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Eating Out

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    April 24, 2013

    Photos: Linger serves up international street food and $3 cocktails for Sunday brunch

    With ingredients like sambar curry, lacinato kale and pickled jalapeños, Linger's new brunch menu allows you to travel the globe without dusting off your passport. No strangers to traditional eggs and bacon, chef/owner Justin Cucci and his team also incorporate Japanese, Indian, New Orleans and Me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2013

    Amerigo Delicatus predicted the future with its emphasis on the pasta

    Back at the start of 2013, with holiday parties and distracting indulgences of all kinds, you could easily have missed those lists of food trends likely to be hot in the new year. If so, look no further than Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market, which wraps up one of the hot new trends in such a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2013

    African Grill and Bar will add a second location

    We've been enamored of African Grill since we first stumbled into this Aurora strip mall spot a couple of years ago. Not only does the restaurant serve up tasty, tomato-tinged jollof rice and pungent goat stew, it's also operated by some of the most hospitable owners we've ever encountered. Osei and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2013

    With Uncle, Tommy Lee proves he knows how to use the old noodle...and make it new

    The week before I arrived in the Mile High City for a spring vacation, Westword named Uncle the area's Best New Restaurant. That propelled Tommy Le's restaurant straight to the top of my tome-like list of must-visit spots that had opened since I moved away from this town nine months ago. I was curio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2013

    The five best new breakfast spots in Denver

    If breakfast means more to you than a cup (or three) of coffee, you're probably already acquainted with the pancakes, eggs and crepes at such perennial favorites as Gaia Bistro, Jelly, Snooze, Devil's Food and DJ's Berkeley Cafe. The latter's sibling restaurant, DJ's 9th Avenue Café, which opened i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2013

    Five @ Five, Earth Day and more on the calendar this week

    It's the sixth anniversary of the Denver Five -- a collaborative dining project from some of Denver's most reputable chefs. And the crew is celebrating tonight with a Five @ Five dinner featuring five paired courses from Matt Selby, Sean Yontz, Ian Kleinman, Kevin Morrison and Jorel Pierce. The loca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2013

    Guess where I'm eating this green chile cheeseburger?

    Who says you can't teach an old kitchen dog new tricks? This restaurant, which will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary in Denver in 2013, just added a half-dozen new items to its already massive menu, including a commendable green chile cheeseburger. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2013

    Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you're DavideCH

    Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, with dishes ranging from some picnic-worthy deviled eggs and excellent sizzling pork, to pretzel rolls at Govnr's Park, drunken noodles from J's Noodle Star on Federal and French macarons that would make anyone swoon.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2013

    Waffle Brothers Pub Style will open in Uptown in mid-May

    Ron Dupen and his business partner John Power are building a mini waffle empire, capitalizing on the sweet or savory Belgian street food that, says Dupen, an Australian, is as American as apple pie. In mid-May, on the corner of Seventeenth Avenue and Lafayette, in Uptown, the two partners will open ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 18, 2013

    DJ's 9th Avenue Cafe: Is this new breakfast/lunch spot as good as the original? It's relative.

    See also: A Closer Look at DJ's 9th Avenue Cafe

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2013

    Wahoo's Fish Taco: No meat, no gluten, no problem

    I have great sympathy for folks who can't digest gluten (as opposed to fakers who affect gluten allergies for attention), as well as those who can't or don't eat meat -- because they face very limited menu options if they dare to dine out. That makes Wahoo's Fish Taco a rare fish in the fast-food s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2013

    Round two with Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle

    Tommy Lee Uncle 2215 West 32nd Avenue 303-433-3263 uncledenver.tumblr.com This is part two of my interview with Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Like most cooks, I enjoy the creativity of coming up with new dishes, but the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2013

    Guess where I'm eating sizzling pork?

    There are three menus at this excellent Asian restaurant: An Americanized menu that preaches all the usual suspects, a Chinese menu that requires translation (unless you read Chinese) and a Korean menu. The dish in the above pic -- sizzling pork -- isn't on any of those menus, but it's frequently fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2013

    Refuel's breakfast plans foiled by a banned griddle

    We've been keeping close tabs on Bob Blair's plans for a second, scaled-down restaurant in the Taxi development since last spring. It finally opened on Monday, in the Drive building across from Fuel, but like the name -- which changed from Pit Stop to Refuel -- and the opening date (pushed back aga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2013

    Racines is a Dining Out for Life lifer!

