Look, I like arugula just as much as the next herb-obsessed mortal, but it’s every-damn-where, including crouching on top of my omelet, which in and of itself, was lovely to look it but not remotely memorable in my mouth. And it’s a sad day when a heave of arugula makes…

“Don’t be chicken,” pleads the sign roosting above the new Grillin’ Wings & Things, which opened last week in Bonnie Brae in a small storefront space that’s seen a slew of sandwich shops open and shutter over the past several years. Despite the fowl joke, owner Michael Godart and general…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a a hot dog crowned with smoky collard greens from Dazzle, to a mighty bowl of cauliflower from Uncle, to a behemoth heap of shoestring fries that I likened to the “whole fucking state of Idaho.”…

Two years ago last week, Tambien, the Mexican cantina that Sean Yontz and Jesse Morreale ran for six years, shuttered, and the space, which resides below street level, stood dormant for two years, but next Tuesday, Big Easy Creole Kitchen will open its doors to the public following a series…

It’s easy being green, especially when the slow-braised leafy vegetable, bolstered by salty bacon, crowns a hot dog. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select…

It’s taken me a while to embrace cauliflower, which has never been — and likely never will be — one of my favorite vegetables, but this version, tender albeit under-seasoned, proved to be a worthwhile attempt to move me toward acceptance. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…

For the past several weeks, whenever I’ve driven down 38th Avenue, passing my beloved Gaetano’s on my way to somewhere else, I’ve experienced that pit in my stomach, the pit that comes with the fear of the unknown — the dread that something you’ve come to know so well won’t…

Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com Part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Le Bernardin, in New York. For me, eating at Le Bernardin is like being in Europe,…

Talk about the ultimate photo bomb. Last night, during the Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen (you can read all about it here), which was graced by none other than Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern, there was, as you can imagine, a lot of texting, tweeting, Facebooking and…

I learned several things at last night’s Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen: 1) Pig uterus is absolutely lovely and should appear on menus everywhere. 2) Parallel Seventeen chef/owner Mary Nguyen is one badass chef, who has the ability to cook just about anything, “bizarre” or otherwise, and…

Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com This is part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino. Part two of my chat with the Boulder chef will run in this space tomorrow. “There’s something about the life of a chef and restaurant owner that’s…

October is far and away my favorite month in Colorado — and it really has nothing to do with marshmallow pumpkins, goblins or watching the original Halloween for the umpteenth time, although I do enjoy all of those distractions. October signifies bounty in Colorado, with farmers’ markets, farm stands and…

I’d asked for a small side of shoestring tubers. What I got was the whole fucking state of Idaho. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…

When Deana Mikdad gently broke the news to the old man, he wept. For fifteen years, maybe twenty, he’d eaten lunch with his son at Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue — the “Cherokee” to most of us — three days a week. It is to him, as it is to…

Cabbies are some of the best resources around for leading foodniks to off-the-beaten path international joints, and while I’d been to this Ethiopian restaurant several years ago, it wasn’t until a food-obsessed Ethiopian cab driver sang its praises during a recent jaunt that I went back. And I’m glad I…

Supporters of Japoix, Lawrence Yee’s French-Asian restaurant that opened two years ago last month in the beleaguered Beauvallon, are now mourning its demise. The restaurant, which suffered construction madness outside its front door for months, along with a series of chef changes, shuttered last Monday. See also: Japoix opens at…

There are lots of really cool things about Fooducopia’s Corner Store and Cafe, which opened last week in Washington Park, but the coolest thing of all may be the fact that I can bribe my kid to ride his bike up there for toilet paper…with the promise of a fresh-picked…

Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of street tacos from Tarasco’s New Latin Cuisine, to a wholly unworthy $40 bone-in ribeye from the Black Hat Cattle Co in Kittredge (won’t be going there again!), to a beautifully seasoned, mid-rare steak paired with…

A few months ago, during the merry month of May, Elise Wiggins, exec chef of Panzano, took some time away from her downtown Italian restaurant to do a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the rock star butcher who’s made an international name for himself in the diminutive town of Panzano, in…

“Just when the ‘Fax gets cleaned up, some asshole has to drag some hostages into the basement of a RadioShack.”…

I typically bypass the menu entirely at this longtime favorite, mainly because I’m always pulled in by the mole, which has always been stellar, but on this particular night, the tacos took center stage, while the mole was the understudy. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Unleashing $40 for a steak is a big splurge in my world, but the enthusiastic server at this cattle feedlot in the hills (but within 35 minutes of the Wesword office) insisted the bone-in ribeye was worth the big bucks. She was wrong. Way wrong. Straight-up bull, in fact. And…