What pairs better with cheese: beer or wine? Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, 1512 Curtis Street, will attempt to answer that question tonight at the Beer vs. Wine Dinner, featuring five cheese courses paired with beer and wine. The fun starts at 6 p.m. and costs $20; for more…
He’ll have the spaghetti and meatballs, because he always gets the spaghetti and meatballs. I think I’ll have the cheesesteak tonight, though. I haven’t had one of those in a while.” The thirty-something woman and her husband were standing in Frank’s Kitchen discussing their dinner options. They didn’t need to…
For the past six months Dina Berta has thrown herself head first into the operations of Frank’s Kitchen, which she owns with her husband, Frank. But before she committed to life in the kitchen, she made a living writing about restaurants. As a business reporter at the Rocky Mountain News…
No. 50: Noodle jelly salad from Thai Street Food…
Since getting spiffed up a few years back, Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street has played host to more than twenty restaurants, a mix of fast-casual and full-service chains plus independently owned spots that has changed frequently. Now the development is about to get another new joint to replace a restaurant that…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part four of this new series: It is impossible to overstate my…
The first thing you’re likely to notice upon breezing through the door at Coohills, a new French restaurant that opens in LoDo on Wednesday, is the show-stopping chandelier, a six-foot-tall contortion of twirls and spirals, twists and tangles, twigs and roots lustered with white lights. They’re wine vines…
Hard to believe it’s November already, but the holidays are quickly approaching — and so are some of our favorite traditions, like the Champagne Cascade at the Brown Palace Hotel. And there are plenty more events on this week’s culinary calendar; here’s what’s on the menu:…
The pies are one size fits all at this local pizzeria, but that’s the only thing about the joint that’s generic. 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 entered into a pool — and every…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. Shepherd’s pie is a comfort-food staple that contains several of our favorite things: mashed potatoes, tender veggies and a…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from a multi-cultural stumper to a meal Lori Midson could eat every day at Crimson Canary to this plate of doughnut holes. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jelly, Skggy wins an EatDenver deck…
After reviewing Edge, the restaurant in the fancy-pants new Four Seasons, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s five best hotel restaurants.” Edge didn’t make the list. Nor did Palace Arms in the Brown Palace, a second snub for the venerable hotel that has hosted every president since Teddy Roosevelt slept there…
No one knows fresh sausage like the folks at Il Mondo Vecchio, who are teaming up tonight with the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, for a Fresh Sausage-Making class. It runs from 6 to 9:30 p.m. and costs $99; for more information, call 303-308-9300 or visit…
Distilling has been exploding in the Rocky Mountains, and we’ve added enough distilleries in the last few years to just about stock an entire bar. Further proof (no pun intended) of this phenomenon: another vodka-maker is getting ready to enter the market, specifically on Larimer Street…
Just like many East Coast transplants here in Denver, husband and wife Bryan and Carey Adler missed one culinary treasure in particular: the deli. “My husband and I both grew up on the East Coast, and we have a soft spot for deli food,” Carey explains. “Every deli out there…
No. 51: Pork tenderloin with bread pudding and green split peas from the Wooden Table…
If you try to tempt me with anything fried, I’m pretty much going to enjoy it no matter what it is — except for doughnuts, which are frequently disappointing. Too often undercooked, over-glazed, floppy or dry, the truly exceptional doughnut is hard to come by. But when a doughnut is…
Happy Place: Row 14 Bistro and Wine Bar, 891 Fourteenth Street, 303-825-0100. The Hours: Sunday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: $2-$3 beer specials; $4 specialty cocktails; $5-$10 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
When you think of healthy restaurants in Denver, one of the healthiest cities in the country, a couple of spots whose menus are rife with the terms “organic,” “sustainable” and “local” come to mind: WaterCourse Foods and Root Down, for example. You won’t find them on Healthy Dining Finder –…
If what Food & Wine magazine writes is true, then I guess it’s high-time to haul my ass to Jus Cookin’s, an unabashedly American-as-apple-pie farmhouse-cum-restaurant that’s hustled homemade soups, double-decker hamburgers, chicken pot pie, chicken salad sandwiches, chicken-fried steak, chicken Parmesan and fried chicken since 1988, when it opened in…
The only thing Americans love more than a buffet is a holiday buffet. We also love that the fourth Thursday every November is a thinly-veiled justification for a massive meat-and-starchy gorge by evoking images of shysty Pilgrims and wary Natives sharing corn on the cob. But the real gem of…
If someone were to ask me the age-old question: “If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?” I’d simply point them to the snap above and call it a day. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
