Dazbog Coffee understands that its undercaffeinated, too-tired-to-function customers may not always remember their wallets — and so the stores are offering a payment method that doesn’t require a wallet. “Everyone has their cell phone before their wallet these days,” says Leonid Yuffa, co-owner of the thirty-store chain that’s based in…

McMurdo Station, one of three U.S. government-run research posts in Antarctica, is looking for a new executive chef. The requirements include a bachelor’s degree, a culinary degree and seven years of experience, at least three of which are supervisory. Oh, and you should be willing to relocate to Antarctica for…

Fourteen bartenders. Twenty minutes. One winner of an iPad. That was roughly the formula for the bartending competition Sunday night at Lola, sponsored by Don Julio. Using either Don Julio’s Reposado or Blanco, the participating bartenders made mini-cocktails, a concept that the tequila brand calls “Luxury Drops.” The winner, Dylan…

Noy Farrell doesn’t use pesticides in her garden. The chef/co-owner of Taste of Thailand uses ladybugs and beer instead. The ladybugs eat the insects that try to devour her greens and herbs, and a shallow bowl of beer attracts — and kills off — any snails. Noy’s primary garden is…

Approximately 2,200 semi-trucks full of Colorado potatoes head to Mexico each year. But an effort to open Mexico’s markets could mean a tenfold increase in potato exports from this state, according to John Salazar, Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture. Mexico is Colorado’s second-largest export market for agricultural goods, with 39 percent…

Next month, Cebiche will open at 7000 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, in the former home of Minilla’s Restaurant. The massive, 5,000-plus square-foot space will have a main dining room, three bars and two patios where Peruvian food will be served, as well as a basement-level bar called The…

Chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson of Frasca Food and Wine chose Comida, the Boulder-based Mexican food truck, as his favorite restaurant in Colorado for Travel + Leisure’s feature on chef’s darlings around the country. He especially likes the bistec tacos, costillas de res tacos and “truck-made” guacamole and chips, Mackinnon-Patterson told the…

Ototo Food and Wine Bar, the not-so-Japanese sibling of Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, is now serving Sunday brunch. The menu features such standard brunch fare as bagels with lox and steak and eggs, as well as more innovative offerings, including duck confit. And whenever possible, every dish features ingredients…

Howie Drummond, an Alice 105.9 personality, was one of fifteen contestants to start off season seven of The Next Food Network Star last Sunday. Drummond, who lives in Highlands Ranch, had experience in professional kitchens, had owned his own now-closed tapas place, and had plenty of experience in front of…

Daniel Klein’s resume includes some of the best restaurants in the world, restaurants including The Fat Duck and St. John in England, Thomas Keller’s Bouchon and Tom Colicchio’s Craft. Now he’s producing The Perennial Plate, a weekly web series about sustainable eating. While the first season focused on the kitchen,…

There are plenty of arbitrary, food-related holidays, but one dedicated to doughnuts? Now, that something to get excited about. Not everyone is celebrating National Donuts Day — such local shops as Walton Donuts and Marty’s 47th Street Donuts, along with the chain Winchell’s Donut House, are staying out of the…