Dave Query

A fourth Jax Fish House will open in Glendale next spring

Last Friday, we broke the news that Dave Query, the mastermind behind Big Red F, the Boulder-based restaurant group that already lays claim to eight restaurants in Boulder, Denver and Fort Collins, is adding a new chicken joint and brewery to his repertoire next year, this one in Lafayette. But the ... More >>

Exclusive: Dave Query and Big Red F opening a brewery and chicken joint in Lafayette

For the past several weeks, the brass from Big Red F -- owner and chef Dave Query, culinary director Jamey Fader and Brett Smith, the current exec chef of Zolo Grill -- have been on a chicken crawl, traversing the country in search of America's best fried chicken and rotisserie chicken. It's all par ... More >>

Lola and West End Tavern birthday parties: Tomorrow's a red-letter day for Big Red F

Dave Query's Big Red F group will have a red-letter day tomorrow when it celebrates the birthdays of two of its restaurants: the tenth birthday of Lola, a concept that Query and crew created with chef Jamey Fader, and the 25th birthday of West End Tavern, which Big Red F took over after the death ... More >>

James Van Dyk, exec chef of Lucky's Cafe, on the weird people who don't want eggs in their omelets

James Van Dyk Lucky's Cafe 3980 Broadway, Boulder 303-444-5007 This is part one of my chat with James Van Dyk, exec chef of Lucky's Cafe in Boulder. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Back in the '60s, when James Van Dyk was growing up on the East Coast with a single worki ... More >>

Benefit dinner at Zolo Southwestern Grill

Zolo Southwestern Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, will host a dinner tonight that benefits the Autism Society of Boulder County. Guest chefs include Dave Query and Mark Monette from the Flagstaff House, John Platt from Q's, Riff's, Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg and Jen Bush of Bitter Bar. ... More >>

Win a three-day culinary sojourn to Boulder, courtesy of Big Red F Restaurant Group

Lori Midson​There's a reason why Dave Query, the brains behind the Boulder-based Big Red F Restaurant Group, generates so much respect: The restaurateur, who owns West End Tavern, Zolo Grill, Lola, Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, Bitter Bar and three Jax Fish locations is, quite si ... More >>

Happy reopens in Boulder as the Bitter Bar

Lucy SchaefferSugar queen Jenn Bush is spearheading the sweets selection at Bitter Bar in Boulder. ​Dave Query, the founder of Big Red F, the Boulder-based restaurant group that encompasses the West End Tavern, Zolo Southwestern Grill, Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, a trio of Jax F ... More >>

Zolo Grill's Brett Smith raps on pig, chile and a second Zolo Grill

Lori Midson​ Brett Smith Zolo Grill 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 303-449-0444 www.zologrill.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Smith, the executive chef of Zolo Grill. Part two of my chat with Smith will run in this space tomorrow. "I know it's probably overkill, but we just ... More >>

Dave Query, owner of Happy, is a happy man

Mark MangerA happy Melissa Harrison back when she was at Happy, Dave Query's restaurant in Boulder.​Dave Query, the man behind the Big Red F restaurant group -- including the Jax Fish House outposts in Denver and Boulder (and, soon, Fort Collins), Lola, West End Tavern, Centro and, most releva ... More >>

Dave Query and Jason Sheehan, so Happy together

​Monday was a happy day at Happy, the noodle house at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder that Dave Query's Big Red F group opened a year ago as Happy Noodle House. Over the months, Query and company have made a number of adjustments at the restaurant -- starting but not ending with the name -- and ... More >>

Staffing Up: More ideas for Mojitos

​ Both readers and restaurateurs had a lot of suggestions for what to do with the former home of Mojitos -- which isn't surprising, considering that this spot at 1120 East Sixth Avenue is a good location just begging for a good operator to go into it. And while I've already reported the new ... More >>

West End Tavern delivers from any direction

It gets worse: A week in Italian food

Mark MangerThe patio at Mark & Isabella is empty for a reason -- and it's not the cold.​ Of all the entrees, only one was even vaguely edible: a piece of swordfish, nicely cooked, napped with a chive crème fraiche - and mounted on a ratatouille that was like mush and bled oil like it'd been k ... More >>

Don't worry. Be Happy

​ What's in a name? Apparently, not that much. Because while Big Red F honcho Dave Query has dropped the "Noodle House" portion of his Happy Noodle House restaurant's name, the menu hasn't changed a bit. Okay, maybe it's changed a bit since I was there last. But then, it'd already changed a ... More >>

Whiskey, it's what's for breakfast at West End Tavern

Yeah, that's it... Right there at the bottom​ I love breakfast. It is, indisputably, one of my six favorite meals of the day. But I've always had a problem with breakfast, too: It generally doesn't come with enough alcohol. Oh, sure. There are bloody Marys. The beautiful people have their m ... More >>

