“Kevin, you are Top Chef,” Padma announced, and a stunned Kevin responded, “I am?” I was happy with the outcome of this seventh season of Top Chef — but I would have been equally pleased had Angelo won. He irritates a lot of viewers, I know, but there’s something about…
Shawn Camden calls his restaurant, which he opened at 2850 Iris Avenue two months ago, Boulder’s first authentic Mexican restaurant. The menu at Restaurante 100% Mexicano proffers tamales, tortas and tacos, and it’s possible to get beef stomach, fried pig skin and tongue. His space features a salsa bar. Beverages…
Apparently, even the airlines want in on the exploding street-food scene. A few weeks ago, we reported that Dave Bravdica of Brava! Pizzeria had wrangled a deal with Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret that allowed him to offer alcohol, since the cabaret’s liquor license covered the patio at the base of the…
Brandon Biederman Steuben’s 523 East 17th Avenue 303-830-1001 www.steubens.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Brandon Biederman, exec chef of Steuben’s. To read part one of that interview, click here. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Be smart, be safe, be clean, be on time and be…
The 120-year-old building at 3862 High Street is rumored to be haunted — and while we can’t guarantee that the spirits of onetime human inhabitants hang around, there are definitely the remnants of previous business occupants. The most recent victim: Jezebel’s Juke Joint & Brothel, which opened in January and…
I’d never seen Ben dance before. He’s a New Yorker, a finance guy, and though he’s always up for a good time, we usually spend our evenings smoking cigars and drinking Campari while talking about world affairs and travel and life philosophy, lifting quotes straight out of the Economist to…
Kevin Daly waited almost ten years to open a second rendition of Mountain Sun, the successful pub and brewery he built in downtown Boulder, but with Southern Sun, he proved he could extend the brand — and he did it again with Vine Street Pub. These two outposts have the…
The second the story broke that Bon Appetit had named Boulder its foodiest town of 2010, the local Twitter-sphere was a swirl of self-congratulations. And in the past 24 hours, the link has been reposted thousands of times, accompanied by commentary from the CEOs and graphic designers and tech wizards…
WE won’t spoil it for you but… Have you spent this seventh season of Top Chef glued to your television on Wednesday nights? Were you wracked with grief when hometown-favorite Kelly Liken was eliminated last week? Are you eagerly awaiting tonight’s season finale, revealing once and for all whether Angelo,…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
WaterCourse Foods, at 837 East 17th Avenue, joined the dozens of other restaurants participating in Denver Beer Fest and offered up a beer dinner last Friday — four courses, six beers and one damn fine cup of coffee for just $35. Here’s a look at the spread:…
Tomorrow night, the second Justice League of Street Food party will take place in the same vacant lot at 29th Avenue and Huron Street that hosted the first. This time, though, more vendors and more space will alleviate the long lines, and extended hours — this party starts at 5…
Brandon Biederman Steuben’s 523 East 17th Avenue 303-830-1001 www.steubens.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Brandon Biederman, exec chef of Steuben’s. Part two of that Q&A will run in this space tomorrow. Brandon Biederman is having a difficult time coming up with ten words to describe himself,…
You know the boarded up Big Lots on First and Broadway — the behemoth, 23,000-square-foot space that was reportedly going to be a Sunflower Farmers’ Market, then a Staples store and, most recently, an auto body garage? Yeah, well, it’s not not going to be any of those things. It’s…
Billed as pommes frites on the menu, the above plate of fingerling potatoes smooched with truffled salt and sided with lemon aioli, could have been called anything — and it would still elevate the lowly tuber to culinary nirvana. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, 1535 Pearl Street in Boulder, may be the closest you’ll ever get to drinking homebrew on tap. The restaurant devotes about fifteen taps to the ales it brews in-house: hoppy IPAs, creamy stouts, a fruity blackberry wheat and a variety of rotating porters, ryes, pale…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
After overhauling the former Lizard’s Bar & Grill space at 1920 Blake Street for the last month and a half, Hayter’s & Co. officially opened today. Mike Hayter and Mike Refling moved down from Bozeman, Montana, to start the sports bar with a bit of a throwback feel. Hanging on…
Pat Boone, that icon of pure American goodness, has partnered up with a Colorado Springs company on a line of Pat Boone All-American Meats and will start selling his “delicious, tender, juicy, USDA, hand-trimmed, aged beef” on November 1. Here’s the official word from the All-American website:…
As the rest of us lament the end of Colorado’s growing season, buying up the last of the state’s summer produce to make gazpacho and ratatouille (and anything that lets us satiate our taste for vegetables straight from the ground until next spring), Dakota Soifer and his kitchen at Cafe…
For decades, Mori was one of our favorite Japanese restaurants, a real find tucked behind the Nisei lodge at 2015 Market Street, in an area that was far from a hipster hangout before the ballpark moved in. The place never quite recovered from a remodeling that turned the dark, cozy…
Terry Jones, the batshit crazy pastor of the obscure fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) in Gainesville, Florida, who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of September 11 because he’s opposed to the building of the “Ground Zero mosque” (he later called off the combustion),…
