A Denver-based restaurant operator is adding some burgers to its pie-centric portfolio for a cool $27.5 million. American Blue Ribbon Holdings LLC, which last year acquired the Village Inn and Baker’s Square restaurant chains, last week bought the Ohio-based Max & Erma’s out of bankruptcy…
“We just made our first dollar, and then we lost it in a game of rock-paper-scissors,” says Biker Jim, Denver’s sultan of fat sausages. The game went down at 9:30 this morning, when Biker Jim sold a Coke for a buck to his first customer on the grounds of the…
Skee-ball, anyone? The game’s blinking lights beckon from the back of Stoney’s Bar and Grill, which just opened yesterday at 1111 Lincoln Street. “There’s another one coming,” promises co-owner Will Trautman. We’ll cut the place some slack, since Stoney’s just opened. Besides, there are plenty of other things to keep…
Your baristas are a delicate breed of human — they are perfectionists when it comes to their craft and sensitive when it comes to social aptitude. Much like bartenders, they are stuck dealing with people at their worst — un-caffeinated, early in the morning and grumpy. If you get the…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from this still unidentified shochu margarita to yet another meal at go-to Benny’s to a disappointing cioppino. For correctly identifying it (twice!) as coming from Highland Pacific, Bsquared wins an EatDenver deck…
Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue, has been offering prix-fixe meals all month inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel and the movie Eat, Pray, Love. Today, the restaurant rolls out a menu of dishes based on Gilbert’s trip to India, available through Sunday, August 29. Keep reading to see what Le…
Behold the final winning entry in our Sunday summer supper contest. Just in case you missed all this, here’s the short version: We asked readers to suggest a name for the coalition of chefs — Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms), Jeff Osaka (twelve), Justin Brunson (Masterpiece Deli and Lechon),…
The bacon and cashew caramel corn at Colt & Gray (1553 Platte Street) is salty, sweet and addictive, leaving us hungry for more every time we finish our allotted cup. And the treat just earned a nod from Bon Appetit, which called it one of the best bar snacks in…
Interstate Kitchen + Bar’s Andre Lobato, the featured kitchen wizard in this week’s Chef and Tell interview, turns out one of the best happy hour menus in Denver, in part because it includes popcorn pelted with bacon and spicy peanuts. And, really, what’s better than that? “The first bar I…
For two years I’ve been wondering when Coors would decide to start canning its once-formidable-but-now-somewhat watered-down Blue Moon. The Belgian-style wit beer is perfect for summer, falling somewhere between standard canned beer fare like Coors, Bud and PBR and heavier canned micros like Dale’s Pale Ale, Fat Tire and Ska’s…
If you’ve been following this here blog, then you already know that chefs Jeff Osaka (twelve), Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms), Scott and Deanna Parker (Table 6) and Justin Brunson (Masterpiece Deli) are hosting a seafood supper this Sunday at the Infinite Monkey Theorem — and that two lucky…
A few weeks back, Boulder’s Pizzeria Basta, 3601 Arapahoe Avenue, upped the ante on its menu, offering sous vide and wood-fire oven entrees in addition to its list of thin-crust pies. The pizza-maker also added new desserts this summer, including a line of house-made ice creams, which are rich, airy…
Marketing stuff to kids is pretty easy — which is why the government prevented tobacco companies from doing it — even subtly, supposedly accidentally — a few years back. McDonald’s Happy Meals are the latest to feel their knuckles rapped by this particular ruler — the obesity epidemic among kids…
EatDenver Harvest Week, a celebration of local products and producers, starts tomorrow and runs through August 27. Dozens of restaurants — everyone from Beatrice & Woodsley to Z Cuisine — are offering special meals to celebrate the season. (You’ll find the entire roster on eatdenver.com.) If you harvest a Harvest…
“It just depends on what they smell like, to be quite honest with you.” That’s Justin Lloyd, one of three new owners of Star Bar, 2137 Larimer Street, the subject of this week’s Drunk of the Week. “They” are the less-than-desirables who used to frequent the original Star Bar (and…
Unless you’re like Michael Pollan, who thinks paying eight bucks for a dozen eggs is cool, or you’re one of those urbavores who raises your own fowl, chances are good your fridge has contained eggs affiliated with the recent massive recall…
Want something a little healthier than a burrito or a brat at the Rockies game? How about a peach? Ryan Wallace has just set up a cart at the corner of 18th and Wazee streets that sells fresh Colorado produce. The cart, called Fresh in the City, has Palisade peaches…
Construction is rolling on the new eateries slated to open next to the Frasca Food & Wine flagship at 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, and as the expansion of the empire progresses, a few more details have been divulged. Like the names of the places…
Alex finally got sent home on this week’s Top Chef D.C., which should appease his legion of detractors. In addition to his usual disjointed kitchen antics and incoherent decisions, he tried using sous vide — which he’d never done before — for the Elimination Challenge, and his veal came out…
It’s Friday! To get your weekend started, here are three events that will be serving up eats and treats tonight. Take your pick:…
If you read our post back in June, you already knew that The Hole was slated to open sometime this summer. Today, the restaurant (3877 Tennyson Street) that unabashedly specializes in doughnuts and beer opened for business. Lori Midson brings back these photos from the Hole (slideshow)…
Shochu is one of the most underrated spirits out there, and this Shochu margarita showed just how adaptable it can be. The crushed, dried plum rim was a brilliant enhancement of a modern Asian margarita. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
