Food & Drink

“You know what they call French food in Paris?” the chef asked, repeating his shtick. “What, chef?” I responded, my fingers sore and shredded from peeling hard-boiled eggs under tap water, my brain numbed from hours of prep. I’d heard the question before, as well as the answer, but that…

I knew the news was going to be bad as soon as I got William Kennedy, one of the two partners at Santa Fe Tequila Company (along with Joe Falco), on the blower this afternoon. It was in his voice, in the defeated slump of his shoulders that I could actually hear over…

Downtown Littleton has a new neighborhood joint: Merle’s, which occupies the old Merle’s Alignment Center at 2609 West Main Street, which started life as a gast station in the 1930s. The building was unoccupied for a number years; and a group of partners all chipped in and bought the place, turning it into…

Bones looks like it will win the battle to be the first of the town’s new noodle houses to open. Frank Bonanno’s place at 301 East Seventh Avenue already has its name — the restaurateur’s childhood nickname — etched on the windows, and the renovation of the space inside (the old…

Today, Wichita. Tomorrow, the world. Smashburger — with its secret process that creates what Jason Sheehan called “meat candy” — has been a smash since the Colorado-based concept opened its first restaurant at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard two years ago.Since then, the owners have opened six more spots along the Front…

Last month, the Santa Fe Tequila Company at 901 West Tenth Avenue (shown above)abruptly closed its doors — shortly after opening a second outlet in Littleton. Although Jason Sheehan wasn’t a big fan of the original spot, which was close to empty when he visited it this summer, he’s no…

A few days ago, we noticed the sign on Jesse Morreale’s new hotel/retail/restaurant project at First and Broadway, which noted that a restaurant named Sketch would be going in. Sketch, of course, was the name of Morreale’s short-lived concept at 250 Steele, in the space now occupied by Tambien. But…

Wingin’ It, a local wing joint boasting 26 different wing sauces made from scratch, recently closed two of its four locations: 6860 South Lincoln Court in Greenwood Village and 7541 South University Boulevard in Centennial. But you can still get Wingin’ It’s deep-fried Twinkies, candy bars and Oreos–winner of 2003…

It looked like the year’s coolest project: turning the old EZ Mop building at 1223-1227 East 17th Avenue into a bar, with a renovated interior but the original EZ Mop sign out front. The advertising possibilities were endless: “Come sop up some alcohol at EZ Mop”; “A few drinks here, and…

Hung Kee, the Chinese restaurant that served unbelievably cheap Cantonese cuisine, has vacated its longtime spot at 1015 South Federal Boulevard. That space is now occupied by an Asian drycleaner’s, and when I tried to find out if Hung Kee had moved somewhere, I didn’t understand the answer. So if anyone reading…

  Okay, so I already wrote about the urbanspoon iPhone app, but just after I filed that blog, I went out back for a smoke (brrrr) with Sean, the IT guy who first introduced me to the gadget in question, and he showed me a couple other sweet (and marginally creepy/nerdy) things…

I am a luddite. And I don’t mean that lightly.  I am not some cutesy dipwad who gets flustered trying to work the copy machine.  I don’t eschew the use of computers out of some misplaced paranoia over the loss of my IBM Selectric.  I am not your grandma who…

Lucky Charms with the New Hourglass Marshmallow Charm General Mills Rating: Three and a half spoons out of four Cereal description: Oat cereal pieces in a variety of shapes. Most of them call to mind pagan wall drawings: X’s, stemmed triangles that suggest puffy trees and three-leaf clovers (guess mascot…

  The Lancer Lounge at 233 Seventh Avenue is one of this town’s great dives, a spot where you can always count on a collegial evening of drinking, as Drew Bixby recently reported in Drunk of the Week. What you can’t count on is finding food there. The most recent…

Steuben’s will host a toy drive to benefit the Denver Rescue Mission tonight, beginning at 9 p.m. and running until about 2 a.m. And if you donate a toy, not only does God give you a pat on the back, but you receive a free cocktail or Great Divide beer! The cocktails are creations…

Saul Sierra is no tree-hugger. “I wasn’t always green,” he says. “My brothers learned about all that stuff in school, but I never went over it.” He is now, though, and both of his Mi Cocina restaurants are feeling the effects.  This fall, Sierra installed a solar patio at the…

We found the Bahlsen Domino in the large and varied display of Lebkuchen and Stollen at the Cost Plus World Market in Cherry Creek. While many versions of Lebkuchen featured gingerbread covered in dark or white chocolate, we were drawn to the German-made Bahlsen Domino because it took the concept…

In his review this week, Jason Sheehan lauds the food at Elway’s Downtown — but laments its lack of fun, such a critical component in the success of the original Elway’s. Still, the joint was jammed last night, with drinkers packing the lounge and diners digging into steaks. And they…

In an economic meltdown, charitable organizations can find their coffers drying up — but the need for their services is greater than ever. So Project Angel Heart, which provides meals to people with HIV/AIDS, cancer or other life-threatening illness, has had to get creative to streamline its operation while still delivering the…