Dave Query

Uh, oh: An O Bar for downtown -- and an Obar for Cherry Creek?

Cliff Young and his son, Zachary, are planning to open a bar right around the corner from CY Steak, the restaurant that Cliff opened next to the Diamond Cabaret in October 2009, next September. The name of the spot: O Bar. "It's something my dad always liked," says Zachary, explaining that it is p ... More >>

Former Dogfish Head brew master Bryan Selders joins Big Red F's Post Brewing

Reality TV fans know him as the quirky but loveable co-star of the Discovery Channel's short-loved series Brew Masters. Beer geeks know him as the guy who helped create and produce odd, boundary-busting beers for Delaware's famed Dogfish Head Brewing for nearly a decade. And now Colorado will get to ... More >>

Exclusive: Ian Clark, chef of Jax Boulder, is leaving to open BRU Handbuilt Ales and Eats

After a decade with Big Red F, Dave Query's burgeoning restaurant group, which includes Lola, three outposts of Jax Fish House (a fourth will open this spring in Glendale), Centro Latin Kitchen, West End Tavern, Zolo Grill and the Bitter Bar, chef and brewmaster Ian Clark, currently the chef at Jax ... More >>

Reader: Forget Jax -- what's the World of Beer?

Jax is about to add a fourth location, in the new City Set development in Glendale, behind the Hilton Garden Inn at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Cherry Creek Drive -- an area definitely shy of good restaurant options. Jax isn't the only eatery going into the project: Udi's will have an outle ... More >>

Culinary Calendar for the weekend: Summer's not over yet

There's a cornucopia of culinary events this weekend -- from farm celebrations both urban and rural to beer olympics, wine festivals, a toga party and more. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

Harvest season, honey and sake all on the culinary calendar this week

The second week of September is full of culinary events; and there's something for everyone -- especially if you're free on Sepember 15. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

Lucky's Bakehouse and Creamery opening in Boulder

Earlier this year, when I interviewed James Van Dyk, the executive chef of Lucky's Cafe, a breakfast and lunch joint in Boulder, he mentioned that in the year he'd been cooking at the long-standing cafe, an extension of Lucky's Market, he'd significantly changed the menu, "transforming it," he said, ... More >>

Adam Watts, chef de cuisine of Jax Boulder, on brotherhood, fat and the baggie of weed

Adam Watts Jax Fish House Boulder 928 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-444-1811 www.jaxboulder.com This is part one of my interview with Adam Watts, chef de cuisine at Jax Boulder. Part two of our chat will run on Thursday. Cycling makes you hungry, says Adam Watts. The former professional pedaler, who ... More >>

La Revolución Taqueria Cantina opening next week in Louisville

Fifteen years ago, remembers Rick Betance, he hired James Lee at Zolo Grill, giving the bartender his first real bar job, a position that would plant the seeds for Lee's rise to mixology stardom. Now, after Betance spent years as an owner and operator of a boutique hotel in the Alaskan wilderness an ... More >>

Boulder bashes and fashion-inspired food on this week's menu

Boulder may have been knocked out of our Street 16 neighborhood tournament (look for the winner later today), but it was Cafe Society's pick for the Best Food Neighborhood in our Best of Denver 2012 -- and this week's culinary calender will highlight many reasons for that. But there are plenty of e ... More >>

Foodography: Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House opens today downtown

When Dixons Downtown Grill shuttered last Labor Day, it left an enviable plot of restaurant real estate in its wake. Numerous restaurateurs and chefs eyed the behemoth space -- which has since been divided into two separate entities -- but luck was on the side of a Louisville-based restaurant called ... More >>

James Lee: Colorado bartending has risen so much in three years

In this interview, James Lee, one of the godfathers of Colorado cocktail culture, discusses the Pimms Cup that made him see the light, one thing he thinks bartenders absolutely have to measure, and the night he was called the worst bartender ever.

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Will Wild Catch reopen this week, as remaining owner Daniel Kuhlman has promised? Does Lou's Food Bar need a kick in the pants? And what qualifies as a chain restaurant in Boulder, anyway? SALT? Any of Dave Query's spots? These are all hotly debated issues on Cafe Society.

