At 6 p.m. on August 21, seven food trucks will roll into an abandoned lot and throw a party. There will be gyros and gravy fries and cupcakes. There will be booze, provided by the Infinite Monkey Theorem winery and Great Divide Brewing Co. There will be lawn games and…
While the food left a lot to be desired, the cocktails, which ring up at six bucks during happy hour, were far too desirable, especially the one in the above snap created with fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, vodka and St. Germain. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who…
As primary voting headed into its final hours, candidates and their teams went anyplace with a crowd, working to sway those who had yet to cast ballots. As testament to the number of Denverites who are out chasing food trucks on Tuesdays, Andrew Romanoff chose to do face-time with the…
Next week, Wade Gunn is heading to Texas to buy a truck. But not just any truck: The executive chef of Brasserie Felix, the French-food temple at 3901 Tennyson Street, is gunning for a truck that’s eighteen feet long and comes equipped with a full kitchen — a kitchen on…
If you’re a Democrat who hasn’t voted yet, you might want to digest where some of the candidates are throwing their primary-night parties before you give them your support. In the down-and-dirty Senate race, Andrew Romanoff will be at City Hall, 1144 Broadway, while Michael Bennet will be at Mile…
Eat Denver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouts the week of August 21, when nearly forty of the city’s best independent restaurants will pimp seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients and products. But before that happens, there’s going to be a little party,…
The menu at Colt & Gray, Nelson Perkins’s restaurant at 1553 Platte Street, includes baked sticky toffee pudding, a rich, decadent and dense cakey base smothered in nut-studded toffee sauce and topped with vanilla ice cream. And it counts Food Network host and chef Claire Robinson among its fans…
Business has been hot at Saigon Landing, which opened last November in Greenwood Village, but no one wanted it this hot: Late Sunday, the building at 6585 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard caught fire — firefighters suspect lightning — and was heavily damaged…
A quick perusal of Amazon shows that Thomas Keller’s French Laundry cookbook regularly costs $50, the same price Grant Achatz charges for Alinea at Home. Heston Blumenthal’s larger volume of recipes, the Big Fat Duck, weighs in at a hefty $250. And Ferran Adria, of the soon-to-close molecular gastronomy mecca,…
What do Fruition, SAME Cafe, Taco House and Waffle Brothers have in common? According to the Colorado Department of Agriculture, all are “committed to supporting Colorado agriculture and using the best products Colorado offers.”…
Today in grocery store levity: a moonwalking shopper!…
Roller derby can be a bit naughty — what with the tight uniforms, tongue-in-cheek nicknames and racy logos. Maybe that’s why the Food Network decided to forgo using the Denver Roller Dolls’ A-team, the Mile High Club, as inspiration for cake designers tasked with making roller derby-themed cakes on an…
Every Wednesday and Saturday at the Cherry Creek farmers’ market, and again on Sunday at the City Park Esplanade farmers’ market, Igor and Beckie Panasewicz feed Venezuelan arepas to the masses from their vendor booth littered with bags of Harina P.A.N. white corn meal, plates of plantains, vats of black…
What’s better than a food-cart meal? A food-cart meal with booze. Realizing that it could capitalize on having snacks available alongside its brewed beer, the Great Divide tasting room, 2201 Arapahoe Street, has been inviting different mobile vendors around town to post up during the afternoon…
Get ready to enjoy the bounty of Potager’s garden and local farms. The Capitol Hill restaurant has returned from a two and a half week summer vacation, and with its reopening, brings a new menu bursting with seasonal summer faves like corn, eggplant, cucumber, tomatoes and peaches. Take a look:…
Eat Denver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouts the week of August 21, when nearly forty of the city’s best independent restaurants will pimp seasonal menus showcasing locally-sourced ingredients and products. Bur before that happens, there’s going to be a little party, and…
Perhaps I just ordered all the wrong things, especially the steamed pork buns, that, while fluffy, pudgy and served scalding hot, had that unmistakable freezer burn taste. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts…
Zeke Emanuel admits he has no qualifications to review food, and that he’s writing about restaurants for the Atlantic’s website only because he “argued with Corby Kummer about the merits of molecular gastronomy and Alice Waters’ cooking.” Still, Emanuel knows what he doesn’t like — and he really didn’t like…
We got a little too hopped up on caffeine this weekend — to the point of heart palpitations, in fact — because we couldn’t stop sucking down the cappuccinos at Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue, which reopened a month ago in a former Peaberry’s shop in Cherry Creek…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests this week, featuring everything from this very scary slice of watermelon served at a still-unidentified restaurant to a surprising cheesesteak at Den Deli to an incredible breakfast sandwich. For correctly pegging that to the Crushery, Jim Rome wins a DINR deck…
Last we heard, Monday was meant to be the opening day for Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski’s new tavern at 1314 Fourteenth Street, but Jasinski, her business partner Beth Gruitch and chef de cuisine Jorel Pierce quietly opened the doors today with minimal fanfare. “We did it sneakily,”…
Two-Fisted Mario’s, 1626 Market Street, has long been a unique place to sit and put down a pizza, but the digs of the eatery’s sibling restaurants are some of the most inventive interiors in town. Right next door, Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, 1632 Market Street, feels like an acid-induced tumble…
