Doubters! Although anyone who lives and eats in Denver quickly recognizes that Colorado cuisine includes a particular variation of green chile — goopy, soupy and porkorific — there are still those who doubt that there’s a particular green native to this state. Blixco for example; New Mexico invented the stuff…
A couple of weeks back, I was feeling particularly nostalgic for the Iberian peninsula, where I once wandered winding streets, ambling from tapas bar to tapas bar until I’d eaten enough to make a full dinner. It was a perfect way to dine — and a perfect way to taste…
When whole wheat flour, line-caught salmon, blueberries and flax just won’t do, there’s another super-duper food for the most healthy of the healthy: Salba Smarts has been selling its line of products containing salba since 2006, and I’ve been munching my way through them. This superfood appears to be pretty…
It may not feel like it today, but warm weather is just around the corner, ready to lure us out for nights of patio drinking. We’re so excited we can’t stand it. And here’s another reason to get psyched about hitting the deck: The Four Seasons is opening Level 3,…
When Trudy Gonzalez opened 5th Sun Cafe & Lounge on Speer and Federal Boulevards this winter, she had all the pieces for the cafe part of her name: an espresso machine and a bevy of breakfast and lunch items. But “lounge” was a misnomer because she didn’t have a liquor…
Taking a good food photo can be a bear, and yes, I made a hash of this one. But while Lori Midson’s away this week, we wanted to keep feeding you pictures of dishes served up at local restaurants. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Shopping at Whole Foods is an experience. Part of the experience is having your wallet sucked drier than a cornbread fart, but the more pleasant aspect is finding strange new foods to try. This week’s expensive but foodie-brain-nourishing treat was a handful of “sea beans.” These bright-green, exotic little stalks…
Yesterday’s Cafe Society served up news of something old, something new — both welcome, homegrown developments on the Denver dining scene. After several months of remodeling (and some shaky years before that) Hart’s Corner reopened yesterday, returning to its family-friendly roots as Lakewood’s oldest business. That news drew this comment…
Two short pours of beer get you a free plate of tapas at El Tigre, a dark, dungeon-like bar crammed into the heart of Madrid. The place is always packed, with people jostling each other as they order a drink from one of the bartenders, then try to nab a…
“The husband-and-wife team that owns the place spent a few years in northern Spain,” my server explained when I asked her about the dishes at Ondo’s, the last restaurant Jason Sheehan reviewed before leaving Denver. “Obviously, you’re going to have twists sneak in anywhere, but they really try to adhere…
Acknowledging the fact that many athlete-owned restaurants have the name to pull in the patrons but very rarely have the menu to support the buzz, The Daily Meal set out to separate the strike-outs from the home runs. The blog rounded up the ten best eateries owned by sports stars,…
After five years working for Great Divide Brewing, Patrick Langlois has embarked on a new mission, one that explores local food, cooking and, at almost all times, beer. Each week, he’ll be sharing a new adventure in his kitchen — pairing his experiment with a good brew. This is the…
Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, crowds convened at Mona’s on South Broadway after having received an e-mail just hours earlier revealing where they were supposed to meet. They were greeted with a torrontes white wine, and they introduced themselves to one another. And once a sizable group had filled the…
Just outside of Denver, a restaurant/bar now occupies a former warehouse by the railroad tracks. And it made tracks with our Bloody Marys, which were extremely tasty, loaded with spice and booze, just the way I like them. All aboard! Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who…
You can trace the history of Hart’s Corner Bar & Restaurant through the black-and-white photos hanging on one wall of the building at 5201 West Mississippi Avenue. Hailed as the oldest business in Lakewood, it got its start as a root-beer stand during Prohibition, then became a small barbecue joint/gas…
Que Bueno, that culinary mainstay on Concourse B at Denver International Airport, closed five months ago for a major remodel that’s now more than two months behind — although DIA officials promise that the place could reopen any day. In the meantime, travelers can take some comfort in the fact…
Last week Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a very controversial Sazerac to an appetizer of sweetbread “sandwiches” at Bittersweet to this plate of falafel and hummus. For correctly identifying it as coming from Udi’s, steveandtinacater wins an EatDenver deck…
Could a new machine make servers obsolete? That was the question posed by Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds column, which contemplated a future in which the automated E La Carte would be taking your order — and replacing servers like Garratt. “We can only hope!.” replied JeffParker. And…
I was out in Stapleton last night when I found myself with a late-night craving for pupusas, the El Salvadoran staple that looks like a fat corn tortilla stuffed with cheese, pork or vegetables. And since it wasn’t practical to drive up to Boulder to Pupusas Sabor Hispano, our pick…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Last September, Rich Wong and his partner, Sharyn Nissen, rolled out a food cart, named it Street Eats and began pimping everything from Hawaiian-style kalbi ribs and Peking barbecue pork buns to chicken and andouille sausage gumbo and wild boar dogs tricked-out with cranberries and apricots from behind the confines…
News of Williams & Graham, a speakeasy opening in Highland in June, has people licking their lips — “darling,” “awesome,” they rave — but also worrying about the crowds it might attract. Bigskrimping, for example, offers this: Sound super sweet! But really why tell people about it on this blog,…
