With national cram-your-gut-and-pass-out-on-your-couch day approaching, many food-insecure Denverites may be wondering how they will squeeze a huge Thanksgiving din-din out of a lean wallet. But never fear: Whenever there are poor locals looking for a holiday feast on the cheap, the Dollar Tree is there. The store has everything you…
Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the “food & drink” category, which were handed out at our awards ceremony last night at Casselman’s. These are only the winners; for a complete list of finalists, go here: “Here are your 2011 Denver #WebAwards finalists.” And thanks to…
Eric Uffelmann, the executive chef at Marlowe’s, is no fan of Denver Restaurant Week. As he tells Lori Midson in this week’s Chef and Tell, what he’d like to see less of in Denver is Denver Restaurant Week — at least in its current configuration. “Stop the hand-shackling during Denver…
Beaujolais is always one of the most anticipated varietals, and you can celebrate this year’s release at the Beaujolais and Beyond Festival that runs from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Infinity Park Event Center, 4400 East Kentucky Avenue. Admission is $55 to $75, and buys you tastes of French wines…
The folks who put on the Denver County Fair last July didn’t have a lot of control over the food sold at the event: The concessionaires came with the National Western Stock Show venue. But they’re making up for any complaints about that with their very tasty Denver County Fair…
When Mitch Abate, Matt Causey and Andy Causey opened Downslope Distilling three years ago, they didn’t just start working on the variety of vodkas, rums and whiskeys that comprise their regular line. Almost as soon as they got their license, they set up a one-off and also put together a…
This week’s review took me to Land of Sushi, a strip-mall joint in the southern suburbs with a killer happy hour deal. But I was more interested in other, rarer finds — including live scallops and fresh uni. Here, to go with the review, is a side of photos. For…
November has been a busy month for restaurant openings, with some highly anticipated spots — including Coohills, Williams & Graham and Ambria — now serving. And then there’s this: Twin Peaks has thrown open its doors in Lakewood…
Crabtree Brewing has never canned its beers and doesn’t own a canning line; its owner, Jeff Crabtree, doesn’t even think craft beer belongs in a can. Nevertheless, the Greeley brewery’s Eclipse black IPA will probably become the first Colorado beer to be packaged in sixteen-ounce cans…
This is the time of year when your inbox, mailbox and voice box are inundated with warm and fuzzy requests to support your favorite charities, the majority of which most of us guiltily ignore — at least I do (but I spend all of my spare change on PBR and…
The wine topic that everyone seems to be obsessed with this week is what goes best with turkey (Thanksgiving is next Thursday, or hadn’t you heard?). Not us. There’s still plenty of time to tackle that topic, and if you tend to procrastinate as much as we do, then you’ll…
I’m a sucker for good bread, and if you, too, are a bread head, then you’ll appreciate a dough that rises above the rest at this upper-crust restaurant. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…
Eric Uffelmann Marlowe’s 501 16th Street 303-595-3700 www.marlowesdenver.com It’s just past 4 p.m. on a Monday, and the bar at Marlowe’s, the oldest independently owned restaurant on the 16th Street Mall, which will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary next February, is already crushed with a sizable crowd. Equally sizable plates and…
The holiday beer releases came early and often this year, and there are now dozens of them on the shelves and on tap at bars where you can get your cheer on. The Falling Rock Taphouse, in particular, knows how to get into the spirit, wrapping its tap wall in…
The space at the Tabor Center that’s now home to Ambria, chef/owner Jeremy Kittelson’s restaurant that opens today, was a Ling & Louie’s just two weeks ago…but it’s undergone an amazing transformation. Still, it’s hard to focus on the surroundings when the dishes look as good as they did in…
Ever wish you could ask your favorite chef a question? Tonight, you can: Rocky Mountain PBS will host a live Facebook chat with several PBS chefs. The event will be moderated by chef Christy Rost, who’ll be talking with guest chefs Katie Brown, Rick Browne, Chris Fennimore, Daisy Martinez and…
In one year, the average American consumes 45 pounds of sugar (enough to fill a wheelbarrow) — and most of this is sugar we drink. Excess sugar intake is a driving force behind the obesity epidemic, and while soda gets scapegoated, the fastest-growing marketing sector is the so-called “fruit drink”…
Colorado’s distilleries will get their due in the New York Times travel magazine on Sunday. And the piece, in “Blithe Spirits,” has already been posted on the web. The article celebrates this state’s burgeoning spirits scene, describing distilleries ranging from the Boulder Distillery to Peach Street Distillers to Leopold Brothers,…
In the past few years, attention-seeking breweries like Sam Adams, Scotland’s BrewDog and Germany’s Schorschbock have been engaged in a battle over who could make the highest-alcohol beers in the world — turning out concoctions that weighed in at 40, 50 and even 60 percent alcohol by volume. But back…
I’m constantly on the hunt for sushi joints where quality is paramount but I don’t have to drop half my savings on one meal…
New Orleans-based Naked Pizza made it a mission to give pizza a healthier image, starting with a probiotic crust chock-full of grains such as spelt and quinoa, and finishing with toppings cut from fresh ingredients. The idea caught on quickly: The pizza chain has franchised across the country — and…
Leonard Cordova’s Bubba Chinos empire has been on an expansion tear this year, with locations opening in Boulder, on East Colfax and at 88th and York (though Cordova says that Bubbachinos franchise is no longer associated with his company). Yesterday, he added another one: the thirteenth Bubba Chinos in Colorado…