H Burger has a date with the city

​ There's a promising sign posted at 1555 Blake Street, the future home of H Burger Lounge. Peter Pflum, the restaurateur (he's the former operations manager for Dave Query's Big Red F Restaurant Group and most recently the VP of operations for Quizno's) who came up with the idea of putting a ... More >>

Tyler Wiard talks about Elway's, lobster and why Denver needs a good diner

Chef and Tell: Tyler Wiard of Elway's

Lori Midson​"I got my ass kicked, but man, did I learn a lot," recalls Tyler Wiard, talking about the early '90s and his days as a line cook for Dave Query and John Platt at Q's Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado. He must have been up to the task, because Query pulled him off that line and int ... More >>

H-Burger Lounge looks toward an early 2010 debut in the SugarCube Building

​Just got word that H-Burger Lounge is planning to open in the SugarCube Building, at 16th and Blake streets, in early 2010. The restaurant, a local concept from Peter Pflum, the former operations manager for Dave Query's Big Red F Restaurant Group and most recently the VP of operations for Quizno ... More >>

Chef and Tell: Jamey Fader of Lola and Big Red F

Jamey Fader​I've kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest - and usually crazy - ... More >>

The List: Big Operators

Rough week for Big Red F. I wasn't all tht happy with Happy Noodle House; wasn't cuckoo for the Cocoa Puffs at Centro. But that doesn't mean I don't like some of Dave Query's other restaurants. Matter of fact, he runs two other joints that are among my favorites in the city.Which leads me to this we ... More >>

Happy Noodle House is trying — sometimes too hard

More Is Less at Centro Latin Kitchen

Get Happy at Happy Noodle House

Adding something extra at Happy Noodle House.The noodle bar is big business these days. In Manhattan, David Chang has elevated the simple, neighborhood noodle bar to celebrity status (and turned himself into a minor rock star in the process) with his Momofuku brand. In Denver, we've got one of the o ... More >>

Sweet talk from Keegan Gerhard and other tasty events

There's quite a smorgasbord of food-related fun tonight. "Taste Test: Random Encounters in the History & Science of Food" returns to the Lab at Belmar, 404 South Upham in Lakewood, at 6 p.m. today, March 12, when the focus will be on...sugar. Keegan Gerhard, pastry chef, Food Network host,owner of ... More >>

Big Red F ventures to Asia, by way of Happy Noodle House

I walked into Happy Noodle House at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder, looking for a little happy-hour joy. And I found it. Another one of Dave Query's Big Red F Restaurant Group places, the noodle house has a clean, modern feel, with communal tables, warm hand towels, trays of condiments and dim lightin ... More >>

Big Red F re-tools at Zolo

Word just came down that Dave Query -- right in the middle getting his new noodle house project, Happy Noodle House, up and running in Boulder -- has brought some new blood into the kitchen at Zolo Grill, his least press-pimped address, at 2525 Arapahoe Avenue in The Republic. Actually, I guess that ... More >>

Oodles of noodles coming to town

In Bite Me this week, I talk about a couple of noodle joints coming to town -- Bones and Happy Noodle House -- and a New Yorker piece that helped fuel the fad. But Frank Bonanno and Dave Query aren't the only local restaurant empire-builders getting in on this act. The Jet Entertainment Gr ... More >>

Good times at Go Fish

    The space is simple, almost iconic Japantown nouvelle, with wood and steel and stone all polished to a high and gleaming gloss, mismatched walls in shades of lime and mustard, one of those trickling fountain things and abstract sculptures of fish on the walls done in shiny, candy-co ... More >>

The Next Danny Meyer?

Punch-drunk in love with Dave Query, Oceanaire...and Duy Pham's next venture.

Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace

Dave Query is not a hack. In fact, he's a genius — and his latest restaurant proves it.

The Centro of Colorado Cuisine

The Centro of Colorado Cuisine

First, Do No Harm

First, Do No Harm

The Year That Was

From a goose chase to a great chase, 2006 was one wild ride.

Mex and Match

Will the real Lola please stand up?

Almost Famous

The man, the legend, the ribs.

Second Helping

Jax Fish House

Bite Me

Tavern Talk

Dinner and a Show

A meal at the West End Tavern is the living end.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 1, 2003

Best Seafood Restaurant

Lola

Best Seafood Cookbook

Jax Fish House Book of Fish Dave Query and Jill Zeh Richter

It's a Small World

Tiny and terrific, Emma's is off to a great start.

Think Big

The Gill Next Door

Mouthing Off

FISH OUT OF WATER

HOW THE SOUTHWEST WAS WON