Ken Hamblin
Thursday, May 6
Last December, the Preservery, 3040 Blake Street, launched Giving Meals its way to allow customers to purchase a warm meal for people living on the streets in Five Points. Since then, the restaurant has given away 2,500 meals to its unhoused neighbors. On Thursday, May 6, the Preservery is holding a fundraiser to benefit the program. Restaurant co-owner Obe Ariss will take the stage with a classical piano performance; for $12, you can reserve a seat at one of two shows (5:30 to 7 p.m. or 7:30 to 9 p.m.). The cover charge pays for two meals for someone in need, and you ll get to hear live music for the first time in 150 years and enjoy the eatery s excellent eats and drinks (the cost of food and drinks is extra). Buy your ticket or just give a straight-up donation on the Preservery s website.
Friday, April 23 Denver Restaurant Week is back beginning Friday, April 23, and running through Sunday, May 2. Book a seat at one (or more!) of 200 Denver-area restaurants offering prix fixe menus for $25, $35 or $45. The event, generally held in February and March, has been moved to this week to take advantage of Denver s renowned sunny days and warmer weather even though the definition of patio weather has been
Project Angel Heart, the nonprofit organization that provides medically tailored meals for people living with serious illnesses, is now in the second year of revamping Dining Out for Life, its signature fundraiser. Normally, participating restaurants donate a portion of their sales for a single day in April to Project Angel Heart but with restaurant dining rooms shuttered last year and many eateries still on life support, some changes are in order. In 2021, the event has been expanded to run from Friday, April 23, through Sunday, May 2, and restaurants are not bein
It s a triple-X kind of week, with Muxagat, kalimotxo and Xatrucho not to mention some music that comes with a parental warning label on the menu.
Keep reading for details on all the tasty events over the next few days, then read further for more food and drink events in the weeks ahead.
Monday, April 12 Boulder cooking school Food Lab, at 1825 Pearl Street, is taking three hours to teach what generations of Japanese chefs have taken decades to master: ramen. From 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12, you ll learn the basics of two types of ramen broths, tonkotsu and shoyu, plus how to make chasu (braised pork), springy noodles and pickled shiitakes and carrots. Sign up for the class, $85, on Food Lab s website. Beer and wine aren t included in the class, but they re available for purchase if you ve been heavily reliant on state-dependent learning since your college days.
Get ready to usher in another sunny weekend with a cooking class, spring cocktails, mushroom madness or poutine in a parking lot.
After chewing over the details for those events, keep reading for more fun things in the weeks ahead, including May the Fourth food and drink specials and a recently rescheduled kitchen takeover that had us drooling back in March before it was canceled.
Friday, April 9
The Seasoned Chef, a cooking school at 999 Jasmine Street, has a few spots left for its Taste of Tokyo cooking class at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 9. For $185, you and your sous chef will learn how to make not one, not two, but three iconic Japanese preparations: sushi, both savory (crab roll, shrimp tempura roll, spicy tuna roll) and sweet (chocolate-banana); tempura veggies; and chicken ramen. The three-hour class comes with a sake cocktail. Find out more details and check the calendar for future classes at the Seasoned Chef website.