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Ondo's welcomes spring with a new menu, paella special tonight

Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar, 250 Steele Street, is introducing a new spring menu this evening, and hosting a special paella night beginning at 4 p.m. today. For $28, patrons can choose up to four ingredients to create a customized paella dish, which feeds two to four people; call 303-975-6514 for reser ... More >>

Celebrate National Paella Day at Ondo's today

It's National Paella Day! And Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar, 250 Steele Street, is celebrating with a deal on made-to-order versions of the traditional Spanish dish. See also: - Reader: Before you judge a dish like paella, see if it tastes good - Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Paella - Ondo's Spani ... More >>

Big Easy Creole Kitchen closes in Cherry Creek

Location, location, location. The subterranean space at 250 Steele Street has swallowed up another restaurant: Big Easy Creole Kitchen. George Gastl, a native of Denver and graduate from the Culinary Institute of Scottsdale, had cooked around the world -- in Santa Fe, Germany and, yes, New Orleans ... More >>

Jeremy Thomas, chef of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, on simplicity, spoons and Sheehan

Jeremy Thomas Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar 1512 Curtis Street 303-534-1155 www.legranddenver.com This is part one of my interview with Jeremy Thomas, chef of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. Colorado native Jeremy Thomas spent a lot of time at the dinne ... More >>

Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar celebrates its third birthday tonight

Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar, 250 Steele Street, is commemorating three years in business this evening with drink specials -- including $3 Basque cider and $5 house wines -- throughout the night. There will also be a traditional, Basque-style Pintxos bar featuring a variety of tapas for $2 each. See a ... More >>

Big Easy Creole Kitchen is coming to Cherry Creek North

Creole is suddenly on a roll in Denver: Zydeco's opened last fall on Wynkoop Street, a new Gumbo's is going into the space that had been Roam on East 17th Avenue, and the 1812 Restaurant & Bar is currently amassing funds to build a restaurant in Five Points. Now you can add another spot to the list: ... More >>

Cherry Creek and Upper Larimer face off in our Street 16 tournament

Which neighborhood has better restaurants? Cherry Creek -- maybe the Duke University of Denver restaurant neighborhoods: prestigious, with a history of success and constant reinvention -- or Upper Larimer, the up-and-coming Ballpark neighborhood on a hot streak? (Maybe a Murray State comparison is a ... More >>

Procrastinators, take heart: Prime time Valentine's Day reservations are still available

Tomorrow is a really special day of the year, when you will no doubt attempt to show how much you care about your significant other by showering him or her with gifts, Hallmark cards, roses, confections and maybe even some red and pink confetti. And if everyone plays their cards right, the most roma ... More >>

Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar rolls out a traditional Basque happy hour

Ondo's Spanish Tapas BarOndo's unveils a traditional Basque pintxos happy hour.​When Curt and Darcy Steinbecker opened Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar in late 2009, they wanted to give Denver a true Spanish experience, channeling the country where they'd met and learned to cook. And in that spirit, t ... More >>

Ondo's stays true to its Spanish inspiration

Second Helping: Tapas de España

​Hungry for a taste of true Spanish tapas, which I'd enjoyed so much on the Iberian peninsula, I hurried to Tapas de España, which recently opened in El Señor Sol, a Mexican restaurant that occupies the Victorian building that was once the Zang Brewing Company. There's actually no distincti ... More >>

Hush could reopen in Cherry Creek -- but first it needs to survive today's liquor-license hearing

Sign of the times: Liquor-license hearing notice for 250 Steele Street.​Restaurants have a tough time making a go of basement space, and the 250 Steele Street address has been a particularly black hole. Although Bistro Adde Brewster had a long run there, the spot has since swallowed up French ... More >>

Sangria and Spanish snacks at Ondo's happy hour

​Happy Place: Ondo's, 250 Steele Street, 303-975-6514 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.; all day Tuesday; Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to midnight The Deals: $3 Heineken drafts; $3 red or white sangria; $3 well pours; $2 off wine, cava, and sherry by the glass; $3-12 food ... More >>

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Ondo's is serving up Spanish-style baguette sandwiches for lunch

