About a month ago, if you’ll recall, I raked my former idol, Mario Batali, over the coals for jumping on the bandwagon of the cute veggie campaign, Meatless Monday. And in the aftermath, as was only fair, I was chastised for my pigheadedness (no pun intended). But as my comments…

Despite the tiff with Cherry Creek Fresh Market, Civic Center Eats is thriving, bringing crowds of downtown lunchers to the Tuesday food court. And now those lunchers won’t have to wait until next Tuesday for another fix. The Steuben’s Food Truck has secured a permit that will allow the movable…

Since the Squeaky Bean opened in May 2009, chef Max MacKissock has found the limitations of the closet-sized kitchen an ongoing test of his creativity. Not only does he have to dream up three meals a day that satisfactorily incorporate his obsession with seasonality, he also has to figure out…

How in the hell am I supposed to eat this?” It was a perfect summer night in Denver. Inside the Squeaky Bean, a lively crowd was watching the Celtics and the Lakers battle it out on the bar TV, cheering over the freak folk and remixed indie rock coming from…

Last night, I had the best cup of coffee of my life. It was the Novo-roasted Brazil Cup of Excellence poured from a French Press, hot and complex, and so good I wanted the owner of Crema Coffee House, who sells the java, to relinquish the whole pot, letting me…

Since the fleet of food trucks and gourmet mobile carts hit the streets of Denver,, there have been relatively few regulatory obstacles, and the vehicles have been proffering goods to the masses from curbs and parking lots all over town. Now, though, there could be a roadblock in the most…

The cupcake trend appears to be gasping its last breath in a fully saturated market, and national eat blogs and food writers are having a heyday with bidding farewell. Dessert must go on, though, and Jezebel just polled its readers on what sweet they thought would become the post-cupcake trend…

Early this year Sushi Sasa, the wildly popular sushi joint at 2401 15th Street, took over the vacated Wilderness Exchange spot next door, with plans to double the size of the dining room, adding 70 seats to the original 62. Now that space is finally — thankfully — open, a…

Perhaps you’ve heard by now about the legal scuffle that’s pitting The New White Meat against The Other White Meat. Here’s a primer, if not: About a week ago, the Pork Board sent a cease and desist letter, via Denver’s Faegre-Benson legal team, to ThinkGeek. The letter claimed the online…

Time to celebrate the birth of our nation by eating barbecue until we explode, blatantly ignoring open container laws and then lighting some things on fire. Or by eating good old American food in one of OpenTable’s top 50 American restaurants. The popular internet reservation site just released its annual…

Chipotle Mexican Grill, the big-ass burrito-monger that started in a tiny renovated ice cream shop at 1644 East Evans in 1993 has reached a couple of milestones recently. The first European Chipotle started hawking the goods to Londoners in May, and yesterday, the chain opened its 1,000th restaurant in Flower…

Cafe Brazil isn’t a trend-follower. The owners have had a good ride for close to twenty years without jumping on any passing bandwagons, and it’s worked just fine. But last year, as cocktail culture amped up, Marla, Tony and Mauricio opened the Rum Room to give the Front Range a…

Legend has it that the first owner actually was Brazilian,” our waiter muses as he admires the caramel-colored crema on top of our post-dinner espressos. “He left town after a year and a half because he couldn’t find fresh mangoes in the state of Colorado.” This is my aha moment,…

With the concentration of eateries in Larimer Square comes endless opportunities for roving culinary events, although the next manifestation of that won’t be roving, exactly. On Wednesday, July 21, the Square will be closed to traffic from 6 to 9 p.m. so diners can converge on the street for a…

A permit application has been posted in the front window of Frasca Food and Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, for some time now, indicating the Boulder restaurant’s plans to erect restaurant or retail square footage in the empty space next to their existing dining room. The permanent modification and liquor license…

Say what you will about the guilty train wreck that is the Twilight series, but the indulgent fluff that’s being spooned up by teenage girls (and voyeuristic women) the world over has got a lot of people laughing all the way to the bank. Including Gina Meyers, who penned Love…

I’ve been on the front lines of the service industry long enough to have seen some pretty weird requests accommodated. I once came upon a diner who wanted to have his food cut into little pieces by the chef, just the way his mother did when he was five. I…

Gelman’s Restaurant and Bar has been turning out American classics like burgers and wedge salads and veal meatloaf since November 2005. Now it’s last call: The restaurant will be closing its doors on June 27 to make way for a new concept the Gelman Group is creating, a seafood restaurant,…

If this was a world in which the dining scene was scrutinized like professional sports, with gamblers placing bets on the what pastry will be the next cupcake, what technique will become the new foam or which chef is most likely to win a James Beard award, we’d head down…