The Maggiano’s in the Tech Center will host a four-course Cline Cellars Wine Dinner that starts at 6:30 p.m. tonight. Tickets are $65; for more details, call 303-858-1405 or go to www.maggianos.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings — and…
I’ve yet to find a spirit that I really hate. I’ve had gins so smooth and floral, I’d willingly drink them neat. I’m a sucker for a good, smoky mezcal. Put tequila in just about anything and I’ll pour it straight down my throat. But at the end of the…
Of all the spirits, whiskey may be the most varied (the world can’t even agree on the spelling of the word). Bourbons must be made with at least 51 percent corn in charred oak barrels. Irish whiskey ages distilled cereal grains in wooden casks. Canadian whisky just has to be…
I’m geographically challenged. How else to explain that I was on Federal Boulevard and 72nd Avenue yesterday, when I spotted what I (wrongly) believed was the shuttered address of Teleras Deli Mexicana, a tortas joint that I’ve eaten at several times and written about more than once — a joint…
Approximately 2,200 semi-trucks full of Colorado potatoes head to Mexico each year. But an effort to open Mexico’s markets could mean a tenfold increase in potato exports from this state, according to John Salazar, Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture. Mexico is Colorado’s second-largest export market for agricultural goods, with 39 percent…
In today’s hilarious food news of the world report, David Harding, a man from South London, admits that he has a fetish — a major fetish — for sausages. It’s become so troublesome, he told The Daily Mirror, that he’s banging through thirteen sausages a day, a porkerrific compulsion that’s…
Converting an old gas station into a restaurant, Bittersweet was a major undertaking for Olav and Melissa Peterson, and construction problems have plagued them since the start of the project. Unexpected issues with the build-out pushed back their already-delayed opening until the very last day of 2010. And now the…
Highland Tap and Burger has been hawking burgers and beer since late last summer, attracting crowds to the patio and TV-lined bar for happy hour, dinner and late-night drinking. And now it’s adding lunch (with the same menu as at dinner) Tuesday through Friday. “They had a big request from…
Denver is overflowing with wine-related events this week, but there’s also plenty for beer-drinkers, gardeners and veggie-lovers, too. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead:…
When I was a kid, I hated mayonnaise — or at least thought that I did. It looked gross, and that was reason enough for me to avoid the stuff for nearly twenty years. But once I started falling in love with food — coincidentally around the same time I…
At first glance, we nearly peed our pants. The sign plastered on the front door of the former Walk-in Burgers, which shuttered in late April in Edgewater, announced that Nobu — NOBU! — was applying for a liquor license, which, if true, would have meant that Nobu Matsuhisa, the genius…
Zolo Southwestern Grill chef Brett Smith will be cooking outdoors over an open fire tonight, when he joins farmer Jason Condon at Isabelle Farm in Lafayette for a true table-to-farm event. The activities start with a tour at 4:30 p.m., followed by a five-course meal at 5 p.m. that includes…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from a still-unidentified plate of figs to a super-bready breakfast sandwich at Salvaggio’s Italian Delicatessen to this much-maligned Brussel sprouts-with- bacon dish. For correctly identifying it as coming from Prima Ristorante, bpalms wins an EatDenver deck…
What does Colorado taste like? We’ll finally know tonight, as the ten finalists in the Colorado Cocktail Contest pour out their creations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany Street. The festivities run from 5 to 9 p.m. and admission is $40 (industry discounts are available); for more…
Man may not live by bread alone — but some sandwich shops seem out to disprove that. A super-bready breakfast sandwich in our Guess where? contest prompted guesses of Hi Rise, Heidi’s Deli (“bread for four sandwiches and meat for one!!”), Devil’s Food, Deli Zone, Gallop Cafe and Wooden Spoon,…
The Colorado Cocktail Project, with its mission to create the official Colorado Cocktail, will celebrate this state’s most liquid assets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany Street, on Sunday and Monday, June 26-27. Dozens of bartenders submitted entries in the Colorado Cocktail Contest; the ten finalists will pour…
The Colorado Cocktail Project, with its mission to create the official Colorado Cocktail, will celebrate this state’s most liquid assets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany, on Sunday and Monday, June 26-27. We’ve already profiled many of the bartenders who’ve submitted recipes for the contest; the ten finalists…
Years ago, when I was reviewing restaurants for another publication, I called Carbondale, a hamlet that’s down valley from Aspen, a “lowdown trucker town,” a comment that set the mountain town into a tailspin. At the time, however, Carbondale’s restaurant landscape was completely overshadowed — justly — by the glitter-gulch…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
Ghost Plate & Tap, the latest venture by the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group, just opened this afternoon in the former home of the Rocky Mountain Diner, and is pouring 23 craft beers — or will, once they’re all in place. But in the meantime, the bar is open — and it sounds…
The Place: La Sandia Cantina, 8340 Northfield Boulevard, 303-373-9100 The Hours: Daily from 4 p.m. to close The Deals: $5 cocktails; $3 Mexican beers; $3 small plates Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Don’t mess with spuds. That was the message sent out yesterday by the Denver-based United States Potato Board, in response to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine that states potatoes make your body resemble Mr. Potato Head. In one of the more unintentionally amusing press…
