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Sultan GrillAfter readers responded to my lament about the lack of interesting ethnic food near the Tech Center, I decided to explore not just the southern suburbs, where I grew up, but the entire circle outside of Denver city limits, looking for the best ethnic restaurants in the metro area, ... More >>
Lori Midson No. 45: Pasta puttanesca from Sketch
Lori Midson No. 45: Pasta puttanesca from Sketch
Lone Tree BrewingLone Tree is a long bike ride away from City Park, which makes it tough on the typical inner-city cyclist to try the beers at Lone Tree Brewing. So Lone Tree Brewing, which opened just six weeks ago, has teamed up with the Denver Bicycle Cafe, another brand new business, whic ... More >>
The Cork House becomes the Cork House Broker Restaurant.It's been nearly two years since restaurateur Ed Novak retired, selling the forty-year-old Broker, one of downtown's last fine-dining bastions, and its only surviving sibling restaurant, the Cork House Wine Restaurant, to Jerry Fritzler, ... More >>
The Cork House becomes the Cork House Broker Restaurant.It's been nearly two years since restaurateur Ed Novak retired, selling the forty-year-old Broker, one of downtown's last fine-dining bastions, and its only surviving sibling restaurant, the Cork House Wine Restaurant, to Jerry Fritzler, ... More >>
Lori Midson Hunter Pritchett Luca d'Italia 711 Grant Street 303-832-6600 www.lucadenver.com This is part two of my interview with Hunter Pritchett, exec chef of Luca d'Italia. Part one of my chat with Pritchett ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I just had an ama ... More >>
Lori MidsonTroy Guard at TAG RAW BAR, which will soon double in size.TAG|RAW BAR, Troy Guard's house of (mostly) raw foodstuffs that are good for your body and soul, is one of the city's most petite restaurants, but by the start of Denver Restaurant Week(s), Guard and his gang will have doub ... More >>
Highland's Garden CafeHighland's Garden Cafe will soon take a sabbatical.Pat Perry opened the Highland's Garden Cafe in a Victorian house on West 32nd Avenue eighteen years ago. The restaurant quickly became a Highland landmark, drawing diners from all over the city for romantic meals in the ... More >>
Aleece Koss, who'd been in internet marketing since the early 1990s, suddenly found her trajectory shifting a few years ago. "I woke up to food three years ago," she explains. "My mother and sister are cancer survivors, and I decided to go to natural chef school. I told them, 'I don't know wh ... More >>
Lori MidsonFrank Bonanno is one of the most successful chefs and restaurateurs in Denver, presiding over a commonwealth of food temples (and one speakeasy) that, for the most part, generate positive reviews and comments from professional restaurant critics and amateur key strokers alike. But ... More >>
When I heard about this bar, I couldn't wait to see it -- and I thought I would love it. But the truth is, I was hoping that the interior and cocktail menu would feel more in tune with its name. Alas, it seems like a mirror of yet another Irish/English/sports bar. Can you guess where I'm dri ... More >>
Lori Midson No. 44: Chimayo-chile flank steak and posole at Village Cork
Fruition isn't part of Denver Restaurant Week -- but it's an important part of the Denver dining scene.Only one more day to submit your tip for surviving Denver Restaurant Week, which runs February 25 through March 9. Tomorrow we'll pick the best tip left on our original DRW contest post by a ... More >>
Lori MidsonCafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a still unidentified bucket of beer at a biker bar to a plate of worthy flour tortillas and salsa at Margs Taco Bistro to a chili dog at a long-standing wiener joint. For correctly identifying that dog as c ... More >>
Parry's Pizzeria & BarParry's Pizzeria & Bar opens today in Highlands Ranch.David Parry -- a native of Syracuse, New York -- opened his first restaurant in Parker almost six years ago with a mission to bring Denver the New York-style pizza he loved and missed. That shop, a counter service joi ... More >>
Sushi Den has kept South Pearl swimming in seafood for decades.This month started with major action on South Pearl Street -- including a very involved deal that calls for the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group that had owned Pearl Street Grill to swap that space at 1477 South Pearl with Izakaya Den, ... More >>
Lori MidsonJoe Vostrejs and his Larimer Associates partners traversed across the country to check out America's beer gardens before they came back to Denver to build their own -- and what they found, admits Vostrejs, was surprising.
