When Bar Luxe opened three years ago, it was a sleek Cherry Creek bar, soon to be joined by Euro, a hip Cherry Creek restaurant helmed by Olav Peterson, formerly of Restaurant 1515. But Euro was gone by the end of 2007 (Peterson is now at Bistro One), and Bar Luxe finally gave up the ghost last year.Now the bi-level, bifurcated space at 231 Milwaukee Street is back on the block. No charge for the ghosts of previous inhabitants, including Manhattan Grill (shown here), Vartan Jazz and the Bay Wolf
Mark Manger
"Talk to me about your fish.""The monkfish?""Yeah..."I'm writing about Bistro One this week -- and this review's a little different. For a change, it's all about the food. More to the point, it's all about chef Olav Peterson and his menu and the things that go right and wrong between the head of the chef, the hands of his crew and the tables in the dining room at this ten-month-old restaurant on South Broadway.
Driving down Broadway to Bistro One (right), where chef Olav Peterson is whipping his kitchen into shape, I got to thinking about all the other good places that have popped up on this storied strip. Some of the best: 1) GB Fish and Chips, 1311 South Broadway. Bikers and bums and Brits, oh my. Screw the crowds, forget about the occasionally unusual smells that emanate from the kitchen, and sit yourself down here for some of the best fish and chips in Denver.2) Deluxe, 30 South Broadwa
Olav Peterson in the kitchen at Bistro OneThis just in from Olav Peterson at Bistro One (1294 South Broadway). Come May 15, Peterson and his crew at the award-winning neighborhood bistro will stop serving lunch.
According to Peterson, this is just a temporary thing, something he's doing for the summer. And he plans on replacing the vanishing lunches with a weekday happy hour starting at 4 p.m., complete with a batch of plates running between $3 and $5. The new board will go into
