, and hemp seeds are popping up on menus across town. And then there's moringa, an import from Africa that's been compared to spirulina and wheat grass. Yum! See also: Five Five Trends...

By Patricia Calhoun

January 7, 2015

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What will be the big food trends in Denver in 2015? Paleo and pickling are both going strong, and hemp seeds are popping up on menus across town. And then there's moringa, an import from Africa that's been compared to spirulina and wheat grass. Yum! See also: Five Five Trends to Watch in 2015

Darnell24 is not impressed:

Look out, Denver, your atrocious food scene is about to heat up with these hot new food trends. Now you can have your horrible BBQ with fermented hemp seeds. It won't be long before some loser opens a food truck called Sparrow & Moringa, selling kimchi-infused hot dogs with hemp mustard.

Seriously, if you thought Denver's food scene already sucked, 2015 is shaping up to be the worst ever. Enjoy your food trucks, edibles and boiled BBQ ribs...it's nothing a little smothering of green chile can't make worse.

What do you see as the hot trends on the Denver dining scene?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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