The Wynkoop Brewing Company has had some fun over the past year naming some of the one-keg-only beers that it serves as part of its Firkin Friday program. Remember Weiner’s Wood Oak-Aged IPA, which the brewery named for a certain former New York Congressman? Now you can try something with…
The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up “Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter,” including the Fool’s Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Laura Shunk…
Valentine’s Day is overrated; the first cold days of fall are what make us want to snuggle up on the couch with a significant other, a big bowl of pasta and a glass of good wine. Tonight, Expo Recreation Center, 10955 East Exposition Avenue in Aurora, will host a cooking…
Palisade-based Peach Street Distillers has rocked the marketplace in the Centennial state with clear spirits, but whiskey — and, more specifically, bourbon — has been part of the plans since the get-go. “My two partners, Bill Graham and David Thibodeau, are two of the founding fathers of Ska in Durango,”…
No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner…
Forty one years ago, Jerry and Deb Sturm opened the South Restaurant, an Englewood joint that turns out a massive board of Mexican-American fare and fish bowl-size margaritas in a festive space. Now, the family is getting ready to take their concept downtown: Next year, they’ll introduce Zi South on…
On November 2, Adam Schlegel woke up to a very sunny day — and not just because he’s in San Diego, where a new Snooze (the first one outside of Colorado) will open in about two weeks. The sun had barely gone down on November 1 when he got the…
It’s all Greek to me … but can you 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 Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive a 2011 EatDenver dining…
Crazy Mountain Brewing in Edwards is the latest Colorado beer maker to undergo a major expansion, doubling the size of its brewery, adding high-speed canning and bottling lines, and hiring at least seven employees. All told, the Vail-area brewery, which was founded in 2010 by Kevin Selvy, will spend $4.1…
Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part two of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part one of my Brandon Foster interview. Favorite restaurant in America: Chez Panisse. I’ve been there twice, once for lunch and once for…
Hosea Rosenberg is a ham. The former exec chef of Jax-Boulder — and victor of Top Chef season five — has hijacked my computer, typing “Hosea is soooooooooo handsome” on the screen. But even Rosenberg admits that he’s nowhere near as handsome as his eight Berkshire piglets, all of which…
What’s your favorite Chipotle? The food at each one tastes different, founder Steve Ells revealed in his recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, because employees at Chipotle actually cook. “When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food,” Ells told Gold. “They have to cook. At…
More than a dozen chefs from some of the area’s favorite restaurants (The Fort, Root Down and ChoLon, just to name a few) will face off tonight at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, 7711 East Academy Boulevard, at the Chefs Food & Wine Pairing Competition. The chefs…
Eric Skokan’s Black Cat Farm may have started as a backyard garden, but over the past few years, it’s grown to a seventy-acre operation that provides a good deal of the food for his Boulder restaurant, Black Cat, throughout the year…
I got my own taste of living like a 1-percenter when, for this week’s review, I grabbed a table at Edge, the opulent restaurant tucked inside of the year-old Four Seasons hotel. Through a game-heavy steakhouse menu, the restaurant serves up its own version of Colorado — and it’s a…
How come no one ever seems to talk about how expensive it is to be a wine drinker? Think about it: Thanksgiving is a scant three weeks from now, and according to the near-endless refrain of shopping mall adverts, Christmas shows up in precisely 54 days. Heap on top of…
There’s terrible news on the peanut beat this week: “Peanut butter prices skyrocketing,” screams the headline across the peanut butter world. And with the Fool’s Gold Loaf now just a memory of the long-closed Colorado Mine Company restaurant, there’s no single way to enjoy peanut butter that reigns supreme. But…
The Mountain Sun string of brewpubs hopes to have its flagship operation at the Vine Street Pub in Denver up and running by February, which is also when Mountain Sun celebrates Stout Month — one of the most anticipated beer fests of the year. In the meantime, however, you can…
Sake, with its range of styles, light body and crisp finish, is ideal for food pairings as well as an easy thing to sip all night long. Plus, you can take down a lot of it and escape a hangover. Those factors should have long ago propelled it into a…
Hops & Pie, the pizza and craft beer palace on Tennyson Street, in Berkeley Park, is taking a huge slice out of the space next door, the square footage of which will more than double the size of Drew and Leah Watson’s neighborhood hangout…
Yesterday’s late-afternoon lunch: a little duck pâté, a dab of mustard, a few cornichons, good bread and boozy cherries. Can you 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…
Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part one of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part two of my Brandon Foster interview. “Sweat Hog.” Those are the words inscribed on Brandon Foster’s deep-blue mechanic’s shirt. “Oh, no, are…
