A quick perusal of Amazon shows that Thomas Keller’s French Laundry cookbook regularly costs $50, the same price Grant Achatz charges for Alinea at Home. Heston Blumenthal’s larger volume of recipes, the Big Fat Duck, weighs in at a hefty $250. And Ferran Adria, of the soon-to-close molecular gastronomy mecca,…
What’s better than a food-cart meal? A food-cart meal with booze. Realizing that it could capitalize on having snacks available alongside its brewed beer, the Great Divide tasting room, 2201 Arapahoe Street, has been inviting different mobile vendors around town to post up during the afternoon…
We got a little too hopped up on caffeine this weekend — to the point of heart palpitations, in fact — because we couldn’t stop sucking down the cappuccinos at Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue, which reopened a month ago in a former Peaberry’s shop in Cherry Creek…
Two-Fisted Mario’s, 1626 Market Street, has long been a unique place to sit and put down a pizza, but the digs of the eatery’s sibling restaurants are some of the most inventive interiors in town. Right next door, Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, 1632 Market Street, feels like an acid-induced tumble…
The Hoffbrau Bar & Grill, a dark two-level dive inhabiting the plot at 1301 Santa Fe Drive, closed quietly a few months ago, but is set to reopen next week under new ownership…
Satchel’s Market, 5021 East 28th Avenue, was closed for summer vacation last week, leaving the colorful building dark for five days. Vacation is over, though, and as promised, the Park Hill restaurant has reopened for business…
Happily, the truce between Civic Center Eats and Cherry Creek Fresh Market has opened the doors for many vendors to make regular stops at both events. One vendor taking advantage of the new arrangement is 528˚, a wood-fired pizza oven on wheels, which has also been making regular appearances at…
If we’re to believe our mothers who constantly shoved toast into our hands on our way out the door before school, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast is more than just sustenance, though: It’s another meal to indulge your gastronomic cravings. To appease your mother and…
So what do you do when you’re a big magazine publisher that’s strapped for cash? Close a couple of magazines? Build new mobile apps? How about open a restaurant?…
There may be a few lonely faces in the crowd at Rodney’s restaurant in Cherry Creek, but Rodney’s second outpost, in the Tamarac Square shopping center, is about to become a very lonely business. As Developers Diversified — the owners of both the center and the land under it —…
“I still hate dining alone. That’s probably the hardest part. Figuring out how to sit comfortably in a restaurant without a date by your side. Some restaurants are good for it, others are terrible. You adjust, I guess. But I avoid it if I can.” I’m sipping a Campari on…
The Golden City Brewery, 920 Twelfth Street, has long seen crowds packed into its beer garden on Fridays and Saturdays, but now that it’s also maxed out its brewing capacity, it’s looking to move. Owners Charlie and Janine Sturdavant are pretty adamant about finding a unique property, though. “Charlie and…
British chef Jamie Oliver has spent the last several months working with kids to improve their choices with regard to nutrition, documenting his progress on ABC’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Now he’s won a $100,000 TED grant to combat childhood obesity, and his plan sounds like a good one…
Although other Tamarac Square tenants have been told to get out of the mall this month, Rodney’s plans to hang on until the end of the year — when owner Rodney Utz says the developer will have to buy him out of the rest of his lease, which goes another…
You know you’ve got an exploding trend when the lowest-common-denominator, late-night guilty pleasure, drive-thru chain decides to jump on board…
Over the weekend, New York Times writer Mark Bittman posed a question to readers on his personal blog: Should he out the name of the restaurant that served him shards of plastic in his soup?…
Yesterday, Cafe Society posted its roll call for restaurants that had opened (and closed) in July. But the big news so far this summer is the vibrant gourmet mobile vending scene that’s rolled into town — and doesn’t have a real address. So many chefs/restaurateurs are announcing plans to hit…
When the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street, opens its doors for guests this fall, it will also give Denver a new place to eat: EDGE Restaurant & Bar. Defined by the Four Seasons as a “contemporary steakhouse,” the eatery will also feature wild game and a tapas menu, as…
Searching for a lunch venue for a friendly reunion today, I was pleased to stumble upon H Burger Co’s Facebook page, touting the advent of Monday Funday. Echoing H Burger’s Tuesday deals, Mondays at the five-month-old burger joint, 1555 Blake Street, now feature a new list of specials, including $1…
Last week, at a secret gathering of street-food vendors, these mobile entrepreneurs conducted a test run for what Josh Wolkon, owner of the Steuben’s Food Truck, called Denver’s own version of the Portland pod, a frequent meet-up of trucks and carts in that Oregon city that draws the crowds and…
If the long line and full tables that greeted us at St. Mark’s Coffeehouse this morning are any indication, Denverites can’t start their days without a caffeine-fix. So it should be no surprise that we ranked number four in the Daily Beast’s list of the top twenty most caffeinated cities…
Our recent story on the cost of Denver’s street food brought out plenty of snarky opinions, as you debated the value of lunch from a truck. Most of you seemed okay with paying prices between $5 and $10, but the Mexican feast and the $20 lobster roll, especially, were the…
