Gumbo holds a particularly special place in my heart. Early on in life, it was my go-to comfort food. My dad used to make his mom’s recipe for special occasions; it was the one truly traditional Langlois dish, and it had a flavor I will never forget. But that wasn’t…
At lunchtime on Saturday, I dragged a couple of friends east on Colfax, eager to sate my curiosity about Bourbon Grill, the walk-up window under a red awning that seems to always have an eclectic line of people waiting for an order…
Many of Stella Cordova’s dozens of grandchildren have attempted to capitalize on the matriarch’s iconic recipes introduced at the original Chubby’s on West 38th Avenue, creating spin-offs all over the city. And while none of them can use the Chubby’s name — one of the grandkids landed a federal trademark…
It’s not often that you’ll find a shrimp noodle bowl on a bar roster, but, then again, not every bar trumpets a kitchen commanded by a household name chef. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
In the same city that welcomes visitors with “Focus on the Family” signage, there resides a bar called Copperhead Road, a self-described “honkey-tonk saloon” that promises “the best live music, and the wildest late night parties” in the Springs. But as Euclid Hall/Squeaky Bean star-tender Sean Kenyon found out this…
Hot dog joints are on a roll in Denver, with Uber Sausage joining a scene that also welcomed the largest IKEA restaurant in the country. But Denver also said farewell to Bistro Felix and Organixx, as well as some of the earliest food trucks. Here’s our Restaurant roll call for…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, including two stumpers — a disappointing huarache and some mystery proscuitto and melon — as well as this plate with the town’s most incredible falafel. For correctly identifying the veggie feast as coming from Mecca Grill, Brian wins an EatDenver…
The Denver County Fair may have celebrated some of this city’s most innovative entrepreneurs — but the vendors selling food there didn’t rank among them. Jenny An’s criticism of the eating opportunities at this inaugural fair got her labeled a “commie” by AllAmericanVet: What kind of comi writes a bad…
KimBa Grill, the fast-casual Vietnamese noodle house located at 1470 South Santa Fe Drive, has closed after eighteen months of business. John Forde opened the spot in March of 2010, but according to a recorded voice message, the location didn’t generate enough traffic to keep the restaurant afloat. “We are…
It’s that time of year again. Wine Spectator has just unveiled its annual list of restaurants with admirable cellars, bestowing the eateries with tiered awards of excellence — and giving anyone who chooses a restaurant for its wine list a handy place to start. Of the 3,700 places worldwide that…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
When Biker Jim first hauled out his wiener wagon nearly six years ago on the 16th Street Mall, he wanted frankfurter fans to know that he wasn’t pushing dirty dogs jacked up with unidentifiable bits, pieces, or by-products, so he created a slogan — “Our meat is no mystery” –…
In 2009, when Jason Sheehan, Westword’s former restaurant critic, reviewed Organixx, whose menu verbiage touted “the best of organic, natural, local, wild caught and traditional products available to us,” he wanted to hate the joint. ” I’m not coming to your restaurant to join your cult or be converted. Just…
If you’ve ever had a huarache, the sandal-shaped Mexican canvas of fried corn dough smeared with refritos and layered with marinated meats, onions, shredded lettuce and crumbles of cheese, then you know how good they can be. Los Carboncitos makes a killer huarache — the huarache in the above pic…
In case you haven’t heard, our esteemed governor, John Hickenlooper, proclaimed August 10, 2011, “Denver Burger Battle Day” in the state of Colorado. No, seriously. It’s true, and for Jeremy and Kelly Kossler, the brains behind the Denver Burger Battle, a beefy combat among twelve Denver restaurants, all of which…
Not that Charlie Palmer needs much of an introduction: The world-renowned, James Beard award-winning master chef, whose progressive American cooking, stylized with classic French techniques, has generated accolades all over the country, presides over an extraordinary number of restaurants, from New York to Dallas, Washington DC to Sonoma, Las Vegas…
Our list of the “Five Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver” had a couple of readers wondering about the absence of JJ’s. But which JJ’s? From thespot84: I’m excited to try all of these. For straight up chinese takeout/delivery downtown, however, JJ’s Bistro is truly hard to beat. And this from…
As if the food wasn’t reason enough to head over to Masterpiece Delicatessen, you now can get a proper drink to go with your artistically crafted sandwich. The popular three-year-old deli just got a full liquor license and is serving cocktails, beers from Oskar Blues and wine from Infinite Monkey…
It wasn’t nearly as bad as the walkout that Troy Guard, the owner/chef of TAG, experienced two weeks ago when a vocal majority of his staff hoofed it out the door after news that Guard and his soon-to-be-ex-wife had a parting of ways, but Andrew Casalini, the owner of Satchel’s…
Wazee Supper Club opened its doors back in 1974 under Angelo and Jim Karagas, five years after the same duo erected My Brother’s Bar just nine blocks away. Since then, the bar and restaurant, which has since been passed from the hands of the Karagas brothers to the Wynkoop Holdings…
The same company that’s pushing the all-natural tastes of XINGtea have teamed up with the Ball Corp. to introduce a canned water. The zero-calorie Just Pure Water, created by Colorado-based New Age Beverages, comes in berry, lemon lime and orange flavors. “What we wanted to do was come out with…
When Len & Bill’s went dark after fifty years, Denver lost one of its great dives. But now Mike’s Tavern has opened in the space at 2301 South Broadway. Bartender Nicole Keeney, whose father is Mike, says Len & Bill’s regulars have been coming in and telling her stories about…
