New York-based food industry publication Nation’s Restaurant News just announced its 2009 Fine Dining Hall of Fame winners, and Barolo Grill, Blair Taylor’s Italian restaurant at 3030 East Sixth Avenue, was one of ten temples of gastronomy inducted into the elite winner’s circle. But while Taylor was “hugely, hugely, truly…
Tonight, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Morton’s The Steakhouse, 1710 Wynkoop Street, is recruiting grape gurus for its “Greeting from Argentina: Malbec Tastings” event featuring five malbec wines, plus hors d’oeuvres, including cheeses, sliced tenderloin with chimichurri sauce, broiled sea scallops with apricot chutney and miniature hot chocolate cakes. It’s…
There is no such thing as bad barbecue. Even bad cherry pie is better than no cherry pie at all. And I’ve never met a cheeseburger I didn’t like. I’ve met plenty I didn’t love, but when you’re in a cheeseburger kind of mood, even a Mickey D’s double is…
The nouvelle noodle bar is a fad that’s been building for years among the trend-humping foodies — a business model built on the restaurant industry’s love of all things Asian, on the passionate lust for getting ten or twenty dollars for two bucks’ worth of noodles, on the same cook’s…
I could be a homosexual man trapped in a heterosexual woman’s body. The fact is, I love gay boys. I’m the quintessential “fruit fly,” formerly and less attractively known as a “fag hag.” And as such, I love a great gay bar. I hate to stereotype, but not only does…
It was raining when Laura and I ducked into Centro. We’d already eaten twice at Happy Noodle House over the course of the long weekend and had gotten our fill of pickles and noodles, so we were looking for something a little different, a little more south-of-the-border. But mostly, we…
Got the munchies? Don’t worry, Cheba Hut plans to sell plenty of Kind, Kush and Chronic on the Sixteenth Street Mall starting this summer, along with Acapulco Gold, Panama Red and the White Widow. “The White Widow, man,” says store owner Matt Clark-Johnson. “Chicken, bacon and ranch. It’s our most…
Yesterday was a big day. On Monday morning, the first finished copies of my new book, Cooking Dirty, rolled off the presses in wherever it is that they print books nowadays. That afternoon, one of the first (I like to think of it as the first) was dropped in an…
Okay, so it was never the greatest restaurant in the world. It was designed as a kind of culinary one-trick pony, hanging all its hopes and dreams on people’s uncontrollable craving for peanut butter on everything. But it still surprises me just a little that P.B. Loco (part of a…
If you’ve got three decades of serving experience under your belt, there just might be a position for you at a new greasy spoon opening its doors this month in Aurora, and currently advertising on Craigslist. And I stress might, since Howard — the gentleman doing the hiring – also…
As if Clint Hurdle’s recent dismissal by the Colorado Rockies wasn’t enough to piss off rabid baseball fans, now comes word that PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has bestowed a decidedly unsettling honor on Coors Field — you know, home of the foot-long Rockie hot dog…
I love chicken fingers. And the drive-in. One of these loves is new-found and the other is a classic, but my adoration for both was renewed this week when I took a trip to Fort Collins. And since this is a food blog, let’s focus on the chicken fingers. My…
Each month this year, Gateaux, the elaborately whimsical bakery at 1160 Speer Boulevard, is donating a portion of its proceeds to a local charity — and this month, that charity is Work Options for Women, a nonprofit that offers a sixteen-week culinary program to impoverished women who want to work…
In the video above, WaterCourse Foods and City, O’ City get a nice little shout-out. The video comes from The Healthy Voyager, a woman who travels around the country trying out vegan spots. WaterCourse, of course, is the restaurant at which Jason Sheehan and Joel Warner had their momentous wing…
The sandwich: Market Roast Beef What’s on it: Niman Ranch roast beef, horseradish sauce, cheddar and arugula on rye Where to get it: Marczyk Fine Foods (770 East 17th Avenue, 303-894-9499) How much: $6.99 I love markets. They’re often expensive, but browsing through their awesome, gourmet stuff is part of…
Late last week, the big banner went up on the Sugar House, Scottie Ewing’s controversial club at 1395 West Alameda Avenue, proclaiming that as of June 1, it would be serving “Denver’s sexiest lunch.” What, a special on New York strip? Salad, hold the dressing?…
The Highland branch of Pasquini’s, at 2400 West 32nd Avenue, is going for a cabaret license so that it can offer live music at the restaurant, which has become quite the hipster hangout as well as a major pizza purveyor. The hearing is at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Department…
I was in hot pursuit of a tow truck yesterday, which is neither here nor there, except that my chase landed me in Aurora, and whenever I’m in Aurora, I’m in taco country, and whenever I’m in taco country, I’m happier than a lizard lapping up flies. Today was no…
Luca D’Italia, 711 Grant Street, marks its six-year anniversary throughout the month with a march of visiting Denver chefs, including Wayne Conwell, exec at Sushi Sasa, 2401 15th Street, who will team up with Luca (and Mizuna, Osteria Marco and Bones) chef-owner Frank Bonanno tonight, June 3, for a five-course…
“I’m absolutely exhausted, and I want a bath,” declared Carla Stevens, co-owner of Giovanni’s Italian Cafe, at 3355 South Yarrow Street, when I caught her on the phone this afternoon. As reported here last week, Stevens and her husband, Salvatore Giacalone, had hoped to unveil their new space on the…
The noodle bar is big business these days. In Manhattan, David Chang has elevated the simple, neighborhood noodle bar to celebrity status (and turned himself into a minor rock star in the process) with his Momofuku brand. In Denver, we’ve got one of the originals — Oshima Ramen, straight outta…
News from Cherry Creek: The space at 287 Columbine Street that had been Java Creek, that neighborhood hot spot, then became C.R.E.A.M, is now turning into Café Colorado, and will be renovated to include a more complete kitchen…
