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.
It s March in Denver, so the weather forecast is between zero and 91 inches of snow this weekend. The fun part? You won t know which until the last minute. So if all your frantic toilet paper, frozen pizza and beer purchases are in vain, here are eight things to do on the city s food and drink scene, plus another eight for the rest of March.
Bonnie Brae restaurant Brightmarten (pictured pre-pandemic) is pouring South American wines on March 12.
Courtesy Brightmarten
Friday, March 12 The Denver Box is back with another installment, this time from Highland neighborhood joint FNG. For the month of March, order one of three meals from the Denver Box website, and you ll get enough food (and drinks!) for four people from the comfort food kitchen for just $100. Choose from meatloaf with chipotle ketchup, mashed potatoes and gravy, onion rings and broccolini; chicken parmesan and pasta, grilled zucchini, focaccia and green salad; or enchiladas chicken or vegetarian sweet potato wit
After digesting those possibilities, keep reading for future food and drink events through the end of March.
Monday, March 8 Restaurants (and the people who work in them) need love now more than ever. Enter To Denver, With Love, a fundraiser for the Colorado Restaurant Association s Angel Relief Fund. The fund gives emergency grants to bar and restaurant employees across the state who are facing unexpected injury, illness or disaster. The only thing you need to do to contribute is upload photos of your favorite restaurant memories to the Living Love Wall, an online photo collage, and restaurant tech company SpotOn will donate $3.03 to the Angel Relief Fund (up to $10,000). So take a look at your camera roll and upload all those food photos to a place where they ll do some good instead of just annoying your friends.
This week brings the start of Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar s annual Oyster Month (which is soldiering on despite the pandemic), as well as 303 Day, a gala fundraiser in the comfort of your own home (wear a gown and slippers, skip the heels), and a seafood collab just because.
Keep reading for more on those events, as well as other culinary happenings through March that you won t want to miss.
Monday, March 1 This year marks the second consecutive year without the High West Oyster Fest, the (previously) annual celebration that brought oyster shucking and slurping contests to the landlocked folks of Denver. But Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar is still forging ahead with Oyster Month for all of March. From Monday, March 1, through Wednesday, March 31, oyster virgins (heh) can nab their first bivalve experience for free at any of Jax s locations; choose from fried, chargrilled or on the half shell. After that, enjoy a free oyster for every dozen you order (or, if you can t down a d