Mei Liu had always been a home cook, but a few years ago, she made her first foray into a professional kitchen, starting a small Chinese restaurant with a group of friends in Austin, Texas. Not long after, Mei, along with her daughter Grace, and son, Gary, drew up plans…
Over the last few months, Ernie Brooks has been building out a small hut at Streets at SouthGlenn, preparing to open Yo’Cheese, a walk-up shop that would turn out gourmet grilled cheese and tomato soup…
“Every season the bar gets higher, every season it means more to be the one on top — do you have what it takes to be the next TOP CHEF?” So begins the wording on the Bravo website, taunting cookers from around the country to audition for the tenth season…
There will be beer dinners celebrating local brews this week, as well as several wine events — and restaurants are gearing up for the all-important Valentine’s Day dinners, too. Here’s a taste of what’s on the menu:…
If you smelled bacon last week in LoDo, you weren’t dreaming. The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot was adding it to a new beer. “We put thirty pounds of bacon in the kettle along with dark chocolate, cocoa nibs and hickory smoked bacon. The savory bacon helps balance…
Bob Wilson graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in finance but wanted, he says, “to do something I was interested in — something I thought would be fun.” That’s why he went into wine: “I ended up working with a distributor with a goal to work at…
The tamales at this strip mall Mexican in the suburbs are good — very good — but it’s the green chile, made with jalapenos and tomatillos (and not much else), that makes the trek worth the time. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. The best thing about this jambalaya? You don’t have to forgo this recipe during Lent — or on any other day, because…
We’ve followed Benny Armas since he was cooking up Mexican food in the kitchen of the old Oak Alley (that building is now home to Hanson’s). In the ’80s, he finally opened his own place at 225 East Seventh Avenue (now Mizuna), then moved across the street to a bigger…
Cafe Society served up seven Guess where? contests last week, ranging from Mexican cervezas at Satellite Bar to a tower of golden onion rings at Charcoal to a duo of bathroom doors at a local bar that gave Patty Calhoun pause before peeing. Those bathrooms belong to Three Lions, and…
While My Sweet Bakery has closed in Berkeley, the Baker neighborhood is living up to its name, and is now home to a number of bakeries, sweet spots and coffee shops, with more — including Happy Coffee — still to come. Is it too much of a good thing?…
Much like craft brewers, independent winemakers are at the cutting edge of all things related to their specific area of alcohol. And tonight, you can check out an array of grape innovations at The Kitchen, 1039 Pearl Street in Boulder, which will be hosting an Indie Winemaker Dinner. The meal…
For every restaurant that closes, another one opens — or multiplies. That’s the case with Udi’s Bread Cafe, which just opened downtown, making it the fourth Udi’s Bread Cafe in the metro area. The high-ceilinging, bright and airy 2,800-square-foot space sits directly behind a substandard Quiznos, which recently saved itself…
In this week’s behind the bar interview, Colt & Gray’s Kevin Burke weighs in on how he started bartending, his favorite spot to blind taste spirits and the Mustache Series…
Happy Place: Cellar Wine Bar, 2556 15th Street, 303-455-9463 The Hours: Daily from 5 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $5 select glasses of wine, $5 wine cocktails, $1 off all beer selections Were We Happy? Flip the page to find out.[page]…
It’s not quite the blizzard predicted by those omniscient weather forecasters, but that hasn’t stopped the safety police from urging all of us to stay housebound. We have a better idea — and so do several Denver bars and restaurants. Get your boots on, your earmuffs and your pink parka…
Breckenridge Brewing loves poking fun at the mega brewers — something they’ve done with a series of humorous TV ads called “Truth in Beervertising” over the past two years. Now the Denver-based brewery plans to run two more spots on Super Bowl Sunday on KDVR-TV, Denver’s Fox affiliate. Although the…
Kelly McBride just opened My Sweet Bakery last April, selling her homemade pies, cakes, sticky buns and cookies, as well as coffee, out of a colorful storefront on 44th and Tennyson in the Berkeley neighborhood. The California Culinary Institute alum quickly amassed a following, despite the construction mess that made…
Whether our team makes it or not, Super Bowl weekend is always a wonderful time of year. Mostly because it’s an excuse to daytime drink on a Sunday while we munch down truly impressive quantities of bar snacks, which vastly enhances our viewing pleasure. The festivities wouldn’t be complete, either,…
This stack of onion rings doesn’t come anywhere close to the pyramid of snow outside my window, but on a day like this, a heap of onions rings, paired with a fat burger and a jug of whiskey, seems like a good way to spend the day. Can you guess…
There is nothing wrong with being a food snob. Food snobs offer valuable services to their communities, such as market insight, educated opinions and keeping the restaurant industry honest and on its toes. But still, there are always some culi-nazis pissing in the crab bisque; food snows who take themselves…
If you were looking for a restaurant restroom and found one labeled “Wags,” would you assume it was a ladies’ room? Would it help you if you knew that the other restroom was named “Ballers”? Those are the bathroom titles at Three Lions, but they’re far from the only odd…
