The presentations alone are worth the price of admission, but the sandwiches will keep you there — and coming back for more. 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…
Two nights ago at the MCA Denver Art Meets Beast butchering demonstration, Pete Marczyk and Jimmy “the Butcher” Cross, both of Marczyk Fine Foods, deftly dismembered a medieval-size bison carcass in front of a mesmerized crowd. The various cuts — shanks, ribs, tenderloin, strip loin, flank, ribeye, knuckle and more…
On Monday, we reported that Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street in Boulder, had been forced to shutter for four days for violating liquor laws. Namely, the restaurant poured booze for a minor that was part of a pesky little police sting…
When Kevin Morrison, owner of the Pinche Tacos wagon, called to break the news that he was thisclose to signing a deal that would give him a new brick-and-mortar taqueria, I did what any devout taco slut would do and offered to be his taco pimp. Morrison, who ruffled a…
“What child on this planet wouldn’t want to befriend a piece of mostly meat held together with fat and love?” asks ThinkGeek, the affable producer of all kinds of geeky wares. Mario Batali jokes notwithstanding, we have the same question. Who WOULDN’T love that? That’s why ThinkGeek created My First…
And then there were three … Yigit tried too hard, Morgan didn’t try hard enough, Zac pretty much gave up and turned his failed 61st anniversary cake into a messy kids’ romp at the beach. And Danielle — the girl with the rubbery face and the “Oh, well” attitude, Danielle…
It wasn’t bloody, it wasn’t smelly and it didn’t attract flies. But then, the bison had already been slaughtered and quartered at a Nebraska ranch, separated from its head, hide and organs and hung up to age for two weeks. Anything more grisly might have been too much for the…
The owners of Marczyk Fine Foods, who have run their upscale neighborhood market on Seventeenth Avenue for eight years, are planning to open a second, similar location in the vacant Fairfax Ace Hardware at Colfax Avenue and Fairfax Street. Tomorrow night, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Pete Marczyk, Barbara Macfarlane…
Word came yesterday that inspections are finished and the bar is stocked — Green Russell, a subterranean spot at 1422 Larimer Street, will open to the public tonight at 6 p.m…
Two words: Bone marrow. Bone marrow, I might add, that my ten-year-old kid — who, like most kids his age, normally subsists on pizza, pasta, burgers and bacon — refused to share. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Eric Skokan Black Cat 1964 13th Street, Boulder 303-444-5500 www.blackcatboulder.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Eric Skokan, owner/chef of Black Cat in Boulder. Read the rest of Lori Midson’s interview with Skokan. Favorite restaurant in America: Rincon Peruano in San Francisco. It’s just a crazy place…
Real or fake? Below are eleven food trends and concepts that could be real or made up. It’s up to you to guess which is which. (Let us know in the comments section.) After all, who would’ve thought there would be cupcake trucks driving around Denver selling the sugar high…
There was a time when my profession required me to don ill-fitting business-casual attire and commute 45 minutes on a packed train, then be locked in a windowless conference room creating “deliverables” for hours on end, where I was often doomed to the dreaded working lunch, blindly taking down a…
Back in February, when H Burger Co, 1555 Blake Street, opened its doors in the SugarCube building downtown, the restaurant’s partners told us that, if things went well, they’d want to expand across Colorado. In fact, they even changed the name — the eatery was originally going to be called…
There are times when nothing hits the spot — nothing will do — but a hot dog. As we contended when we researched the best veggie hot dog you’ll ever put in your mouth, nobody does a veggie hot dog like LightLife’s Smart Dogs brand. And that’s exactly what you’ll…
For proof that the cupcake trend is far from wearing out its welcome, look no further than Rosie Cakes, a new cupcake rig that hit the road running in September, after the woman behind the wheel, Rosie Desjardins, gave up a gig go-go dancing in Hollywood to unleash a cupcake-mobile…
Popular diets speak to our society’s insatiable desire to pin blame for the saddlebags and love handles on some evil type of food. But if you think stuffing yourself with meat and cheese (since you’re cutting carbs) is a surefire way to get thin, you’re probably not going to like…
Sweet Ginger Asian Bistro & Sushi will open later this month at 2710 East Third Avenue, in the subterranean space that was formerly home to Plush. “We want to try and open before Thanksgiving, and we should have our liquor license by next week,” says owner Julie He, a restaurant…
Running from the rain/sleet/snow/graupel/hail of yesterday, I ducked into one of my favorite restaurants, grabbed a stool at the bar, knocked back a Mirror Pond Pale Ale and tucked into a quartet of cheeses, all of which are made from the milk of water buffalo. Can you guess where I’m…
Eric Skokan Black Cat 1964 13th Street, Boulder 303-444-5500 www.blackcatboulder.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Eric Skokan, exec chef/owner of Black Cat in Boulder. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. In the exhibition kitchen, the Black Cat crew is breaking down…
When Pete and Ann Pflum envisioned H Burger Co, the burger joint they put into a new spot at 1555 Blake Street, they designed a space and menu that they hoped would lure downtown dinner crowds to a block that, historically, has emptied out after 5 p.m…
Cafe Society can’t get enough of Lotus of Siam. When she was in Las Vegas last week, Patricia Calhoun twice ventured off the Strip to visit the northern Thai restaurant in its original location, a silly strip mall off Sahara Avenue. That was after a strong endorsement from Lori Midson,…
