Our recent story on the cost of Denver’s street food brought out plenty of snarky opinions, as you debated the value of lunch from a truck. Most of you seemed okay with paying prices between $5 and $10, but the Mexican feast and the $20 lobster roll, especially, were the…
Dylan Moore, chef of Deluxe, Delite, Deluxe Burger and the proud owner of the Little Orange Rocket, the new Deluxe streetmobile, sat down with us last week to discuss his growing empire of restaurants, his fetish for fish sauce and tacos and how he managed to fuck up fish for…
Last week, Scottish brewery BrewDog released a beer called The End of History. It’s 55 percent alcohol and it comes encased in a dead animal — specifically, a stoat or a squirrel. Oh, and the brewery only made eleven bottles, so it’s charging $764 for the stoat, $1,070 for the…
A South Carolina woman who thought her car was running “rugged” late last week took the vehicle to a local mechanic — and what he found did not ease her anxiety pangs. As the mechanic ran a diagnostic check, he was surprised to find a cheeseburger and pickle at the…
Okay, so I was drunk and really hungry, which are the only two reasons why anyone could possibly be persuaded to order the Mexican egg rolls in the above pic, which arrived with hollow interiors harboring, well, next to nothing. The thin tarps of cheese on top? Trickery. Can you…
The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge Aaron Schock, a very young Republican Congressman from Illinois, explained, legislators aren’t allowed…
“No cigarett” [sic] read the chalkboard sign outside of Zona’s Tamales at 713 East 26th Avenue today. The ordering window of the tiny restaurant was littered with new paperwork, too: “No tabacco products” was scrawled on a sheet of paper. Another slip assured visitors that Zona’s would be open regular…
The bikini barista coffee shop trend may have only begun in Colorado (for more on two stores in Colorado Springs, see below), but it has reached full, mature size in the Seattle area, where a “pop-punk” band called Quickie recently released a song and video dedicated to the java princesses…
My father’s family hails from the East Coast (more or less), so I chalk up my cotillion classes and love of fancy restaurants to that part of my blood. But my mother is born-and-bred Midwestern, from Missouri, where I also spent six years going to school. If you’ve ever lived…
Brunch is the best time to eat at Satchel’s Market, but don’t try it this weekend. The restaurant is dark right now, with a note on the menu posted on the door at 5021 East 28th Avenue noting that Satchel’s is on summer vacation until early August. When the spot…
“We want people to understand the quality of produce that we use here at the restaurant,” says Max Mackissock, exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, the seasonally-driven, New American restaurant with an alter to the late Farrah Fawcett and a thimble-size kitchen that’s rolling out its summer farm stand today…
If you’re lunching at the Steuben’s Food Truck in Civic Center Park today, you could win a free slice of coconut cake if you’re one of the first two people to tell the crew where Steuben’s found its truck, which has since named Pearl. We’ll give you a hint: The…
Dylan Moore Deluxe 30 South Broadway 303-722-1550 Delite 32 South Broadway 303-722-1278 Deluxe Burger 5325 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-5683 This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Dylan Moore, exec chef of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger. You can read part one here. Culinary inspirations: Fresh ingredients. I try…
It’s Sunday night at Yak and Yeti, and most of the tables in the upstairs alcove are full. I find myself whispering over our feast, desperately trying to keep my table’s conversation private. “WHAT?” my father yells. “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU WHEN YOU MUMBLE.” I feel so self-conscious that…
After 22 years, 14th Street Bar and Grill, the Boulder restaurant that’s been slinging California cuisine from its address at 1400 Pearl Street since 1988, is calling it quits. One of Boulder’s first restaurants to instill a real wood-burning oven, which produced some killer pizzas and smoky burgers, the popular…
The hot chicks at Hot Chick-a-Latte are decked out in their 911 Emergency gear today (the bikini barista coffee shop at 4736 East Colfax Avenue, has a different theme every day), but its the now-closed Perky Cups, which operated a similar business in Aurora until last month, that may need…
When news came down that an empanada vendor had set up a cart on the 16th Street Mall, I leapt from my desk chair and barreled toward the door. Lay off me, I’m starving. Starving, at least, for empanadas, which are magical little pockets of golden dough filled with meats…
PETA may be blocked– at least for now — from erecting a chicken statue in the middle of the 16th Street Mall here in Denver, but the group managed to pull off a pretty gruesome stunt yesterday in New York City. Around noon, nearly naked protesters covered themselves with fake…
That monstrosity of a dessert, heaped with whipped cream and wreathed in fresh berries, gives the Dairy Queen sundae a run for its calories. 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 is entered into…
Dylan Moore Deluxe 30 South Broadway 303-722-1550 Delite 32 South Broadway 303-722-1278 Deluxe Burger 5325 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-5683 This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Dylan Moore, exec chef of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger, To read part two of that interview, check this space tomorrow. “This,”…
The plush digs at Restaurant Kevin Taylor in the Hotel Teatro reflect the decade in which it was built, channeling the boom of the 1990s with lavish gold touches and opulent furniture. We’ve come a long way since then — two recessions to be exact — and now, the gold’s…
What do you get when you mix food from Burger King and a trip to the bathroom? An extended stay in the stall. An unidentified man was found dead in the men’s room at a Burger King in Beaumont, Utah. According to Jeff Curl of the Beaumont police, there was…
