Food & Drink

No. 96: Fried chicken from the Pinyon The Pinyon has been open for less than two weeks, but already the Boulder newcomer is generating audible cluck for its fried chicken, and now we know why…

It’s Monday, and in case you’re worrying about what you did this weekend or worrying about what’s ahead at work, here’s a heaping helping of weird food to divert you: To fuel your engine, how about the candy bar with the world’s worst name, asse. Or to get your engine…

An eager crowd perched on folding chairs surrounding a makeshift kitchen at the Bo Matthews Center, enthralled by the scents of cinnamon-infused hot apple cider and the enthusiastic voices of chef Keith Denard Jones, spinning comical yarns about his past, and chef Joseph Westley, speaking about his future. After years…

While Jason Sheehan continues to stir up controversy from a thousand miles away (“sanctimonious prick” is among the labels recently slapped on him here), Laura Shunk is getting a grilling, too, for her recent review of the Atomic Cowboy and its related enterprises. Here’s how NachoLuva responded to Laura Shunk’s…

Cafe Society served up four Guess where entries this week, ranging from a mystery crepe — or is that a tortilla? to a still identified plate of carnitas to this pink drink. For correctly identifying the saketini as coming from Ototo Food and Wine Bar, the restaurant that now occupies…

Last December, we embarked on a culinary sojourn that took us through our favorite dishes in the Mile High City — one hundred, to be exact — as a precursor to the Best of Denver issue. Now we’re back with round two, counting down (in no particular order) a hundred…

Those of you who follow this blog have likely read my weekly Chef and Tell interviews, wherein I pepper local line monkeys with a syllabus of prying questions. We run a condensed version of their answers in print, while the entire interview runs over the course of two, sometimes three,…

Back in October, we reported that Sugar Lips Mini Donuts, the turquoise mobile wagon that served up tiny fried treats all summer, had landed a lease on a Copper Mountain storefront and was anticipating a Thanksgiving week opening. The shop didn’t make it, though, and it’s pushed back its opening…

At the bakery/cafe where the above snap was flashed, the owner is easy to laugh, quick with a joke and he gets big bonus points for his insanely delicious crepes and allowing me to camp out at a table with all my crap — laptop, menus, notes and camera –…

On its website, Ocean Forest Cafe, 11068 West Jewell Avenue, calls itself a “wild and artictic place.” While we’re not exactly sure what “artictic” means, we almost need to make up a word, too, to properly describe the festive decor in the dining room. Space aside, though, we’re pretty stoked…

When we heard that Chipotle was testing some new items at its location at 371 East Alameda Avenue, we leapt for joy, shouting, “Pride of our city! Purveyor of aggressively decent burritos all across our land! Expanding its menu! Huzzah!” Then we found out what those items were: a new…

Let’s say you’re a chubby chick with a palate for pizza. So you drive — not walk — to your local Papa John’s Pizza, where your order takes much too long for your stomach to bear. And what happens? Watch the fun below…

Over the years, poor St. Nick has been subjected to countless glasses of room-temperature milk and endless holiday plates of instantly-stale-out-of-the-oven sugar cookies dotted with those tiny silver-ball decorations (they’re actually called dragées) that taste like a dirty nickel. For all of his annual exertions, Santa Claus deserves a better…

Raise a glass this weekend to Red’s Pub, the saloon that’s very conveniently located at 7330 West 120th Avenue in Broomfield. Too conveniently located, it turns out: Owner Red Nikkel has sold the property to the Colorado Department of Transportation, which will use it to complete the 120th Avenue Connection…

Jennifer Carroll’s meltdown when she got eliminated from last night’s episode of Top Chef All-Stars was spectacular. She was graceless, almost out of control, so angry she clearly didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or hit someone. She’d done a lot of bragging, and she’d also been exuding rage through…