Update: We have a winner of our contest. Congrats to Alison Torvik, who was the only commenter to guess all five restaurants correctly: Vesta Dipping Grill, Sushi Den, Strings, Highland’s Garden Cafe and Duo. While last week was all about the Great American Beer Festival (and hangovers), this week is…
It’s been an…interesting year for Ambria, the American-Mediterranean restaurant that managing partner Steve Halliday opened on the 16th Street Mall in November 2011. Halliday, who revamped the space, a former Ling & Louie’s where he was also a partner, brought in a big-name chef in Jeremy Kittelson (he’s now cooking…
Why is that every restaurant seems to think it can do barbecue? Even when it can’t? Such is the case with this once-dependable neighborhood burger joint that, judging by last night’s dinner, has lost its mastery of burgers, too. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Black Pearl, Steve Whited’s popular contemporary American restaurant on South Pearl Street, opened in 2005, and while several of the dining dens on that stretch of asphalt have shuttered or suffered from an identity crisis, the unpretentious Platt Park gem has remained largely consistent, despite a raft of chefs that…
Patrick Hartnett Kachina Southwestern Grill 10600 Westminster Boulevard, Westminster kachinagrill.com 303-410-5813 Part one of my interview with Patrick Hartnett, exec chef of Kachina Southwestern Grill, ran yesterday; this is part two. Favorite restaurant in America: Kaya, in Pittsburgh. It’s a restaurant I opened about twenty years ago, and it’s still…
I had never eaten at aBonefish Grill, and I as I lurked the menu online on the way to the restaurant, I was unimpressed with what I saw: grilled meats and seafood that seemed pretty typical of any American seafood/steakhouse. These days our food-centric culture tends to steer diners toward…
Denver Police Chief Robert White and Commander Ron Saunier just announced that three arrests had been made in the quintuple murders that took place early yesterday morning at Fero’s Bar & Grill on Colorado Boulevard; among the five victims in an incident that began as a robbery and escalated into…
Thomas Keller’s latest cookbook, Bouchon Bakery, is coming out in a few days. This is old news to food lovers around the country, who pre-ordered months ago to ensure not a second’s delay in tackling the purported nine pages of croissant instructions from the perfectionist chef of French Laundry fame…
Developer Dana Crawford remembers the first time she saw the Cruise Room. It was in the ’50s, and the Oxford Hotel, a once-elegant Victorian establishment that welcomed visitors getting off the train at Denver’s Union Station, had become a “flophouse,” she recalls. “The people who lived there were retired railroad…
And the hits just keep coming for Rockbar, the hipster hangout that Jesse Morreale opened six years ago when he bought the All-Inn at 3105 East Colfax Avenue. Last week, the city denied Rockbar’s request to renew its hotel and restaurant liquor license, but extended its temporary license until November…
A lamb sandwich, or a salad sans lamb? It came down to making a choice between the two, and in the end, the lamb won. It always does. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Patrick Hartnett Kachina Southwestern Grill 10600 Westminster Boulevard, Westminster kachinagrill.com 303-410-5813 This is part one of my interview with Patrick Hartnett, exec chef of Kachina Southwestern Grill; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. The restaurants at a Holiday Inn will never make anyone’s short list of favorites, but…
Yesterday Gretchen Kurtz offered a taste of her review of the new Squeaky Bean that will be posted here later today: a look at the “eggplant & plum” appetizer that is one of the most difficult dishes to plate, according to exec chef Max MacKissock. But Steveville isn’t hungering to…
It may not be fifteen minutes of fame, but 8.3 minutes isn’t bread crumbs either, and for Maurizio Negrini, the master bread baker of Udi’s, it’s his life. See also: – Udi’s Colfax Pizza Bar taking over the former Encore space – Udi’s Robin Baron dishes on her new Boulder…
Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar doesn’t need to fish for compliments — the Denver location just keeps reeling them in. This second of the Jax restaurants (the original is in Boulder, and a third opened in Fort Collins two years ago) was named Best Seafood Restaurant in our Best…
With the exception of the one slice they reluctantly gifted to me, two teenage boys polished off this pizza in no time flat…and then asked for more. Heathens. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Hoot and Howl is now open in the former Twisted Olive space in Northfield Stapleton. The restaurant has made live music a major part of its menu, with open-mic nights and karaoke on a weekly basis, and it put on quite a show of local acts at its grand opening…
The Miceli family opened their third Mici Handcrafted Italian restaurant yesterday, this one in Stapleton, in the former home of An’s Lemongrass — and right across from a Montessori school…which initially presented a problem. “We’re a family-owned Italian restaurant,” says Kim Miceli-Vela, one of the family members behind Mici Handcrafted…
With five metro locations, El Senor Sol is a homegrown chain — but the outpost on West Colfax Avenue in Golden doesn’t feel like a chain spot. Just up the road from the ubiquitous national chains at Denver West, El Senor Sol feels like the family-run establishment it is, with…
The Great American Beer Festival filled this town with lots of great beer — and many great beards in the male-heavy crowd. We documented some of them this past weekend in our “Fifteen best beards of the Great American Beer Festival” post. Which inspired a classic response. See also: -…
Ghetto Mexican — cheap ghetto Mexican. That’s all you need to know, and it’s what I craved after a long, cloudy night at the GABF, the blurry hours of which I’m still trying to piece together. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
In April of last year, Troy Guard, owner of TAG and TAG Raw Bar in Larimer Square, became an operating partner of Madison Street, a Congress Park neighborhood restaurant and lounge that Joe Vostrejs, COO of Larimer Associates, took over in the fall of 2010. The space, a former Dominos…
