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.
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
Don't miss these top Denver restaurant specials, chef's dinners, takeout deals, online programming and other food and drink happenings from February 22 to 26, 2021.
Linnea Covington
Wednesday, February 17
National Drink Wine Day technically falls on February 18, but you know the tea: Since March 17, 2020,
every day has been National Drink Wine Day. So we re not going to complain too much about the fact that the Colorado Wine Industry Development Board is hosting a livestream in honor of the day 24 hours early especially not since the event also honors Black History Month. Black sommeliers Kendra Anderson (formerly the owner of Bar Helix) and William Davis will join Denver author, certified barbecue judge and current CWIDB member Adrian Miller for a tasting of the Centennial State s wines, as well as discussion about racial diversity and equity in the wine industry. Register for the free webinar on Zoom, or watch it live on the Board s Facebook page.