This past weekend, during the Mile High Music Festival, professional eaters Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti, “Big Sexy” Bryan Beard and Tim “Gravy” Brown competed in the Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast Sandwich Makers vs. Eaters Contest. How did it all play out? According to the Jimmy John’s “JJ Freaker Blog” posting,…
Denver’s third-annual Harvest Week begins Saturday, August 21 and runs through August 27, when nearly forty of Denver’s best independent restaurants will be offering special menus. Last night’s EatDenver Harvest Week kickoff party at Balistreri Vineyards was a fantastic celebration of local products and harvest flavors, as ten chefs worked…
Se7en, the Beauvallon’s newest tenant at 925 Lincoln Street, has only been open for five days, but owner Jax Wang promises to deliver food that this scene has never before seen nor tasted…
Baltimore’s Andrew Palmer is one cunning con, who had a slick scam going to grab some free grub. Palmer had been hitting the nicer restaurants in town as a solo diner, and when the bill was dropped on his table, he suddenly claimed he was having a seizure — think…
Ozo Coffee Co., located at 5340 Arapahoe Avenue, in Boulder, has been caffeinating crowds even from its semi-distant digs out on 53rd and Arapahoe since it opened in 2007, so it stands to reason that when the shop opens its second location, on a busy block of the west end…
Two months ago, Chris Cina exited his gig at Timberline Grill, a steak house at the Ameristar Casino in Black Hawk, to set sail for Jax-Denver, where he was tapped as the seafooder’s new chef de cuisine. His first day on the Jax line was June 16; his last day…
Blue Moon, the Belgian-style wit beer that was created inside Coors Field in 1995, is apparently also highly valued for its calming qualities. First it was requested by James Crowley during President Obama’s August 2009 beer summit on racial relations on the White House lawn, and now it has turned…
Everyone knows that Colorado peaches are among the best in the world — and it’s harvest season! Celebrate at the Lafayette Peach Festival on Saturday. And if peaches aren’t your thing, there are dozens of other options on the culinary menu this week. Here’s a taste:…
Jesse Morreale takes me by the hand and leads me down a narrow passageway, past the rustic wooden tequila lockers and kaleidoscopic altar littered with white candles, and into the lantern-lit dining room of El Diablo, the new Mexican restaurant at First and Broadway that he and executive chef Sean…
A great martini is a joy, and this one, which comes from a new restaurant in town, more than lived up to my expectations. Poured at the table, perfectly chilled and generous in size, it had the added bonus of a red olive as part of the olive garnish, which…
There are quite a few cartoon foods we’re glad aren’t real: spoo, for example, a substance described as “meat jello,” that’s made an appearance on not one, but two cartoons. Other disturbing foods found in cartoons include the sawdust-y “powdered toast” from Ren and Stimpy and the Futurama beverage called…
This Saturday, August 21, the Justice League of Street Food will gather for its inaugural party, the first in a series of bashes that will bring diners together in the true spirit of fun that surrounds the mobile vending scene. And we want to add to the fun, giving one…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from pork buns at Pho on 6th to a cocktail at Bistro One (a restaurant in the middle of some major changes) to a soothing watermelon salad at Interstate Kitchen + Bar. For identifying that first, Nic wins…
It’s almost the end of summer, which means soon it won’t be warm enough to eat outside. That’s the idea behind tonight’s Feast in the Field — al fresco dining at its best, with live music accompanying an all-Colorado meal from 6 to 9 p.m…
Sometimes when you try the favorite cocktail of your server, you find a hidden treasure. And sometimes you encounter a regional taste that isn’t really something you’d want to try again. The cocktail in the above photo belongs in the latter category, but I’m not sorry I tried it, because…
Starting tomorrow, a Washington Park neighborhood bakery that had been baking its cakes, pies and cookies only by special order, will start opening a couple of hours every Saturday morning in the very small space it shares with a Basil Doc’s pizzeria…
If you’ve been keeping tabs on the Justice League of Street Food on Facebook, you may have noticed the daily trivia questions — and the new logo…
We reported last Friday that Hoffbrau Bar & Grill, 1301 Santa Fe, was set to reopen under new ownership sometime this week after a quiet closure earlier this year. And indeed, today it opened its doors — under the name 1301 Santa Fe Tavern & Grill — and welcomed lunch…
The interior is pink and green, the furniture is modern and the whole outfit looks an awful lot like a Pinkberry, but Ty Mai says he’s never heard of Pinkberry…
We’re officially nervous that PETA is taking over the world. Mario Batali, head of an empire that’s entrenched in pork fat, beef cheeks and cured meat, is writing a vegetarian cookbook. First Meatless Monday and now this? What’s the deal?…
Earlier this year, president of Colorado Bartenders Guild Bryan Dayton was set to leave his five-year post as bar manager of Frasca Food & Wine and head to the Bitter Bar–until his own project kicked into high gear instead. After months of keeping mum about that project, Dayton just told…
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Every week, the Penthouse Club, 4451 East Virginia, serves up a free lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. And food isn’t the only thing on the menu…
