The apple pie from Bang! (3472 W. 32nd Avenue), which won first place in a recent pie competition at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, is a thing of beauty, with its thin slices of apple stacked between two golden crusts and accompanied by a single scoop of vanilla ice cream…
Welcome back baseball! The Colorado Rockies play their home opener today at 2:10 p.m. against the San Diego Padres, followed by games on Saturday and Sunday, and you’ll need some good beer to go with your baseball. Here are some of our favorite places to drink up:…
Jennifer Jasinksi, executive chef of Rioja and Bistro Vendome, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, recently wrote The Perfect Bite , a soon-to-be released cookbook chock-a-block with recipes from Rioja, including one of our favorites, the black truffle crème fraîche potato salad. “We have served this…
That was fast. A few days ago, we were talking about Men’s Journal citing downtown’s “deliberately vey” bars — and wondering just where those bars were. Today, Dive on Fifteenth will make its deliberately divey debut in the former home of Tryst, which closed just last weekend. Owner Paul Piciocchi…
A restaurant supplier in Aachen, Germany, has driven a steak through the hearts of carnivores everywhere. When the owner of a steakhouse there didn’t have enough euros to cover his outstanding balance, the supplier sensibly decided to confiscate the meat he’d already supplied that day. He started with the steaks…
Looking for a new option for celebrating the Rockies home opener? Head to the Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe Street, for its inaugural opening-day celebration — featuring a pig roast and purple beer on the patio — from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m…
It’s been a good week for beer, and it just keeps getting better: Tonight, the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, will hold a release party for its Karma Belgian Pale Ale from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission is free (but you’ve got to pay for your brewskis);…
Now through April 30, Arc thrift stores will be collecting non-perishable foods for their tenth annual Feed Colorado food drive. Arc, in partnership with Volunteers of America, distributed 112 tons of non-perishable food to local food banks last year, and this year they are hoping to get even more. “We…
Nearly everything the kitchen trots out from this neighborhood slurp house is excellent. The beer and wine lists are formidable, too, but at the moment, we’re most besotted with the artfully composed and intelligently-crafted cocktails. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society is still counting down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Yeah, that’s right: Cupcake. Truck. The team behind Cake Crumbs Bakery, 2216 Kearney Street, is taking their show on the road come Tuesday, April 13, the day their new cupcake truck hits the streets. “I’ve just always had a vision of cupcakes being vended from an old time delivery truck,”…
After a six-year absence, Durango’s Ska Brewing Company plans to begin selling its much loved (and occasionally scolded) Mexican Logger back to Denver. The summer seasonal is, you guessed it, a Mexican-style lager that that the brewery serves with limes in its tasting room and sells in bottles throughout southern…
The pile of greens in the above photo might not be the first dish you’d think about eating at this neighborhood joint, but the salad, a tangle of arugula, hits of goat cheese, and a sprinkling of apricots and almonds, does the place proud. Where did I restrain myself at…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jennifer Jasinksi; to read part one of that interview, click here. Best food city in America: San Francisco Bay. I love the growing capabilities of the area and how you’re so closely tied to the land. Restaurants there have the opportunity…
You know that spring has sprung when the crest of Vail Mountain morphs from a skier’s powdered paradise into an al fresco grazing ground for foodniks and oenophiles, a transformation that takes place every year during the Taste of Vail, a three-day gastronomic romp that begins today…
It started off so innocently: Elizabeth Thomas, pastry chef forWaterCourse Foods and City O’ City, was visiting her sister, who works at Marczyk Fine Foods, and got a taste of the pie that John “Haji” Hinman had been making for the market. “She said it was lame,” Hinman remembers, “and…
Montinore Estate Winery in Willamette Valley, Oregon, is one of the few wineries in the country to produce biodynamic wines certified by the Demeter Association. What does that mean? Find out tonight from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., when Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, is hosting a Spring Wine Dinner that will…
Every year, the weather provides some kind of drama on the first day of the Boulder Farmers’ Market: a rainy deluge that pounds on awnings, trickles down shivering necks and sends customers scuttling back to their cars, or snow and sleet that keep buyers and most vendors home, with the…
Ever eat a bug? On purpose? The Butterfly Pavilion, located at 6252 West 104th Avenue in Westminster, will welcome a truly freaky act to help open its new, sideshow-inspired exhibit, Dr. Entomo’s Palace of Exotic Wonders, this weekend. Renowned Seattle entomophagist chef David Gordon, who has been dubbed the “Martha…
Last week, when Paul Piciocchi announced that he was closing Tryst and moving the club concept down to Playa Del Carmen, he said that its former home at 1512 Larimer Street would soon become a new watering hole. Ana after less than a week of remodeling, Dive on 15th is…
When does breast-feeding constitute a crime? When local police officers don’t know the law. Bethany Morton was at the Old Country Buffet in Maplewood, Minnesota, for Easter dinner when her six-month-old son, Dawson, got hungry — so she started feeding him milk au natural, without bothering to cover up for…
The Place: Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, 720-570-8686. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The Deals: Specialty cocktails and select red and white wines by the glass are $5; Tecate cans are $2; sangria is $4; and generously…
