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Where to Eat This Weekend: Denver – Toques and ‘Tails

Toques and 'Tails    Culinary Celebrities, Gurus, and Groupies Gather to Taste Test Denver’s Best   Culinary celebrities, gurus, and groupies are heading to Denver this May for a chef and bartender competition like none other. The event, titled “Toques and ‘Tails,” will feature some of the best restaurants in Denver, each competing in a day of heated cooking and creative mixing. The top restaurants include Old Major, Corner House, TAG, The Corner Office, Central Bistro & Bar, Trillium, Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, and Colt & Gray. Ample servings of cocktails and food from each of the restaurants will accompany the read more >

Where to Drink This Week: Denver – Trillium

Trillium   Drinking with a Scandinavian Twist Brings Ultimate Bliss Just steps away from the Colorado Rockies’ ballpark, the Scandinavian themed cuisine and drink of Trillium awaits hungry baseball fans.  After a long, hot day in the field, a drink such as “The Boys of Summer” will help to cool you back down.   This drink, described by Trillium as a ‘walk in the ballpark with Irish Whiskey, Mint, Blackberry Liquor, Orange, Lime, and Bitters’ will satisfy your appetite for the refreshing summer cocktail you could not find anywhere else. After spending some time walking in the ballpark with your “Boys read more >

Where to Eat This Weekend: Denver – Udi’s Cafe

Udi's   Find the Udi’s for You: Fast or Leisurely Now that spring weather is finally here in Denver, the time for dining ‘al fresco’ is upon us.  The time is ripe for wrapping your hands around one of the best pizza crusts in Denver as you sink your teeth into a slightly salty, slightly chewy crust made from head baker Maurizio’s Italian starter recipe.  Topped with kale, garlic, tomatoes, mushroom, truffle oil, and breadcrumbs, this crust serves as the perfect base for the award of the best specialty pizza of 2013. Served in the airy back patio of Udi’s Cafe, read more >

Where to Eat This Weekend: Denver – Epernay Lounge

Epernay Denver’s Newest Lounge, Epernay, puts on a Sexy, Inventive, and Ultimately Provocative Show, Centered Upon Food – Of Course. When Epernay Lounge‘s interior designer, David Schaich, decided to fuse the restaurant’s backdrop design with the aesthetic elements of France’s Champagne culture together with some of Asia and the flowing shapes of the sea, he laid the foundation for the creation of a space with an unmatched allure.  Indeed, with Denver’s beloved Chef Duy Pham at the helm of Epernay’s gastronomic operations, Epernay’s culinary creations capitalized upon this theatrical backdrop, creating dishes with as much allure as the décor itself. In read more >

Where to Eat: Denver – Jezebel’s: Southern Bistro & Bar

Jezebel's Logo   Let Jezebel’s Feed Your Soul Dipping my hands into a basket of fried pickles set aside a generous cup of homemade spicy ranch, my hands begin to get greased up with that good tastin’ southern flavor that causes me to have to retain myself from licking my hands clean.  As I reach for a mini cornbread plated to my right, this flavored southern’ grease makes its way onto my cornbread.  “Lucky dog” says the man seated at the bar to my right who has been eyeing my small plated feast for the last ten minutes. Little does he know, read more >

Where to Drink This Week: Denver – Lala’s Wine Bar & Pizzeria

Where to Drink This Week: Denver – Lala’s Wine Bar & Pizzeria Wine, Dine, & Enjoy “La Dolce Vita” at Lala’s Wine Bar & Pizzeria The sweetness of Italian life, referred to as “la dolce vita,” has been captured and bottled up into the wine selection at Lala’s Wine Bar.  Sixty wines by the glass make the list at Lala’s, offering the winer and diner enough options to entice them into coming back time and time again.  Furthermore, Lala’s offers $5 glasses of wine during happy hour for any wine normally priced under $10, and half-price wine for any wines normally over $10.  With happy hour seven days a week, from 3-7pm read more >

Biker Jim Pittenger

The always irreverent Jim Pittenger of Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs joins host Becky Creighton this week.  Listen in to how he got into the hot dog business, what he did before and how he comes up with his flavor combinations.  Jon Emanuel of Project Angel Heart also joins in and talks about Dining Out for Life happening April 25, 2013. read more >

Where to Eat This Weekend: Denver – Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe

images-46 Awards That Extend from the Community into the Kitchen Known by those willing to venture about Denver in search of what has been deemed Denver’s best chile relleno, Rosa Linda’s has been a Denver favorite since 1985.  Tucked away on the corner of 33rd & Tejon in the historic Highlands neighborhood of Denver, the atmosphere at this family owned and operated mexican food haven is always warm and inviting, ever aglow with mexican food lovers. Rosa Linda’s menu is unique, varying drastically from the normal mexican food joint, offering numerous vegetarian options in addition to some of Mexico’s most traditional read more >

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