Food & Drink

KJ’s Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that’s become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today — until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that’s just the start of the changes, promises manager Kassia Koukari…

Big Hoss Bar-B-Q , at 3961 Tennyson Street, has been hot since it first opened back in December 2006, and earned raves from Jason Sheehan a year later. But this is ridiculous: After a cook left the smoker open on Saturday, the Big Hoss kitchen caught fire — and the…

All-Bran Yogurt Bites Kellogg’s Rating: One-and-a-half stars out of four Cereal description: Large, hearty, darkish brown wheat flakes supplemented by clusters made of wheat, oats and rice and coated in vanilla yogurt. The resulting shapes look alternately like stray jism globules or melting, misshapen faces of the sort that pop…

Opus, Michael Long’s longstanding restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, is hosting a wine and food pairing dinner honoring Italian winemaker and lettuce lord Lucio Gomiero, who, along with being a wine jester, just happens to grow more radicchio than anyone else in the world at his farm…

A few days after my return from Aspen Food and Wine, I’m still digesting the experience. The worst part of the event was listening to everyone’s opinion about everything there. Opinions on food (if I heard one more person opine about pork belly I was going to lose it). Opinions…

What you might have missed this week on your favorite food blog…Asked and answered: Denver’s best continental breakfast?  Bistro Vendome.Twice as nice: Biker Jim opened a second location.HIghlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.Counting down to Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty: an appetizer and amuse bouche.Hello to…

We live, as the Chinese might say, in interesting times.  And one of the consequences of living in interesting times is the interesting ways in which the world’s police forces, armies and weaponsmiths devise new ways for hurting each other.  Thus, do we have this, fresh from the laboratories of the…

For the past several weeks, we’ve been following the progress of Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the new pizza and pasta emporium at 2700 South Broadway. And, now, we just got word from co-owner Caroline Momo-Torres, that on Saturday, June 27, the kitchen will start slinging pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads seven…

Just got off the phone with Enrique Guerrero, co-owner and chef at Mangiamo Pronto — which means “Let’s Eat Now!” — a fast-casual Italian joint in Santa Fe, New Mexico that’s coming to downtown Denver in early September, specifically to 1601 17th Street, in the former Common Grounds space. Guerrero,…

Just in case you missed Hosea Rosenberg, the exec chef at Jax Fish House, Boulder (928 Pearl Street), drop his jaw in disbelief when he was crowned top cooker on the season 5 finale of Top Chef, or at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last weekend, when he…

Earlier today, while walking out the door of the Icehouse Tavern (only a mere seven hours old at the time of this writing), Highway to Hell, the 1979 cult ACDC album title and hit of the same name, was blaring over the speakers. And in the kitchen, the crew, headed…

Take solace in the present folks, because tomorrow is the day you’ll stop eating like you did yesterday. That is, of course, if you go and see the documentary Food Inc. The film opens in Colorado tomorrow at the Landmark Chez Artiste, located at 2800 South Colorado Boulevard. I recently…

We like our chamoy and tamarind candy just as much your average Joe.  Okay, probably a lot more, since the combination of sweet, salty, and spicy isn’t exactly a flavor fusion well represented in your typical American candy aisle.  But we think there’s a place for this fun mixture, and…

The boys from Larimer Square have been making us wait seemingly forever for LoHi SteakBar to open in the former North Star space at 3200 Tejon. Their last neighborhood venture (beyond Larimer Square) was the wildly successful Billy’s Inn, which has been packing them in since its opening. Like Billy’s,…

Tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., TrueChild, a national organization that works to abolish child stereotyping, is hosting a reception, silent auction and the “True Flavors Celebrity Cook-off” at Mise En Place, 1801 Wynkoop Street. The match-up features two culinary teams, one led by Top Chef’s Melissa Harrison, who cooks…

Everyone who lives along the Front Range must visit Casa Bonita once. Really, you’re not a resident if you haven’t seen the cliff divers and suffered the mariachis, climbed through Black Bart’s cave, muscled your way through the knots of sticky, rapidly greening children and eaten the sopaipillas. I’ve been…