Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which got its start in Chicago in 1977, originally as Potbelly Sandwich Works, a small antique store run by a young couple who began making sandwiches for their customers, has arrived in Denver, opening its first Mile High outpost in the University Hills Shopping Center. The Denver…
The mood was incredibly convivial on Saturday afternoon at this shrine to stellar fried chicken, where big platters of gold-tinged fowl arrive with all the fixings that go with it: hush puppies, macaroni and cheese, corn bread and hand-mashed potatoes with gravy. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Next week, on June 6, Colorado’s first LYFE Kitchen will open in Park Meadows, offering suburbanites, shoppers and eaters with a conscience a fast-casual concept that celebrates a healthy lifestyle rooted in a three-pronged philosophy: “Eat Good. Feel Good. Do Good.” See also: LYFE Kitchen — where everything is under…
Earlier this week, we reported that Mizu, a Japanese restaurant and sushi bar, plans to open in November in LoHi. In addition, Nanu Nanu Noodle, a Japanese ramen-ya, part of the behemoth Pacific Ocean Marketplace project that’s currently under construction in Aurora, is slated for a fall opening, as is…
After last night’s dinner, our server came back to the table and mentioned that the chef wanted to send out a complimentary dessert. Curious, I asked why, and while this is a restaurant that I’ve been to at least two dozen times, our server thought it was my first time…and…
People magazine isn’t exactly renowned for its food coverage, but even editors and writers at a gossip mag have to eat, and it appears that their latest culinary obsession is french fries. The online version of the “tell all” pub just released its list of top picks for french fries…
If you’ve been to Linger lately, then you’ve undoubtedly noticed the sprawling construction scene behind it exposing a multi-level structure that’s sheeted in concrete and scaffolding. Come November, that building, a project from Sprung Construction, will be home to Mizu, a Japanese restaurant that’s the vision of Hong Jian Lee,…
I ordered the tom yum and the panang curry Thai hot. Big, BIG mistake. My kid, on the other hand, has more common sense than I, and just shook his head knowingly at the server when he ordered his own pad Thai, asking for a spice level of medium. He…
In the next three months, nearly 150 new restaurants will open in Denver, which translates to a lot of food in our mouths. Some have insisted that we’re biting off more than we can chew — that the Denver restaurant landscape is becoming too saturated and that we can’t sustain…
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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
First thing’s first: Despite the enviable success of Freshcraft, one of Denver’s best watering holes to study the attributes of craft beer, brothers Aaron, Lucas and Jason Forgy, all of whom own Freshcraft, aren’t looking to reinvent the wheel when they open Block & Larder on Tennyson Street later this…
Most of the Ethiopian joints in Denver won’t win any design awards for their muted aesthetics, but this Ethiopian restaurant, despite its pedestrian outside appearance, boasts a lovely dining room, and as far as I know, it’s the only place in Denver that serves gurage kitfo, a southern Ethiopian dish…
It’s been nearly three years in the making, but come late July, Trong Lam, who already owns two Pacific Ocean Marketplace supermarkets, one in Denver and a second in Broomfield, will unleash a 100,000-square-foot, Asian food-centric development in Aurora, 57,000 square feet of which will be devoted to a third…
In the summer of 2012, Derek Dietz opened Bocadillo, originally as a Spanish-influenced sandwich shop, on a quiet street in Sunnyside. “I fell in love with the Sunnyside neighborhood, the huge kitchen and the space, and it had always been my dream to open a restaurant,” said Dietz, Bocadillo’s owner…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, parading everything from a jar of pickled vegetables from Gallo di Nero to a plate of nachos at El Tepehuan to a way overdone burger from a steakhouse that you’d think would know the difference between crimson and ashen. Alas…
I was around seven or eight when I first ate späetzle in the small, tidy kitchen of my grandmother’s house in Kansas City. She was fiercely German, taught sign language in German and English, and she had shelves of vintage German cookbooks, all of which had lots of cabbage recipes,…
Samuel McCandless The Squeaky Bean 1500 Wynkoop Street 303-623-2665 squeakybean.net This is part two of my interview with Sam McCandless, chef de cuisine at the Squeaky Bean; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: Eating at L20 with my mom. I was jaded as…
And the winner is: DENV, who guessed that 3750 small plates were passed at last year’s FEAST! (The actual number was 3827.) DENV, e-mail cafe@westword.com for details on Saturday’s event.) Everyone else, keep reading the original post to find out more about FEAST! Last year’s FEAST! Vail was one of…
Samuel McCandless The Squeaky Bean 1500 Wynkoop Street 303-623-2665 squeakybean.net This is part one of my interview with Sam McCandless, chef de cuisine at the Squeaky Bean; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. When he was a kid, the mere thought of cooking panicked Samuel McCandless. “I was…
The above photo is from a Mexican restaurant that does a bang-up lunch business, but I can’t imagine it’s because of the carne adobada…or the queso…or the enchilada…or the chile relleno, because we tried all of those dishes, only to push them to the end of the table, pay our…
Last September, when Miki Hashimoto, the owner of Japon (now John Holly’s Asian Bistro), closed his Japanese restaurant after eighteen years in Washington Park, he teased us with his future plans: “I have some great new ideas and concepts that I’m exploring that Denver hasn’t seen,” he said, adding that…
Daniel Bradley 5280 Burger Bar 500 16th Street Mall 303-825-1020 5280burgerbar.com This is part two of my interview with Daniel Bradley, exec chef of 5280 Burger Bar; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Your three favorite Denver/Boulder restaurants other than your own: I had dinner at Interstate the other…
