Dining

An Eastside craft brewery scene, Walmart pink sauce, a ceviche hangover cure and rice bags as sandbags. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of Food, with this week’s Tasting Notes.Fine dining’s twilight? The open kitchen at Rene Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant Noma.(Laurie Ochoa / Los Angeles Times) In the days since Rene Redzepi announced that he’ll close his Copenhagen restaurant Noma nearly two full years from now, at the end of 2024, there’s been a lot of talk about the unsustainable nature of fine…

An international team of scientists have discovered new evidence of a dinosaur dining on ancient mammals. The foot of a tiny mammal was inside the stomach of a microraptor — a small feathered dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous some 100 million years ago in temperate forests in what is now China. It's the first time a piece of a mammal was discovered inside a microraptor. "Looking at interactions between animals, that's much easier to tell in the modern biology in living animals because we can actually go out and…

Kelly Whitaker, the Denver chef behind highly acclaimed restaurants like The Wolf’s Tailor, Basta, Bruto and Cart-Driver, has a new project simmering in the Berkeley neighborhood. His growing hospitality group, Id Est, plans to open Hey Kiddo on the third floor of The Asher boutique hotel, at 4337 Tennyson St. Although the menu is not yet fully fleshed out, Whitaker said the style will be New American. But he’s also collaborating with Chef Deuki Hong, a San Francisco chef who is the author of cookbook “Koreatown,” on some…

The elaborately prepared feast at uber-exclusive restaurant Hawthorne, the setting of the new gourmand-culture thriller The Menu, is so photogenic that snapping pictures has been expressly forbidden; food in general, however, doesn’t come off looking so good.The dishes whipped up by self-serious celebrity chef Julian (Ralph Fiennes) and his militaristic fleet of obedient kitchen staff aspire to profundity rather than settling for the merely appetizing. As foodie douche Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) mansplains to his unimpressed…

One of Denver’s most popular neighborhoods is poised to get hotter. More than a dozen planned real estate projects will attract even more attention to Cherry Creek. The neighborhood’s hotels attract travelers, while its fine-dining options draw foodies. It’s also the ultimate destination for retail therapy, with the Cherry Creek Shopping Center and blocks of stores throughout Cherry Creek North. Revamping Cherry Creek West With the planned Cherry Creek West development, developers are eager to stake their claim in the…

GOLDEN — Now that the pandemic has moved into a less acute and more manageable phase, and cities and towns in Colorado race to reassemble a pre-COVID life, some are asking whether the way it was needs to necessarily be the way it should be. Outdoor dining proved a lifeline for restaurants and bars forced to adhere to government COVID-19 restrictions on indoor gatherings, and in Golden, the city’s recent decision to re-open Miner’s Alley to vehicles for the first time in two years — and close it to drinkers and diners —…

Denver has its ham and pepper omelets; the Rocky Mountains, their fried bull testicles. Colorado can claim its own green chile, as well as plenty of home-grown meat and produce. But beyond the well-trodden menu items, there’s a wide world to discover of essential local restaurant dishes. Will you find 11 foods like the ones we recommend here in other states, regions, countries even? Of course! But to try them in Denver and at this particular crop of restaurants and food trucks is to experience recipes on a level by…

Explore race conditions, deadlock, and shared resources in PythonPhoto by Marisa Harris on UnsplashThe dining philosophers problem is a problem in computer science, and specifically in concurrent systems. Originally invented by Edsger Dijkstra as an exam question, it soon assumed the current form and became a classic. It can be regarded as a toy problem, but it effectively showcases the fundamental conundrum of resource contention. Today we will use it as a perfect excuse for a tutorial on Simpy, a discrete event…

Swiggy has acquired Dineout, a dining out and restaurant tech platform. The food delivery app announced that post acquisition, Dineout will continue to operate as an independent app. This move will allow Swiggy to offer dining out table reservations and events as well as strengthen its business. It will enable restaurant partners to reach more customers in order to grow their business. As per Swiggy, the acquisition will allow it “to explore synergies and offer new experiences in a high-use category.”As per the…