Lori MidsonWomen rule the world (or at least the kitchen) at Cafe Options, a new breakfast and lunch spot that opened last week at 1650 Curtis Street on the bottom level of the U.S. Bank Tower building. The cafe, a fast-casual concept courtesy of of Work Options for Women, a non-profit focused on preparing impoverished women coming off welfare for jobs in the food-service industry, is anything but your ordinary, everyday stop-and-go spot, in part because the cafe actually employs several women w
Houston's promo card shows a crowd, but they're not your average CreekersAn hour after getting all the appropriate permits, the long-awaited Houston's finally opened this past weekend at 303 Josephine Street. This sibling of the Cherry Creek Grill and other restaurants in the Hillstone chain has an expansive, sleek dining room and an inexplicable eleven seats at the bar. Eleven seats? With all the barflies in Cherry Creek? It also has a no-cell-phone rule in the dining room, and on Sunday night
Al and Lauren MarcoveThere are myriad reasons to remember Al Marcove, the restaurateur, caterer, hamburger guru, mentor and unofficial "Mayor of Cherry Creek Mall," who died April 22.But Marcove's greatest legacy is almost assuredly that he celebrated life by treating people -- employees, acquaintances, friends and customers -- with integrity and respect. "Always striving for a higher level of customer service, quality and innovation, Al was unrelenting and the most loyal friend and employer tha
ESPN Zone's departure adds to the empty restaurant space downtown.When Fogo de Chao opens at 1513 Wynkoop Street in mid-July, the Brazilian steakhouse chain will occupy -- wait for it -- 14,000 square feet, enough footage to house nearly 600 cows, at least by my mathematical calculations, where are based, more or less, on an average cow size of eight feet long and three feet wide. In any case, while Fogo will soon swallow up half a block, there are three nearby restaurants with a whole lot of em
A whole slew of downtown Denver restaurants - Organixx, Ice House Tavern, Bistro Vendome, Vesta Dipping Grill, Dixons, The Palm, Morton's, Wazee Supper Club, McCormick's Fish House & Bar, the Wine Loft and the Wynkoop Brewing Company (that's the short list) -- are participating in tonight's LoDo Bites, a food sampling through some of Lower Downtown's most popular restaurants, wine bars and watering holes. "LoDo Bites is a great way for the community to get an inexpensive little 'taste' of
"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 need no stinkin' hot sauce. "The steak's already been marinated in habanero and chipotle," he tells me. I take a bite and discover that he's absolutely right. But even if he weren't, who am I to argu
