Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is celebrating 50 years of banged up knees, turf toe, head-to-head helmet collisions, and, oh yeah … a couple of Super Bowl trophies and rings on Monday, June 28, the day the pro football Hall of Famer turns a half-century old. And how’s he…
While most of the menu changes with every new chef, the buttery fried rice pummeled with duck, shrimp and pork has been a popular mainstay from day one. 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…
Like Lite-Brite, Operation and Hungry Hungry Hippo, Etch A Sketch has some major nostalgic cache. Fortunately, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers can appreciate that and is including an “18 & Over” category in its new “Etch A Sketch A Burger” photo contest in honor of the iconic toy’s — wait for…
Another day, another nationwide recall. This time around the blame is being placed on a usual suspect: alfalfa sprouts. Three different name brands of sprouts have been deemed responsible for a recent salmonella outbreak that, at last count, had stricken at least one Colorado resident. The affected brands — Caldwell…
Fruits and vegetables won’t get you laid (in a tanning bed). Forget the fake-and-bake method of tanning; if you really want to look like you’ve had fun in the sun, you should be eating healthy. A new study done at Britain’s Bristol University has concluded that eating fresh fruit and…
Okay, to all the nutcases who showed up last night for Pinkberry’s preview party: What the hell were you thinking? I mean, some of you actually stood in line for well over an hour in your neon pink Polo shirts and short skirts just go get a free swirl of…
Purple, apparently, is not the color of success, at least not when it comes to the Purple Martini, the Tabor Center watering hole that’s now under the lock and key of the city for non-payment of taxes. On May 26, the city handily collaged the front door with seizure notices,…
Pete Ryan Cook Street School of Culinary Arts 1937 Market Street 303-308-9300 www.cookstreet.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Pete Ryan. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: Returning to Cook Street as their executive chef instructor…
Highland is already Denver’s hottest restaurant neighborhood, and it’s about to get another eatery: Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery, going into the storefront at 2418 West 32nd Avenue, next to Zio Romolo and across from Duo. Here’s the official word from owners Jason and Jeanette Burgett: After many years of…
Dakota Soifer’s chicharrones, seasoned with a dash of chile oil and salt, are crispy puffs that crack between the teeth and dissolve on the tongue almost instantly, leaving behind nothing more than the sweet smokiness of pork. They’re not on the menu at Cafe Aion, but they’re sent, along with…
After more than a three-year run, Andrew’s on Lincoln, 1111 Lincoln Street, appears to have closed over the weekend. There’s no word yet on what will happen to the space. Last September, Andrew’s was remodeled and essentially divided into two spaces: one a bar/restaurant and the other dubbed the “Stage,”…
Last week, we reported that Denver’s groundbreaking pay-what-you-want SAME Cafe inspired national bakery and cafe chain Panera Bread to get into the non-profit biz itself. Built on the model used by SAME and other community kitchens like Salt Lake City’s One World Everybody Eats, Panera opened a pay-what-you-can cafe outside…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, which is owned and operated by Denver based Alon Mor, has signed a deal with Doherty Enterprises to expand its dining concept to the East Coast…
Pete Ryan Cook Street School of Culinary Arts 1937 Market Street 303-308-9300 www.cookstreet.com After a fifteen-month pan-pounding stint at Z Cuisine, in March Pete Ryan became the executive chef/instructor at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, a move that brought him back to the institution where he’d been a student…
The blots of yellow that you see on the pizza in the above pic are not yellow cheese, but canals of yolk from a just-cracked egg that wind through the valley of mushrooms, bacon and tender pea shoots. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
Be careful when you search for Sugar House. If you want the restaurant at 1395 West Alameda Avenue, which touts its big burgers — and calls itself the “sweet spot” for lunch and happy hour — you want the Sugar House Grill.. If you want the nightclub in the same…
David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, concede that Denver has nearly as many burger barns as Colorado has cattle, but Eco-Burger, their new Cherry Creek North burger joint taking up residence in the former Soleil Mediterranean Grill space (which the couple owned and closed in March) at 2817…
No tater tots or fruit cocktail were harmed in the upbringing of Congressman Jared Polis. No Cheetos or Little Debbie snack cakes either for that matter. In fact, Colorado’s second district congressman says he brought his lunch to school every day when he was growing up. What was packed? Usually…
At last night’s Denver FIVE dinner at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, Jamey Fader, culinary director of Big Red F Restaurant Group, the empire that oversees Lola, had this to say about his partners in cooking: “There are great things going on in Denver right now because of the incredibly talented…
Big plates of fries and big burgers crowned with just about every conceivable topping — in this case, arugula, caramelized onions and roasted poblano peppers bolstered with a side of “secret” sauce jolted with cayenne. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
Brothers Bar & Grill — a link in a Wisconsin-based chain — is slated to open May 27 in the former home of The Real World: Denver at 1920 Market Street. And there’s enough drama around this project to rate a reality show. When Theorie, the building’s most recent occupant,…
The clown at the center of the controversy had nothing on the clowns outside the annual McDonald’s investor meeting in Chicago last week. Ronald McDonald has been under fire recently as a provider of both bad meals and bad lessons to the nation’s chunky, un-educated toddlers, and with Michelle Obama…
