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Subject: Joe Vostrejs

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    June 21, 2008
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    August 15, 2008
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    September 9, 2008
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    December 29, 2008

    Tocabe liquor license hearing today

    Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery has been open less than two weeks, but the sleek restaurant at 5356 East 44th Avenue has already gained a loyal following with its native American twist on fast-casual food. And that following could grow -- fast-- if the liquor-license hearing scheduled for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Back in business: Sean Kelly

    Rumors were rampant that the recently vacated North Star Brewery space at 3200 Tejon Street had already been snapped up by Joe Vostrejs, Jeff Hermanson and Rod Wagner -- the Larimer Square gang, in part, and the crew most recently behind the resurrection of Billy's Inn, at 4403 Lowell Boulevard. So ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 23, 2003

    Bite Me

    Rumors were rampant that the recently vacated North Star Brewery space at 3200 Tejon Street had already been snapped up by Joe Vostrejs, Jeff Hermanson and Rod Wagner -- the Larimer Square gang, in part, and the crew most recently behind the resurrection of Billy's Inn, at 4403 Lowell Boulevard. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    What's in a name? Steak and bar, but not steak hut

    Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 15, 2009

    Is a chicken wing without chicken even a wing?

    Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 15 edition

    Photo by Eric GruneisenCobra Starship's Gabe Saporta has some issues. I'll try not to make this too taxing. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Fall Out Boy at the Fillmore. • Last Night: Mastodon at the Fox Theatre. • DJ Vajra impresses NAMM crowd with his turntable magic. • Update: H ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 11, 2008

    The earls of sandwich

    Photo by Eric GruneisenCobra Starship's Gabe Saporta has some issues. I'll try not to make this too taxing. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Fall Out Boy at the Fillmore. • Last Night: Mastodon at the Fox Theatre. • DJ Vajra impresses NAMM crowd with his turntable magic. • Update: H ... More >>

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    Jonesing

    New Life Church has gotten a makeover since Ted Haggard left — as Mike Jones reports from the inside.

  • Dining

    August 24, 2006

    Ground Zero

    Bistro Vendome gets a new chef.

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    June 15, 2006

    Oyster Barred

    A taste for revenge.

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    October 13, 2005

    Beyond Borders

    The Chen Brothers offer a pan-Asian experience at Blue Moon.

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    July 14, 2005

    Bite Me

    Birth Pains

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    November 25, 2004

    Bite Me

    Red Alert

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    May 6, 2004

    Bite Me

    A Square Deal

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Joe Vostrejs knows fry bread

    A regular at the old Billy's InnLong after my review of Tocabe was safely in the can, I was still dreaming about fry bread.  I was also eating fry bread -- having made at least three post-review visits to Tocabe's home at 44th and Lowell just to "check my facts." One that almost slipped by me? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Dining blind at Cracovia

    Lester and Maria Rodzen offer a taste of Poland at Cracovia.Bigos. Flaki. Czerwony barszcz, with or without uszka. Kapusniak. Pyzy, placek and kiszka. I'm pretty good with languages, particularly on my favorite conversational topics of food, kitchens and cooks. My pronunciation might be embarra ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 7, 2009

    Joe Vostrejs and his army are out to conquer Denver

    Lester and Maria Rodzen offer a taste of Poland at Cracovia.Bigos. Flaki. Czerwony barszcz, with or without uszka. Kapusniak. Pyzy, placek and kiszka. I'm pretty good with languages, particularly on my favorite conversational topics of food, kitchens and cooks. My pronunciation might be embarra ... More >>

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    May 15, 2009

    Steak Bar putting down stakes in Highland

    Selling the sizzle in northwest Denver When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that's moving into 3200 Tejon Street -- the old home of North Star Brewery -- would be open in June. He just didn't know when in June. "We have all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Banner day for Tocabe

    I had lunch plans that were made weeks ago.  I had a time and a date, a big group of friends, a table waiting out on the patio.  What I didn't have?  Any idea that today was the day the Denver Post was going to drop the love on my new favorite north Denver American Indian fr ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 11, 2009

