Don't wait until Memorial Day weekend to start enjoying everything the Denver culinary scene has to offer. Over the next few days, you can enjoy bagels in Boulder, try funnel cake fries and drink lots of wine.
Saturday, March 13, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., online
Visit Lindita’s Kitchen and learn how to make arroz con pollo. Lindita is an iconic Denver businesswoman and founder of Lindita’s Inc. Salsa and Spices. She grew up as a migrant farmworker, and today is the host of
Lindita’s Kitchen Cooking Show, as well as a cookbook author, chef and cooking instructor who brings passion and zest to showcasing traditional Mexican food. This free program is part of the Saturday Series with CHAC, and is hosted by Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Colorado Folk Arts Council and Metro State University Chicana/o Studies Journey Through Our Heritage. Find out more here.
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.
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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