Fortunately, England is not in the Banana Belt, because Fran Dando, a 21-year-old resident of Hastings in East Sussex, has a rare phobia: a fear of bananas. When she was seven, her brother played a practical joke by placing the phallic fruit in her bed. She “felt this horrible, slimy…
Down at the far end of the bar, next to the open garage door leading to a wrap-around patio, a twenty-something has posted up with a beer and her computer, the wind tousling her hair as she hacks away intently. Behind me, at the long, high center table, a group…
Sean Kelly first made a name for himself in Denver when he helped open Blair Taylor’s Barolo Grill in 1991, and he manned the kitchen there until he could cook in his own place: the well-respected Aubergine Cafe, a Mediterranean small-plates restaurant he established on Seventh Avenue in 1995. After…
JoeAnn and John Falco closed the sale on the Brittany Hill building at 9350 Grant Street, a massive structure with sweeping views of the Front Range, in spring 2009, prompting buzz that the space would rise again. Almost a year and a half later, though, the spot still sits dark…
If I’m willing to drive to Boulder for a cocktail, you know it’s for a good reason — like amazing, knowledgeable and accomplished bartenders making spectacularly inventive drinks. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating…
Cosmo’s Pizza, 1325 Broadway, has longed served college students on the Hill in Boulder, proffering massive slices of thin-crust pies perfect for a mid-day lunch or a late-night post-drinking binge, available both at the parlor and by delivery. Last year, the restaurant upped its presence on the Hill, too, by…
By Ryan DeWitt The inspiration for this venture stemmed from getting burnt out on the city’s ice cream/froyo/gelato scene — specifically from eating far too much of it all. Essentially, I needed something else to appease my sugar and sweets addiction. Enter cupcakes. My thinking was this: Cupcakes have so…
“We’re in the very beginning stages of developing the menu concept, but there’s no hood and there’s no grease trap, so everything that we serve will be raw,” says Leigh Sullivan-Guard. That’s the idea behind TAG | RAW BAR, a new restaurant from Leigh and her husband, Troy Guard, the…
The menu is ambitious, vast and littered with flavor-bombed Mexican dishes, but it’s the soft corn tacos, thumped with meats perfumed with spices and char and topped with redolent salsas, that keep us coming back for more…and more…and more. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Civic Center Conservancy used Facebook to ask downtown lunchers if they wanted to see Civic Center Eats extended through September — and those lunchers rose to the occasion. Yesterday was the last of the Tuesday events officially on the calendar, and the park saw one of the best Civic Center…
Justin Brunson Masterpiece Delicatessen 1575 Central Street 303-561-3354 www.masterpiecedeli.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Masterpiece Delicatessen chef/owner Justin Brunson. You can read part two of this interview right back here tomorrow. It’s 2:30 p.m., late by lunchtime standards, but Masterpiece Delicatessen, the heavyweight sandwich shop in…
Colorado produce is continuing to pour into local farmers’ markets, but EatDenver is already reaping the benefits of the recent Harvest Week, when its 55 members offered special deals and meals to celebrate this state’s homegrown products. And EatDenver definitely qualifies as one of those — even though for the…
While gourmet trucks and other mobile food outfits continued to roll out in August, a number of brick-and-mortar establishments opened their doors, too. Keep reading for our list:…
Gray’s Coors Tavern and the Sunset Inn go head to head — make that slopper to slopper — tonight on Food Wars on the Travel Channel. A slopper is a messy delicacy unique to Pueblo: an open-face cheeseburger served in a soup bowl, and covered with red or green chile…
The last time I spoke with Nhanh Tran, the co-owner of Pho-natic, he described his mother, Oi Nguyen, as the “most generous woman in the world.” She’s renowned for giving away food to friends and family, 500 egg rolls at a time, he told me…
When Larimer Associates envisioned Ernie’s Bar & Pizza, the new/old restaurant that opened last December at 2915 West 44th Avenue, they hoped it would become a neighborhood spot. And they did their best to ensure it, by designing the space in a way that would encourage patrons to use it…
A little help, please! A reader just made this fascinating request: “I’m organizing a night with my wife involving all things tiny. We are renting a Smart car and hopefully trying some of Denver’s smallest food and drink establishments. Unfortunately, a Google search has yielded very little information, so I…
Boulder-based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky is renowned for using viral tactics and edgy (and sometimes controversial) campaigns to turn around floundering companies and proliferate products or ideas that, prior to their input, had little airtime…
Another day, another street food truck. Denver chef and restaurant consultant Michel Wahaltere, who’s had his spoon in way too many soups to mention (short list: 9th Door, SportsBook, 5 Degrees, MiniBAR, Cucina Colore,), is officially taking his skills to the streets. Wahaltere, along with Mark Strazisar (Lucky Star, Sutra,…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a homegrown chain founded by Alon Mor in 2007, will open its eleventh Front Range restaurant tomorrow at 2466 South Colorado Boulevard. And today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Garbanzo is partnering with the National Sports Center for the Disabled on a private, pre-opening fundraiser at the…
I’m batshit crazy for Ethiopian food, which may explain why three of my dinners this past week have consisted of floppy injera, minchet, sambusas, kitfo, kikil and lamb and beef tibs, some of which are heaped on a communal platter at the restaurant where the above pic was snapped. Can…
The vividly-hued building on the corner of 28th and Fairfax in North Park Hill is about to lose a tenant. The owners of the five-year-old Satchel’s Market, 5021 East 28th Avenue, are shuttering the market-cum-neighborhood-restaurant that we recently reviewed, citing issues with the landlord and lease…
