Food & Drink

Severely pissing off a shload of soap-opera viewers is probably not the most strategic career move that chef Mario Batali has ever made, but then, again neither was his alleged Food Network blackmail attempt — and he’s still sitting on a fat pile of cash. But will his latest television…

April is the cruelest month, not the least because street sweepers take to the roads in Denver, leaving lots of tickets in their wake. And, in the case of the Famous Dave’s at Stapleton, a fair amount of havoc: A privately owned street-sweeping vehicle ran into the barbecue restaurant early…

The orange slice outraged Sazerac lovers who spied Lori Midson’s Guess Where I’m Drinking post yesterday morning. The King had several choice words about the cocktail, including these: It may have tasted good, and it may have been made with rye, but it wasn’t a Sazerac. Just like slapping a…

Do you want more goat?” A tiny man was watching as I made my way along the buffet, ladling bright-orange chicken tikka masala and dark-green saag paneer onto a pile of rice, then adding a couple of golden-brown vegetable samosas, their flaky pastry too hot to touch. I’d already speared…

I’m almost always disappointed by buffets, and I’m not just talking about those suburban brunch monstrosities, with their questionable produce and meat-carving stations. I’ve also been let down by most buffets at restaurants with a more exotic, global bent. They seem like such a good idea, a way to experience…

Last week, Joe Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates, was heading home from Madison Street, the Congress Park neighborhood restaurant he opened in October of last year, when he started to think about dots — specifically, connecting those dots to Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TAG and TAG RAW BAR,…

A reader shot us an e-mail earlier today, posing a food-related question to “Ask a Mexican” columnist Gustavo Arellano: I absolutely love flour tortillas made with lard, but I have not been able to find a place that sells them in Denver. Everyone seems to think that vegetable shortening will…

When the plans started forming for Satchel’s on 6th, which opened this weekend at 1710 East Sixth Avenue, one member of the original crew from Satchel’s Market was notably missing — specifically, former chef Jens Patrik Landberg. Turns out, the Swedish native had his own restaurant up his sleeve. He’s…

According to the Wall Street Journal, this is the peak of egg season — or something like that, since this declaration comes alongside an explanation that says the “peak” will last for the next nine months. Regardless, the paper rounded up recipes for five egg dishes from restaurants across the…

For the past two years, Cindy English has hawked her pupusas from among the vendors that line the sunny path at the Boulder Farmers’ Market, and last year, she expanded her operation to the frozen-foods section of Whole Foods, beginning with the Pearl Street store and eventually making her way…

Last night, Denver’s who’s who of chefs congregated at the Colorado Convention Center for Chefs Up Front Denver, a fundraiser that benefited Cooking Matters, a nonprofit that fights childhood hunger and malnutrition and teaches healthy food courses to underserved families on a budget. The multiple-course dinners, prepared tableside by Denver’s…

On Friday night, I made dinner reservations in the bar of a restaurant that’s run by a chef who’s very familiar with my unapologetic disdain for filet mignon, and, as you can see from the above snap, my place setting that evening drove the point home. I do, however, have…

Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a sausage and red pepper cannoli at Dolce Sicilia to a still unidentified bowl of mussels to this favorite cheesesteak. For correctly identifying it as coming from Bono’s in Golden, Steve wins an EatDenver deck…

In Denver, no food inspires more heated discussion than green chile — that thick, porky concoction that’s native to this state. After we served up our list of “Denver’s five best green chile fixes, everyone weighed in with their favorites: Benny’s, Santiago’s, Brewery Bar II, La Loma. Everyone, that is,…

Cafe Society posts provided plenty to chew on last week — from whether kids should be welcome at nice restaurants to whether a bar can be too nice to be a dive. Our list of “Denver’s five best dive bars” inspired this definition from Stealth2: Dive bar: a “new” bar…

In case you haven’t heard, Denver is a city that’s obsessed — like, really obsessed — with its green chile. We smother it — unlike everywhere else in the country — on absolutely everything. We’ve even heard stories of people who put it in milkshakes, on top of chocolate cake…

We were baffled when Chipotle started wrapping its burritos and tacos in gold foil in the name of a new promotion (because the ingredients are solid gold, get it?). Not only is it a dumb marketing ploy, but it’s undoubtedly costing the homegrown restaurant chain plenty of extra packaging cash,…

It had just gone 6 p.m., when light driblets of rain began to drop from the clouds, but the dozens of people with their noses to the window, peering in to catch a glimpse of the famous French chef, didn’t seem to notice. Some, determined to be one of the…