Row 14 debuts Taco Tuesday tonight

Along with all the usual suspects offering Tuesday night taco deals in this town, you can add a less conventional spot: Row 14 just announced Taco Tuesdays, when it will add a board of tortilla-wrapped meats and salsas to its usual list of charcuterie, brandade fritters and duck crepes…

Cafe Berlin will move to the 16th Street Mall

Six years ago, Cafe Berlin gave up its longstanding Seventeenth Avenue address to move downtown, picking up the lease on a vast, bright space on Tremont and Fourteenth Streets. But the spot served its last meal in those digs on April 23, in anticipation of a new move just a…

Denver’s five best wings

We can think of few better ways to eat up an afternoon or evening than ordering a pitcher of beer, then soaking up the alcohol with a pile of chicken wings, slathered with spicy buffalo sauce and dunked in a little ranch or blue cheese. Our favorite wings are at…

Mobile Basta debuts today at First Friday

Armed with a portable oven and mobile sous vide license, Kelly Whitaker has been putting the finishing touches on Mobile Basta, the traveling extension of Pizzeria Basta that’s capable of reproducing the entire menu of the Boulder restaurant on the street. He’ll debut the fruits of his labor today: Mobile…

Hangover cure: The michelada

Feeling a little woozy from celebrating Cinco de Mayo? Perhaps you’d like to continue your Mexican-themed festivities and cure your hangover in a traditional way: sucking down a michelada…

Spring fever: Five new menus for a new season

You can tell summer is approaching not just because the air is warmer, but menus around town are heating up, introducing lighter dishes that feature seasonal produce. Some of those board changes look particularly delicious. Here are five that caught our eye:…

Grandma’s Korean BBQ closes

After I ate at Silla for this week’s review — and before I discovered the bibim naeng myun at Sae Jong Kwan — I decided to try Grandma’s Korean BBQ, a popular spot that had relocated from Sixth Avenue to 11650 Montview Boulevard in Aurora after Song Park, the woman…

Food porn: Silla

For this week’s review, I headed straight to Silla, a Korean barbecue joint in Aurora that serves one of the best versions of bibim naeng myun in the city. And after I fed my craving for those cold noodles, I ate my way through the rest of Silla’s menu, as…

Golden Spoon opens this weekend in Stapleton

There are several frozen-yogurt shops opening soon in Denver, but possibly none so ambitious as Golden Spoon, which will open its first Mile High City outpost — and fifth Colorado location — this weekend in Stapleton at 7505 East 35th Avenue. And Mike and Julie Haslar, the franchisees behind the…

Review preview: Silla

When the weather starts getting warmer, I develop an insatiable craving for bibim naeng myun, a tangy cold noodle dish imbued with the heat of chiles. So a few weeks ago, on one of the first really warm days of the year, I made my annual journey out to Silla,…

Masterpiece Delicatessen looks to land a liquor license

Masterpiece Delicatessen hardly needs another reason to give crowds a reason to stop by: The breakfast and lunch eatery has been packing hordes of patrons into its tiny space and downtown-facing patio since it opened three years ago. But Steve Allee and Justin Brunson are about to make the neighborhood…

Now open: Hash

When Heather Haupman took over La Crema Cafeteria, a bare-bones coffee shop on 44th and Zuni, she was convinced the Sunnyside neighborhood needed a more upscale coffee and breakfast joint. So she remodeled the space, gave it a sunnier feel, and created Hash, which, in addition to Novo coffee and…

Sae Jong Kwan doesn’t look promising, but packs the heat

For the past few years, when the first whispers of warm weather stirred my annual craving for bibim naeng myun, I inevitably made a beeline straight for Silla, which served what I thought might be the best version of the cold buckwheat noodle dish in the area. But this spring…

Spicy noodles are enough to keep you coming back to Silla

I love Asian noodles: ramen, pho, Vietnamese bun bo Hue, Nepalese thupka, Taiwanese beef noodle soup. In the winter, I slurp bowl after bowl of hot broth, noodles and chunks of meat, ideally with some animal collagen to make the mix thick, velvety and rib-stickingly hearty. In spring, as the…

What will Steve Ells invest in next? Soul Daddy

Amid making plans for ShopHouse, a new fast-casual Asian concept, and running the ever-expanding Denver-based Chipotle empire, Steve Ells has also been busy picking another restaurant concept in which to invest, working alongside Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia to grant a would-be restaurateur the opportunity to run America’s…

Now open: Chef Vue

Nearly five years after native Laotian Ma Vue graced Edgewater residents with US Thai Cafe — which offers up some of the best curry in the city — he’s added a second restaurant in Denver: Chef Vue opened in the Town Center in Aurora two weeks ago…

Denver’s five best breakfast sandwiches

Of all the magical morning eats, few are more versatile than the breakfast sandwich. Meat, eggs and cheese between two halves of a roll — it’s the perfect morning take-out meal, an excellent way to cure a hangover and an also an ideal option for a lazy weekend when paired…