Food & Drink

I’ve been checking out backyard chicken coops and downtown veggie gardens for months as part of my summer-long Urbavore’s Dilemma web series, and this week’s entry sent me to an unobtrusive Park Hill home in search of the origins of a pack of bacon I recently enjoyed — some of…

Brandon’s Pub has apparently evaded the Beauvallon curse…for now. When the sports bar with the Mexican kitchen closed its doors last week, people thought that Brandon’s Pub, located at 955 Lincoln Street, had succumbed to the same misfortune as many of its former neighbors, most recently Mr. Coco’s. But according…

The beleaguered Beauvallon building has swallowed another restaurant. Mr. Coco’s Bar & Grill, possibly the worst-named Mexican joint ever, has shut its doors at 925 Lincoln Street. Before it was Mr. Coco’s, that space had held, very briefly, Marni’s Steakhouse (which left behind its awning) and before that, Moe’s Southwest…

The only thing better than eating a fresh, gooey s’more is eating one for a good cause.  On Thursday, July 2, Metro Denver Promotion of Letters, a nonprofit offering tutoring and writing services for children, teams up with Forest Room 5 to bring you a night of s’more-making and fundraising…

At 6 p.m. tonight, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, is hosting an all-American food and wine event featuring the wines of California and the Pacific Northwest paired with a menu prepared by Flovor Catering, which includes house-smoked salmon with green goddess aioli; miniature chicken-in-a-biscuit sandwiches with watermelon relish; braised…

It’s 8:30 p.m. on the second Monday night of summer — but you don’t need a calendar to know that. You just need to see the lines outside of Little Man Ice Cream, which opened exactly a year ago at 2620 16th Street.You scream, I scream, we all scream…..

We’ve already posted the news about the ESPN Zone at 1187 16th Street going dark, but within moments of that announcement, something else popped up.  Namely, that a nice big chunk of that space has already been snapped up and will shortly be turned into another outlet of an Arizona-based…

Just got word that ESPN Zone, the 23,000-square-foot sports-centric playground and game center (and the only Denver link in the company’s national chain) at 1187 16th Street, went dark today, exactly one day after Greg Goldfogel pulled the plug on Alto, the Northern Italian restaurant and live jazz venue at…

This week’s question is for all you office drones out there, from one of your own: When time is tight and money even more so, what downtown cart serves the best grub in the city?Easy, right? Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. He has two locations now, one in Skyline Park at…

The rumors were rampant over the weekend that Alto, Greg Goldfogel’s northern Italian restaurant at 1320 15th Street, had shuttered. Turns out it wasn’t a rumor: Alto’s web site, which was still accepting reservations yesterday, is now entirely devoid of content, except for a mere seven words that admit defeat…

KJ’s Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that’s become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today — until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that’s just the start of the changes, promises manager Kassia Koukari…

Big Hoss Bar-B-Q , at 3961 Tennyson Street, has been hot since it first opened back in December 2006, and earned raves from Jason Sheehan a year later. But this is ridiculous: After a cook left the smoker open on Saturday, the Big Hoss kitchen caught fire — and the…

All-Bran Yogurt Bites Kellogg’s Rating: One-and-a-half stars out of four Cereal description: Large, hearty, darkish brown wheat flakes supplemented by clusters made of wheat, oats and rice and coated in vanilla yogurt. The resulting shapes look alternately like stray jism globules or melting, misshapen faces of the sort that pop…

Opus, Michael Long’s longstanding restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, is hosting a wine and food pairing dinner honoring Italian winemaker and lettuce lord Lucio Gomiero, who, along with being a wine jester, just happens to grow more radicchio than anyone else in the world at his farm…

A few days after my return from Aspen Food and Wine, I’m still digesting the experience. The worst part of the event was listening to everyone’s opinion about everything there. Opinions on food (if I heard one more person opine about pork belly I was going to lose it). Opinions…

What you might have missed this week on your favorite food blog…Asked and answered: Denver’s best continental breakfast?  Bistro Vendome.Twice as nice: Biker Jim opened a second location.HIghlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.Counting down to Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty: an appetizer and amuse bouche.Hello to…

We live, as the Chinese might say, in interesting times.  And one of the consequences of living in interesting times is the interesting ways in which the world’s police forces, armies and weaponsmiths devise new ways for hurting each other.  Thus, do we have this, fresh from the laboratories of the…

For the past several weeks, we’ve been following the progress of Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the new pizza and pasta emporium at 2700 South Broadway. And, now, we just got word from co-owner Caroline Momo-Torres, that on Saturday, June 27, the kitchen will start slinging pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads seven…

Just got off the phone with Enrique Guerrero, co-owner and chef at Mangiamo Pronto — which means “Let’s Eat Now!” — a fast-casual Italian joint in Santa Fe, New Mexico that’s coming to downtown Denver in early September, specifically to 1601 17th Street, in the former Common Grounds space. Guerrero,…

Just in case you missed Hosea Rosenberg, the exec chef at Jax Fish House, Boulder (928 Pearl Street), drop his jaw in disbelief when he was crowned top cooker on the season 5 finale of Top Chef, or at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last weekend, when he…