Squeaky Bean honors the dearly departed with shrines -- and cocktails
Leave it to Johnny Ballen, the eccentric (and innovative) owner of the Squeaky Bean, to honor the lives of those that have passed with more than just a obligatory R.I.P. It all started years ago at the...
View ArticleThe twenty goriest and most gruesome Halloween cakes (and one very disturbing...
There's gross -- and there's gross anatomy, the deeply gruesome and gory body parts that hit the table on Halloween, the one day of the year when demonic bakers emerge from their caldrons and devise...
View ArticleDenver Museum of Nature and Science on the hunt for a sixth taste sense
Do you see dead people? Well, too bad. That's not the sixth sense that the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is looking for. The museum's Genetics of Taste Lab has partnered with Purdue University on...
View ArticlePhotos: Twelve Denver Bronco culinary masterpieces for Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest calorie-consuming holiday of the year after Thanksgiving, but while Thanksgiving is all about the turkey and mashed potatoes, Super Bowl Sunday, at least in...
View ArticleTonight only: Camel meat tacos at Los Chingones
The meat in the taco snap above? Camel. And, why not? According to i24news.tv, the camel, "dubbed the 'ship of the desert,' occupies a significant place in the culture of the Arabian Peninsula." In...
View ArticleTelluride Mushroom Festival's Long, Strange Trip to This Weekend's 33rd Fest
Many folks who hear about the Telluride Mushroom Festival wonder whether it focuses on mushrooms for eating, or mushrooms for, you know, seeing Pocahontas riding a dragon and stuff. The confusion is...
View ArticleAurora's Josh Bayne Forages for Food on Fat Guys in the Woods
The Weather Channel, like cable companions TLC (which apparently was once focused on learning), the History Channel and NatGeo (because National Geographic didn't sound cool enough for the kids), has...
View ArticleFive of the Best -- and Worst -- Pumpkin Spice Foods This Year
Pumpkin spice season gets earlier and earlier every year, much like the Xmas shopping holiday, and somewhere around mid-August the traditional pumpkin spice goodies appeared on shelves. The beloved...
View ArticleAt $21 a Pound, Roasted Hemp Seeds Look Like a Cash Cow
Hemp seeds have started infiltrating grocery-store shelves across America. They're often sold shelled and in bulk quantities, but some producers have also been packaging them as snack items. Roasted...
View ArticleFive of the Best -- and Worst -- New Halloween Treats for 2014
Halloween season means we get homemade orange-iced cupcakes with too much icing, black ginger ale punch full of sodden gummy worms, and those little rolled fondant ghosts that somebody's auntie made by...
View ArticleFive Recent Food Developments That Probably Won't Work
Food companies pair creativity with marketability -- along with a little luck -- to score "the next big thing" in food trends. There are some amazing ideas for new foods and drinks out there, but at...
View ArticleDoes The Source Have Denver's Biggest Bathroom?
The Source was jumping yesterday, but even so, we're not quite sure it needs a bathroom with room for 185 people. Or does that sign refer to the capacity for another space in the converted warehouse?...
View ArticleAfter the Fall: Man Who Was Living in the Yard House Ceiling Sentenced
If you were going to live above a restaurant, would you choose the downtown Yard House? And by "live above," we're not talking about a second-floor apartment. We're talking about the crawl space above...
View ArticleFifteen Funky Food-Related Gifts for the Holidays
So you’re hard up for gift ideas this year, like you are every year, because ‘tis the season to stress over who gets what on your holiday list. You don’t know what anyone wants, so shopping sucks. You...
View ArticleLe Bakery Sensual Celebrates 35 Years of Serving Members
With so much turnover in both the crazy restaurant and real estate scenes, it seems like a mini-miracle when a business survives even a few years in Denver, let alone 35. One of those success stories?...
View ArticleMeat Candles are Heating Up the Beefy Dining Scene in Denver and Boulder
Meat candles. Two words I never thought I would ever utter in the same sentence, yet lo and behold, with more than one restaurant in the Centennial State offering this oddly edible treat, it appears we...
View ArticleCollision Outside Little Man Ice Cream Makes a Big Internet Hit
Little Man Ice Cream has been a hit since it first opened in LoHi. Developer Paul Tamburello created the giant milk can-shaped shop in honor of his father, and put it in an empty spot at 2620 16th...
View ArticleGaribaldi Mexican Bistro: A Room With a View...of a Car Wash
Last month I stopped by Garibaldi Mexican Bistro at 3298 South Broadway in a lead-up to Tacolandia, Westword's celebration of Denver's Mexican street food. I was on a mission at the time, and made a...
View ArticleSavory Spice Unveils Chicharron Salt — An All-Natural Answer to Bacon Salt
Savory Spice has created a porky new seasoning called Chicharron Salt, which the company will roll out the public beginning Thursday, August 17.
View ArticleCat Wine Inventor Brews Up a New Line of Dog Beers
Bringing your dog to the bar has been a thing for eons, but what if we told you that your dog can knock back a cold one with you? Thanks to Brandon Zavala of Apollo Peak, makers of Cat Wine and Fur...
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