If the nearly $1,200 Gucci price tag to attend the Food & Wine magazine Classic in Aspen, which kicks off later this month in glitter gulch, is too pricey for your pocketbook, take solace: Tomorrow, from noon to 6 p.m., 30 Colorado wineries are pouring stomped grapes at the Manitou…

I consider myself a stalker of sandwiches — of other things, too, like any cheese from Cypress Grove, the Infinite Monkey Theorem’s just-released rosé and midgets — but when I find a really good sandwich, like the Sriracha aioli-smeared shrimp and bacon number in the above pic, I want to…

Aaron Whitcomb YaYa’s Euro Bistro 8310 East Belleview Avenue, Greenwood Village 303-741-1110 www.yayasbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Aaron Whitcomb. To read part one of that interview, click here. Six words to describe your food: Playful, classic, experimental, simple, flavorful and technique-driven. Ten words to describe you:…

Just got off the horn with Dylan Moore, who was out of breath. “I’m taking all the wrapping off the new truck,” he panted. Moore, the owner of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger, just got himself a new present, namely a “cool, old van with a kitchen inside” that he…

The Porker, Chad Clevenger’s street cart, is nearly ready to push pig. “We’re going to have everything from tequila-habanero barbecue ribs and pork tamales to sweet-soy roasted pork belly with a cold soba noodle salad and smoked Kurobuta pork cheeks with feijoada beans and Verde Farms micro cilantro,” says Clevenger,…

If you read this blog, then you know all about my affinity for Mexican street tacos. They’re my midnight snack, morning grub, desert island survival kit and, in all likelihood, my last supper. I typically order tacos al pastor, a habit that I didn’t break at the joint where the…

Aaron Whitcomb YaYa’s Euro Bistro 8310 East Belleview Avenue, Greenwood Village 303-741-1110 www.yayasbistro.com Aaron Whitcomb wants to show off his new menu at YaYa’s Euro Bistro, the Greenwood Village restaurant whose kitchen he’s commanded since April of last year, and the dishes keep coming. “We’re making almost all of our…

If you missed out on the Squeaky Bean’s first anniversary party, yesterday’s porkstravaganza and birthday bash that put the fun back in Monday, then you also missed Squeaky Bean owner Johnny Ballen baring his buttocks, exec chef Max MacKissock parading around in a woman’s flower-flaunting bathing suit, and several more…

According to the liquor-license notice shoehorned into the window at 2223 West 32nd Avenue, Kevin Eddy, president of the 32nd Avenue Group, is taking over the former Panaderia Guadalajara space, which closed May 24, and turning it into Highland Tap and Burger. And according to the verbiage inked on the…

Washington Park Grille 1096 South Gaylord 303-777-0707 www.washparkgrille.com…

Up there is a plate of really delicious, artfully (and expertly) assembled rolls from a joint that isn’t Sushi Den or Sushi Sasa. My only squawk? The absence of fresh wasabi. Can you guess where I rolled with raw fish? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…

Christopher Cina, who’s done hard time in galleys all over the metro area, including the Fourth Story, Aubergine Cafe, Tuscany, Zenith and Twig’s Wine Bar and Pickles Deli in Tipsy’s, a Goliath-size liquor store in Littleton, and is now manning the stoves at the Timberline Grill, a steak house at…

Back in March, Dino’s Soda Bar, the Washington Park ice cream parlor at 2217 East Mississippi, was shuttered for non-payment of taxes, a move that shattered the lives of god knows how many children. But according to Jeff Estey, who owns Dino’s, along with Washington Park Grille and Max Gill…

Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is celebrating 50 years of banged up knees, turf toe, head-to-head helmet collisions, and, oh yeah … a couple of Super Bowl trophies and rings on Monday, June 28, the day the pro football Hall of Famer turns a half-century old. And how’s he…

While most of the menu changes with every new chef, the buttery fried rice pummeled with duck, shrimp and pork has been a popular mainstay from day one. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating…

Okay, to all the nutcases who showed up last night for Pinkberry’s preview party: What the hell were you thinking? I mean, some of you actually stood in line for well over an hour in your neon pink Polo shirts and short skirts just go get a free swirl of…

Purple, apparently, is not the color of success, at least not when it comes to the Purple Martini, the Tabor Center watering hole that’s now under the lock and key of the city for non-payment of taxes. On May 26, the city handily collaged the front door with seizure notices,…

Pete Ryan Cook Street School of Culinary Arts 1937 Market Street 303-308-9300 www.cookstreet.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Pete Ryan. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: Returning to Cook Street as their executive chef instructor…