This week’s review took me to Land of Sushi, a strip-mall joint in the southern suburbs with a killer happy hour deal. But I was more interested in other, rarer finds — including live scallops and fresh uni. Here, to go with the review, is a side of photos. For…
November has been a busy month for restaurant openings, with some highly anticipated spots — including Coohills, Williams & Graham and Ambria — now serving. And then there’s this: Twin Peaks has thrown open its doors in Lakewood…
I’m constantly on the hunt for sushi joints where quality is paramount but I don’t have to drop half my savings on one meal…
New Orleans-based Naked Pizza made it a mission to give pizza a healthier image, starting with a probiotic crust chock-full of grains such as spelt and quinoa, and finishing with toppings cut from fresh ingredients. The idea caught on quickly: The pizza chain has franchised across the country — and…
Leonard Cordova’s Bubba Chinos empire has been on an expansion tear this year, with locations opening in Boulder, on East Colfax and at 88th and York (though Cordova says that Bubbachinos franchise is no longer associated with his company). Yesterday, he added another one: the thirteenth Bubba Chinos in Colorado…
As soon as the plate was set down, I stopped my conversation mid-sentence to reach out and gingerly chopstick a disc of raw scallop, ruining the display of lemon, cucumber and momiji-ichigo berries that had been delicately arranged alongside. I examined the slice of shellfish for a second, then popped…
News first broke that Williams & Graham would plant a 1920s-themed bar in a bookstore at the edge of Highland back in April, and Todd Colehour, former executive at Kona Grill, and Sean Kenyon, Squeaky Bean and Euclid Hall barman and Westword’s “Ask the Bartender” contributor, had planned to start…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part five of this series: I like to blame my line of…
We’ve taken the cooler days as our cue to indulge in the flavors of fall, shoving cinnamon-ed apples, pumpkin anything and heavy stews into our mouths whenever we can. Two of our very favorite seasonal delights are whiskey and salted caramel — and now we know where you can get…
At Aurora’s Jai Ho, Bollywood blares on the televisions, the long menu features some of the least helpful descriptions we’ve ever seen and the servers provide equally confusing assistance. But despite the quirks, the food — mostly Southern Indian — is stellar, from the delicious dosas to the curries to…
Five years ago, Scottsdale-based Ling & Louie’s opened its first restaurant in Northfield at Stapleton, bringing the city an outpost of the small Asian-fusion chain that serves far Eastern twists on everything from meatloaf to mussels in addition to plenty of noodle bowls, potstickers and fried rice…
Earlier this week, we gave readers and opportunity to score free dinner for two at a restaurant participating in First Bite Boulder, the town’s annual feeding frenzy showcasing high-caliber restaurants like Pizzeria Basta, Pizzeria Locale, The Kitchen, The Empire Lounge and Restaurant in Louisville and Terroir in Longmont. The rules?…
For this week’s Cafe review, I head up to 2600 High Street, where husband-and-wife team Frank and Dina Berta run Frank’s Kitchen, a restaurant that feels so integral to the neighborhood that it seems like it’s held down this corner for years — even though Frank’s has only been open…
When Dina Berta made the jump from writing about restaurants to running a restaurant, she had one insight that helped prepare her for the road ahead: “I knew a little about the industry, and I knew it was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun,” she says…
Beginning on Friday, November 11 and continuing through Saturday, November 19, a formidable list of more than forty of Boulder’s best restaurants — spots like Pizzeria Basta, Pizzeria Locale, The Kitchen, The Empire Lounge and Restaurant in Louisville and Terroir in Longmont — are offering diners a chance to nab…
Frank and Dina Berta didn’t set out to open a restaurant. Instead, they were exploring the idea of a food truck, and searching out locations for a commercial kitchen that would serve as their commissary. But then they found the storefront in the Whittier neighborhood where the Far East Restaurant…
It will soon be Thanksgiving, the yearly occasion where we can stuff ourselves until we surrender and then wallow on the couch for a few hours. But, as we all know, not everyone has fond memories of the holiday. In fact, just about every Thanksgiving feast with my family included…
For the past six months Dina Berta has thrown herself head first into the operations of Frank’s Kitchen, which she owns with her husband, Frank. But before she committed to life in the kitchen, she made a living writing about restaurants. As a business reporter at the Rocky Mountain News…
He’ll have the spaghetti and meatballs, because he always gets the spaghetti and meatballs. I think I’ll have the cheesesteak tonight, though. I haven’t had one of those in a while.” The thirty-something woman and her husband were standing in Frank’s Kitchen discussing their dinner options. They didn’t need to…
Since getting spiffed up a few years back, Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street has played host to more than twenty restaurants, a mix of fast-casual and full-service chains plus independently owned spots that has changed frequently. Now the development is about to get another new joint to replace a restaurant that…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part four of this new series: It is impossible to overstate my…
Distilling has been exploding in the Rocky Mountains, and we’ve added enough distilleries in the last few years to just about stock an entire bar. Further proof (no pun intended) of this phenomenon: another vodka-maker is getting ready to enter the market, specifically on Larimer Street…