    Larimer Square is a garden of eatin'

    I had lunch plans that were made weeks ago.  I had a time and a date, a big group of friends, a table waiting out on the patio.  What I didn't have?  Any idea that today was the day the Denver Post was going to drop the love on my new favorite north Denver American Indian fr ... More >>

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    June 24, 2009

    Say hello to two new debuts: LoHi SteakBar and Icehouse Tavern

    What will you eat at LoHi SteakBar? We've just gotten word that LoHi SteakBar, the new restaurant spearheaded by Joe Vostrejs and chef-partner Sean Kelly, is opening tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. in the former home of North Star Brewery at 3200 Tejon Street, which is exactly seven hours (that would be ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 2, 2009

    Ginger Gimlet at LoHi SteakBar

    What will you eat at LoHi SteakBar? We've just gotten word that LoHi SteakBar, the new restaurant spearheaded by Joe Vostrejs and chef-partner Sean Kelly, is opening tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. in the former home of North Star Brewery at 3200 Tejon Street, which is exactly seven hours (that would be ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 2, 2009

    Jason Sheehan is ready to face his critics

    What will you eat at LoHi SteakBar? We've just gotten word that LoHi SteakBar, the new restaurant spearheaded by Joe Vostrejs and chef-partner Sean Kelly, is opening tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. in the former home of North Star Brewery at 3200 Tejon Street, which is exactly seven hours (that would be ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2009

    Will the makeover of Writer Square be for the better or the worse?

    What will you eat at LoHi SteakBar? We've just gotten word that LoHi SteakBar, the new restaurant spearheaded by Joe Vostrejs and chef-partner Sean Kelly, is opening tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. in the former home of North Star Brewery at 3200 Tejon Street, which is exactly seven hours (that would be ... More >>

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    August 24, 2009

    The Larimer Square guys and Sean Kelly get a pizza the action

    Lori MidsonThe future home a New York-style pizza joint from the Larimer Square gang and Sean Kelly​Sometime in December, Jeff Hermanson, Joe Vostrejs and Rod Wagner will add a new pizza bar to their portfolio of successful restaurants that already includes Billy's Inn, LoHi Steakbar and prett ... More >>

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    August 26, 2009

    Chef and Tell: Troy Guard from TAG

    ​"You're the first person who's asked for hot sauce since I opened," says Troy Guard. The owner and executive chef of TAG, a three-month-old restaurant in Larimer Square, isn't quite scolding me, but he's made it perfectly clear that his steak tacos, a plate of which sits in front of me, don't ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 27, 2009

    A conversation with Troy Guard of TAG

    ​"You're the first person who's asked for hot sauce since I opened," says Troy Guard. The owner and executive chef of TAG, a three-month-old restaurant in Larimer Square, isn't quite scolding me, but he's made it perfectly clear that his steak tacos, a plate of which sits in front of me, don't ... More >>

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    September 3, 2009

    Planning Board votes down controversial Writer Square sign plan at impassioned hearing

    Len EdgerlyOpponents of the Writer Square sign plan use an eight-by-12-foot sheet to demonstrate the size of the proposed video billboard.​The Writer Square pedestrian shopping center downtown may be subtle, quiet and low-key, but the passions the location inspires are anything but. Denver's P ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 24, 2009

    Sean Kelly finds a home at the LoHi SteakBar

    Len EdgerlyOpponents of the Writer Square sign plan use an eight-by-12-foot sheet to demonstrate the size of the proposed video billboard.​The Writer Square pedestrian shopping center downtown may be subtle, quiet and low-key, but the passions the location inspires are anything but. Denver's P ... More >>

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    December 2, 2009

    Ernie's opens in northwest Denver, now it's on to Congress Park

    Lori Midson​Ernie's will open on schedule today, after a whirlwind renovation by Rod Wagner of the space that for years held 3 Sons, and for decades before that was home to Ernie's. But while the original Ernie's -- which opened in 1943 and whose sign has been reconstructed for the new Ernie's ... More >>