After a soft opening yesterday, Spuntino is now open officially. The comfortable spot — which took over the former home of Red Trolley at 2639 West 32nd Avenue — will focus on serving quick and casual Italian dishes ranging from soups, salads and panini to gourmet popsicles and gelato. Owners…
After getting its start in Greeley and then moving on to Loveland, an outpost of Pizza Street opened last Wednesday at 1600 Champa Street. “We’ve had a lot of requests for our great-tasting food in the city,” explains Tom Williams, the owner of this Colorado-based group…
Larimer Associates, the real estate investment company that manages the upscale Larimer Square restaurant district, has purchased Montclair Plaza, a small strip mall at the corner of Quebec and Severn streets, near the Lowry development. The somewhat run-down row of buildings, which total 9,539 square feet, is home to three…
This pissing match just keeps getting weirder. In light of lab tests alleging that Taco Bell’s “meat” is actually only 36 percent meat, Louisiana-based law firm Beasley Allen filed suit against the Mexican fast food chain for false advertising. Angry and insistent that the claims are totally false, Taco Bell…
Yesterday we finally got to chat with Larry Gutierrez, the president of Albuquerque-based Little Anita’s, and he seemed confused as to what, exactly, constitutes vegetarian cuisine. Earlier this week, we reported that Little Anita’s — which veggies had long thought served vegetarian green and red chile at its five locations…
There’s nothing quite like the sizzle of butter — like bacon, it makes everything taste better — and here, where the sputtering puddle is the platform for pudgy shrimp specked with parsley, butter is a key ingredient in the kitchen overseen by a veteran chef who also has a knack…
The Denver market has given rise to several of this country’s fast-casual concepts, and one of those is Qdoba, which opened its first restaurant here in 1995 and has since expanded into a chain of over 500 restaurants in 43 states. Now the burrito-monger is pushing a bit of brand…
Taco Bell’s beef tacos are mostly filled with meat…mostly. Or maybe not so much. That’s the meaty claim in yet another fast-food lawsuit — but this time, it’s not about supersized asses or a coffee-seared crotch. And strangely enough, so far no one’s asking for any punitive damages, just for…
An Alabama law firm has a beef with the amount of meat in Taco Bell’s tacos, which has set off a stampede of claims, counterclaims and an opportunistic campaign by Mercy for Animals,, which is suggesting that the chain solve its problems by going vegan. Which prompted this from sararoxyoursox:…
You might know Kris Carr from the hit TLC documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer; when she was diagnosed with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma — an extremely rare, and supposedly incurable, form of cancer — she transformed her life through diet and healthy living. She’ll be signing Crazy Sexy Diet, which she describes as…
New Belgium Brewing Co. is teaming up with Outside Magazine to take advantage of dog owners’ desires to take pictures of their dogs and eagerly share them with anyone who’s alive. Coinciding with the release of Mighty Arrow Pale Ale is a Facebook campaign through which friends of both the…
Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina officially opened for business on Tuesday on the 16th Street Mall, and so far the place appears to be mighty popular — in part, no doubt, because the employees are passing out coupons for free full-sized chips and queso appetizers at the corner of 16th…
Taco Bell has been sued by Alabama-based law firm Beasley Allen, which claims the chain was using too little beef in its “beef.” And because this country loves meaty litigation, Taco Bell turned around and sued right back, claiming that not only was it proud of its meat sources, but…
No. 76: Maple and speck ice cream from Pizzeria Basta If the bowls of ice cream at Pizzeria Basta were bigger, we’d all be popping out of our pants, drunk on butterfat, and the tips of our nostrils would have frostbite from the nosedive, none of which would bother us…
Last night, the Denver episode of Drinking Made Easy premiered on HDNet; Govnr’s Park and the Woodcellar Bar and Grill, which were both featured, held watch parties to celebrate. And although everyone at the Woodcellar was in high spirits, there was no mention of the episode — and no airing…
Once a week, we head out for shake night, a ritual that my kid insists upon, and while — gasp! — I’m not a big ice cream groupie, I’ll be the first to admit that the blended shakes and malts at this neighborhood hang are pretty damn good; the fact…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. The Super Bowl…
Eli Odell Highland Tap and Burger 2219 West 32nd Avenue 720-287-4493 www.highlandtapdenver.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Eli Odell, executive chef of Highland Tap and Burger. In part one of that interview, Odell dishes on what he learned from Matt Selby, and what might happen if…
“Let’s make sure we all understand what the rules are before we change them,” said Denver City Council president Chris Nevitt, after a council committee had been discussing the rules now regulating this city’s food trucks for over an hour. “Are you confident you know exactly what the rules are?”…
For over a decade, Little Anita’s — the Colorado outpost of a New Mexico group — was a go-to spot for vegetarians hungering for meat-free green chile. But sometime last year, the five Little Anita’s restaurants in the metro area started making both their red and green with beef stock…
Just weeks after opening Fleur Bistro as the head chef, Nate Boothe has joined the kitchen crew at Ocean Prime in Larimer Square, which just opened last week. Fleur co-owner Eva Esparza won’t discuss why Boothe moved on. “He didn’t say why he left,” she says. “He just said, ‘Thank…
Back in 1994, Udi Baron started a ready-to-eat sandwich business with his wife, Fern. Since then, and with the help of additional family members, that shop has spawned a bakery that supplies home pantries and restaurants, a catering company, a granola-maker, a national gluten-free line, a handful of cafes and…
