If you’re of a certain age — I’ll leave the exact number of years up to you — you’ll remember when restaurant menus were as long as novellas, with enough adjectives to give Emily Brontë a run for her money. Intricate details of cooking technique and provenance were listed for…
Mark DeNittis, the co-founder of Il Mondo Vecchio, a local artisan sausage factory, has his hands in a lot of different projects, and up until today, one of them was Cinque Soldi Salumeria, a tiny Italian market and deli exclusively selling Il Mondo Vecchio products that DeNittis co-owned with Tony…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. “The delicious smell…
Jesse Morreale has spent much of the summer in meetings with the city, which on July 10 slapped a “notice to vacate” on his First Avenue Hotel property – the circa 1906 building at 101 Broadway that holds Sketch and El Diablo, as well as Morreale’s offices. And those meetings…
JP Krause Aloft Broomfield 8300 Arista Place, Broomfield 303-635-2000 www.aloftbroomfielddenver.com This is part one of my interview with JP Krause, exec chef of Aloft Broomfield. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. “Right. My name. It’s John Patrick, but ever since high school, I’ve gone by…
Denver just got another Red Robin’s Burger Works, with another Freestyle Coke machine, so that more folks can be controlled by Skynet treated to Burger Works’ signature craft-your-own-burgers — with drinks designed to match. This location — the fourth in Colorado — opened Monday in the new Hotel and Hospitality…
Before we move on to controversies in other restaurant neighborhoods, we’re taking one more turn around Cherry Creek. That’s where Rodney’s closed this weekend, prompting Denver Dave to say that Cherry Creek North is “just becoming another food court in any mall USA.” That rallied the CCN defenders, including JPL35,…
Thirteen bucks is more than twice the amount you’d pay for a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Häagen-Dazs at the grocery store, so how good would ice cream have to be to convince your average foodie to spoon over that kind of cash? The answer? As good as Jeni’s…
After two and half years spearheading the line at Jonesy’s EatBar, chef Beau Simmons is no longer in the kitchen. It all went down last week, he says, when owner Leigh Jones pulled him aside and suggested that it was time for the two to part ways, a decision, he…
My accountant recently turned me on to this west-side suburban Mexican joint that’s been a fixture in the ‘hood for years, and while we don’t always see eye-to-eye when it comes to food, he steered me in the right direction here, although ordering the carne adovada was all my idea…
There are few pleasures in life as satisfying as sitting down with a good friend and a bottle of wine, maybe sharing a snack. Before the weather gets too cold to enjoy this pleasure in the truly great outdoors, do yourself a favor and head to Flights Wine Cafe in…
It’s pretty effin’ rare that I eat at a restaurant and can’t find anything to complain about. I’ve dined at countless restaurants in my 35 years on this shiny blue orb, and I’ve seen plenty of good, bad and ugly. I’ve had meals that were overcooked, undercooked, cocked-up so badly…
Cherry Creek North is changing, and the most recent development is the closing of Rodney’s, after close to three decades in the neighborhood. That’s a sign, Denver Dave suggests, that CCN is “becoming another food court in any mall USA.” But other readers disagree. See also: – Big Easy Creole…
Two weeks ago, we broke the news that Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue, an iconic Golden Triangle gathering place and watering hole that’s occupied the turf at 1201 Cherokee Street for 28 years, is closing on October 14. But that’s just one part of a larger story. I also mentioned…
Big — BIG — portions of Southern-inspired cuisine are on the menu at this newcomer, where just about everything is done on a large scale. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a…
Back before we had rock star chefs strutting their gimmicks on the Food Network, Denver had Duy Pham, who first made a (big) name for himself as the ridiculously young chef of the long-departed Tante Louise. He followed that illustrious gig with stints at Opal on Ninth Avenue, a restaurant…
There are so many monster zucchini ready to harvest in our garden that we’re planning to make zucchini bread. A lot of it. And take it to friends and coworkers. And probably complete strangers. This vegan recipe (adapted for mile-high altitude from The Joy of Vegan Baking) is moist and…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a sea-offending heap of worthless calamari from Odyssey Italian Restaurant, to an omelet topped with a thicket of superfluous arugula leaves from Early Bird (catches the weeds), to a bacon cheeseburger flipped by an abrupt short-order cook who…
The Denver dining scene lost two long-time restaurants this weekend. Longo’s Subway Tavern poured its last beer — for now — on West 38th Avenue; after 52 years, the Longo family sold the circa late 1800s building to Larimer Associates, and although COO Joe Vostrejs says they’re not yet sure…
After an afternoon of shopping for cheap to moderately-priced unassembled end tables and bathroom shelves at Ikea — a trip that usually lasts into the early evening if you start on the top floor — there is one last spot you really can’t miss: the Swedish food market. This section…
The Lime at Landmark has dried up. Since they’d signed the lease on the spot in 2007, the troubled Landmark development had gone through bankruptcy and assorted banks, and owners Pam Savage Sims and Curt Sims decided not to try renegotiating the deal again. “The latest problem was we were…
“It’s been a good run and we’ve had a great time here, but it’s just time to move on,” says Barb Longo. And so Sunday evening, Longo’s Subway Tavern will close…after 52 years. Barb’s been there for 38 of them: She started working at the Subway when she was eighteen…
