I hadn’t been to Joe’s Crab Shack in well over a decade — not since that time in Missouri when I may have gotten sauced and horked in the men’s room urinal (as it turns out, those clever little porcelain wall sconces are just the right height for spontaneous beverage-expulsion…
For the past several weeks, whenever I’ve driven down 38th Avenue, passing my beloved Gaetano’s on my way to somewhere else, I’ve experienced that pit in my stomach, the pit that comes with the fear of the unknown — the dread that something you’ve come to know so well won’t…
Are you a member of the date police? (I promise, this isn’t going where you think it is.) Date police are folks who scrutinize labels and toss out food the nanosecond the expiration has passed. To a kitchen cop, if it’s past the official “use by,” it’s outta there. I…
Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com Part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Le Bernardin, in New York. For me, eating at Le Bernardin is like being in Europe,…
“We’re a family-owned Italian restaurant,” says Kim Miceli-Vela, one of the family members behind Mici Handcrafted Italian. “We’re extremely family-friendly. But you can’t have an Italian restaurant without wine.” And now, thanks to a new rule that Tom Downey, director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, signed on…
Gretchen Kurtz had good luck with the pizzas at Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House, which opened this past winter in (part of) the former home of Dixons and is reviewed this week. But a diner who’s eaten at the Lucky Pie in Louisville wasn’t as impressed with the cheesy…
Like skinny jeans and narrow ties, food is trendy. What was fashionable last year — burgers, say, or tacos — might be as out tomorrow as the boot cut. But restaurateurs can’t just go to H&M to update their menus. So what’s a chef to do? If you’re Joe Troupe,…
Talk about the ultimate photo bomb. Last night, during the Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen (you can read all about it here), which was graced by none other than Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern, there was, as you can imagine, a lot of texting, tweeting, Facebooking and…
The space at 1434 Blake Street that was once home to the legendary City Spirit has gone through many incarnations over the past decade, from Andrew’s Pub & Lounge to Lure Lounge to SportsBook to Pre-Game Sports Bar to the Blake and, finally, Kraine Station, a Ukrainian restaurant that barely…
I learned several things at last night’s Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen: 1) Pig uterus is absolutely lovely and should appear on menus everywhere. 2) Parallel Seventeen chef/owner Mary Nguyen is one badass chef, who has the ability to cook just about anything, “bizarre” or otherwise, and…
The sad news broke on Monday, as bartenders and servers started telling their regulars to save the date. After close to three decades, Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue will close on October 14. But at least it will go out with a big party. “Brunch is really popular here, so…
Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com This is part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino. Part two of my chat with the Boulder chef will run in this space tomorrow. “There’s something about the life of a chef and restaurant owner that’s…
Red Robin, the burger chain that calls metro Denver home, just introduced a new beer milkshake…made with beer from Boston. It’s Octoberfest from Sam Adams, a brewery that’s been pushing beer milkshakes for a while, Jonathan Shikes reports. The one that Red Robin unveiled yesterday comes with soft-serve vanilla ice…
October is far and away my favorite month in Colorado — and it really has nothing to do with marshmallow pumpkins, goblins or watching the original Halloween for the umpteenth time, although I do enjoy all of those distractions. October signifies bounty in Colorado, with farmers’ markets, farm stands and…
Some sales are done in secret, with the employees only learning the day the deal is done — if then. In more drastic cases, employees show up to find the door of the establishment where they thought they worked locked, with a “Closed” sign on the door. And then there’s…
Consider it the little market that could. The Broomfield Farmers’ Market has been voted Colorado’s favorite farmers’ market in a nationwide poll conducted by the American Farmland Trust. The market is run by volunteers and is only in its second year, but then, it might have gotten a boost from…
I’d asked for a small side of shoestring tubers. What I got was the whole fucking state of Idaho. 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 pool — and every Monday, we…
Pho is delicious year-round, but we’re coming up on the time of the planet’s rotation around the sun when it’s particularly satisfying: fall and winter. There are a few places in the metro area that offer this Vietnamese noodle soup made with vegetable broth instead of the default beef mixture,…
The Comfort Cafe, a donation-based, non-profit community kitchen and restaurant in Berkeley Park that was the second pay-what-you-can-afford spot in town, struggled from the start. Over its two-year existence, Comfort Cafe has had to close temporarily once and reduce its hours another time. But now owner Jan Bezuidenhout will close…
Pasquini’s has gone through many changes since Tony Pasquini opened the first restaurant at 1310 South Broadway 25 years ago. While his sister, Melinda Pasquini, took over the original spot in 2004, Tony went on to open more restaurants and also franchise other efforts. There have been some bumps along…
When Deana Mikdad gently broke the news to the old man, he wept. For fifteen years, maybe twenty, he’d eaten lunch with his son at Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue — the “Cherokee” to most of us — three days a week. It is to him, as it is to…
Look closely at that sign in the shadows. Looks like an Original Chubby’s is going into the former home of Mercedes Mexican Restaurant at 1385 Santa Fe Drive, doesn’t it? Julian Cordova, the same person who owns the Original Chubby’s at 8330 Washington Street in Thornton, is opening this new…
