Juan’s on Stout, a downtown Mexican joint that shared the same address at 1531 Stout Street as Mici’s Handcrafted Italian, has closed — but the space won’t be empty long. Cilanto Fusion, another south-of-the-border newcomer (La Brisa opened just last week at  375 South Pearl Street), is picking up where…

First, there were the white trash enchiladas at the Rio Grande, followed by the white trash au gratin potatoes at Simms Steakhouse, which, to complement those scene-stealing views of Denver’s skyline, now has a menu (and a chef in Moosah Reaume, formerly of Willie G’s Seafood & Steak) that just…

See more of Lori Midson’s photos at westword.com/slideshow. While I didn’t buy the shirt straight off the bartender’s back at last night’s feel-good Share Our Strength-Taste of the Nation fundraiser at Jonesy’s EatBar, the rowdy (in all the good ways) gastropub at 400 East 20th Avenue, I did purchase a…

Bottle up your favorite oenophiles today and head to the Table Mountain Inn in Golden (1321 Washington Avenue) for a “Wined Up Your World” wine-tasting event, where twenty wines — reds, whites, blends and imports — will be paired with the restaurant’s Southwestern-focused foodstuffs. If you simply can’t wait to…

Okay, so we’re going to try something slightly different today, mostly because I’m ridiculously, apologetically, stupidly hungover and my memory has gone in the crapper, which may or may not have anything to do with the thumping brain pain, but I mention it because I have absolutely no recollection of…

As reported here in June, the Streets of SouthGlenn, the new retail, restaurant and residential living project sprouting in Centennial, will have a whole lot of eating places. And it looks like Saj Mediterranean Grill will be the first spot to fling open its doors — although judging from the…

If you’ve been following Top Chef: Masters, the Top Chef spinoff that airs every Wednesday night on Bravo, then you know that Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, exec chef at Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine (1738 Pearl Street), is a contestant on the show, wielding knives alongside fellow kitchen wizards Rick Bayless, Hubert…

First, El Taco de Mexico spruces up its digs with a new patio, and now, two blocks up the street at 901 West Tenth Avenue, brothers Aaron and Andre Lobato and their good friend Joseph Newman are turning the former Santa Fe Tequila Company space, which dried up late last…

Today is Bastille Day, and while the really cool parties will no doubt take place on the streets of Paris, we’ve got plenty of celebratory bashes to storm right here in Denver, beginning with Bistro Vendome, the Frenchified spot at 1420 Larimer Street that’s encouraging habitues to “sing a few…

Last week, I professed my love for white trash enchiladas. Last night, I sat at the bar of a metro area stalwart with a new name and concept and swelled my belly with white trash au gratin potatoes, which, as you can see from the above photo, are unassailable food…

As I reported here at the start of July, The Hornet (76 Broadway), one of Broadway’s most convivial watering holes, had announced it was closing for seven days to allow time for a few remodeling projects. I swung by on Friday, July 10, the projected reopening date, to assess the…

Yesterday morning, after downing a delicious plate of housemade corn beef hash at Kyle’s Kitchen, the decades-old diner at 4018 Tennyson Street, I meandered down Tennyson Street toward Gemelli’s, the East Coast Italian joint at 4363 Tennyson Street that served Jason Sheehan some of the best shrimp scampi he’d ever…

Tomorrow marks the day when French nationals, Francophiles, Francophonies and the majority of Denver’s French restaurants celebrate Bastille Day, the national holiday of France that commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution. But Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue, is getting an…

Back in June, I pretty much broke into La Brisa — by way of the alley, a deserted hallway and a wobbly ladder. Yesterday, the restaurant officially opened at 375 South Pearl Street, directly next door to the Candlelight Tavern, a neighbor that La Brisa co-owner Andy Koncsik wasn’t too…

I could tell you that the plate of enchiladas in today’s “Guess where I’m eating?” snap were wolfed down by someone — anyone — other than me. I could tell you that Sheehan threatened to make me lick the title page of his book, Cooking Dirty, if I refused to…

In a perfect world, every neighborhood would have its own version of Virgilio’s — a near-perfect pizzeria, pasta joint and pinwheel parlor, a place where residents, little leaguers, the mob, spunky ladies who lunch and anyone else who appreciates the spirit and soul of Italian food could convene at the…

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 191 Inverness Drive West, is kicking off its series of summer fundraisers, named Friday Night Flights, at 6 p.m. tonight, when the testosterone-charged meatery rolls out a selection of appetizers paired with three wines for $25 per person, the proceeds of which will benefit…

If you follow this blog with any sort of regularity, you already know that I’m wildly addicted to tacos. I would be the first person to jump up in a room full of fellow addicts, raise my fists in defeat and bellow, “Hello! My name is Lori Midson and I’m…

First it was the King of Pop. Now, Oscar G. Mayer, the King of Hot Dogs and former chairman of the most recognizable name in wiener-ville, passed away Monday at the ripe old age of 95 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, where he was in hospice care. Mayer, who was the third…

Escape the stifling heat and head inside to the cool confines of Elway’s Downtown (1881 Curtis Street), the steakhouse in the Ritz-Carlton that’s hosting a winemaker’s dinner tonight with Jerry Murry, cellar master and assistant winemaker for Patton Valley Vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The dinner includes five courses, all…