    Start counting your pennies -- and your calories. Dining Out for Life is a week from today, and you'll definitely want to dine out early and often on Thursday, April 25. Over 300 Denver area restaurants will be participating in Dining Out for Life, an annual fundraiser for Project Angel Heart that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2013

    Tonight: Dos Casas after-party fundraiser at Lola

    The Dos Casas fundraising dinner at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, is sold out this evening, but the restaurant will be hosting an after-party that will open to the public at 9:30 p.m. There will be live tunes from Lane/Meadows/Levy of The Congress and food and drink specials till midnight. See also: - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2013

    Hong Kong Barbecue: Finding comfort in unfamiliar flavors

    In A Federal Case, I'll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard -- south to north -- within Denver city limits. I'll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I'll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here's the report on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2013

    Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle, on yakitori, Yelp and stinky tofu

    Tommy Lee Uncle 2215 West 32nd Avenue 303-433-3263 uncledenver.tumblr.com This is part one of my interview with Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. At 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon, a swarm of restless ramen geeks congregates around the door of Uncle, Tommy Lee's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2013

    DJ's Toad-in-a-Hole: Dishes with funny names can be seriously delicious

    While doing research - i.e., eating out a lot - for this week's review of DJ's 9th Avenue Café, I encountered Toad-in-a-Hole pancakes. And ever since, I've had fun thinking of other foods with humorous names. See also: - Photos: DJ's 9th Avenue Cafe opens in the Golden Triangle - Best Eggs Benedi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2013

    100 Favorite Dishes: Lobster macaroni and cheese from Mizuna

    Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year -- which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn't it? But all those food dates a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2013

    Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you're GTice

    Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a crock of macaroni and cheese topped with Chex Mix from ViewHouse, to a huge mound of green chile-smothered carne asada fries from El Alamo Mexican Bakery, a taqueria and panaderia at 3165 West 38th Avenue, to a stellar panin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2013

    100 Favorite Dishes: Fried rice from Benihana

    Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year -- which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn't it? But all those food dates a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2013

    A second helping of this week's Cafe Society

    Here's a second helping of some of what we served on Cafe Society this past week: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Punch Bowl - Social Food & Drink, and found a lot to like...even if she's not in love with the place. Mark Antonat continued his travels up Federal Boulevard, and stopped off at Pho 555. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2013

    Restaurants, like baseball teams, need time to work out the kinks

    People often ask why Westword's policy is to wait three months after a restaurant opens before going in for a review, rather than jumping in while the paint's still fresh. I'm sympathetic to the argument that if a restaurant is charging full price for food, it's fair game. But if fairness is the iss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2013

    The new happy hour at Trillium makes me ecstatic

    You can sink a cheap drink at just about every watering hole in Denver, a city that's indisputably obsessed with the ritual of happy hour. The bar at Interstate Kitchen & Bar features a late-night happy hour, wherein a cooler of cold beers in cans -- barkeep's choice -- are a mere $9; the duo of dai ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 11, 2013

    Punch Bowl - Social Food & Drink: From bowling to burgers, there's a lot to like

    See also: Behind the Scenes at Punch Bowl - Social Food & Drink

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2013

    Round two with Jose Guerrero, exec chef of ViewHouse

    Jose Guerrero ViewHouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop 2015 Market Street 720-878-2015 viewhouseco.com This is part two of my interview with Jose Guerrero, exec chef of ViewHouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Oak at Fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2013

    Cliff Young adds a chef de cuisine -- and a weekly menu -- at CY Steak

    Back in the early '80s, Cliff Young's eponymous spot at 700 East 17th Avenue (today the home of Hamburger Mary's) was about the swankiest spot in town, during an era when swank was definitely in. But price point isn't the only thing that's changed in Denver over the past three decades. "Back then, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2013

    ChoLon refreshes its menu for spring

    Blustering snow and winter temperatures may have blown into Denver this week, but that didn't stop ChoLon from shedding its winter coat and lightening up both its lunch and dinner menus for spring -- swapping out celery root soup for asparagus soup with soy-glazed mushrooms and spring onion, for exa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2013

    Reader: Sad to see Little Italy fall restaurant by restaurant

    Over the past year, we've lost three more of the Italian restaurants that used to blanket northwest Denver like red sauce. Pagliacci's shuttered last August, after 66 years in business; Longo's Subway Tavern closed in September, after 52 years; and Carbone's, the iconic Italian sandwich shop and mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2013

    Denver's five best patios to celebrate the arrival of spring (despite the snow)

    The crew at Crimson & Gold, a bar near the University of Denver, apparently didn't venture outside yesterday, because while Denver's finest meteorologists had it all wrong when they predicted that the city would be snowballed by Snowzilla-Snowmageddon-Snowpocalypse, it was definitely not "patio weat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2013

    The veggie pho at Pho Lee is just as good as at Pho 95...any Pho 95

    For vegetarians, the southeast metro area hasn't provided nearly as many options as Federal Boulevard. But now there's a new noodle house in town: Pho Lee, a sibling restaurant to the insanely popular Pho 95 outposts. And the veggie pho at Pho Lee is just as good as it is at any Pho 95 location. S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2013

    Guess where I'm eating a pork chop...in Vail?

    I'll admit that I've never been terribly impressed with the restaurant climate in Vail, and let's face it: In a resort town like this, where a fickle public chews up their restaurants and then spits them out just as fast, you've got to be better than good to survive (unlike, apparently, our meteorol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2013

    Does a diner label put a lid on what people will pay for a burger?

