Bartender Matty Durgin recently landed behind the stick at À Côté Bar a Absinthe after parting ways with Adrift, the tiki bar that just opened on South Broadway. But the rum aficionado immediately began making plans to integrate his favorite spirit into the drink list there — even if those…
Anyone who says you can only find good seafood on the coasts is just plain wrong. A number of restaurants in Denver are helmed by chefs who really know their way around fish. They bring in the best specimens they can find, and they turn out some truly exceptional ocean-focused…
Patrik Landberg is turning out some pretty awesome food at Charcoal, the seven-month-old restaurant in the Golden Triangle that I review this week. His seafood dishes, in particular, are like a fun, fast joyride: They exhibit skill and playfulness, and they’re absolutely delicious. Here, to go with my review, are…
Construction is under way at Ace, the eatery and ping-pong hall that Josh and Jen Wolkon, Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman and Jeff Bustos are building next to Steuben’s, which the Wolkons and Selby also own (along with Vesta Dipping Grill). And though the partners are still a few…
To give the Colorado Bartenders Guild all the credit for Denver’s flourishing cocktail culture would be wrong, says Sean Kenyon, owner of Williams & Graham and one of the founding members of this state’s chapter. But it certainly helped. “We were officially chartered in February of 2008,” he says, “and…
When Patrik Landberg first came to the United States, he was fresh off eight years in kitchens in his native Sweden, and he had no trouble landing a job in New York City. When he moved to Denver years later, though, he had a little more trouble finding his niche…
It’s been spring for weeks, but afternoons like this — afternoons when it’s a perfect 71 degrees and sunny — make it extremely hard for us to stay indoors without losing our sanity. And right about this time of day, we start looking for any excuse we can get to…
It’s been six months since Nelson Perkins, chef/owner of Colt & Gray, inked a deal on the space — and basement — next door. When he landed the extra room, he announced that in addition to expanding the dining room of his gastropub on Platte Street, he’d be opening a…
We can’t count the number of times we’ve made a late-afternoon dash over to Masterpiece Delicatessen, the spot that was our Best Sandwich Shop in this year’s Best of Denver, only to remember too late that Masterpiece closes at 4 p.m. Fortunately, that’s about to change. Beginning May 1, Masterpiece…
Any cook can call himself a chef — and often does — these days. Historically, though, the term was reserved for those culinary professionals who’d actually mastered the craft of preparing food, which involved everything from running the kitchen to adding the perfect finishing garnish to a brilliantly constructed plate…
Mandy Stevens and Kristian Barowsky were planning to unveil The Desk today, giving Denver a combination cafe-workspace that would allow the city’s numerous freelancers a place to post up with a cup of coffee, reserve a desk for hours at a time or hold a meeting in a conference room…
Opening Day at Coors Field may as well be a holiday in the Mile High City: Denver’s residents descend upon downtown en masse, kick off the baseball festivities early and keep partying until late. Earlier today, Jonathan Shikes, aka Colorado Beer Man, divulged a list of spots to find craft…
GOTYE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.6.12A sun rose in a blood red sky as Gotye unleashed the first notes and lyrics to “Eyes Wide Open,” one of the more upbeat tracks — and first single — off of Making Mirrors, the album he released in the late summer of last…
FUN. @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.5.12 There’s no question that Fun. is fun. The band, fronted by Nate Ruess formerly of the Format, has been compared to Elton John and Queen, turning out tracks of pop rock that are accessible, bouncy and really effing awesome to yell in your car…
In this interview, Adam Hodak — the beverage manager for Frank Bonanno’s restaurants who’s frequently behind the stick at Green Russell, Osteria Marco and Russell’s Smokehouse — weighs in on how he got to where he is, the night he pepper-sprayed himself and the irony of lime usage at Mexican…
I wasn’t thrilled with Paxia, the upscale Mexican joint brothers Cesar, Roberto and Ignacio Leon opened in the Sunnyside neighborhood last year, especially because their original restaurant, the vibrant Los Carboncitos, is located just six blocks away. And after I’d eaten my review meals at Paxia, I went diving into…
Peach Street Distillers first fired up the stills in Palisade in 2004, a project from Rory Donovan and Ska Brewing co-founders Dave Thibodeau and Bill Graham. Since then, the company has grown steadily from a risk-it-all bootstrapped operation into a well-known local craft brand. And the hard work just paid…
Fred Rex worked in the electronics business for two and a half decades, but when his company closed in the early 2000s, he decided to change careers. “I ran a pretty successful hot dog stand in the Boston area for about seven years,” he explains. “We’re not just a stainless…
“I met Jim at the Gramercy Tavern,” Frasca Food and Wine owner Bobby Stuckey explained by way of introduction to Jim Meehan, the star bartender who stopped into the Boulder restaurant last night to host a cocktail seminar and dinner. “He gave Danette [Stuckey, Bobby’s wife] and me a really…
It’s been a year since Andrew Casalini and his wife, Jen Dactano, opened Satchel’s on 6th, at 1710 East Sixth Avenue — a replacement for Satchel’s Market, the Park Hill market-turned-restaurant that they’d closed in the fall of 2010. Over the past twelve months, Casalini has worked hard to establish…
Though I love Los Carboncitos, which is owned by brothers Cesar, Roberto and Ignacio Leon, I wasn’t thrilled with Paxia, the restaurant they opened last year in the Sunnyside neighborhood. Although the atmosphere is very peaceful, as I discovered when I ate there for this week’s review, the food can…
A snowstorm might not be the best weather for a pig roast, but that didn’t prevent a crowd from descending on Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth last night for the restaurant’s first quarterly pig roast, a new tradition that was slated to get off the ground the very week the six-month-old…
