When Jet’s Pizza opened in Littleton last summer, it introduced something that most Denverites didn’t even know existed: Detroit-style pizza. While a growing number of pizza parlors in Detroit and the surrounding area have been attracting praise ever since Buddy’s Rendezvous started dishing up square pies baked in auto-parts pans in…
The Corral family has been serving combo platters and Mexican breakfasts at El Tepehuan, an Englewood institution, since 1978. But now the restaurant is moving down the block to a bigger corner spot, and the family is officially changing the eatery’s name to El Tep, the nickname that many regulars…
If you think doughnut madness is getting a little out of hand in Denver, keep in mind that we don’t even crack the top dozen cities in the country when it comes to doughnut shops per capita. Top honors go to East Coast cities like Providence, Rhode Island, Portland, Maine,…
Polished Tavern owner Cezary Grosfeld moved from Poland to Denver ten years ago and noticed that there were very few places in town that served the food of his home country. Despite having a Master’s degree in software engineering, Grosfeld decided to jump into the food service industry, opening Kinga’s Lounge…
The wok has been fired up and the kitchen is ready to go for next Monday’s highly anticipated opening of Cho77, chef and restaurateur Lon Symensma’s tribute to Southeast Asian street food located in a long and narrow space on South Broadway. Roaming across Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia (with…
For a chance to enjoy a spectacular six-course dinner spearheaded by some of Denver’s top kitchen talent while benefiting an environmental cause, tickets are now on sale for Dine Out for Earth, presented by Rock the Earth, a nonprofit organization that partners with the music industry to protect and defend…
For taco hunters seeking rare and regional styles, Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen just updated its menu, with a section devoted to tacos perrones, a specialty of a single taqueria in Tijuana, Mexico (actually nearby Rosarito, to be more specific). Although the style has spread to other taco stands in Baja…
Past a Subway sandwich shop, a Qdoba and a Tokyo Joe’s, Babajoon’s Kabobs doesn’t exactly stand out in its Westminster strip-mall home. And on a March Madness weekend, the parking lot is packed with the cars of college basketball fans headed to the Hooter’s next door (at least, I assume…
Central Bistro and Bar reopened last Tuesday after a week off to retool the decor and the menu. While the LoHi eatery hasn’t even hit its third birthday, owner Isiah Salazar wanted to address issues with the noise levels in the dining room so took the opportunity to update the colors…
The U Baron Group, which operates the Silvi’s Kitchen restaurants in the metro area (along with all of the other former Udi’s eateries and bakeries), closed the Colfax Silvi’s last fall with plans to reopen with a new name and theme. Tomorrow the Baron family will open the Good Son,…
Capitol Hill seems like the perfect spot for the pot-themed sandwich shop Cheba Hut, which boasts a menu riddled with Thai Stick, Pacalolo and Kali Mist. Those are sandwich names, of course, although founder Scott Jennings says that since marijuana was legalized in Colorado, folks often mistake his eateries for…
The history of a restaurant can get a little complicated. This photo, for example, shows a new restaurant with the self-explanatory name Authentic Greek Cuisine. But the address, 8 South Broadway, has been known to locals as Swift’s Steakhouse #4 since 1960, even if the family that owned steakhouses 1…
No. 41: Shredded Bison at Tocabe American Indian Eatery Part of the fun of fast-casual dining is that the setup often allows customers to mix and match ingredients to customized meals to their liking. Tocabe’s menu offers a variety of proteins that can be heaped onto light and fluffy fry…
Frasca owners Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson introduced a novel, house-ground wheat flour program at Pizzeria Locale when they opened the second branch of their fast-casual pizza concept last fall in West Highland. Custom-made Austrian flour mills were installed at that location as well as at the store on Broadway,…
While traveling in Asia for work, Alonzo Martinez discovered a lunch joint that served oversized sushi handrolls that reminded him of the Chipotle burritos back in Denver, only with lighter ingredients and Japanese flavors. He immediately thought that this was an idea that could take off in Colorado; eighteen months…
Biju’s Little Curry Shop opened in December in a spot overlooking an alley and a short patch of 26th Street barely visible from the trendy stretches of Walnut and Larimer streets heading into RiNo from Ballpark. While opening a restaurant in an obscure location during the holiday season doesn’t seem…
Ben Jacobs and Matt Chandra opened their second outpost of Tocabe American Indian Eatery in Greenwood Village last week, offering office workers and neighbors a taste of American Indian cooking, including fry bread, slow-cooked beans and three different bison preparations. The two opened the lunch and dinner fast-casual operation quietly, allowing…
The Wall Tavern opened at 11th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in the summer of 2013 after an interior upgrade from the previous tenant, Scwherver’s Bar. But now the Wall signage has been removed and replaced by hand-painted lettering that reads the Monkey Bar. Establishments with “monkey” in the name…
Chef Ian Kleinman has been keeping his skills sharp over the past several years by catering special events, throwing pop-up dinners and teaching kids about the fun and science behind cooking through his Inventing Room brand. Those who have eaten his playful and madcap fare — think exploding whipped cream…
When I told Amy to meet me at Seventh and Grant for dinner, she asked why I was abandoning our plan to go somewhere for Middle Eastern cuisine. I wasn’t so much abandoning it, I explained, as I was modifying the plan. Vesper Lounge did, in fact ,include Middle Eastern…
The posh Cooper Lounge on the mezzanine level of Union Station already captures the vintage style of an era when luxury train travel meant buckets of champagne on ice and a waitstaff clad in the finest livery pushing carts loaded with ostentatious foods meant to show off the impeccable taste…
No. 42: Pho at Wonderbowl Vietnamese Restaurant 925 S. Federal Blvd. 303-936-0333 The best pho combines complex and mysterious flavors with simplicity and comfort. Pho may have its origins in the street markets of Vietnam, but it’s still nothing more or less than beef and noodle soup. Whether eaten in…
