Opus, Michael Long’s longstanding restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, is hosting a wine and food pairing dinner honoring Italian winemaker and lettuce lord Lucio Gomiero, who, along with being a wine jester, just happens to grow more radicchio than anyone else in the world at his farm…
A few days after my return from Aspen Food and Wine, I’m still digesting the experience. The worst part of the event was listening to everyone’s opinion about everything there. Opinions on food (if I heard one more person opine about pork belly I was going to lose it). Opinions…
What you might have missed this week on your favorite food blog…Asked and answered: Denver’s best continental breakfast? Bistro Vendome.Twice as nice: Biker Jim opened a second location.HIghlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.Counting down to Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty: an appetizer and amuse bouche.Hello to…
We live, as the Chinese might say, in interesting times. And one of the consequences of living in interesting times is the interesting ways in which the world’s police forces, armies and weaponsmiths devise new ways for hurting each other. Thus, do we have this, fresh from the laboratories of the…
For the past several weeks, we’ve been following the progress of Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the new pizza and pasta emporium at 2700 South Broadway. And, now, we just got word from co-owner Caroline Momo-Torres, that on Saturday, June 27, the kitchen will start slinging pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads seven…
Just got off the phone with Enrique Guerrero, co-owner and chef at Mangiamo Pronto — which means “Let’s Eat Now!” — a fast-casual Italian joint in Santa Fe, New Mexico that’s coming to downtown Denver in early September, specifically to 1601 17th Street, in the former Common Grounds space. Guerrero,…
Just in case you missed Hosea Rosenberg, the exec chef at Jax Fish House, Boulder (928 Pearl Street), drop his jaw in disbelief when he was crowned top cooker on the season 5 finale of Top Chef, or at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last weekend, when he…
Earlier today, while walking out the door of the Icehouse Tavern (only a mere seven hours old at the time of this writing), Highway to Hell, the 1979 cult ACDC album title and hit of the same name, was blaring over the speakers. And in the kitchen, the crew, headed…
Take solace in the present folks, because tomorrow is the day you’ll stop eating like you did yesterday. That is, of course, if you go and see the documentary Food Inc. The film opens in Colorado tomorrow at the Landmark Chez Artiste, located at 2800 South Colorado Boulevard. I recently…
We like our chamoy and tamarind candy just as much your average Joe. Okay, probably a lot more, since the combination of sweet, salty, and spicy isn’t exactly a flavor fusion well represented in your typical American candy aisle. But we think there’s a place for this fun mixture, and…
The boys from Larimer Square have been making us wait seemingly forever for LoHi SteakBar to open in the former North Star space at 3200 Tejon. Their last neighborhood venture (beyond Larimer Square) was the wildly successful Billy’s Inn, which has been packing them in since its opening. Like Billy’s,…
Tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., TrueChild, a national organization that works to abolish child stereotyping, is hosting a reception, silent auction and the “True Flavors Celebrity Cook-off” at Mise En Place, 1801 Wynkoop Street. The match-up features two culinary teams, one led by Top Chef’s Melissa Harrison, who cooks…
Everyone who lives along the Front Range must visit Casa Bonita once. Really, you’re not a resident if you haven’t seen the cliff divers and suffered the mariachis, climbed through Black Bart’s cave, muscled your way through the knots of sticky, rapidly greening children and eaten the sopaipillas. I’ve been…
After experiencing the tacky shlock and awe that is White Fence Farm, I headed for the one place that could stand toe to toe with its down-home country-cooking style and pure Americana weirdness. The one place where, I am not ashamed to admit, I have eaten more than once on…
We’ve just gotten word that LoHi SteakBar, the new restaurant spearheaded by Joe Vostrejs and chef-partner Sean Kelly, is opening tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. in the former home of North Star Brewery at 3200 Tejon Street, which is exactly seven hours (that would be 11 a.m.) after James Mazzio…
Nestle has recalled all its Toll House refrigerated raw cookie dough, for fear those packages are contaminated with that little nuisance, E.coli. Nationwide, dozens of people have become ill, possibly because of tainted dough. But wait, you say: How much danger is there of more people getting infected, since they’ll…
While I have spilled gallons of virtual ink over the shameless self-promotion of my new book, Cooking Dirty, one thing I haven’t yet managed to tell anyone? What the damnable beast is actually about. What, in fact, someone willing to lay down a little dough might get for their hard-earned…
Okay, so this one, I did not expect. For quite a while after Kevin Taylor shut down the Boulder outlet of his Prima brand — the one in the big, lovely space at 1801 13th Street, in the One Boulder Plaza development just spitting distance from the site of the…
First, Vesta Dipping Grill brought back a modicum of cheer to all the bummed out businesses in Denver suffering from the economy; then Vesta’s staff, otherwise known as the bearers of all things happy, initiated, for the first time in the restaurant’s history, a happy hour for the people –…
On Saturday, June 27, Northglenn residents will come to understand why the rest of us, including Jason Sheehan, are truly, madly, deeply in lust with Smashburger, the homegrown hamburger chain that’s multiplying faster than a calculator — here and throughout the United States. And when Colorado’s eleventh Smashburger opens at…
Hollie Burr has rolled back into Cherry Creek, this time with two food carts. Yes, she has Colorado Gourmet Hot Dogs, which was a hit last year with its grilled chicken breasts and gourmet dogs: the Italian stallion (sausage with pizza sauce and melted cheese), the Chicago (with all the…
Luca D’Italia, Frank Bonanno’s Italian restaurant at 711 Grant Street, celebrates six years in the Capitol Hill ‘hood this month with a parade of visiting Colorado chefs, including Mark Fischer, exec at Carbondale’s Six89 and Phat Thai, who joins Bonanno tonight in the kitchen. The five-course dinner, paired with wines,…
