No explanation needed. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive a 2011 EatDenver dining deck, worth up to…
Double the pleasure, double the fun: That will likely be the sentiment of downtown denizens residing in the Prospect neighborhood, just west of Coors Field, if liquor licenses are approved for Tavern Prospect and Metro Liquor, both of which have posted separate liquor-license application signs on the cavernous, two-tiered, vacant…
Last night, a platoon of Denver’s top female chefs (and a few of their male counterparts) gathered at Temple Emanuel for Women Cook! Dining for a Difference, a yearly benefit that supports Work Options for Women, a local nonprofit that battles homelessness and poverty by giving underserved women the skills…
Pray to the weather gods that Denver is blessed with balmy breezes this weekend, because the food trucks competing in season two of The Great Food Truck Race, the primetime Food Network series hosted by star chef Tyler Florence, are motoring into town on Saturday and possibly Sunday (along with…
African restaurants are (very) few and far between in Denver, but they do exist, including this one, where plantains, goat meat and rice take center stage. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…
You could hear the collective wails emanating from the cafeteria at the University of Denver when news came down that Trompeau Bakery, the petite French bake shop at 1729 East Evans Avenue, was shuttering after a decade — and relocating to a new space that wasn’t within walking distance of…
Ron Bryant and Chris Casson, both of whom work in the enterprise business development department of Shamrock Foods, have spent the past year and a half bantering about the attributes of burgers — and how they could erect a burger treasury of their own that would stand buns apart from…
There’s only one restaurant in Denver where I’ve seen this golden Italian beer being poured — and I’d gladly go out of my way to track it down again. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Come Saturday at 2 p.m., the parking lot at Ninth and Bannock will morph into a food orgy, when nearly a dozen Denver street-food trucks and carts commune on the pavement to feed a bumper crop of gastronauts, all of whom will be part of the Food Truck Warriors kick-off…
Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part two of my interview with Jenna Johansen. Part one of this interview ran yesterday. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Opening my restaurant. I’ve done a lot of work to get to where I am, and I’ve planned…
Professional cooking has always been a male-dominated pursuit, but each year, more and more females are strutting their culinary moxie, and tonight, a cartel of Denver chefs — all ladies — are cooking up a storm to benefit Work Options for Women, a local nonprofit that helps underserved and impoverished…
When you’ve been named America’s Foodiest Town by a national, glossy, high-falutin’ magazine — in this case, Bon Appétit — it might be easy to point your nose to the sky, gloat and subsequently rest on your laurels. But while Boulder undoubtedly did an earth-muffin dance to celebrate the accolades,…
Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part one of my interview with Jenna Johansen, co-owner/chef of dish restaurant in Edwards. Part two of this interview will run in this space tomorrow. “I can talk about an apple for an hour,” insists Jenna Johansen. “No,…
Last September, Rich Wong and his partner, Sharyn Nissen, rolled out a food cart, named it Street Eats and began pimping everything from Hawaiian-style kalbi ribs and Peking barbecue pork buns to chicken and andouille sausage gumbo and wild boar dogs tricked-out with cranberries and apricots from behind the confines…
There are some restaurants that start off with a bang and falter, others that never even make it off the ground, and still others that put their best foot forward straight out of the gate and never stop evolving. The above snap was flashed at a restaurant that, while still…
For the past several months, behind the walls of a two-story, converted apartment building in Highland, Todd Colehour, a former executive with Kona Grill, along with his business partners and startender Sean Kenyon, who works behind the bar of the Squeaky Bean and writes our weekly “Ask the Bartender” column,…
Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part one of my interview with Cucci ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t have one. Like…
On Saturday night, the new incarnation of Satchel’s on 6th unlocked its doors, uncorked the wines and unearthed a small, tidy menu that trumpets the talents of exec chef Jared Brant, who’s done time in the kitchens of Bones and Mizuna. The fifty-seat space, kitted out with exposed red brick,…
Yesterday, while having lunch, I made the dire, dire mistake of ordering a Cuban sandwich that was served — not grilled, not pressed, not melted — on challah bread. I shoved it away after the first soggy bite, setting my sights, instead, on the hummas and falafel that my dining…
Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part one of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part two of my interview will run in this space tomorrow. Justin Cucci has spent the majority of his life in…
On Friday, April 27, Jorge Hinojosa Alonso and Jean-Claude Delville will head to the Wellington Webb Building at 1:30 p.m to attend a hearing that’ll determine whether their new watering hole, Vinue Food and Wine Bar, located at 2817 East Third Avenue, will get its liquor license. The wine bar,…
Dan Ohlson, the former owner of Chez Jose, the burrito joint in Cherry Creek that shuttered last December after a seventeen-year run, swore up and down that he’d never open another restaurant in Cherry Creek. Never. He vowed, too, that he’d never have an underground space. Ever. Ohlson is now…
