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January 30, 2012
Reader: Book a table at Fruition during Denver Restaurant Week...since it's not participating
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 >>
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January 30, 2012
Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Bbert
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 >>
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January 30, 2012
Homemade seitan for a meat substitute on Meatless Monday
No one's saying you have to go meatless just because it's Monday -- but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we're offering an animal-free recipe. Seitan is a protein-rich compound made from wheat; it's easily found in most grocery stores, but making your own is simple an ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Parry's Pizzeria & Bar opens today in Highlands Ranch
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 >>
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January 31, 2012
Sushi Den architects share plans for the South Pearl project
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 >>
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January 31, 2012
Two craft beer radio shows will go head to head in Denver
FacebookGary Valliere (left) and John Turk in the studio in 2011.The hosts of what had been Denver's only craft beer radio show have gone their separate ways, an amicable split that has nevertheless created a somewhat awkward situation: two craft beer radio shows, both airing at the same time ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Larimer Associates will open the Lowry Beer Garden in the new Hangar project
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.
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January 31, 2012
Karma Asian's wide vegetarian selection has something for everyone
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 >>
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January 31, 2012
Moe's Original Bar-B-Que opens a Boulder outlet
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 >>
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January 31, 2012
A mediocre pizza joint inspires homemade pie with Fort Collins's Incredible Hop
I'm sad to report that I recently tried the pizza at a local popular purveyor of it and was quite disappointed. I won't share the name of the place, seeing as how we're all especially fervent about our favorite pizza joints, and I'd prefer not to step on anyone's dough. I will say, however, ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Coohills makes itself at home in LoDo
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 >>
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February 1, 2012
No more Mo's, but one more Moe's: Restaurant roll call for January
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 >>
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February 1, 2012
Chef Tom Coohill on food snobs, foie gras, fishy fish and food bloggers
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 >>
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February 1, 2012
Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Oven-fried potato chips and Super Bowl onion dip
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. If you can't find someon ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Five Italian wines your American palate will love
Just tell the truth, already: you are totally freaked out by Italian wine. By "freaked out", we mean shaking like a leaf. Shivering in your shorts. Just plain scurrred. Ask a wine retailer which category they find most challenging to sell to less experienced consumers, and you're likely to h ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Coohills is a safe standby for those special-ish occasions
Photos: In the kitchen at Coohills
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February 1, 2012
Morton's The Steakhouse closes the Tech Center location
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 >>
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February 1, 2012
Kraine Station will give Denver a Ukrainian restaurant
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 >>
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February 1, 2012
Big tippers! The winners of our first Denver Restaurant Week contest
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 >>
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February 9, 2012
Win $52.80: Tell us about your favorite Denver restaurant
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 >>
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February 2, 2012
Round two with Tom Coohill, exec chef/owner of Coohills
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 >>
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February 2, 2012
Tonight: More than seventy restaurants participating in Dine Out for Girl Scouts
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 >>
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February 2, 2012
100 Favorite Dishes: Raw carrot salad from Ambria
Lori Midson No. 44: Raw carrot salad from Ambria
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February 2, 2012
Il Posto marks its five-year milestone
"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 >>
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February 2, 2012
The 1812 tests the potential of crowd-funding for backing a restaurant
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 >>
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February 3, 2012
Top five things food snobs should stop doing
There is nothing wrong with being a food snob. Food snobs offer valuable services to their communities, such as market insight, educated opinions and keeping the restaurant industry honest and on its toes. But still, there are always some culi-nazis pissing in the crab bisque; food snows who ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Denver's ten best nachos
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 >>
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February 3, 2012
A blizzard of snow day food and drink deals at Denver bars and restaurants!
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 >>
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February 6, 2012
Vegan jambalaya for Mardi Gras on Meatless Monday
No one's saying you have to go meatless just because it's Monday -- but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we're offering an animal-free recipe. The best thing about this jambalaya? You don't have to forgo this recipe during Lent -- or on any other day, because it's alway ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Beer dinners, sparkling wine and more on this week's culinary calendar
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:
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February 6, 2012
Five Denver/Boulder kitchen magicians who should audition for Top Chef Season 10
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 >>
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February 7, 2012
Guess where I'm eating?
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 >>
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February 7, 2012
100 Favorite Dishes: Goat curry from Phat Thai
Lori Midson No. 41: Goat curry from Phat Thai
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February 7, 2012
Freshcraft's vegetarian selection and beer list hits the spot
Freshcraft, which opened in 2010 on Blake Street, has earned nods from us for having a fantastic bottled beer list, and we've been looking at the myriad vegetarian options on the menu for quite some time, but we only managed to make it to the craft-beer-and-fresh-food joint this past Monday n ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
The 2012 crop of FIVE chefs and bar stars includes a powerhouse of big names
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 >>
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February 7, 2012
Comida Cantina will open in Longmont on February 17
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 >>
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February 7, 2012
Pedro steak and mashed potatoes with Avery's Reverend: a complete meal
I've never been a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I don't eat much meat for one, and I'm just as content with potatoes being the main course as I'm with their being on the side, if not more so. My buddy Jeff, on the other hand, is that type of guy, not that there's anything wrong with it. I l ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Bols Genever re-launches in Colorado this week
The Kopstootje, the traditional way to drink Bols Genever in Holland.Gin may have come from genever, but you can't really put the two in the same box, according to Jacob Grier, Portland-based bartender and brand representative for Bols Genever. "Genever is really its own category," he explain ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Pinche Taqueria is pinche good!
More photos: In the kitchen at Pinche Taqueria
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February 8, 2012
J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's, on destroying candy bars and shi*tin' and spittin' up
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 >>
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February 8, 2012
Guess where I'm eating?
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 >>
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February 8, 2012
Beer calendar: show your love for beer at these heart-y beer events
The resumes were long and detailed, the qualifications extreme, but the ten finalists in the Wynkoop Brewing Company's annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest have been whittled down to three -- and these guys know their beer. The man who eventually claims the title for 2012 will be determined ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Guess where I'm drinking?
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 >>
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February 8, 2012
Five stellar wines from Sutcliffe Vineyards
Sutcliffe Vineyards' stunningly delicious dry rosé.We recently saw something on a Denver restaurant wine list that made us do a double take: A total of eleven -- you read that right, eleven -- Colorado wines available by the glass. Crazy, right? It gets even crazier: Four of those local wine ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Four chefs give the lowdown on what makes LoDo cook
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 >>
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February 9, 2012
Guess where I'm eating?
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 >>
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February 9, 2012
Two new wild ales from Avery Brewing bridge the gap between beer and wine
Beer is made from fermented barley. Wine is made from fermented grapes. So what do you call a beverage that uses both? The answer is Récolte Sauvage.
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February 9, 2012
100 Favorite Dishes: Rail Yard cheddar soup from Ghost Plate & Tap
Lori Midson No. 40: Rail Yard cheddar soup from Ghost Plate & Tap
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February 9, 2012
Denver's ten best dessert spots
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 >>
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February 9, 2012
Pasquini's closes Uptown location to make way for Serioz
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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