Work Options for Women, a local — and laudable — non-profit that enables impoverished women to work in the food service industry by giving them hands-on job training, is always cooking up new ways for chefs and foodniks in the community to become involved, and beginning in February, WOW will…
A few hours after lunch, students across America start to get cranky. Their blood sugar plunges, their eyes glaze over, and their stomachs start to rumble. They find a quick fix in the school’s vending machines by gorging themselves on greasy potato chips and sugary sodas. Energy levels skyrocket before…
JoeAnn and John Falco took on the stunning Brittany Hill property in Thornton over two years ago, planning to restore the space that was once a landmark restaurant and open an eatery/special events center there. They got to work on upgrades, but the spot never reopened — and at the…
The address on Sixth Avenue and Downing that’s home to Campagna is one of Denver’s cursed locations, losing a slew of restaurants over the course of the last few decades. Owner Alex Gurevich is determined to make it work, though — even if that means ditching his salumeria and pizzeria…
I just got back from the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, which pimped, among other indisputably un-fancy weird shit, clam chowder (from a can) pizza and bacon lube (more on those later this afternoon), but I also hit several restaurants (three in an hour, plus a bakery, which may…
David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part two of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part one of my chat with Bumgardner ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t get around much, but when I lived in Cleveland,…
The NuVal system now in use at King Soopers is supposed to be “nutrition made easy,” rating foods on a scale of 1 to 100. “Basically, the way scores are calculated, we look at thirty different nutrients — both that are considered good and not so good — to get…
They better widen Highway 36. Trader Joe’s could possibly, maybe, potentially be coming, finally, to Colorado — but in Boulder, rather than Denver or its suburbs, according to a story this afternoon in the Daily Camera. Here’s a piece of it: “A source close to the situation said the California…
It’s been just over a month since Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski reopened the doors of Oak at Fourteenth, revealing the space they had to rebuild after fire destroyed the original restaurant last spring. “Things have been going really well,” Dayton says. “I mean, really well. It seems like everything…
It’s always onward and upward for Josh Wolkon, the restaurateur who brought this city Vesta Dipping Grill, Steuben’s and the Steuben’s Food Truck (better known as “Pearl”) with the help of his wife, Jen, and other cohorts, including Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman, and Jeff Bustos. Now Wolkon has…
Our Backbeat blog just reported a trio of bar closings. Mo’s has gone dark at 1037 Broadway after two-plus years. “It’s been a long run and something new is always on the horizon,” reads the Mo’s Facebook page. “Change is good and we want to thank all those that have…
David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part one of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part two of my chat with Bumgradner will run in this space tomorrow. The executive chef of Williams & Graham is leaning over the…
Santiago’s, the homegrown burrito chain that makes what might be the best green chile in Colorado, is trying its luck at Bullwhackers Casino in Blackhawk. The ever-growing institution opened two locations inside the casino on the day after Christmas: a full-service, 64-seat restaurant on the top floor, and an express…
Colorado has produced several successful Mexican chains — the Rio Grande group, for example, and Santiago’s, which seems to add another outlet every week. But one longtime chain is suffering from shrinking pains — and its employees are suffering, too. Last week, the Armadillo closed its restaurant in Littleton, and…
On Friday, the 300 (or so) restaurants participating in Denver Restaurant Week will be posting their $52.80 (for two) menus for the two-week eating orgy that starts on February 25; we’re offering $52.80 to both the diner and the restaurant employee who offer the best Denver Restaurant Week survival tip…
For anyone who has ever spent too much time in the grocery store, wrinkling their foreheads while reading ingredient lists and pondering the nutritional benefits of calcium sorbate or xanthan gum, NuVal is designed to help. The nutritional rating system scores most food on a 1-100 scale — and the…
My close friend-slash-accidental mentor, Allen Johnson, is visiting from Mississippi this week. It’s always bittersweet to see him, only in that it sucks to see him go. He happens to be one of the most inspirational people I’ve ever met, especially when it comes to cooking. His professional advice aside…
The burgers at Crave Real Burgers are monstrous creations, patties stacked so high with other ingredients — including things like pulled pork, duck and, um, hot dogs — that sometimes it’s hard to find the beef…
The Denver Tech Center location of Fourleaf Chopped Salads isn’t particularly convenient; it’s tucked away in a strip mall off the I-25 frontage road and located a little below street level, so it’s easy to miss. And the hours of operation — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays only…
Twenty-seven years ago today, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe opened its doors at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. The area has changed a lot since then — this part of Highland is now the best restaurant neighborhood in the city — but the Aguirre family still runs Rosa Linda’s. Here’s an e-mail…
I’m hot for this cocktail, called the “Burning Ring of Fire.” Made with pepper- and cucumber-infused vodkas and muddled cilantro, mint and basil, it’s selling like a house afire at this new restaurant. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
The Denver Tech Center is “an area distinctly lacking in interesting ethnic food,” I said in last week’s review of Street Kitchen Asian Bistro. In fact, I almost expanded that sentiment to cover everything south of Hampden Avenue, an area filled with fast-casual and upscale chains that tend to overshadow…
