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Pig Out With Savory Spice's Chicharron Salt

Garibaldi Mexican Bistro: A Room With a View...of a Car Wash

By Mark Antonation
Sep 14, 2016

Last month I stopped by Garibaldi Mexican Bistro at 3298 South Broadway in a lead-up to Tacolandia, Westword's celebration of Denver's Mexican street food. I was on a mission at the time, and made a beeline for Garibaldi's unique queka: a cross between a taco and a quesadilla on a thick, fried...
Collision Outside Little Man Ice Cream Makes a Big Internet Hit

By Patricia Calhoun
Jul 21, 2016

Little Man Ice Cream has been a hit since it first opened in LoHi. Developer Paul Tamburello created the giant milk can-shaped shop in honor of his father, and put it in an empty spot at 2620 16th Street, between the two buildings in the Olinger complex in LoHi that...
Meat Candles are Heating Up the Beefy Dining Scene in Denver and Boulder

By Lauren Monitz
Jul 20, 2016

Meat candles. Two words I never thought I would ever utter in the same sentence, yet lo and behold, with more than one restaurant in the Centennial State offering this oddly edible treat, it appears we have a trend on our hands. Keep in mind though: normal wax candles belong...
Le Bakery Sensual Celebrates 35 Years of Serving Members

By Lauren Monitz
May 5, 2016

With so much turnover in both the crazy restaurant and real estate scenes, it seems like a mini-miracle when a business survives even a few years in Denver, let alone 35. One of those success stories? Le Bakery Sensual. Against all odds, owner John Spotz has found a niche for...
Fifteen Funky Food-Related Gifts for the Holidays

By Teague Bohlen
Dec 7, 2015

So you’re hard up for gift ideas this year, like you are every year, because ‘tis the season to stress over who gets what on your holiday list. You don’t know what anyone wants, so shopping sucks. You want to look like you’ve put some thought into it, so cash...
After the Fall: Man Who Was Living in the Yard House Ceiling Sentenced

By Westword Staff
Mar 4, 2015

If you were going to live above a restaurant, would you choose the downtown Yard House? And by "live above," we're not talking about a second-floor apartment. We're talking about the crawl space above the ceiling. But Stephen Graves apparently took the "House" in the restaurant's name literally, and made himself...
Does The Source Have Denver's Biggest Bathroom?

By Westword Staff
Dec 12, 2014

The Source was jumping yesterday, but even so, we're not quite sure it needs a bathroom with room for 185 people. Or does that sign refer to the capacity for another space in the converted warehouse? To clear up the mystery, we went straight to the source: Source developer Kyle...
Five Recent Food Developments That Probably Won't Work

By Jenn Wohletz
Oct 13, 2014

Food companies pair creativity with marketability -- along with a little luck -- to score "the next big thing" in food trends. There are some amazing ideas for new foods and drinks out there, but at the same time, some new products never really take off. Some aren't appealing to...
Five of the Best -- and Worst -- New Halloween Treats for 2014

By Jenn Wohletz
Oct 6, 2014

Halloween season means we get homemade orange-iced cupcakes with too much icing, black ginger ale punch full of sodden gummy worms, and those little rolled fondant ghosts that somebody's auntie made by hand that everyone compliments but nobody actually eats. The store-bought treats usually end up being a slightly better...
At $21 a Pound, Roasted Hemp Seeds Look Like a Cash Cow

By Amber Taufen
Sep 30, 2014

Hemp seeds have started infiltrating grocery-store shelves across America. They're often sold shelled and in bulk quantities, but some producers have also been packaging them as snack items. Roasted and seasoned, they're fine snacks -- they taste nothing like pot and don't get you high, but they're high in protein...
Five of the Best -- and Worst -- Pumpkin Spice Foods This Year

By Jenn Wohletz
Sep 29, 2014

Pumpkin spice season gets earlier and earlier every year, much like the Xmas shopping holiday, and somewhere around mid-August the traditional pumpkin spice goodies appeared on shelves. The beloved PSLs have been shooting through Starbucks drive-throughs like nutmeg-scented balls from a seasonal-favorites cannon. Sadly, the pumpkin spice condoms, tampons, toilet...
Aurora's Josh Bayne Forages for Food on Fat Guys in the Woods

By Mark Antonation
Sep 12, 2014

The Weather Channel, like cable companions TLC (which apparently was once focused on learning), the History Channel and NatGeo (because National Geographic didn't sound cool enough for the kids), has evolved from strictly education and information to entertainment. The Weather Channel's fall schedule includes a "survival" show called Fat Guys...
Telluride Mushroom Festival's Long, Strange Trip to This Weekend's 33rd Fest

By Mark Sanders
Aug 12, 2014

Many folks who hear about the Telluride Mushroom Festival wonder whether it focuses on mushrooms for eating, or mushrooms for, you know, seeing Pocahontas riding a dragon and stuff. The confusion is reasonable, considering fungi's dual history as both a food and as a catalyst for vision quests. See also:...
Tonight only: Camel meat tacos at Los Chingones

By Lori Midson
Apr 25, 2014

The meat in the taco snap above? Camel. And, why not? According to i24news.tv, the camel, "dubbed the 'ship of the desert,' occupies a significant place in the culture of the Arabian Peninsula." In fact, the story continues, in the United Arab Emirate, there are "camel races, camel beauty contests...
Photos: Twelve Denver Bronco culinary masterpieces for Super Bowl Sunday

By Lori Midson
Jan 31, 2014

Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest calorie-consuming holiday of the year after Thanksgiving, but while Thanksgiving is all about the turkey and mashed potatoes, Super Bowl Sunday, at least in Denver, is all about the celebration of the orange-and-blue. We've gotten a full crush of press releases trying to...
Denver Museum of Nature and Science on the hunt for a sixth taste sense

By Nate Hemmert
Nov 8, 2013

Do you see dead people? Well, too bad. That's not the sixth sense that the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is looking for. The museum's Genetics of Taste Lab has partnered with Purdue University on a new community study to identify a sixth taste in the human spectrum: sweet,...
The twenty goriest and most gruesome Halloween cakes (and one very disturbing baby cake video)

By Lori Midson
Oct 15, 2013

There's gross -- and there's gross anatomy, the deeply gruesome and gory body parts that hit the table on Halloween, the one day of the year when demonic bakers emerge from their caldrons and devise recipes that make your stomach turn green. The cakes on the following pages, all allegedly...
Squeaky Bean honors the dearly departed with shrines -- and cocktails

By Lori Midson
Jun 21, 2013

Leave it to Johnny Ballen, the eccentric (and innovative) owner of the Squeaky Bean, to honor the lives of those that have passed with more than just a obligatory R.I.P. It all started years ago at the former Squeaky Bean with Farrah Fawcett (who died of anal cancer) -- and...
Can you down a Juicy Lucy burger in less than 39 seconds? Vesper Lounge issues a challenge

By Lori Midson
Jun 12, 2013

Frank Bonanno still spends most of his time in the kitchen, cooking, hanging out with his chefs and, when the moods strikes, engaging them in battle -- in this case, a burger battle. Yesterday, Bonanno, who owns Mizuna, Bones, Luca d'Italia, Osteria Marco, Lou's Food Bar, Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria, Wednesday's...
Booze bandits break into Central Bistro & Bar

By Patrick Langlois
Feb 20, 2013

Central Bistro & Bar, 1691 Central Street, was broken into earlier this morning, but all the assailants were interested in, apparently, was alcohol. See also: - Denver's ten best new restaurants of 2012 - Reader: Lance Barto's departure from Central Bistro & Bar is "shameful" - Hot damn! Central Bistro...

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