The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its first anniversary on Halloween, wasn’t around during the Great American Beer Festival last year, so the taphouse is catching up. Starting this week, and leading up to the 2010 fest, September 16-18, the Rackhouse plans to have at least a dozen and possibly as…
On August 15, the Food Network unleashed the premier of The Great Food Truck Race, in which seven teams comprised of the country’s top food truck slingers hit the asphalt to wheel around the country, all in an effort to sell the most food in whichever challenge city they’re parked…
By partnering with established Denver chefs and restaurateurs, Larimer Associates, which owns Larimer Square, has been pushing new joints not just in the Square, but in neighborhoods around the city. Each of those restaurants is strategically designed to integrate seamlessly into its surroundings, drawing on the history of the building…
See that big-ass burger up top? That’s the small version. Torpedoed with a chile relleno and other requisite toppings, It’s the newest addition to a board that’s already submerged in burger culture — although these aren’t your everyday burgers. Clearly. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Although EatDenver’s Harvest Week — a cornucopia of special menus featuring Colorado’s produce and products at Denver’s independent restaurants — just ended, there’s still one last course to serve up: a DINR deck, which gives you $520 in discounts at members of Eat Denver (formerly known as Denver’s Independent Network…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess where contests this past week (our apologies for the hellish computer glitches that affected the comments functionality), ranging from this late summer salad to some still-unidentified carne asada fries to these barbecue sauces. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jabo’s, VB wins…
If this beer vs. wine thing is a new trend, we’re not complaining. First there was a Beer vs. Wine dinner at TAG earlier this month, and now Upslope Brewing and BookCliff Vineyards will face off during a beer and wine dinner at BookCliff, 1468 Pearl Street in Boulder…
Not every fishmonger is as environmentally conscious as Seattle Fish Company, 6211 East 42nd Avenue. The company is committed to providing the freshest fish possible — but also aware that both overfishing and the presence of certain chemicals in our water sources present real problems for the planet. To celebrate…
The building at 2479 South Broadway that briefly housed the Cabin on Broadway — and Old Tyme Dawgs & Drafts before that, and the Blue Walleye before that, and Mike’s Great Divide before that — is back on the block, locked up tight with a broker’s sign in the window…
The above salad, bright with Colorado heirloom tomatoes chromed golden, eggplant, garnet and watermelon and boosted by stretchy burrata oozing cream, was exactly the kind of summer dish I was looking for after a week of gorging myself like a heathen. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, ends tonight, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the restaurants celebrating Harvest Week?…
When Penzeys Spices, a Wisconsin-based gourmet spice company with shops in cities around the country, announced it would open on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, it caused a flurry of controversy. That was because the new location is just around the corner from an outpost of Savory Spice Shop,…
The owners of Mona’s Restaurant and Mo’ Taco (RIP) will be launching a new restaurant downtown in coming weeks. Mona’s Cafe, located in the former 212 Cafe spot at 1710 Sherman Street, is slated to open its doors the week of September 20, with a grand opening planned for September…
Time and time again, in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, we read about local kitchen commanders lamenting the dearth of Denver restaurant exposure on a national level. In fact, Jeff Bolton, exec chef of Second Home Kitchen & Bar, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell Q&A,…
A monthly family pizza night has long been a tradition for brothers Eric, Joel and Reid Bakken. In fact, Eric even took it upon himself to build a pizza oven in his backyard a couple of years ago. But when Eric saw a mobile pizza oven atop a trailer in…
What’s for dinner? Whatever the answer, it’s probably got an ethnic origin–or a supposedly ethnic origin. Because many of the foreign foods that we all enjoy aren’t really very foreign at all. In other words, you can cross these ten dishes off your list, because, frankly, they’re all just as…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Jeff Bolton, the exec chef of Second Home Kitchen + Bar in the JW Marriott, reveals that he and his staff have a fetish for Burger King’s Whopper Jrs. But that’s not the only food obsession of Bolton and his crew. Bolton is…
The number of submissions for our little bean pun contest, the winner of which scores two seats to the Highlands Chef Collaborative Farm Dinner at Aspen Moon, numbered more than 40. Several of your puns made us erupt into fits of giggles; others made scratch our heads and roll our…
When we were younger, Rocky Mountain oysters were used to play a cruel joke. We were all victims at some point, and we downed a couple of the fried testicles before learning what they were and turning white, vowing to never touch them again. The gross-out factor of a food…
If you’re not familiar with Rudi’s Organic Bakery, a Boulder-based bread company, then you should really make its acquaintance — particularly if you are gluten-intolerant. Rudi’s hasn’t used artificial chemicals or preservatives in its breads since the bakery’s founding in 1976, and started baking organic bread in 1990, before the…
Lunch options near the University of Denver are about to get more interesting. In less than two weeks, Mercy Dogs will begin serving local Continental brand hot dogs and brats near the intersection of East Evans Avenue and South University Boulevard…
Corn is one of the best grains out there — full of flavor, versatile and good for you. It’s particularly delicious roasted, and the city of Loveland must know that, because today and tomorrow, it’s hosting the Old Fashioned Corn Roast Festival, featuring a Friday night street dance, a parade,…
