This week saw an explosion of restaurants looking for all manner of new ways to get people in the door in attempts to appeal to guests with different spending habits, tastes and ideas of what constitutes a good time. Happy hours fill seats at times that are customarily slow, so…
March is a busy month for chef Lon Symensma of ChoLon: not only is he putting the finishing touches on Cho77, the new noodle house expected to open at the end of this month, but he’s also added his signature to a new evening menu at the Cooper Lounge inside…
The construction dust is heavy and there’s still graffiti on the windows at 43 South Broadway, but a sign for Cho77 now hangs over the door. Chef Lon Symensma and his crew are gearing up for a late March opening of the multi-regional noodle house, whose name is both a…
Luca, restaurateur Frank Bonanno’s destination Italian eatery that shares a corner with Bones, Mizuna and Vesper Lounge, has long been a favorite for Denver diners planning a night out on the town — and it snagged our Best Italian Restaurant award in the Best of Denver 2014, when it was…
Sausages have been springing up on menus all over town; with the prevalence of nose-to-tail dining in Denver eateries, chefs and butchers are cranking up the grinders to plate everything from smoked beef links to deep-brown blood sausage. When Wurstküche opened late last month on Broadway, it added new spice…
Dessert fans in Denver know pastry chef Nadine Donovan from her work at Old Major, but she just landed a new gig as the pastry pro for Steuben’s, Ace and Vesta Dipping Grill (collectively known as Secret Sauce F & B). Her first order of business was to revamp the…
Sterling Robinson got his first job when he was thirteen, when his older brother called on Mother’s Day to see if he could fill in for a missing dishwasher at the Denver restaurant where he worked. “My brother was the biggest influence,” he says. “He’s five years older and got…
Those who follow restaurant news around town may remember the fracas in the Bonnie Brae neighborhood in the summer of 2011 when Giles Flanigan and Jeffrey Smokevitch tried to open a branch of their Telluride pie joint Brown Dog Pizza. A handful of neighbors who didn’t buy into what Brown Dog…
The International Institute of Culinary Professionals has been recognizing well-written cookbooks with annual awards for more than 25 years. This year, a Colorado cookbook has been selected as one of the finalists in the IACP’s American category. Chef Eric Skokan, who owns Black Cat Bistro and and Bramble & Hare…
South Colorado Boulevard between Evans and Yale avenues is to Middle Eastern cuisine what Federal Boulevard is to Vietnamese. The variety of primarily Moroccan, Lebanese and Persian dishes to be found in eateries of various styles along this stretch is impressive enough, even before you add the markets, bakeries and…
City Councilman Chris Herndon, restaurateur Robert Thompson and Jim Chrisman, senior vice president of Forest City Stapleton, Inc. called a press conference this morning in the Stapleton neighborhood to announce that Thompson’s restaurant development company will be turning the old Stapleton Airport control tower building into Denver’s second Punch Bowl…
No. 43: Carne Asada Fries at North County 94 North Rampart Way 720-532-0106 Carne asada fries are a particular specialty of the beach shacks and taquerias of San Diego and the surrounding southern California scene, where the influence of Mexican cuisine has been present for longer than California has been…
Before Nicole and Scott Mattson ever signed a lease or began building out the space for Nocturne, their new jazz supper club set to open on Monday, their plan was to create a music venue for jazz musicians with a bar and just enough food to fulfill liquor license requirements…
After reporting this morning that Katie O’Shea Padró and Juan Padró have have sold their stake in Old Major back to the restaurant, we spoke with owner/executive chef Justin Brunson about what the move means to the restaurant, as well as his plans for the rest of 2015. In terms…
The humble potato takes many forms in the culinary world, but the best results come from simple and straightforward techniques: boiling and mashing, baking or best of all, frying. French fries never go out of fashion (or fail to please, when done right), but recent years have seen a surge…
Tap rooms can be intimidating for someone searching for the perfect beer. You don’t want to get stuck with a pint of something that’s not to your liking, but new breweries are pumping out beers at a pace faster than you can keep up with. Ideally, it would be great…
Blake and Tracy Eliasson, owners of Settembre Cellars in Boulder, met at a wine bar while they were in college — and they weren’t even there for the wine. Trilogy Wine Bar was also a Boulder music venue, and the two went with friends to hear bluegrass. In hindsight, Tracy…
It doesn’t seem quite fair that while breweries and wineries are legally allowed to serve food and alcoholic beverages from other producers at their production facilities, distilleries aren’t. Since distilleries play an increasingly large role in Colorado’s surge in artisan products, Representative Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, decided to level…
The Landmark development in Greenwood Village has had its ups and downs over the years, but has managed to attract a few long-term restaurant tenants the likes of Pizza Republica, Yanni’s, Ted’s Montana Grill and Ali Baba Grill. East West Partners took over management of the project in 2013 and…
Denver has quite a few restaurants that get lumped into the culinary catch-all of “Middle Eastern,” even though much of the food they serve comes from an area far larger than the Middle East itself. Morocco, for example, isn’t part of the Middle East; it’s as far from Iran as…
Oysters are coming out of their shells this month at two Denver restaurants. Stoic & Genuine rolled out a new Aww Shucks happy hour today at the its Union Station raw bar, featuring $2 oysters and $3 granita cocktails and select beers. While it’s too late to make it to…
When the four friends behind Four Friends Kitchen — Kurt and Sarah Pletcher and Genefer and Tim Thornton — broke ground on their new breakfast and lunch eatery last July, it was a rare sight in a planned neighborhood: independent restaurateurs building their own spot. Rather than leasing a space in…
