If all this warm weather doesn’t feel much like autumn, new fall items on GoBistro’s menu remind your taste buds that we’re already close to Halloween.
The sage glazed pork tenderloin salad is a crunchy blend of pomegranate seeds, shaved Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, spicy walnuts mixed with spinach and pieces of pork tenderloin. It’s dressed with butternut-apple vinaigrette.
GoBistro also recently added morning meals, from sweet potato burritos ($5) to the scratch-made morning buns stuffed with maple-glazed bacon ($5).
The first retail outlet for GoBistro, a gourmet grab-and-go eatery, opened in April in at 1111 Broadway. Formerly known as the Broadway Plaza Motel, the midcentury-modern space was revitalized as a hub for creatives.
“Breakfast is going really well, and foot traffic is growing,” said GoBistro co-founder and president Colleen Callaway Eager. The executive chef is Mike Keuler, who spent a few years in the kitchen of Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder.
Amethyst Coffee and Pressed Juice Daily are also at the Metlo, and in early December the long-awaited will open across the street.
GoBistro menu items, which are sold at Pig Train Coffee in Union Station, Pura Vida Fitness and select Colorado Athletic Club locations, also include a roasted beet salad with salmon ($12 for large) and the roasted French turkey sandwich ($7.95) with double-cream brie and housemade apricot-ginger chutney. They also deliver, with fees ranging from $3 in downtown to $7 for RiNo and LoHi.
720-536-5689. mygobistro.com. Hours at the Metlo location are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; closed Sunday.
Apple ideas
Speaking of weather in Colorado, it’s been a tough year for apple farmers on the Western Slope, which makes the current harvest a real victory — and there are just a few weeks left to buy Colorado apples in markets.
“Lots of farms lost their apple crops,” said Sarah Tuft, co-owner of the Wacky Apple, a family-owned company in Hotchkiss that grows organic apples and makes organic applesauce, fruit juices and chewy fruit snacks.
March was so warm that apple trees bloomed early, but then came snow and frosty temperature in May, which devastated the apple crop. Because the Tuft family orchards are scattered through the North Fork Valley and have microclimates, some of their apples made it through.
Their small, sweet Honeycrisp apples will be in Whole Foods stores for about two more weeks, and to encourage people to support their local apple farmers, Wacky Apple just launched on their website, wackyapple.com
They’re free, and they’re fun, ranging from apple, brie and arugula quesadillas to crockpot pork and apples. Also included are vegan apple muffins, apple sauce gingerbread cookies and the Wacky Apple crisp.
Good Food groups
Local chefs and restaurants have thrust Colorado into the national food scene, but now a whole new group is winning acclaim — nonprofits that focus on improving the state’s food system in areas that range from food and agriculture to hunger, obesity, food justice and education.
Eighteen organizations in Colorado will be included in the second annual Good Food Org Guide, created by the James Beard Foundation and the nonprofit Food Tank.
The guide, released Oct. 19 at the James Beard Food Conference, lists more than 1,000 nonprofits, with representation for all 50 states.
It includes an online interactive mapping and search tool, plus a where you can search by keyword, location and category in order to explore the different organizations.
Here are the Colorado groups: Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council, , Denver Urban Homesteading, Feed Denver, Food Rescue Alliance, Foraged Feast, Grow Local Colorado, The GrowHaus, The Growing Project, Healthy Community Food Systems, Hunger Free Colorado, The Kitchen Community, MM Local, Northern Colorado Food Cluster, Real Food Colorado, Turtle Lake Refuge, The Colorado Field Institute and Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council.
More at goodfoodorgguide.com.
Colleen O’Connor: 303-954-1083, coconnor@denverpost.com or @coconnordp
Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council, , Denver Urban Homesteading, Feed Denver, Food Rescue Alliance, Foraged Feast, Grow Local Colorado, The GrowHaus, The Growing Project, Healthy Community Food Systems, Hunger Free Colorado,
