The Fourth of July may have meant fireworks and beer for you, but for nineteen lucky competitors, the big day signified only one thing: hot dogs. Out on Coney Island, New York, on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues, the winners of Nathan’s hot dog eating qualifiers around the…
Tom Eschino used to work as a medical marketer. He would send his homemade cookies to doctors as a thank-you for their business, but things turned sour when he was laid off last year. Eschino says the cookies were partly to blame — the company claimed he put in too…
At 4 p.m. this afternoon, just in time for happy hour, MiniBAR, the Milk Dud-size space at 222 Columbine Street, is hosting a wine and food pairing on the patio featuring Scarpetta wines from Frasca Food & Wine master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and exec chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson who, together, co-own…
Okay, so I stopped by the new Denver Pizza Company yesterday, which, as you’ve no doubt heard (or read), is the pie-hole of kicked-to-the-curb bachelor Mark Huebner, the 27-year-old contestant on this season’s The Bachelorette, who got robbed of a rose back in June.Bummer. Anyway, Huebner, a Chicago native and…
According to Clemente Martinez, the owner of Brandon’s Pub (the strange Mexican sports bar at 955 Lincoln Street that went dark last week), his place wasn’t closing so much as taking a brief vacation. He insisted that the plan was to take a short hiatus, cool himself off a little…
Here’s some good news for all you East Coasters homesick for a bona fide crab boil: Beginning this week, Jax Fish House, the Denver restaurant shrine to all things aquatic at 1539 17th Street, is throwing crab boils on its patio for groups of four or more. The boils, priced…
If you took all the foods I loved the most and compiled them on a plate, this is what that plate would look like…before I licked it clean. If you can’t figure out where this lovely example of a charcuterie platter resides, click around Cafe Society for clues and post…
Chris Cina’s had some bad luck lately, with his last gig at Twig’s Wine Bar and Pickles Deli in Tipsy’s, a gigantic liquor store in Littleton, drying up fast last fall. And that was after an absolutely disastrous attempt to open T. Kelly’s at 1361 Court Place. Still, Cina’s got…
Cinna-Graham Honey-Comb Post Rating: Three spoons out of four Cereal description: The ingredients for these these thick, hefty, seven-holed wheels include corn flour, oat flour, assorted vitamins, caramel coloring that makes the bits a tad darker than original recipe Honey-Comb, and not much more. It’s one of the shorter rosters…
Just after midnight on Thursday, July 2, The Hornet, 76 Broadway, posted the sign seen above on its windows and doors. But unlike Lucy, the upscale restaurant in Comedy Works South that’s “closed for maintenance” — and may or may not reopen by the end of the month — The…
We’re out early for the Fourth of July weekend, but check below to make sure you didn’t miss any of the good stuff this week. Enjoy your sparklers.Floods and fire temporarily shutter two local barbecue joints.Where to find the best cart lunch? Readers weigh in.Restaurant roll call for June: opened…
This is me jumping up and down in excitement. This is me rubbing my hands with glee. Yeah, sure, 250 Steele Street has a serious curse on it. Like a Curse of the Mummy-style curse. Abandon hope all ye who open a restaurant here. This space has swallowed more restaurants…
Who do you think can eat more hot dogs in a short period of time: the chefs and volunteers from Project Angel Heart, which feeds over 800 meals to sick and housebound patients every day, or the Glendale Raptors rugby team? Project Angel Heart Executive Chef Jon Emanuel wasn’t too…
Two lobsters — fried, steamed, slicked with sauce or stomped with jalapenos, spring onions and garlic — for $19.99. A damn good two-for-one deal if you can find it…XO, Lori…
Never say die: The space at 250 Steele Street that swallowed French 250 (and numerous restaurants before that) is now moving around the Mediterranean. According to the banner now hanging at that address, Ondo’s, a tapas spot, will attempt to make a go of this spot come fall…
Lucy, the tony restaurant that takes up the second floor of Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Place, is shuttered for what the website calls “maintenance.” Well, sort of. I just got off the phone with Susan Collyar, marketing manager for Comedy Works, who told me that the restaurant is being…
The main thing that weirds people out about Chick-O-Stick is the name. It seems the inclusion of “chick” in there, coupled with the image of a chicken that appears on the original packaging, makes people assume the candy is some sort of unholy chicken mash-up, similar to Chickin in a…
After stopping by the Tabor Center to stare at what had been the third-floor food court, I headed down the 16th Street Mall to visit the last surviving food court: Republic Plaza. “At last,” I thought, when I saw the neon and smelled the grease as I neared Court Pl…
The dog days of summer are here, and barking all about that is dogmatches.com, a Boulder-based website that’s currently holding a Best Doggone Restaurant Competition to determine which restaurants, bars and java joints in Denver and Boulder are Fido-friendly. You can cast your vote on things like: Which restaurant has…
Mark Huebner didn’t get the girl — he was eliminated from The Bachelorette two weeks ago — but he got a pizza joint instead. His Denver Pizza Company, at 309 West 11th Avenue, opens tomorrow at 11 a.m.; it will be selling medium pies for $5 (one topping) and large…
From 5 – 10 p.m., Friday, July 3, the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery, 931 West Fifth Avenue, is participating in the Golden Triangle’s First Friday Art Walk by hosting “Art Under the Influence,” a grape stomp in the courtyard that includes wines by the glass, great grub from Masterpiece…
Almost everyone at Sketch Food and Wine knows me. The above-the-line guys for certain, some of the bartenders. I have acted well and poorly in their establishment, used it for celebrations and decompressions numerous times since it opened in March. And I have experienced the all-too-classic result of blown critical…