Karma Asian is small, tucked into the middle of a block on a busy stretch of Broadway, but the menu encompasses a pan-Asian theme with options from Vietnam, China, Japan and Thailand. And almost everything on Karma's menu is already vegetarian/vegan or can be made with tofu and veggies, so do ... More >>
Moe's Original Bar-B-Que first fired up the pit more than ten years ago, when three Alabama natives -- Mike Fernandez, Ben Gilbert and Jeff Kennedy -- made their way to Vail and set up a restaurant to hawk the food they grew up eating. Since then, Moe's has proliferated, and the guys have ope ... More >>
Mark MangerBefore Tom and Diane Coohill moved to Denver a few years ago, Tom ran a couple of fine-dining French restaurants in Atlanta that garnered considerable praise. But when he decided to plunge back into restaurant ownership in this city, though, the economy encouraged him to scale back ... More >>
The Hawt Dog & Sausage Eatery is on a roll in Cherry Creek.The new year got off to a fast start, with Pearl Street claiming another casualty: Ototo. And that was just the start of the closings. But while Mo's is no more on Broadway, Moe's now has one more store in Boulder. And several new piz ... More >>
Lori Midson Tom Coohill Coohills 1400 Wewatta Street 303-623-5700 coohills.com This is part one of my interview with Tom Coohill, exec chef/owner of Coohills. Part two of my chat with Coohill will appear in this space tomorrow. "This," confides Tom Coohill, "is too good to be on the menu. ... More >>
Morton's in the Tech Center closes its doors.Late last year, Tilman J. Fertitta, the restaurant mogul who owns Landry's -- and acquired McCormick and Schmick's in a hostile takeover last month -- announced his plans to pick up the national chain of Morton's steakhouses, noting that the restau ... More >>
The space at 1434 Blake Street has gone through many incarnations since its days as CitySpirit. But its latest transformation could be its most interesting yet: It's now a Ukrainian restaurant, Kraine Station. "This came about from the inspiration of my mother," explains Papi Sorrelis. "I've ... More >>
Two weeks ago, we asked diners and restaurants employees alike to serve up their best tips for surviving Denver Restaurant Week, promising a $52.80 prize for the best advice in each category. More than fifty people complied, posting tips that ranged from remembering not to behave like an assh ... More >>
We're on a Denver Restaurant Week money streak, having just given away $52.80 to two big tippers, both of whom entered our first Denver Restaurant Week contest, in which we asked industry folks and diners alike for their best advice on how to get the most out of the two-week culinary bonanza ... More >>
Lori Midson Tom Coohill Coohills 1400 Wewatta Street 303-623-5700 coohills.com This is part two of my interview with Tom Coohill, exec chef/owner of Coohills. Part one of my chat with Coohill appeared in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Hangawi in New York City has the ... More >>
I got kicked out of the Girl Scouts...something about hanky panky, but there are plenty of other civilized girls that made it through the badges, the oaths...the cookie sales. And this year, the Girl Scouts are marking their 100-year anniversary, and you can celebrate -- and help to continue ... More >>
Lori Midson No. 44: Raw carrot salad from Ambria
"I think for any business, five years is a big deal," Andrea Frizzi, chef-owner of Il Posto, says. "For a restaurant, though, five years is a super big deal." And that's why today is "a super big deal" for the chef -- on this day in 2007, Frizzi, a native of Italy who came to Denver by way o ... More >>
There's not much Cajun food in the Mile High City, a lack that Johanna Cooke started lamenting after her husband, a native of Louisiana native, first made gumbo for her back when they were dating. Since then, Cooke, who has worked in the food industry since she was fifteen -- most recently at ... More >>
