Organixx will start serving dinner, pouring beer and wine soon

Organixx will start serving beer and wine at its eco-friendly digs in LoDo, and as soon as that’s in place, the restaurant, located at 1520 Blake Street, will launch dinner service — with an expanded menu — and happy hour, too. “Originally, our plan was mid-July, but now we’re thinking…

Peruvian food comes to East Colfax by way of Pisco Sour

You never know what you might find cruising down East Colfax, but along with hookers, drug dealers and their desperate, drugged out disciples, you can usually count on new restaurant signage. Pisco Sour, a new Peruvian restaurant, bar and club at 8501 East Colfax Avenue, opened in June to good…

Guess where I’m eating?

Someone in the kitchen is obviously obsessed with squiggles of Mexican crema, but that same person is also dead set on delivering far better than average combo plates, like the one in the above snap, which includes, among other usual suspects, a chicken enchilada and a chimichanga zigzagged with a…

Sweet Action Ice Cream is one of the country’s best, says SmarterTravel.com

First, Sweet Action Ice Cream expanded its availability locally, and now the progressive ice creamery at 52 Broadway is gaining recognition outside of Colorado for its homemade, organic and seasonally-influenced scoops, including flavors like Colorado peach. The travel website, SmarterTravel.com gave the shop some national exposure over the weekend, in…

Candwich + canned beer and other beverage-sandwich pairings

What’s with all the sandwiches? 2010 has seen some terrible twists on the lunchtime classic, and with new groundbreaking market bombs lowering the common denominator each week, there’s no end in sight. Craftcans.com recently poked a little fun at the Candwich, pairing the canned sandwiches with canned beers – we…

Pizzeria Basta’s urban garden ready to sprout

While the rest of us sweltered in the heat this weekend, Kelly Whitaker and his crew at Pizzeria Basta in Boulder finished planting an urban garden, using a tiny plot of land behind the restaurant’s commercial space for three beds full of tomatoes, peppers, kale, basil, rosemary, and other herbs…

Apples in Stereo bassist Eric Allen eats at Pete’s Cafe

Like all good rockers, Eric Allen enjoys a big fat burrito now and then. We caught up with the Denver-based Apples in Stereo bassist recently and asked him where he last ate out in the city. It’s not where you might think. While it’s a Greek restaurant with “Pete” in…

Guess where I’m eating?

I love a good burger, and the one up top, made with bison, topped with bacon and guacamole and smeared with a jalapeno cream cheese, was awesome. So were the fries. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…

Campfire cooking: Fishing for compliments

To borrow a line from Snoopy, it was a dark and stormy night and without any dinner, it was gonna be a hungry night, too. Ted and I were camping last weekend in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just south of Canon City, in the middle of bear country, and…

Guess where I’m eating?

No, that feijoada in the above snap is not from Cafe Brazil — not even close. If you’ve eaten at the joint from which it hails, you’ll get this immediately. If not, then it behooves you to do your research, because it’s arguably the best feijoada in the city. Can…

Candwich creates drama before it hits shelves

What’s the best way to garner a bunch of attention for a terrible idea? Do what Mark Kirkland did and get a fraudulent money manager to invest millions of dollars. When that money manager gets sued by the SEC, bingo, national headlines…