Foodography: Flagstaff House celebrates forty years in Boulder with an anniversary gala

Lori MidsonLast night, Boulder's best chefs cooked at the fortieth anniversary gala for the Flagstaff House.​Mark Monette, executive chef/co-owner of the Flagstaff House, stands in his kitchen, beaming like a kid who just got his first video game. "These are all guys I know -- guys who I respe ... More >>

Bones was the first of the hip noodle bars -- and the last one still stirring

In late 2008, there was a race to see which restaurateur would open the first hip noodle bar in the area. Dave Query's Big Red F group was planning to open Happy at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder, and the folks behind the Jet Hotel were going to put XO in an addition built on the back of the hotel. Bu ... More >>

Up From The Ashes

A new Jax Fish House anchors in Fort Collins

​"I had nothing to do with it, other than drinking at the bar last Tuesday night," claims Jamey Fader, the culinary director of Big Red F, the Dave Query restaurant group that operates numerous dining dens in Denver and Boulder, including West End Tavern, Lola, Zolo Grill, Happy, Centro and J ... More >>

Japoix's Jay Spickelmier on Twinkies, the roux on the floor and plumber butts

Lori Midson​ Jay Spickelmier Japoix 975 Lincoln Street 303-861-2345 www.japoix.com This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Jay Spickelmier, executive chef of Japoix. To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Jay Spickelmier is wrist-deep in a large, deep, flat-bo ... More >>

James Lee leaves the Bitter Bar and Big Red F for a restaurant in Salida

James Lee and Dave Query​The explosion of cocktail culture in Colorado was ignited by a legion of talented bartenders working to prove that their craft is more than mixing rum and Cokes; it's creating drinks that reflect their deep understanding of spirits. And few bartenders have done more t ... More >>

West End Tavern's Wing King Challenge on Man V. Food season opener

​The last time stunt-eater Adam Richman, star of Man V. Food, was seen chowing down in Denver, he was taking on the seven-pound burrito at Jack-n-Grill. And after many hours of prepping and filming and chatting and chewing, the burrito won. But that didn't discourage Richman from making a sec ... More >>

Chef Christopher Cina is jumping for Jax

Chef Christopher Cina will be cooking at Jax Denver in June​Christopher Cina, who's done hard time in galleys all over the metro area, including the Fourth Story, Aubergine Cafe, Tuscany, Zenith and Twig's Wine Bar and Pickles Deli in Tipsy's, a Goliath-size liquor store in Littleton, and is ... More >>

Jax puts its fin into the wine game

Jax Fish House, which is part of the Big Red F Restaurant Group, has introduced its own wine -- with the help of vintner Sineann, a small winemaker in Yamhill County, Oregon, run by Peter Rosback. That's after Big Red F head honcho Dave Query traveled up and down the West Coast looking something goo ... More >>

Best of Denver: They coulda been contenders

Top Chef: Hosea Rosenberg

Well, at least someone in the restaurant industry has some money now... You've all heard that Colorado's own Hosea Rosenberg (chef at Dave Query's Jax Fish House in Boulder, at least for now...) won this year's Top Chef prize.  He walked away with a slot at this year's Food Wine Festival in A ... More >>

Turn on the TV: Top Chef finale tonight

Hosea Rosenberg, chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder, has made it to the final round of Bravo's Top Chef; the winner will be revealed tonight on the season finale. Cheer the hometown favorite at West End Tavern, 926 Pearl Street in Boulder, where Rosenberg will be holding court alongside Melissa Har ... More >>

Oodles of noodles and more news from Jet Entertainment

Frank Bonanno got his noodle bar, Bones, at 701 Grant Street, up and running at the end of December. Dave Query opened his Happy Noodle House at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder on Friday, February 13. The only holdout now?  XO, the noodle bar and healthy Asian concept from the guys at the Jet Ente ... More >>

Another local on Top Chef: New York

The premiere episode has run, the first two chefs have been booted, and while I know everyone in town was excited about having two locals in the game (Hosea Rosenberg, exec chef at Jax in Boulder and Melissa Harrison, sous at another Dave Query joint, Centro Latin Kitchen), how ‘bout us having thr ... More >>

The Empire Lounge still has a way to go

Jax Fish House is a keeper

The Rest of Denver

An embarrassment of riches – and bitches.

Boulder Bites

In a town filled with good restaurants, Prima couldn’t cut it.

Fun With Molecular Gastronomy

A visit to Mr. Wizard.

Champagne Dreams

There’s lots of activity bubbling below the surface.

Fish Story

Get fresh at Oceanaire.

The Daily Dish

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

Bite Into Boulder

Lola

Eat, drink and be merry.

Bite Me

Fat City Chops

Mass Appeal

Downtown is awash in art for Memorial Day weekend.

Bite Me

War and Pizza

The A List

Lola's fans have discovered the joy of Mex.

Cuba Libre

Joe Schneider treats Boulder diners to island delights.

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Off Limits

GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

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