Food & Drink

I only had a few bites of the burger in the above snap, mostly because I’m a purist and would never — not in a million years — christen my burger with fried onions, but my own burger, which was naked save for a blanket of melt-y American, was judiciously…

A lot of Denver restaurants bake their own bread, but a lot more rely on bread baker extraordinaire Michael Bortz, a veteran bread head, whose company, City Bakery, supplies rolls and loaves to dozens and dozens of local restaurants, including Elway’s Cherry Creek, Oceanaire, Ocean Prime, Steuben’s and Ace, Charcoal,…

Seventeen chefs — amateur and professional — convened at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs on Saturday afternoon for the hot dog joint’s inaugural grilled cheese competition, a spirited face off that ended with nothing but de…brie, thanks to the cheese-chomping crowds who ate everything but the rind. A panel of judges, including…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bottle of Phuket that’s on the beer syllabus at Bangkok Cafe to a Middle Eastern dish with chicken, rice and vegetables from Jerusalem to a sandwich served on frozen bread halves from a longstanding Italian deli that…

It’s the time of year when everyone is trying to eat healthier, and this dish, adapted from an online recipe, is a good option, with Brussels sprouts, olive oil, almonds and just a smidge of honey. We increased the amount of dressing amount and used vegan Parmesan instead of actual…

Should Westword resolve to lock up the term “hipster” in our grandma’s hope chest in 2014? We just reposted on Facebook our list of the ten best hipster restaurants in Denver , and the concept has gone from hip to hip replacements in just five weeks. See also: Ten best…

When the venerable John’s closed on Pearl Street in Boulder last fall, Corey Buck, the chef/owner of John’s for over ten years, just kept rolling — right over to Food at the Riverside, a cafe planned as part of Agora, a cooperative office space/events center created in a century-old historic…

This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed reviewed a Denver institution, Racines, which just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Udi Bar-on shared some big news in Chef and Tell: Come summer, his restaurants will no longer be called Udi’s, since that was a stipulation of the $125 million sale of Udi’s Foods. And…

After several false starts, the Cherokee Grill space finally has an occupant: Dulce Vida, which will open next month and plans to be the next neighborhood bar in the Golden Triangle. See also: Rocky Top Tavern will open in the former Hill-Top Bar space…

“At last. 24-hour Voodoo Doughnut availability,” reads the note from Tres Shannon and Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson, the duo behind Voodoo Doughnut, which opened last month, on the thirteenth of December, to crushing crowds that braved frigid temps to get first crack at doughnut mania. Since then, the cult doughnut…

Four notable winemakers, including Andrew Vingiello, a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will uncork ten of their wines, many of which strut 100-point ratings from Wine Spectator, on Monday night at Oak at Fourteenth, the Boulder restaurant overseen by grape guru Bryan Dayton and chef Steven Redzikowski, both…

As quickly as restaurants come and go these days, it’s not often we see a place with the staying power of Racines, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary last month. In honor of the occasion, we asked a few regulars to share some of their favorite memories. Their toasts follow: See…

Holy torta! That’s pretty much, give or take an expletive, what I mouthed when the kitchen at this divey Mexican joint presented me with what can only be described as a gut bomb. I manged to knife-and-fork my way through about a quarter of a it, before a homeless dude…

If you live in Denver, Monsoon, a new Indian restaurant that’s way the hell out in Aurora, is a trek, but its location, on the east side of Southlands shopping center, is a welcome addition to that chain-ganged suburb. And if what I ate while I was there is indicative…

One of the new restaurants opening in Denver this year has old roots that stretch deep in the local dining scene. Chester Stephen Morey was a veteran of the Civil War who came to Colorado in 1872; he started a cattle business, then established the Denver sales headquarters of the…

Udi Bar-on and his family got into the food business with the Sandwich Man, a long-defunct shop that opened in 1994. That was the start of Udi’s Foods, which grew so big that the family sold the company for $125 million in 2012. But they kept their group of Udi’s…