What is the taste of Colorado? I have been asking this question — in various forms, in various places — almost since the day I started this job. One of my first columns was about the way green chile changes on the way from southern New Mexico to Denver, from…
My first date was in a Tex-Mex restaurant. Actually, I should say that my first real date was in a Tex-Mex restaurant — real date meaning the first date which had, at its conclusion, a reasonable expectation of a girl touching me where my bathing suit covered and not, later,…
I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest — and usually crazy…
Who doesn’t love an occasional gin and tonic? During the summer in landlocked Denver, a gin and tonic makes me feel like part of the yachting set, like I should be wearing Docksiders and screaming, “Hoist the mainsail! Batten down the hatches!” The gin and tonic is an invention of…
Like La Loma, La Cueva has some history behind it. Both places opened in the mid-’70s, both places quickly became destinations for Denver’s Mexican food fans. Over the years, both restaurants have prospered, but unlike La Loma’s owners, the Nuñez family has kept La Cueva in its original home on…
Miscreants have been stealing letters from Bastien’s sign, prompting this new version that’s now showing at the venerable steakhouse…
Two years ago, when Mark Dym, his wife, Kristy, and their three kids left the balmy beachfront of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the jagged mountain peaks of Colorado, to open a pizzeria in downtown Denver, Mark was up for the challenge, despite the fact that he’d never run a restaurant…
…stop staring at that spreadsheet; everyone knows you’re not paying attention, anyway. Instead, I’ve got something upon which you can really feast your eyes. But fair warning, if you’re even slightly hungry, this is going to be painful.I’m talking pure, unctuous food porn. The type that makes Food and Wine…
With more than thirty restaurants across the country (including one that opened at 303 Josephine Street in Denver in April), the Houston’s chain falls under the fourteen-month-old New York City rule that requires it to put calorie information its menus. But as Crain’s New York reports, Houston’s is refusing to…
The sandwich: Jalisco Torta What’s on it: Marinated steak and chicken, beans, cheese, mayonnaise, avocado, tomato and onions Where to get it: Las Tortas (5307 Leetsdale Drive, 720-379-7269) How much: $6.99 There’s an old Mexican adage that, when translated, reads: Ain’t nothing about a sandwich that can’t be made better…
While cleaning my desk last week, I discovered that one single packing box could hold a couple hundred menus. Mostly take-out menus and dozens of single sheets stolen from fine dining joints, but also a few sleeved menus still in their fancy folders as well as entire press kits. So…
I’ve kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest – and usually crazy…
No good deed goes unpunished. This summer, Chipotle sponsored 32 free screenings across the country of Food, Inc., the documentary that’s more frightening than any Friday the 13th movie. As thanks, this morning activists will deliver petitions with 16,000 signatures to Chipotle’s headquarters in LoDo, calling on the homegrown chain…
Most of the gardening operations I’ve been exploring as part of “Urbavore’s Dilemma,” my summer-long series on the local urban agriculture movement, are grassroots affairs: compost bins made from recycled plastic barrels, chicken coops built in old kids’ playhouses, garden fences born out of back-alley wood scraps. That’s why when…
From 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, you can join honorary hosts Mayor John Hickenlooper and his wife, Helen Thorpe, at the D & F Tower, 1601 Arapahoe Street, for the Platteforum wine and tequila event to benefit ArtLab, an after school youth development program for high school students. The benefit,…
Sitting in the comfortable, Colonial dining room at La Loma on a Saturday night and watching as the waitress floats through the milling crowds, bringing me a big order of mesquite-grilled shrimp fajitas, served atop a veritable mountain of steaming, soft white onions, that real first date comes back whole:…
What is the taste of Colorado? I have been asking this question–in various forms, in various places–almost since the day I started this job. One of my very first columns was about the way green chile changes as you trace it up from Southern New Mexico and into Denver –…
The happy-hour taco deals are enough to make anyone happy here. And on Mondays, the deals run all night…
Every week, Drink of the Week columnist Nancy Levine gets behind the bar with a local mixologist. Now serving: Mike Henderson, bar manager at TAG. How did you get into bartending? After college, I got a job as a doorman at a bar called Paul’s Club in Madison, Wisconsin. I…
So far, the month of August has seen more restaurant openings (Colt & Gray, Doghouse Tavern and Big Hoss, again) than closings. But the hottest month of the year has smoked at least one barbecue joint, namely Chapter Two BBQ and Grill, which was located at 2260 South Quebec Street. A…
Colt & Gray, the new gastropub from Nelson Perkins and his wife, Allison Stamper, will definitely open tonight at 1553 Platte Street. “There is a light at the end of the tunnel!” joked Perkins, referring to the construction and patio-permit delays that pushed his proposed Fourth of July opening back…
With the Great American Beer Festival (September 24-26) and the first ever Denver Beer Fest (September 18-27) both around the corner, the craft beer industry’s major trade group has released some mid-year statistics on what’s been brewing nationwide. The Brewers Association reports that craft brewers sold 4.2 million barrels of…
