Kurobuta pork belly, seared on the surface, rubbed with cardamom, properly rested so that it isn’t wet with fat, and mounted atop a chunky mound of curry-spiced garbanzo bean puree, green like smashed peas, smooth as whipped potatoes. It’s a singularly delicious plate — the best of a whole, long…
Westword’s last office was across the street from the Wynkoop Brewing Company at 1634 Wynkoop Street — and in the early days of that brewpub, our staffers drank a lot of beers (and other things) there. “Westword kept us in business for two years,” former brewmeister/now mayor John Hickenlooper recalled…
Gomez, the Mexican pit stop at 3600 Park Avenue West, just off 38th Avenue and I-25, is beating the recession big time with all-day, every day 99 cent specials on the joint’s housemade pork-studded tamales and its egg, potato and cheese or bean and cheese burrito. If you want your…
Denver’s entry on The Bachelorette, “pizza entrepreneur” Mark Huebner, survived round three of the show last night. But while he’s wooing bachelorette Jillian — in TV time, at least — work continues at Huebner’s Denver Pizza Company, with the windows at 309 West 11th Avenue filled with city permits and…
From the hillside overlooking downtown, La Loma has been slinging green chile for close to four decades. It’s the recipe created by grandma Savina Mendoza, whose chile became so popular that the two families that opened La Loma in an old bungalow back in 1974 soon had saved enough money…
There’s plenty of action in the 2000 block of Larimer Street these days. The Gin Mill is finishing up the Barn Out Back, its backyard patio; the Three Door Bistro is looking at a July debut; and across the street at 2046 Larimer, Zanzibar Billiards Bar & Grill is getting…
Eleven East Colfax restaurants will take part in tonight’s Feast on the Fax, an annual event organized by the East Denver Colfax Partnership and local businesses that encourages foodophiles to walk, bike or hop on a free shuttle bus that takes patrons from restaurant to restaurant — where they can…
Westword’s Jonathan Shikes, who keeps all you serious bread heads in the know with his sandwich chat each week, doesn’t give a baguette’s butt that Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, which started its sandwich monopoly in Illinois in 1983 and now has sixteen locations throughout the metro area, is a big-ass chain. …
If you give a hungry customer a happy hour… First came the patio, then the liquor license and now Catlin’s Café, at 4379 East Mississippi, is open for dinner from 4 to 9 pm on Thursday and until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Owner Eric Abney says he decided to…
Being a somewhat reluctant advocate of the salads at Green Fine Salad Company and Mad Greens, both Colorado-based weed joints (in the gourmet lettuce kind of way, people), I thought I’d check out the new Choppers Custom Salad Works at 5302 DTC Boulevard, in Greenwood Village. It, like the others…
I didn’t make it to the Boulder Farmers’ Market this weekend, and to clear my karma I just may have to call Door-to-Door Organics. This local company has offered delivery of organic food for a while now, but in July it will reintroduce its “All Local” box, with delivery of…
Most Mondays, I waste time at my desk by posing a question asked by one of the dining public, then answer it in my own special way.This week, I’m doing something different. This week, the question is mine and I’m looking for answers from all of you out there in…
Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the latest in a line of Italian cafes owned by the folks who run Cucina Colore at 3041 East Third Avenue and Cafe Colore at 1512 Larimer Street, is scheduled to open June 15 at 2700 South Broadway. When I dropped in on Friday and spoke with…
The Gin Mill, at 2041 Larimer Street, has become an integral part of Denver’s oldest commercial neighborhood in just a few years, as this recent slide show makes clear. And now the watering hole is about to become even more indispensible: In a couple of weeks, it will open the…
While other chains contract, Baker St. Pub & Grill has been taking advantage of the economy by snapping up now-empty locations in the metro area. First it took on a Chili’s at 1729 28th Street in Boulder; now it’s adding the former Nine75 north space at 2831 West 120th Avenue…
Golden Grahams General Mills Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four. Cereal description: Thin, rigid — and ridged — rectangles made of whole grain wheat and corn meal whose color corresponds with the brown-sugar syrup that’s largely used to flavor them. And strangely enough, that’s about it: There are far fewer…
Gelazzi, the gelateria at 1411 Larimer Street, with additional shops in Fort Collins and Highlands Ranch, is making its television debut tonight, June 8, at 7 p.m. on Food Network’s Unwrapped, the popular show hosted by Marc Summers that explores America’s most classic foods. (Think peanut butter, bubblegum and fried…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society…May ushered in a slew of new restaurant openings and saw out a couple more.Jason Sheehan asked for advice on where to wine and dine herbivore guests while still being able to indulge his meat-eating needs.The staff at Jonesy’s EatBar and the…
If you follow Rialto Cafe on Twitter (@rialtocafe), then you already know that the restaurant at 934 16th Street is handing out free brews today to its Twitter groupies. If you’re just learning about this deal from reading our blog, here are the details: Between now and 4 p.m., belly…
Spring is in full swing and summer’s almost here, which means that eggs are hatching all over Denver – Big Green Eggs. And Ace Hardware Alameda Station will play the part of a giant nest on Saturday, June 6, by hosting a Big Green Egg cook-off. Made by an Atlanta-based…
On Sunday, you can get drunk on some monkey at “The Secret Tutelage of the Primate Nation.”No, this isn’t some weird segment from Bizarre Foods: It’s a wine-and-food event (two of them, really) at the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery, the facility that Ben Parsons opened last summer in the…
Denver radio station Hot 107.1 FM is currently holding a “Chipotle Office Invasion” contest, whereby if you’re willing to part with all your personal information — phone, address, date of birth, etc. — by registering on the station’s website, then you (and up to 24 of your colleagues-in-cubicles) might get…
