Eat the Heat: Dogg´s is Another Breed of Street Grub
There´s normally not a whole lot to the street food in LoDo. Slightly sketchy characters pushing mushy burritos from foam coolers or boiled hot dogs in Wonder Bread buns. Dogg´s, the metal shack nestled on the corner of 17th and Market, is technically another one of these, in the same way an aircraft carrier is...
Eat the Heat: Four Perfect Wines for Summer
All summer it had been beer at the BBQ´s, so this week I decided to head to legendary Highlands wine shop Mondo Vino for some recommendations by sommelier Scott Mattson. Try these for a warm afternoon on the patio or romantic night in. And remember, in vino veritas! Chablis by Savary ($30-35) Mattson calls this one, “the best...
Eat the Heat: Throw a Summer Picnic at the Cherry Creek Fresh Market
For starters: small time chevre Try some goat cheese, or chevre (pronounce it “shev” for +10 sophistication points), from Stone Creek Farmstead, Colorado’s smallest dairy. A family-run outfit with just ten goats, each batch, made the night before you buy it, comes without hormones, preservatives and artificial enzymes. As for the chevre, the fat globules of...
Eat the Heat: When Your Ice Cream Needs Some Pancakes
It is the firm opinion of LoHi’s Little Man Ice Cream that when you enter summer, you leave your diet behind. Ok, so they didn’t exactly come out and tell me that. But last Saturday morning, after a stack of buttery pancakes under banana nut ice cream, then a few more with butterscotch gelato, then...
Eat the Heat: Fireworks Day Picnic Recipes from Pizzeria Da Lupo
Day before the Fourth and still no plans? Fear not, our friends from Pizzeria Da Lupo got your back with some all-American recipes for a last minute picnic this fine Independence Day. Grab a blanket and head to a warm grassy place to eat some home-cooked grub, watch fireworks and make everyone think you planned...
Eat the Heat: Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop Makes Your Dentist’s Dreams Come True
Patrick Evan was due for a bit of fun. He had been accounting for 13 years, and finally left his cubicle to do what any math major on a midlife crisis would: Start a candy store. And not you’re quaint, Cherry Creek chocolatier. Evans started Denver’s location of Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop,...
Eat the Heat: An Italian Delicacy Hits the Streets
Lara Galante’s hand-made Italian pudding, or panna cotta, is fancy stuff. It’s the kind of thing you find at a country club garden party, not Food Truck Row near Sherman and Colfax, where last Thursday Galante brought her little red bike cart to peddle her hand-crafted delicacy next to sizzling bratwursts and coolers of Gatorade....
Gadget Guide: Why Nintendo’s Wii U is good news for non-gamers
If you’re not a gamer, you might not have known about last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the yearly festival of joysticks and polygons that has fanboys clicking refresh late into the night to see what Activision will say about the next Call of Duty. Fortunately, the star of the show, Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U...
Eat the Heat: Summer Lobster at The Palm is a crustacean celebration
Post a comment, win Summer Lobster! Got a great lobster joke? A secret shell-cracking technique? A heartfelt ode to your favorite arthropod? Post it in the comments below and you could win a lobster dinner courtesy of The Palm restaurant. The best comment submitted before noon on Thursday, June 14, will win a Classic $99...
Gadget Guide: Paws off the screen with Leap Motion
Steve Jobs wasn’t really that original. He changed technology, but style goes back 700 years to a guy named William of Occam, who said the less parts something has, the better it is. Jobs used this idea when he decided that we don’t really need CDs, or mice or keyboards – all we need to...
Steamboat Springs: summer sans the slopes
Wandering adrenaline junky Doug Davis had seen it all: Colorado, California Michigan, France, New Zealand – staying the season to ski, bike and hike before striking out for the next best mountain. But when he hit Steamboat Springs, he stayed for good. The difference: Steamboat wasn’t a ski town. “It’s more of a Colorado ranching...
Gadget Guide: Optrix HD makes your iPhone badass
John Willenborg loves to take his iPhone on his motorcycle. He likes to attach it to his helmet, fly down a dirt track, spin out of control, crash into a mudbank and record the whole thing in HD. Back in UC Berkeley, he used to record his races with a GoPro camcorder but found it fiddly...































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