This is, bar none, my favorite watering hole in Denver. It’s a convivial joint with awesome, conversational tenders, a kick-ass beer selection, including Left Hand Brewing Milk Stout, a jukebox that deserves its own mention, irreverent artwork and an eclectic trove of regulars who will gladly extend a hand when…
Tim Connors, co-owner of Mezcal, the rollicking cantina on East Colfax Avenue whose kitchen is overseen by Roberto Diaz, wants people to know that he’s absolutely, unequivocally not trying to pull a fast one on Denver Restaurant Week, the two-week eating orgy in which nearly 300 Front Range fooderies are…
There are very few egg-ceptional breakfast sandwiches in this city, but this one? This one rises above the sun, eternally restoring my faith in rise and shine. 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…
The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin’ soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout, hosted by star…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime time…
“We had a great, great evening last night, and the best thing about it was that Z and A’ Côté were both really busy,” says Lynnde DePays of Z Cuisine’s first night back in business. Lynnde and Patrick, her husband and the Z Cuisine chef, had closed their French bistro…
There are people in this town that go loco for queso, and while dozens of restaurants do it, most of them don’t do it particularly well. The queso in the above snap falls somewhere in the middle, its most notable attribute, the pronounced jolt of hot chiles. Can you guess…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Balmy weather aside,…
Lon Symensma ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro 1555 Blake Street 303-353-5223 www.cholon.com This is part two of my interview with Lon Symensma, executive chef of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro. In part one of that interview, Symensma rips on bird’s nests, extols the virtues of lop chong and admits that his favorite…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime time…
As you’re undoubtedly aware, our Best of Denver readers’ poll, wherein you vote for all of your favorite stuff in the Mile High City, is full of food-related categories, including nachos, a subject of big debate in this city. The towering heap in the above snap always generates a litany…
Lon Symensma ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro 1555 Blake Street 303-353-5223 www.cholon.com This is part one of my interview with Lon Symensma, executive chef of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Lon Symensma talks faster than a hyped-up auctioneer, the words rolling…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 6 p.m., there were prime time…
Seven years and lots of leopard carpet mileage later, Deluxe, Dylan Moore’s (formerly) moody restaurant on SoBo, is getting a major makeover — and a new menu. Moore, who also runs Delite, the lounge next door, as well as Deluxe Burger and the Little Orange Rocket, closed on Saturday night…
No. 66: Sea scallop and rock shrimp noodle bowl from Bones Like a lot of people, I spent the majority of my years as an undergraduate obsessed with keeping my waistline shaped to a size two (those days are long, long gone) and spending whatever leftover scholarship money I had…
I love a hearty Mid East feast, and I wanted to love the restaurant where the above sampler platter was snapped, but aside from the tabbouleh and beef shawarma, both of which were fine — not stellar, but fine — nothing here made me want to come rushing back, least…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:45 p.m., there were prime time…
On Friday night, Biker Jim hosted a little party inside his new brick-and-mortar at 2148 Larimer Street, inviting a few friends and a trio of motorcycle stunt riders to christen the concrete floor with the lashings of burnt rubber, the decibel levels of which made it unofficially the loudest party…
As you’ve no doubt heard, the debauchery that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and the Tavern Hospitality Group — they who own Tavern Uptown, Tavern Downtown, Tavern Lowry, Tavern Tech Center and Tavern Wash Park — are giving you the opportunity to stumble around Sin City for free. But…
Ever beer at this bar is poured from cans, and on Friday night, Oskar Blues took control of the taps, while a kick-ass country band commanded the dance floor. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
For more than fifty years, Davies Chuck Wagon Diner has stood like a stallion on a strip of West Colfax, feeding greasy-spoon grub, like chicken-fried steak, to old-timers and curiosity-seekers who want a glimpse of the Davies Diner horse that hovers above the front door. Four years ago, owner Dwayne…
In exactly 37 days, the third US Tour of Cochon 555, a nationwide traveling pork orgy that spotlights five local chefs, five heritage breed piggies and five winemakers, will hoof it to Denver, taking over a yet-to-be-determined parcel of pig-appropriate landscape, wherein the chefs will go tongue-to-trotter in an epic…
