Candy Girls: Hershey’s Halloween Candy

Hershey’s Candy Corn Kisses While we generally like candy corn and Hershey’s Kisses separately, we really weren’t too sure what they would taste like combined. Because when you think about it, candy corn is really just flavored like…. sugar? Maybe slightly caramely sugar? Not a flavor that would hold up…

Save Jason Sheehan’s booth at Nine75

Nine75 is slated to reopen on Friday, October 10, under its new owner, the Jet Entertainment Group. There are lots of questions involved in this deal — for example, will suppliers who’d cut off former owner Jim Sullivan return to Nine75? Will those outstanding bills be paid? How many of…

Santa Fe Tequila Company takes a shot at Littleton

The original Santa Fe Tequila Company on Santa Fe Drive. Santa Fe Tequila Company has gotten mixed reviews (including mine) since it opened on Santa Fe Drive (technically at 901 West Tenth Avenue) last November, but that hasn’t prevented the concept from expanding to Littleton. A second Santa Fe Tequila…

Veggie Girl: Thai Basil

Sometimes I really crave a good plate of sesame tofu. Crunchy, golden tofu that’s burning hot on the outside and so soft inside that it melts in your mouth. Crisp, steamed veggies; brown rice; sticky, sweet delicious sauce. Yum! The craving hit a couple of days ago when I was…

Whole Foods “Secret Ingredient” is satisfying food porn

Hungry for some non-offensive food porn? Check out the Whole Foods Market Secret Ingredient videos blog . The varying hosts take ingredients — a different one is highlighted each week — from Whole Foods and then create healthy, simple meals, including Spicy-Coconut Braised Black Cod, Lakeside Turkey Burgers and Grilled…

A meal at Relish is something to relish

Lemon-braised artichoke with roasted garlic herb butter. Venison carpaccio with Humboldt Fog blue cheese, organic olive oil and black pepper. Steak Diane with truffled garlic mashed potatoes, and a New York strip with white cheddar sweet-potato fries. There was also a quote/unquote Niçoise — a loose chef’s interpretation with Colorado…

Cafe Bisque joins the brunch bunch

Before there was Limón or the Arvada Grill, chef Alex Gurevich had Cafe Bisque. I first wrote about the restaurant not long after it opened, and excoriated the harebrained international floundering of the menu. I was much more effusive about the restaurant in 2005, and even welcomed Cafe Bisque back…

Aqua is outta here

Jay Chadrom hasn’t been able to settle a dispute with his landlord at the Beauvallon — but he did managed to settle something else: He just closed Aqua, his raw bar and kitchen-free restaurant at 925 Lincoln, and reports that he’s “very busy removing everything.” But some of the things…

How did Daphne’s turkey sandwich fare?

This sandwich is much better than my picture. Daphne’s Deli 393 Corona Street 303-733-1212 The Daphne $7.75 (with a pickle and side of potato salad) Turkey, avocado and Cajun sauce on sourdough bread How best to take the measure of a man or a meal? A fine question. For a…

More of the same at SAME

The idea sounded too good to be true. But after less than two years in business, SAME Café — the philanthropic restaurant based on the simple yet revolutionary idea that everyone deserves a healthy, fresh, organic meal at whatever price they can afford– is expanding. The name of the place…

A dinner to relish at Relish

Matt Fackler took his inspiration for Relish from Colorado. Lemon braised artichoke with roasted garlic herb butter. Venison carpaccio with Humboldt Fog blue cheese, organic olive oil and black pepper. Chicken fingers (for lack of a better term), smoked and fried and served with summer sweet corn and blue crab…

New life at Nine75

It’s quickly becoming the story that never ends. After the surprise announcement on September 29 that Jim Sullivan was closing both Nine75 (975 Lincoln Street) and Ocean (201 Columbine Street) — the last two properties remaining in the Sullivan Restaurant Group—and all the fallout that came from staff suddenly left…

A landmark day for Landmark when Comedy Works South opens

There have been lots of problems at the Landmark project in Greenwood Village — prices up, tenants out. (At one point, Sparrow was going to not only open a second restaurant in the development, but a market — but then the restaurant on Seventh Avenue closed, and Sparrow Market Cafe…

The Chili Cook Off is one hot competition

Photos by Nancy Levine. See more after the jump. I am a creature of habit, and there are a few events I look forward to every fall. I’ve attended Oktoberfest since I was old enough to drive, although I’m still confused as to why it’s in September. And no sooner…

We’re ready to fall for the Fainting Goat

We’ve learned a lot about fainting goats — also known as stiff-legged goats and nervous goats, goats whose propensity for falling down have earned them their own international society — since we heard that an outfit called The Fainting Goat has applied for a liquor license at 846 Broadway, just…

Fit to be fried! An interview with Steve Lerach

Steve Lerach wrote Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants as his thesis as he prepared to become a culinary instructor in Minnesota. Because of its academic orientation, the book includes historical accounts of cooking intertwined with Lerach’s own experiences in the kitchen over the decades – and even a few…

Sparrow Market flies the coop

The Landmark project in Greenwood Village will get a big boost this week, when Comedy Works South finally opens. But what was supposed to be one of the development’s big tenants was grounded long ago: Sparrow was once going to open not just a second restaurant that played off the…

Lucero’s: All in the familia

October is National Chili Month! But here in Denver, the only chili that matters is spelled with an “e,” and features those hot, hot peppers now being roasted up and down Federal Boulevard. So all this month, chile fans will be weighing in on their favorites around town. Green chile…

Red Robin keeps bobbing along

While other chains are pulling back, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers just keeps growing. This morning, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers — which got its start outside the University of Washington in the ’40s, but moved its national headquarters to Greenwood Village in 1996 — is opening its 22nd Colorado restaurant at…

Milking It: Frosted Krispies

Frosted Rice Krispies Kellogg’s Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Toasted kernels of crispy puffed rice visually differentiated from regular Rice Krispies by… nothing. Yep, they look identical, which means keeping Frosted Krispies and their namesake segregated must be a bitch…

Moe’s opens in the former Falcon

Almost right on schedule, Moe’s Original BBQ opens today at 2395 South Broadway, in the former Falcon space next to the Gothic Theatre, and we hear the place should be smoking! Moe’s is originally out of Tuscaloosa, but the company moved its headquarters to Vail eight years ago…