If you were tuned in to The Rachel Ray Show this morning — and honestly, who wasn’t? — you probably caught the “snack time”segment, when she hands out a little something for her audience to munch on as the show continues. The snack this morning was from Udi’s here in…
I haven’t admitted this to a lot of people, but I recently returned from hanging with Mickey and the gang at Disneyland, which actually went better than i’d imagined it would. Save for the restaurants, which sucked, except for In-N-Out Burger, which simply sucks in prey, including my nine-year-old son…
I skid my brakes to a halt whenever I see a new restaurant or restaurant sign (which likely explains why I get flipped the bird more often than just about anyone I know). But otherwise I’d miss things, like the huge “Open Soon” banner hanging from the former Oliveto Cucina…
All aboard! Over the past few months a crew of chefs — “a band of misfits,” as Jamey Fader describes them, as remarkable for their appreciation of each other’s work as for their own considerable talents — have hosted a series of underground dinners for their biggest fans. The third…
The sandwich: Club Supreme What’s on it: Roast beef, turkey, Swiss cheese, bacon, mayo, lettuce, tomatoes, vinegar, oil and spices Where to get it: Jersey Mike’s Subs (555 Broadway, 303-825-1744) How much: $6.95 for a regular It was 1990, and I needed a job. Togo’s, the ubiquitous and well-loved California…
Jesse Morreale and his crew have close to a hundred positions to fill in their group of restaurants/bars — Mezcal, Tambien, Rockbar, La Rumba, Sketch and a “new location,” which we’re guessing is that big front room at the First Avenue Hotel, right in front of Sketch. So in the…
“Gastropub,” Leigh Jones said. “Really?” I asked. “No.” So she asked why, and I told her because I hate the term “gastropub” — seriously loathed it. It reeks of pretension, of culinary gamesmanship. To me, calling your place a “gastropub” is just a way of lowering expectations and admitting that…
20th Street Cafe is the polar opposite of a gastropub: It’s a working-class diner serving the simplest and most historic of restaurant foods with nothing more than Cokes, coffees and mugs of green tea to drink. It’s what restaurants were like before dining out became a big-time business and restaurants…
The second outpost of Mona’s, the breakfast and lunch joint at 141 South Broadway whose corned beef hash generated a Westword Best of Denver award, has expanded its hours to include dinner and carousing. That makes two late-night neighborhood spots for Garen and Linda Austin, the husband-and-wife team who recently…
Because nothing in the blog world ever really dies until it’s been milked of every erg of usefulness or grim humor, may I humbly present this: The letter that the Grey Poupon people actually sent to President Barack Obama (and copied to me) in response to the teacup tsunami caused…
It’s the explosion of flavor that’s so exciting–taking an ingredient and making more than it was to begin with. This is what Thomas Keller said on page 31 of his French Laundry Cookbook. And although the father of modern American cuisine was talking about his philosophy regarding making soups, the…
For the past several weeks, I’ve been poking around Park Burger, the new burger barn at 1890 South Pearl Street that’s the brain kid of Jean-Philippe Failyau, Frank Bonanno’s go-to guy at Osteria Marco in Larimer Square. Last month, Tyler Nemkov reported that Park Burger’s opening had been delayed, which…
If you were anywhere near me at yesterday’s Rocky Mountain Regional Foodservice and Restaurant Exposition trade show at the Denver Merchandise Mart, I sincerely apologize. I was the really strange and uncouth girl with the camera, the one stroking the goat cheese, feeling up the soppresetta, flirting with a pig…
And, no, it has nothing to do with the food. Get hooked over at the Latest Word blog…
Stepping through the doors for the first time–into the onetime soda fountain, now brushed and polished and kitted out as a very comfortable and welcoming neighborhood bar, with white-washed tin ceilings and chandeliers–I told myself that no matter what Jonesy’s calls itself or its food, a galley ought to be…
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE BEES?!? Those little buzzy things that scared the living daylights out of me when I was younger are disappearing. Not like “slowly declining and let’s just kinda worry about it later” disappearing, but “in the last few winters, one in three bee colonies has vanished”…
Stopped in at Bill Ward’s miniBAR Friday night, for an early look at the start of its grand-opening festivities. It’s tucked below the old Village Inn at 2623 East Second Avenue. And although the place is tiny, it’s definitely big on style…
Gelato alert: While cruising around Cap Hill last night in search of food — which I got in the form of a real deal slice of New York-style pizza from the excruciatingly surly crew at Benny Blanco’s Slice of the Bronx, at 616 East 13th Avenue — I saw a…
Just got off the phone with Ray Gross, who handles investor relations for Ruth’s Chris Steak House — a chain that, until yesterday, had a Denver outpost at 1445 Market Street. “Basically, Marcel Taylor, the franchisee of the Denver location, closed it for personal reasons,” explained Gross, adding that Taylor…
For all of you who think I don’t do anything all day, here’s a snap of the aftermath of yesterday’s Cafe Society meeting. Where were we? Post your answer as a comment…
How do you kick off the first day of summer? (Yes, some people say it starts in late June — but I say it’s after the last day of finals!). Failing in my goal of waking up face down, possibly naked, and definitely hungover somewhere in Boulder, I went to…
The Uptown ‘hood has no shortage of restaurants, but Olivéa, the new food temple from John Broening, Yasmin Lozada-Hisson, Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (the foursome behind Duo), located at 719 East 17th Avenue in the former Aix space, could be just what the neighborhood’s been waiting for: an upbeat,…
