Last week, I professed my love for white trash enchiladas. Last night, I sat at the bar of a metro area stalwart with a new name and concept and swelled my belly with white trash au gratin potatoes, which, as you can see from the above photo, are unassailable food…
After a few weeks away, I returned to the Boulder Farmers’ Market this past Saturday. It looked like a template for any respectable supermarket’s produce section: loads of kale, turnips, radishes, lettuces, garlic, green garlic, garlic scapes, assorted onions, tomatoes, peppers, bok choy and, oh yeah, peaches. And that’s just…
The Blues & Brews festival on Old South Pearl Street was one hell of an outdoor party Saturday, with blues bands jammin’ from noon to 10 p.m. and the stumble-close residents of the Wash Park and Platte Park neighborhoods tripping — or riding the abundant pedicabs — from bar to…
As I reported here at the start of July, The Hornet (76 Broadway), one of Broadway’s most convivial watering holes, had announced it was closing for seven days to allow time for a few remodeling projects. I swung by on Friday, July 10, the projected reopening date, to assess the…
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 usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
Yesterday morning, after downing a delicious plate of housemade corn beef hash at Kyle’s Kitchen, the decades-old diner at 4018 Tennyson Street, I meandered down Tennyson Street toward Gemelli’s, the East Coast Italian joint at 4363 Tennyson Street that served Jason Sheehan some of the best shrimp scampi he’d ever…
Lawmakers will finally get some balls this week, when the Western Business Roundtable hosts its annual “Taste of the West” reception at the Rayburn Office Building on Thursday. complete with Rocky Mountain oysters, the official food of Colorado. “We’ve been doing a Taste of the West event in D.C. for…
Chipotle Mexican Grill is underwriting a screening of Food, Inc., the stomach-turning documentary now showing at Chez Artiste, 2800 South Colorado Boulevard. The free showing is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15; the first 275 people in line get in gratis. To whet your film-going appetite, read Tyler Nemkov’s interview with…
Puffed Millet Cereal Arrowhead Mills Rating: No spoons out of four Cereal description: Small, light tan beads of grain intermittently marked by dark brown specks. They resemble the tiny bits that wind up at the bottom of the popcorn bowl along with unpopped kernels and/or random seeds that attract birds…
Tomorrow marks the day when French nationals, Francophiles, Francophonies and the majority of Denver’s French restaurants celebrate Bastille Day, the national holiday of France that commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution. But Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue, is getting an…
In the current Shmuck of the Week, Joe Tone weighs in on Dan Kennedy, the University of Colorado sophomore who wants to open a topless coffee shop in a campus conference room that would only be open one day a week — but somehow could cover the costs of topless…
Gelman’s Restaurant & Bar, at 2911 West 38th Avenue, continues to evolve. What started as a market/deli a few years ago, then turned into a full-service restaurant last year, is now featuring BBQ and bluegrass on weekends. The action started last night but picks up again this afternoon, when chef…
There’s not a moment to lose: Any customer dressed as a cow will get a free Chick-fil-A meal on July 10, Cow Appreciation Day. Which happens to be today, so grab your cow-hide jacket and hoof it to Park Meadows or any other Colorado Chick-fil-A® restaurant for a free meal…
With this week’s review of Mikuni and a visit to the new Hapa Sushi in Greenwood Village, I figure that rookie fish-eaters are taken care of. But what about those of us who want more than fake crab wrapped in rice or deep-fried shrimp in mayonnaise sauce? What about those…
What you might have missed this week while schooling us at beer pong…Readers got crabby recounting their worst Denver dining experiences.Our local hot dog champ got his chance to eat with the best at Coney Island on the Fourth.We checked out the underbelly of Denver’s best happy hour, where the…
Back in June, I pretty much broke into La Brisa — by way of the alley, a deserted hallway and a wobbly ladder. Yesterday, the restaurant officially opened at 375 South Pearl Street, directly next door to the Candlelight Tavern, a neighbor that La Brisa co-owner Andy Koncsik wasn’t too…
I could tell you that the plate of enchiladas in today’s “Guess where I’m eating?” snap were wolfed down by someone — anyone — other than me. I could tell you that Sheehan threatened to make me lick the title page of his book, Cooking Dirty, if I refused to…
Silos. The word brings to mind grain. Grain and nuclear warheads (at least if you lived through the Cold War). But in booze-happy Colorado, silos will soon mean something else. In Longmont, the Oskar Blues Brewery is getting ready to debut its second restaurant, Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids,…
In a perfect world, every neighborhood would have its own version of Virgilio’s — a near-perfect pizzeria, pasta joint and pinwheel parlor, a place where residents, little leaguers, the mob, spunky ladies who lunch and anyone else who appreciates the spirit and soul of Italian food could convene at the…
It’s not about winning. It’s about fun. Especially when you get your ass handed to you both by Denver’s monthly lifestyle magazine, 5280, and by the Tambien Beer Pong girls, who use every asset to their advantage. If Westword had won, it would have been about winning and fun. But…
Several readers have commented on Jason Sheehan’s recent review of Sketch, particularly his confession that he’s just not that into wine: I used to think it was me — that I didn’t have the taste for it, that there was something magical about wine, some secret I had yet to…
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 191 Inverness Drive West, is kicking off its series of summer fundraisers, named Friday Night Flights, at 6 p.m. tonight, when the testosterone-charged meatery rolls out a selection of appetizers paired with three wines for $25 per person, the proceeds of which will benefit…