    The price tag on the burgers at Tom's Urban 24, which I reviewed last week, resulted in a flurry of comments -- a bigger flurry than we've seen in the skies today, in fact. Some readers thought the price was too high -- "$13 for a friggin cheeseburger?" -- while others said it was the going rate for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2013

    100 Favorite Dishes: Jajangmyeon from Yong Gung Dragon Palace Chinese Restaurant

    Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year -- which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn't it? But all those food dates a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2013

    Brunch at Beast Bottle, a beer dinner for The Jerk and more on this week's calendar

    Snow may hit late tonight -- what better place to hole up than Beast Bottle? The new restaurant just introduced a mid-day brunch menu in anticipation of nice weather, but it should work just fine on a snowy day, too. Brunch service currently runs Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a..m. to 2:30 p.m. C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2013

    Reader: If you pollute your body with piercings and tattoos, expect low-paying service jobs

    While it sometimes seems that hip new restaurants require that employees have cool tattoos and piercings, other spots have strict policies against piercing, tattoos and other body ornamentation. Jenn Wohletz went after such prudey-pants policies last week, in her list of five reasons restaurant empl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2013

    Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you're AyPapi

    Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a classy cocktail from the newly remodeled Jax Fish House, to a flight of several beers from the aptly named World of Beer, to a French toast torta from a diminutive Mexican sandwich shop that also turns out tricked-out breakf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2013

    Guess where I'm eating a meat-centric molcajete?

    There are plenty of usual suspect dishes at this Mexican restaurant, but there's also a whole section devoted to seafood, much of it excellent, and lurking somewhere between the whole snapper and the enchiladas is the smoking molcajete crowned with every meat imaginable. Can you guess where I'm eat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2013

    Five reasons restaurant employees should be allowed to have tattoos and piercings

    Being stylish has its price: For restaurant employees, having a tongue barbell, ear plugs, bright pink locks or an anime tattoo on their arms could get them fired, bitched at -- or not hired in the first place. An unconventional look with body modifications and Manic Panic really should not be a det ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2013

    Little Carmine's Italian Sandwiches opens on Penn

    For nearly twenty years, Carmine's on Penn Italian Restaurant has been stuffing Denver with its heaping bowls of gourmet pasta. Though Carmine's pricing is often as bloated as its patrons' bellies -- largely due to serving sizes that are injurious for a single person to consume -- the restaurant jas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2013

    Guess where I'm drinking a Soiled Dove?

    I used to love this rough bar back before it was turned into a restaurant. It was the only place in town that would serve you up to 1:59 a.m. Now that it's remodeled, I love sitting at the bar to eat. And it's not just any bar -- it's ginormous with booths around the exterior and a cocktail program ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2013

    Tonight: Great Minds Drink Alike at Central Bistro & Bar

    Central Bistro & Bar, 1691 Central Street, is hosting a beer dinner featuring Great Divide Brewery at 6:30 p.m. this evening. The restaurant still has seats available; but space is limited, so call 303-477-4582 to check availability. Keep reading to view the menu. See also: - Best Barrel-Aged Cockt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2013

    No free munch: Blue Bonnet, the readers' choice, does charge for chips and salsa

    The Food & Drink section of the Best of Denver 2013 contained more than a hundred categories (with a dozen more food-related awards in Shopping & Services); many of those also featured Readers' choice picks. And although readers showed good taste in choosing Smashburger over McDonald's for Best Fren ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2013

    Round two with Jonathan Power, exec chef of the Populist

    Jonathan Power The Populist 3163 Larimer Street 720-432-3163 thepopulistdenver.com This is part two of my interview with Jonathan Power, executive chef of the Populist. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I don't make it up there often ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2013

    Five Star Burgers earns its five stars with Hatch green chile -- and deep-fried banana bread!

    There is almost nothing better in the world than really good green chile spread on top of a juicy beef patty or slathered over a pile of hand-cut fries. Five Star Burgers is a transplant from Taos, and even with this city's staggering number of burger joints, Five Star manages to shine because of it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2013

    Pho 96 keeps it warm and simple

    In A Federal Case, I'll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard -- south to north -- within Denver city limits. I'll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I'll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here's the report on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2013

    Jonathan Power, exec chef of the Populist, on fungus, the sea bass bomb and "no salt"

    Jonathan Power The Populist 3163 Larimer Street 720-432-3163 thepopulistdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Jonathan Power, executive chef of the Populist. In part two of our chat, which runs tomorrow, Power reveals his favorite Denver restaurants, his fantasy splurge and what he loo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2013

    First Look: CHUBurger bringing "craft casual" to Longmont this week

    "We're basically coining the term 'craft casual,'" says Jason Rogers, the executive chef at the newest dining concept from Oskar Blues, CHUBurger, which is slated to open April 5. The term defines CHUBurger's approach to fast-casual dining -- sure, you walk up to the counter and put in your order ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2013

    Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria will open soon in Park Meadows -- and is hiring now

    The dining scene at Park Meadows has taken a few hits lately, with Grand Lux Cafe the most recent to leave the area. But it's about to get a heck of a consolation prize: Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno will be opening Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria, named in honor of their two sons, inside The Vistas at Par ... More >>

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