Molecular gastronomy is no fad, as Ian Kleinman proves at O’s

It would be impossible to repeat all the nice things that egullet’s Steven Shaw had to say about Ian Kleinman and his molecular gastronomy menu at O’s Steak and Seafood at the Westin Westminster, which Shaw experienced when he was in town for the International Association of Culinary Professionals convention…

Win a dinner cooked by a Top Chef contender

Melissa Harrison, a contender on last season’s Top Chef, didn’t win the big prize — that went to Hosea Rosenberg, a fellow Big Red F chef — but now you can win an eight-course dinner that Harrison will cook at your house.A Harrison-cooked meal is one of the auction items…

Veggie Girl: Arada Ethiopian

The first time I tried Ethiopian food, I was visiting my friend, Mat, in Montreal. We’d met the previous summer on a train headed to Berlin, and since we were both backpacking solo around Europe and trying to get to Prague, which had just suffered a flood, we found ourselves…

Pink Hooter cupcake for a cause

The Candy Girls were systematically working our way around the chocolate shops, bakeries and specialty candy makers of Denver when we stumbled upon Big Fat Cupcake, 129 Adams Street. While the uniquely flavored, award-winning cupcakes drew us in, it was shop-owner Kathleen Nevin’s mission to donate 10 percent of her…

Action at the Icehouse

No, Via’s not coming back (although AOL sure made it look that way the other day, when it LoDo restaurant — defunct for many months — on its home page). But we hear the Momo family, which didn’t find the commercial success with Via, even with famed chef James Mazzio…

Tocabe does Chipotle one better — with fry bread

See more photos of Tocabe at westword.com/slideshow. Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and mother sauces and threesomes from the French, fry bread is the Native American people’s proud contribution to our mutt and multicultural present, one…

Joe Vostrejs knows fry bread

Long after my review of Tocabe was safely in the can, I was still dreaming about fry bread.  I was also eating fry bread — having made at least three post-review visits to Tocabe’s home at 44th and Lowell just to “check my facts.” One that almost slipped by me?…

Our Weekly Bread: Crostone at Parisi

The sandwich: Boccaccio Crostone What’s on it: Fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers, pesto and tomato on grill-pressed bread Where to get it: Parisi (4401 Tennyson Street, 303-561-0234) How much: $7.99 I’m a horrible American cliché when it comes to all things Italian. I love the food, the wine, the history, the…

See? I’m not the only one who loves O’s…

Steven Shaw, founder of egullet and a serious food-world heavyweight, was in town this month for the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, and he somehow found time to take a spin up to Westminster to check out Ian Kleinman’s molecular gastronomy menu at O’s Steak and Seafood. I’ve been…

Get your Two Spoons of cereal

We may be seeing a trend in the competitive small-batch, independently owned ice cream sector of our economy. Two Spoons, an ice cream shop at 1021 Pearl Street in Boulder, just introduced a breakfast-cereal bar — a concept that mirrors an idea introduced last month at the Red Trolley in…

Tocabe inspires a fry bread confessional

Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and mother sauces and threesomes from the French, fry bread is the Native American people’s proud contribution to our mutt and multicultural present, one of the most awe-inspiring culinary innovations of…

Snarf’s finally arrives in Denver

Do you have any idea how much time I’ve wasted over the past six months cruising along Ogden Street, specifically to the corner of Ogden and 11th, where I’ve been stalking the parking lot, harassing the construction workers and repeatedly asking the already stressed staff, “Dude, where’s my sandwich?” At…

The suit is slingin’ Spud Bros. spuds!

Like 50 is the new 30, Twitter is the new talking. And here’s yet another story about how one tweet put something into motion, so that a former venture capitalist is now spending his afternoon working the fryer at Spud Bros., located at 2010 10th Street in Boulder:Brad Feld is…

Common Grounds left its liquor license behind in move

Common Grounds, the popular LoDo coffeehouse that’s a sibling of the original in northwest Denver, barely missed a beat when it moved last week from 1601 17th Street across the street to 1550 17th, in the old Sugarbeat Café space (the entrance is on Wazee Street). But somewhere along the…

Sketch introduces Wino Wednesdays

When we first visited Sketch, the new wine bar tucked into the old 1st Avenue Hotel at 101 Broadway, we took note of its location facing Big Lots and its bar manager, Charlie Master, who’d injected much-needed humor into Cherry Creek with his white-trash specials at Brix, and immediately suggested…

Ask the Critic: Where should Guy Fieri eat?

Last week, I got a phone call from Amanda, a lovely woman doing research for the Guy Fieri Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. The company that produces the show was giving Denver a serious look-see — trying to assemble a list of restaurants for Guy to hit –…

Parallel Seventeen bids a happy birthday to Buddha

Zone in on your zen (and blow off tax day) on Wednesday, April 15, when Parallel Seventeen, the modern Vietnamese restaurant at 1600 East 17th Avenue, rolls out a special a la carte menu to celebrate the birthday of Oh, Ye Great Buddhist, Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, who…

The Market Report, April 11

Now, this is what I’d been waiting for…for months. Hordes of people talking about the proper time to snip lettuce, kids helping their parents put onions into their (always reusable!) bags, militant environmentalists scolding those not like them…ah, the Boulder Farmers’ Market. At about 11 a.m. on this past, overcast…

Milking It: Froot Loops with Fruity Golden Bars

Froot Loops with Fruity Golden Bars Kellogg’s Rating: Three-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Wheat, oat and corn flour ovoids colored in assorted bold hues (neon blue, alien green, strep-throat red, Prince’s underwear purple) and speckled with a whitish glaze that looks delectable, and is. Also tossed in for…