On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. With so many great chefs cooking up…
New restaurants are opening all over Denver, but one reader worries that too many of them are coming from “hipster/trendy empire-builders.” And Jan has another concern: And the new places seem to all have similar menus. There are vegetables other than kale, beets and Brussels sprouts; I’d like to see…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Chris Sargent opened Brazen…
Bar and restaraurant openings so far this month have ranged from the return of long-forgotten neighborhood gems like the 715 Club to sleek new destination eateries like Avelina downtown. Here’s a list of what’s new, with links to the stories we wrote when they opened. First Look: The 715 Club…
Pockets of Park Hill have become home to some quality neighborhood eateries, including Tables on Kearney Street, Bistro Barbes on East 28th Avenue and Desmond on Oneida Street. A few coffee houses and pizza joints lure locals, but the neighborhood’s small shopping centers have yet to experience the kind of…
It’s hard to believe that in just three years, Lorena Cantarovici’s Argentinian bakery and cafe, Maria Empanada, has gone from a tiny shack on West Mississippi Avenue to where it is today, with a big, sunny Buenos Aires-style cafe on South Broadway, an appearance on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Brews from DISH beer…
No. 62: Manzo at Spuntino The star of this smoky dish at Spuntino, a diminutive neighborhood Italian eatery with big aspirations, is melt-in-your-mouth beef cheek, a cut of meat sadly not often seen on the average menu. Luckily for diners, chef and co-owner Cindhura Reddy knows its merit. “Although steak…
After a month-long hiatus, Denver gets its lone tiki bar back this weekend. Adrift will reopen Saturday with a revamped food and beverage program and updated decor. The group that owns Little Man Ice Cream bought Adrift, located at 218 South Broadway, earlier this summer. Partners Paul Tamburello and Loren…
The Good Son closed two weeks ago at 2250 East Colfax Avenue, but new owners Seth Murty and Mark Whistler turned the restaurant around quickly, renaming it the the Goods and retooling the menu with a vegetable-forward focus. The Goods opens to the public on Friday, September 16. Those who…
The term “burrito delivery drones” might sound like a euphemism for…something, but Chipotle isn’t kidding around: they’re bringing drone-delivery to the campus of Virginia Tech University. It’s just a test program, to see if it’s possible, and it’s also clearly a good PR stunt during a time when Chipotle has…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. And we’ll have a…
All signs of the former Gypsy House Cafe have disappeared. The Capitol Hill mainstay that suddenly shut down in March is slated to reopen as a sushi restaurant: Little Ginkgo Asian Cafe. Dena and Doniece Derani, twin sisters, had opened Gypsy House in 2004 with their mother, Nomie Derani, as a…
Last month I stopped by Garibaldi Mexican Bistro at 3298 South Broadway in a lead-up to Tacolandia, Westword’s celebration of Denver’s Mexican street food. I was on a mission at the time, and made a beeline for Garibaldi’s unique queka: a cross between a taco and a quesadilla on a thick, fried…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. One of those will…
When fifteen-year-old Rayme Rossello landed her first job — waiting tables in New York City — she just wanted to make a quick buck. “I wanted to be an actress for my whole growing up, so I thought that would be my main focus,” she says. But a few years…
Motomaki, an innovator in big, bold sushi rolls that come foil-wrapped like a burrito, opened in Boulder two years ago — launched by the same folks who started Hapa Sushi. Motomaki is now poised for an assault on Lakewood and will open its second store at 14650 West Colfax Avenue. The…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Many of Denver’s top…
With the recent spate of restaurant closings around Denver, including Patsy’s, Mark Antonation just paid a visit to Carl’s Pizza, which has been slinging red sauce in northwest Denver since 1953. But so many other old-school spots have left the table. Says David: There are so many restaurants that have…
Patsy’s, Pagliacci’s, Carbone’s, Longo’s Subway Tavern: They’re all gone. These were just a few of the Italian eateries that helped define — and feed — the quadrant of Denver known for over a century as northwest Denver, the Northside or simply north Denver. But the area bounded roughly by I-70,…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Interstate Kitchen came…
The news that Rooster & Moon will call it quits at the end of the month met with one universal response from readers: “Noooo!” But a few fans of the eight-year-old coffeehouse/pub in the Golden Triangle pulled themselves together enough to offer more specific comments. Says Tina: Now where am…