Whether our team makes it or not, Super Bowl weekend is always a wonderful time of year. Mostly because it's an excuse to daytime drink on a Sunday while we munch down truly impressive quantities of bar snacks, which vastly enhances our viewing pleasure. The festivities wouldn't be complete, ... More >>
The $2 Irish coffees at Cafe Bar are just one of several snow day deals thoughout the city.It's not quite the blizzard predicted by those omniscient weather forecasters, but that hasn't stopped the safety police from urging all of us to stay housebound. We have a better idea -- and so do seve ... More >>
There will be beer dinners celebrating local brews this week, as well as several wine events -- and restaurants are gearing up for the all-important Valentine's Day dinners, too. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:
Lori Midson"Every season the bar gets higher, every season it means more to be the one on top - do you have what it takes to be the next TOP CHEF?" So begins the verbiage on the Bravo website, taunting cookers from around the country to audition for season ten of Top Chef, which, if you belie ... More >>
Lori MidsonWhat kind of kid doesn't like a pineapple, ham and pepperoni pizza? Mine, apparently. But he was all too happy to stuff his little belly with Girl Scout cookies, which this Italian restaurant was selling last Thursday night as part of Dine Out for Girl Scouts. Can you guess where ... More >>
Lori Midson No. 41: Goat curry from Phat Thai
The 2012 members of FIVE: Hosea Rosenberg, Jonathan Greschler, Jessica Scott, Samir Mohammad, Tyler Wiard, James Lee and Jenna Johansen.If you've been wondering how Leigh Sullivan, the ex-wife of Troy Guard, who owns TAG and TAG|RAW BAR, is doing since the couple split last year, the answer ... More >>
Kate LacroixWe've seen a number of the area's most successful food trucks cement permanent locations over the last year or so, inking deals on restaurant spaces that allow them to expand their mobile brands into fuller service (and often alcohol-supplemented) ventures. The latest to do so is ... More >>
Lori Midson J. Michael Melton Zydeco's 1730 Wynkoop Street 303-293-2887 www.zydecosdenver.com This is part one of my chat with J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. I got the gift of the Southern double name," drawls J. Michae ... More >>
Lori MidsonIt's not exactly tableside guacamole, but this do-it-yourself version, complete with cilantro, pico, lime wedges and a charred jalapeño, is surprisingly good for a restaurant that's not remotely renowned for its food. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gi ... More >>
I didn't notice many changes to this restaurant, despite it closing in January for renovations -- but that could have been because I was fixated on this pomegranate kumquat caipirinha. Can you guess where I'm drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week's ... More >>
The future home of Squeaky Bean...and the site of last night's LoDo residents meeting.Chefs are Denver's rock stars, and lower downtown is one hell of a stage. Last night I was lucky enough to moderate a panel of four LoDo chefs -- Jen Jasinski, Matt Selby, Tom Coohill and Max MacKissock -- w ... More >>
Lori MidsonFor the record, no, this is not an omelet from Pete's Kitchen or the Denver Diner, but a Vietnamese pancake -- bánh xèo -- that's one of my go-to dishes whenever I stop in for lunch. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to th ... More >>
Lori Midson No. 40: Rail Yard cheddar soup from Ghost Plate & Tap
someecards.comBecause you definitely shouldn't.We might be able to sate our sweet tooth with a piece of fruit in the summer, but in the dead of winter, nothing but a dessert made with plenty of cream and sugar will do. And with Valentine's Day right around the corner. whether we're drowning o ... More >>
Stephen CummingsPasquini's Uptown has become Serioz.Late last year,Tony Pasquini was making changes to his 25-year-old chain of pizzerias, building out a Cherry Creek address, which opened in late January, and getting ready to ink a deal for a new spot on East Colfax. At the same time, he wa ... More >>
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