My craving for xiao long bao unfortunately coincided with the four-day closing ofLao Wang Noodle House,which is remodeling. We gave Lao Wang Best Xiao Long Bao in the Best of Denver 2011, and with good reason: The Wangs make excellent soup dumplings, packing pork and gelatin cubes into doughy wrappers…

A sizable sect of Boulder’s population — and dozens of Denverites — make the Boulder County Farmers’ Market a regular Saturday stop. Up and down a tree-lined section of Thirteenth Street, vendors sell everything from potted herbs and cheese to fresh eggs, mushrooms and salted caramel. Families stock up on…

It was just over a year ago when the former Café Cafe at 2339 West 44th Avenue in the Sunnyside neighborhood became La Crema Cafeteria, but when we drove by it this morning, the windows were covered with brown paper, and a sign read, “closed until mid-April for remodeling.” But…

An uncontrollable craving for xiao long bao (aka Shanghai dumplings, aka soup dumplings, aka heaven) hit early this afternoon, and there was one obvious place to feed the beast: Lao Wang Noodle House, the Taiwanese joint that makes a kick-ass basket of the buns. But as we pulled off Federal…

I was once a district spelling bee champion. I first competed in the district contest when I was in the fourth grade, and got stymied by the word “avocado.” In seventh grade, I was ousted by a classmate in our school’s run-off, so served as our team’s alternate in the…

Eater National recently created heat maps for several cities across the country that chronicle the hot new places in a city and plot them on a map with descriptions, for anyone wondering where to eat right now. And today, Denver gets its very own…

In my second helping of Spanky’s, a faux roadhouse near the University of Denver that serves up a convivial atmosphere and a weekly fish fry, I mentioned that the place also hosted Geeks Who Drink on Wednesday nights. That was wrong. The bar has long since abandoned the weekly trivia…

Last September, Andrew Casalini shuttered his vibrant Park Hill restaurant, Satchel’s Market, to make way for a new concept called Satchel’s on 6th, which was originally slated to debut late last year in the Larimer Associates-owned building at 1710 East Sixth Avenue. And after months of delays, the place is…

TAG|RAW BAR, the newest Larimer Square spot from Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan, is serving up a roster of dishes that contains nothing cooked at a higher temperature than 120 degrees. And after the TAG|RAW BAR food porn we posted last week, we had high expectations. We returned to the…

Hot off the heels of the announcement made by Naked Pizza that it’ll bust into the Mile High market comes word from another green pizza chain that Denver’s its next stop: Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Pizza Fusion will open its first restaurant in Denver in May, in conjunction with Colorado Coalition…

It’s sometimes hard to tell which 16th Street Mall food carts have vanished for good and which are just taking an extended break, but after a craving for golden pastries stuffed with vegetables and meat — the most authentic Argentine empanadas in the city — gave way to a fruitless…

Weddings always walk that fine line between a celebration of a happy couple and blatant displays of narcissism (for instance, why else would ugly bridesmaid dresses exist than to make a bride seem all the more radiant?), but this stunt takes the cake — literally…

Andrew Fejer and his wife, Adriane, were in Atlanta when they stumbled on a class that led them through painting — while providing adult refreshment at the same time. “I went in kicking and screaming,” says Andrew. “I ended up having a really good time.” Although both Highland and Cherry…

While the new food truck guide spells uncertainty for a number of mobile concepts in Denver, Pizzeria Basta is undeterred in its plan to unleash a mobile wood-fired oven on the state of Colorado. The crew is ramping up to unveil Basta Mobile, a portable extension of the Boulder-based restaurant…

Vicente Domingo opened Viejo Domingo, an Argentine spot, quietly last year in the West 38th Avenue space that had housed Playa de Oro. And now Viejo Domingo has left left quietly, too. The Viejo Domingo sign is down, the phone rings without going to voicemail, and a handwritten scrawl in…

When Georgia natives Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger were simultaneously laid off from their jobs a few months back, they were looking for a way to make some quick cash. So they turned to a hobby: barbecue. “We started selling barbecue to friends and co-workers. You know, like Paula Deen…

Americana is a pop culture celebration of this country’s history, a glorified representation of such symbols as Route 66, fried chicken and the blues, sexed up in a way that panders to our collective consciousness and makes us proud of a past we may never really have experienced. And Americana…

When I first ate at Japoix for my review, a server told me that the restaurant’s name came from a desire to emphasize the marriage of Japanese and French cuisines, the focus of then-chef Jay Spickelmier, who’d done stints at Spago and Jing before moving to Japoix when it opened…

It’s been an entry on the beverage menu at Table 6 for ages, but we’re starting to see a common line popping up on drink lists around town: an invitation to diners to send a six-pack of beer to the kitchen — an invitation that caused quite a bit of…

Joel Warner’s post on the Perk Cycle — the bike-powered coffee cart that was just rolled out by Wash Perk Coffee Shop — inspired a response from Michael Rosacci, who sent us shots of Thai street carts that included a full-blown kitchen on the back of a motorbike. Along with…