Since Adwoa and Sylvester Osei Ford-Wuo parked their mobile African food business at the brick-and-mortar African Bar and Grill in 2010, they’ve done a lot to expand Denver’s ethnic food scene. And now they’ve done a lot more: They’ve opened a second location, at 18601 Green Valley Ranch Road by…
Colorado returned to form at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival, taking home a whopping 46 medals — spread out across breweries of widely varying ages, sizes and locations. The medal count was also up significantly from 2012 — when the state won only 35 medals as part of a…
I remember standing in front of a pyramid of potatoes at the supermarket many years ago in my hippie days, tripping on mescalin and trying to select a few spuds for dinner. It was taking a long time because every potato in that pile had its own unique and mesmerizing…
Sunny Gardens, tucked away in a strip mall on East Yale Avenue, looks like a typical neighborhood Chinese restaurant — until you open up the menu. Because there, tucked between the usual listings for fried rice, egg foo young and lo mein, is a lengthy vegetarian section, offering dishes made…
Every year, The Daily Meal does a comprehensive survey and then announces the 101 Best Restaurants in America. Yesterday, the Daily Meal revealed the worst, digging “deep into the recesses of the culinary dustbin” to discover the true bottom feeders. The result is a list of possibly the five worst…
There’s gross — and there’s gross anatomy, the deeply gruesome and gory body parts that hit the table on Halloween, the one day of the year when demonic bakers emerge from their caldrons and devise recipes that make your stomach turn green. The cakes on the following pages, all allegedly…
Alfalfa’s Market in Boulder believe that organic, agricultural practices help the planet and also create community — and what better way to bring people together than pie? The market makes plenty of them. But on Saturday, Alfalfa’s wants to see what you can do. See also:Buy pie, support Project Angel…
Federal Boulevard is a great adventure if you love ethnic food — but it’s not always easy to tell what’s vegetarian-friendly. And if you’re a vegan, you’ll have an even more difficult time separating the fish cakes from tofu. At New Saigon Bakery & Deli, though, you can enjoy a…
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re My Brother’s Bar. This Denver institution opened more than forty years ago in a building that is the city’s longest-operating watering hole; records trace the bar business at 2376 15th Street back to 1873. So owner Jim Karagas wasn’t happy when he heard…
Pumpkins are everywhere — which means pie can’t be far behind. But this Thanksgiving, instead of going through the hassle of baking pies, you can purchase your dessert from Project Angel Heart , which kicks off its Pie in the Sky campaign today. The Pie in the Sky sale, which…
There may have been a few too many beer events this past weekend as part of the Great American Beer Festival. And Oskar Blues may have suffered from the excess, given that its two-day concert, Fuh-can Beer and Guitars, benefiting the Love, Hope, Strength Foundation and victims of the recent…
The last time I ordered crab from this restaurant, I was asked to point to the one I wanted from the murky tank. The one I chose, however, somehow landed on the floor, crawling its way across the carpet in a futile attempt to escape its impending doom. Recently, during…
“Welcome back to Satchel’s,” says the sidewalk chalkboard just outside the front door of Andrew Casalini’s restaurant on Sixth Avenue. The greeting comes a day after Casalini reopened his Congress Park spot after a three-week remodel — a remodel that trumpets a stately new bar, custom-patterned wood floors, luscious red,…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bayou-inspired seafood boil from Asian Cajun, to a warming bowl of yellow dal tadka from Masalaa, to an Indian phaal curry, so excruciatingly hot that it nearly blew my head off and destroyed my stomach lining…
Back when I discovered Maria Empanada, a pint-sized shop in Lakewood that turns out magnificent, freshly baked Argentinean turnovers filled with both sweet and savory feelings, I loved everything about the place, but the tiny quarters — there was but one table — made me wistful that I couldn’t linger,…
The Great American Beer Fest is always a hairy experience. Last year we noted a curious trend: The suds extravaganza wasn’t just full of beer, it was full of beards, and many kinds of beards at that. So this year we were on the lookout for impressive whiskers — and…
“It takes me back to the Cinnamon Life cereal of my childhood,” says Todd Sledge of the cinnamon-raisin flavored Paleo Diet Bar. Sledge, along with his wife, Shauna, founded the Fort Collins-based the Paleo Diet Foods , which just launched its initial product, the Paleo Diet Bar. The raw food…
You know Halloween is coming because pumpkins not only appear on porches, they’re all over the kitchen in one form or another. Every autumn brings an array of pumpkin, pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie-flavored eats and drinks — some of which are far more palatable than others, reports Jenn Wohletz…
Humboldt. Farm.Fish.Wine just opened last week at 1700 Humboldt Street, but it’s wasting no time becoming a contributing part of the community. From 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15, it’s hosting a benefit for flood relief. For $35 — ticket proceeds go to Colorado Flood Relief and the…
At 10 p.m., when the drunken revelers began stumbling out of the Colorado Convention Center, a woman grabbed her crotch and started twerking. Her partner in crime lunged as consumers, most of whom were already weaving, futilely attempted to stay out of his path. And so went night two of…
From Facebook to Vine, social media is changing the way we eat. At the 2013 Westword Web Awards, we’ll celebrate the chefs, restaurants and diners that use it best — and we want your help finding them. There are two ways you can help us pick this year’s winners…
With around 2,700 beers to taste, Great American Beer Fest attendees have to burn off the calories somehow. One great, alcohol-friendly way to do it: play some table tennis. On Wednesday night, representatives of 32 breweries gathered at Ace for a Left Hand tap takeover and ping-pong tournament. If the…
