For more than two decades, the National Pork Board’s slogan, “Pork: The Other White Meat,” has attempted to convince us that swine, which, of course, is best known for BACON, is just as healthy — bawk! — as chicken. But pork consumption has hit a rump patch, while chicken parts…
The idea sounded so good: In “Meat with Meaning at Whole Foods,” his May 2009 post, Tyler Nemkov described how Whole Foods had contracted with California-based Panorama Meats to buy organic, grass-fed beef from a ranch owned by the Northern Arapaho tribe on the Wind River reservation. “If I’m going…
For all of you finicky fish heads lamenting the lack of fresh seafood in our fine city, meet the Yabby Hut, a new fish joint that opened three weeks ago at 3355 South Yarrow Street, in the former Giovanni’s Italian Cafe space. According to manager Linh Nguyen, the Yabby Hut…
Craving some Applebee’s boneless buffalo wings? If you’re a frequent customer (really?) of the restaurant’s outpost at 410 South Colorado Boulevard, you’re just going to have to wait … until Thursday. The location, which temporarily shut down yesterday, is in the process of undergoing a startlingly swift transformation — involving…
Since the mid-1980s, crowds of hipsters have populated the dark rooms at Paris on the Platte, 1553 Platte Street, sipping espresso and smoking cigarettes (until December of last year, when the joint finally went non-smoking) in one of Denver’s favorite alternative coffeehouses. Now, the crew at Paris is taking its…
When I got the hostess on the horn earlier today, she hung up on me. An immediate call-back was a short, pointed, one-sided conversation that went something like this: “We’re crazy, crazy busy; please call back later.” Click. Apparently Mellow Mushroom, which opened today at 1201 16th Street in the…
The Arabian deserts have brought us riches like oil — and, well, that’s about it. But all that will change when Dubai starts exporting one of its most valued treasures: camel milk. Camels are renowned for their nasty tempers and foul breath. Plus, they have a habit of spitting, just…
It’s been less than two months since Andrew’s on Lincoln closed its doors, but a new bar and grill is gearing up to fill its shoes in the next few weeks at 1111 Lincoln Street. Stoney’s Bar and Grill is slated to open the first week of August, says owner…
Back in November, acerbic mouthpiece Anthony Bourdain spent a few days in Denver, where he took down Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray (among others) from the stage at the Buell and stomached nearly a half dozen hot dogs from Biker Jim’s wiener cart at 16th and Arapahoe, an apparent epiphany…
Among the parade of dishes that littered last night’s dinner table was a fantastic bowl of fried rice stocked with fresh peas, ropes of mango, pork, green onions, carrot slivers and snow peas. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
As important as food is to the real world, there aren’t all that many foods unique to the fictional world…which might be a very good thing, considering the inherent dangers in these following fake-foods and drinks. Some dangers are slight, others more sinister, some plain disgusting. But in the end,…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, ranging from these still-unidentified spring rolls to an as-yet unknown neighborhood joint’s steak dinner to these perogies soaking in butter. For correctly identifying Kinga’s as the culprit behind that dish, Jenny wins a DINR deck…
There’s not much that satisfies on a sweltering summer day like a 7-Eleven Slurpee. And on Sunday, July 11 (a.k.a. 7/11), from 8 a.m. (not 7 a.m., unfortunately) to 11 p.m. you can score a free, 7.11-ounce mini-Slurpee at participating stores throughout the metro area. The date also marks the…
I’m a sucker for spring rolls, and the tightly-wrapped cylinders above always satisfy my craving. Most of you will fire off the names of every Asian joint on Federal. But you’ll all be wrong. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Denver’s street-food scene is exploding, what with all those cupcake trucks, biscuit-mobiles, gastro-carts on wheels and upscale taco wagons hawking their foodstuffs all over town. And the trend hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Denver Public Library’s free Fresh City Life programs, which integrates culinary demonstrations, recipe contests and other food-centric…
Dylan Moore will start firing up food at the Little Orange Rocket, his new, mobile meals on wheels that launches tonight in front of Deluxe and Delite, Moore’s side-by-side restaurant and bar at 30 and 32 South Broadway, respectively…
Tall, black temporary walls conceal the specifics, but there’s no hiding the fact that something’s going on at 2301 East Colfax Avenue, in the John Hand building. The liquor-license permit application indicates that a restaurant called Okinawa — we hear it’s a sushi joint — will occupy the space, which…
Sometime between February of last year and now, Hosea Rosenberg, the Boulder cooker who won Top Chef: New York, got himself a Girl Friday personal assistant, name of Rachel Bachman, who doesn’t approve of our photo choices — specifically the photo below, which I snapped during a viewing party at…
The Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is flirting with Denver again — two years after Guy Fieri broke our hearts by skipping the Mile High City. This week, Westword got a call from show producer Page Productions, asking for places the reality food star/celebrity chef should visit between…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Cafe Options chef Craig Dixon talks about why he believes Denver is the country’s top city for slinging food, how he wishes that citizen journalism reviews were more factual and his role at Cafe Options as both a chef and teacher to the…
The sun never made an appearance when Brett Morris was manning his Solar Grill yesterday — but fortunately, the former hot-dog cart, which has been converted to almost-all solar power, still uses propane for its grill. So Morris, who’d had trouble finding a job and finally decided to take matters…
How happening is Tennyson Street these days? The pay-what-you-want Comfort Cafe opened at 3945 Tennyson Street a couple weeks ago and The Hole, a doughnut house, is slated to open any second (though by the looks of it, it’s probably more like any week) at 3877 Tennyson…
