Just add water! So say the instructions for two new vegetarian meat products now available from Fort Collins-based Harmony Valley Foods. Not exactly the most appetizing way to imagine your next burger, but according to the company, the overall energy savings of its fake meat mixes handily beat out that…
Watch your backside, Hooters. BenchWarmers is coming for you. The up and coming Colorado-based sports bar chain, “where beautiful girls will serve you fantastic food, cold beer, and cocktails as you enjoy an uninterrupted view of the game” already has two restaurants in Aurora and Erie and will open a…
Just got off the horn with Dylan Moore, who was out of breath. “I’m taking all the wrapping off the new truck,” he panted. Moore, the owner of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger, just got himself a new present, namely a “cool, old van with a kitchen inside” that he…
The Porker, Chad Clevenger’s street cart, is nearly ready to push pig. “We’re going to have everything from tequila-habanero barbecue ribs and pork tamales to sweet-soy roasted pork belly with a cold soba noodle salad and smoked Kurobuta pork cheeks with feijoada beans and Verde Farms micro cilantro,” says Clevenger,…
If you read this blog, then you know all about my affinity for Mexican street tacos. They’re my midnight snack, morning grub, desert island survival kit and, in all likelihood, my last supper. I typically order tacos al pastor, a habit that I didn’t break at the joint where the…
Aaron Whitcomb YaYa’s Euro Bistro 8310 East Belleview Avenue, Greenwood Village 303-741-1110 www.yayasbistro.com Aaron Whitcomb wants to show off his new menu at YaYa’s Euro Bistro, the Greenwood Village restaurant whose kitchen he’s commanded since April of last year, and the dishes keep coming. “We’re making almost all of our…
It’s hot on the first day of June, and the vast courtyard at the intersection of the 16th Street Mall and Arapahoe Street is crowded. Business people in A-line skirts and pleated khakis are eating their to-go lunches at sunny tables, soaking up a few minutes of real weather outside…
Coffee culture in Denver has finally arrived. Hot Chick-a-Latte, one of a couple of “bikini coffee” concepts from the Pacific Northwest has opened a bright pink location (well, mostly pink; they seem to have run out of paint half way through) in the A-frame building at 4736 East Colfax Avenue…
If you missed out on the Squeaky Bean’s first anniversary party, yesterday’s porkstravaganza and birthday bash that put the fun back in Monday, then you also missed Squeaky Bean owner Johnny Ballen baring his buttocks, exec chef Max MacKissock parading around in a woman’s flower-flaunting bathing suit, and several more…
After a series of delays, the newest Pasquini’s Pizzeria will finally start flipping pies in the Denver Tech Center. The new location at 8101 East Belleview Avenue will host its grand opening this Friday at 10:30 a.m. Manager Zack Kupetz says the restaurant will have the “newest, greatest and latest…
According to the liquor-license notice shoehorned into the window at 2223 West 32nd Avenue, Kevin Eddy, president of the 32nd Avenue Group, is taking over the former Panaderia Guadalajara space, which closed May 24, and turning it into Highland Tap and Burger. And according to the verbiage inked on the…
A new coffee and tea lounge will open its doors this fall in Five Points serving java, loose leaf teas, ice cream, pastries and breakfast burritos, with an emphasis on serving products made by local vendors. Coffee at the Point will take over the space formerly occupied by Blackberries, 710…
Washington Park Grille 1096 South Gaylord 303-777-0707 www.washparkgrille.com…
Up there is a plate of really delicious, artfully (and expertly) assembled rolls from a joint that isn’t Sushi Den or Sushi Sasa. My only squawk? The absence of fresh wasabi. Can you guess where I rolled with raw fish? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN MAY * Brandon’s Pub, 2037 East Second Avenue Brothers Bar & Grill, 1920 Market Street Cheeky Monk, 14694 Orchard Parkway, Westminster (Orchard Town Center) Cherry on Top, 3000 East First Avenue (Cherry Creek Shopping Center) Flying Dog Brewery Tasting Room, 2330 Broadway Freshii, 303 16th Street (Republic…
Cafe Society served up just four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from the breakfast potato skins at Racines to this still-unidentified plate of fried rice to a burger atBig Game. For correctly identifying that dish, Eric wins a DINR deck. Eric, send your contact info to…
Christopher Cina, who’s done hard time in galleys all over the metro area, including the Fourth Story, Aubergine Cafe, Tuscany, Zenith and Twig’s Wine Bar and Pickles Deli in Tipsy’s, a Goliath-size liquor store in Littleton, and is now manning the stoves at the Timberline Grill, a steak house at…
Back in March, Dino’s Soda Bar, the Washington Park ice cream parlor at 2217 East Mississippi, was shuttered for non-payment of taxes, a move that shattered the lives of god knows how many children. But according to Jeff Estey, who owns Dino’s, along with Washington Park Grille and Max Gill…
The Le Central patio is surprisingly secluded from Lincoln Avenue’s traffic, a long greenery-encapsulated oasis that, during summer months, invites diners to sit low in their chairs, nursing a glass of bubble-gummy Beaujolais wine long past twilight…
Last we checked, thirteen bids had been placed on an eBay auction for a chance to have an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile haul your ass around for a day and host a cookout for you and fifty of your tube steak-loving friends. There’s a week left to get in on the…
The NBA finals are just a double dribble away, and the National Basketball Association has applied some outside-the-box thinking to inside a cardboard pizza box: While watching the game at home, you can now enjoy a pizza with your favorite team’s logo melted onto the pie. Rick Ellison, licensee for…
A bill signed into law this week has created an advisory council tasked with ensuring Colorado residents’ greater access to healthy foods. The thirteen-member Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council will collaborate on such issues as increasing state participation in federal food assistance programs, creating incentives in so-called “food deserts,” allowing…