​Not only did Ondo's, the tapas bar at 250 Steele Street that opened last fall, recently expanded its hours to include lunch. And the lunch menu -- and the lunch menu only -- features what owner Curt Steinbecker believes to be the only authentic bocadillos in Denver. Steinbecker describes bo ... More >>

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From the week of January 14, 2010

Someone's in The Kitchen...but it's not Jason Sheehan

Mark MangerEric Hines in the kitchen of The Kitchen.​There are a few things that I like about Boulder and many that I don't. For example, it bothers me that Boulder exists where it does, snugged up tight against the base of the Flatirons, frantically humping the leg of a mountain range that wo ... More >>

Sheehan: Things I'm gonna miss...

​Time is growing short. Less than a week before I turn my back on the 303 and make for the 206 (which sounds weird just to say), and everywhere I turn, I'm seeing things I'm going to miss. It's no longer just the big things that are getting to me, but the little ones as well -- my view of th ... More >>

Last Supper: Our outgoing critic ends things at Ondo's, where they're easing into excellence

Up Close: Ondo's

Mark Manger​For his last supper (review) in Denver, Sheehan ate at Ondo's, where he says Deicy Steinbecker's fare is "easing into excellence." See Mark Manger's photos on the slideshow page.

Saying goodbye at Ondo's

​"This might be the last time, you know?" Laura said. "Our last chance." And she was right. While Curt and Deicy Steinbecker and Ondo's might just be starting out in Denver, we were finishing up, doing last things, handling final details before aiming ourselves west and making for the dista ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

​ What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were buried in gravy, a slave to stuffing or checking out Sheehan's roundup of Denver's best pub grub, which is exactly what you want after too much tryptophan: Saul Hudson learned that Chipotle Mexican Grill is entering the Lond ... More >>

Update: Ondo's opens today

​ That picture there? That's what Ondo's looked like a few weeks ago. The space at 250 Steele Street was still coming together, and even as recently as last week, there was no set menu because no one on staff had actually been able to get into the kitchen to cook anything. But yesterday, ... More >>

Update: Ondo's sets a new opening date

​ Just got off the blower with Curt Steinbecker (that's him in the funny hat up there, standing beside his wife, Deicy) of Ondo's, the Spanish tapas restaurant that I've been waiting forever for at 250 Steele Street (in the former home of French 250). Okay, so maybe it hasn't quite been for ... More >>

Ondo's on schedule for a mid-November opening

Lori Midson​While Jason Sheehan is busy building a dream team staff for Ondo's, the tapas restaurant taking over the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street, owner Curt Steinbecker, who trained with his wife, Deicy, at the Escuela de Cocina Luis Irizar, is just trying to get his restaurant op ... More >>

Staffing Up: My dream team for Ondo's

​Yesterday I kicked off "Staffing Up," with some free advice for how Mark & Isabella can get its act together. But the idea doesn't have to be confined to restaurants that need a swift, motivating kick in the ass; reading through these blog posts for the last few days, I realize that we can a ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

Sausage king​What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were counting the minutes to Zolo Southwestern Grill's 105 days of tequila. While we locals aren't pleased that the Rockies blew another season of baseball, we understand that not everyone is a fan of the purple and ... More >>

Counting down to tapas at Ondo's

​ There are some restaurants I talk about a lot. There are others that I talk about hardly at all. And one of the very few places that I talk about continuously (some would say obsessively) isn't even open yet. It's Ondo's. Ah, Ondo's....I've been dreaming about having a new tapas restaura ... More >>

Alto and ESPN Zone leave empty spaces downtown

Ondo's to move into French 250

Never say die: The space at 250 Steele Street that swallowed French 250 (and numerous restaurants before that) is now moving around the Mediterranean. According to the banner now hanging at that address, Ondo's, a tapas spot, will attempt to make a go of this spot come fall.

More on Ondo's, coming this fall

This is me jumping up and down in excitement.  This is me rubbing my hands with glee. Yeah, sure, 250 Steele Street has a serious curse on it. Like a Curse of the Mummy-style curse. Abandon hope all ye who open a restaurant here. This space has swallowed more restaurants than I have chicken win ... More >>

LONG LIVE THE KING

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