Cowbobas is still mixing it up

Cowbobas looks like it could be that rare spiritual successor to the Columbine. It is a reversion to form — like Ford making its new Mustangs along the tried, true and beautiful body lines of its original muscle-car progenitors — but with lots of modern improvements and concessions to the…

Our Weekly Bread: Bourbon Grill

The sandwich: Bourbon chicken sandwich Where to get it: Bourbon Grill (1618 East Colfax Avenue, 303-355-3821) What’s on it: Bourbon chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, mayo on a bun How much: $5.08 So, my sister called me this morning with a sandwich tip. Bourbon Grill, she said. Check it out, or miss…

Another bit of good news from Tin Star Cafe

Chef/owner Andrew Schutt has introduced a “new menu” — actually a reinforcement of the original menu — at his excellent barbecue and donut joint in Evergreen, Tin Star Cafe. When I reviewed Tin Star two years ago, I praised its excellent donuts (the apple fritters in particular) and excellent barbecue…

Delicious Designs: Eat this restaurant

Have you ever stood outside a restaurant late at night, hazily looked up at the edifice, and thought, Yeah, this place looks good enough to eat! Well, now you can!…kinda.April is Colorado Architecture Month, and the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Architects has come up with quite the…

V.G. opens, veg-heads rejoice!

Some timely Earth Day news for you: V.G. Burgers, the vegetarian fast-food joint in Boulder, has completed its move, reopening two days ago at its new 1650 Broadway location. The store is open from 9 a.m.to 9 p.m. daily, and can be reached at 303-440-2400. …

Coffee Spot: Peet’s Coffee and Tea

Name: Peet’s Coffee and Tea Where: 2500 East Second Avenue (Cherry Creek North) Hours: 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Notes: Chairs for 32, Garuda blend earthy brew, North Cherry Creek, Clayton Lane chic, big windows lit well,…

Ask the readers: Cheese crisps in Colorado?

While Jason Sheehan is taking readers’ questions, I have one for readers: Is there a place in Colorado that serves cheese crisps? These thin, grilled quesadillas covered with melted cheese are staples at Mexican restaurants in Arizona. (I just had one at El Charro, a Tucson institution since 1922, and…

Mix it up at Trios Enoteca on Sunday

The state’s best mixologists will be pouring it on — and pouring out the drinks — Sunday, April 26, at the first Colorado Cocktail Classic competition, sponsored by the Colorado Bartenders Guild. Go to Trios Enoteca,1730 Wynkoop Street, at 6 p.m. to cheer on your favorite bartenders and enjoy some…

Breaking ground on Earth Day

Help the Colorado State Parks system today, April 22, by shopping at a local Sprouts Farmers Market.This is the final day of Sprouts’s “Stand Up for State Parks!” program, during which the Colorado markets will match $1, $2 or $5 donations made to Colorado State Parks. For information, go to…

Old fashioned steaks at old fashioned prices

If I were Proust, the smell of cheap steaks charring on an overworked grill would be my Madeleine — the trigger for a crashing flood of recall, of me in the warm comfort of boyhood. And walking past the back door of the Columbine Steak House, I get a whiff…

Five stars at 30,000 feet

There’s much more planning required for very high-altitude cuisine than there is a mere mile above sea level, as Andres Jimenez is learning. Starting May 1, the exec chef at the Ritz-Carlton downtown will be the first of four Ritz-Carlton chefs to take on a two-month stint creating high-end, sky-high…

Boulder’s renegade lunch lady

Now serving: Renegade Lunch Lady Ann Cooper, who’s taking on the Boulder Valley School District. Cooper is known nationally as an advocate for healthier school lunches for children, and has already created greatly improved nutritional meal programs in New York and at the Berkeley Unified School District in California. I recently…

Samba Brasil Cafe & Grill dances to a June beat

I don’t want to make any sweeping predictions or jinx an address that hasn’t been particularly kind to previous occupants — most recently a java joint — and the stretch of asphalt that makes up Leetsdale Drive hasn’t exactly been a springboard for culinary greatness. Still, I’m going to postulize…

The Kitchen celebrates its fifth birthday

Happy anniversary to the Kitchen, at 1039 Pearl Street in Boulder. The restaurant will celebrate its fifth birthday on Tuesday, April 21, by introducing a “Community Hour,” a daily gathering each afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m. with reduced price food and drink. There are more changes in store, too;…

Market report, April 18: not

It may be in the sixties today and absolutely beautiful, but on Saturday morning it was demon-sleeting and I wasn’t about to walk to the Boulder Farmers’ Market, as I did last week when I was researching the second in what were to be weekly market reports. Make that almost…

Mud bugs and beer at Lucile’s

Just got word from Brian Heilman, one of the partners at the Denver outpost of Lucile’s, that his spot is going to celebrate the start of Louisiana crawfish season with a good, old-fashioned crawfish boil. “It’s our first attempt at what will hopefully become an annual tradition,” Heilman said. And…

Ask the Critic: The art of the Man Date

Last week, I posed this question: Where should Guy Fieri eat when (and if) his show, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, rolls through Denver? The comments poured in, and the debate was both spirited and (relatively) civil. I’ve culled the best of the bunch and sent them along to the production-company…

Milking It: Banana Nut Cheerios

Banana Nut Cheerios General Mills Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Those readers who hail from the planet Earth will recognize the standard Cheerios design: a circle with a hole in the middle, like a letter “O” designed to fill the diner with cheer. (Still can’t figure out…

Eat here now! Do good, eat well, smell stinky cheese

If you eat at Piatti, the Italian restaurant at 190 St. Paul Street, today and mention that you’re dining to support SAME Cafe, Piatti will donate 20 percent of your bill to SAME, the pay-what-you-can restaurant profiled on the cover of Westword in February. For reservations at Piatti, call 303-321-1919…