Chicago is out and New York is in. Belemonti’s Pizzeria recently closed on Santa Fe Drive, only to be replaced by Amore Pizza, which held its grand opening last week. Amore is the first brick-and-mortar location for the crew who started as a food truck operation in 2013 serving up…
No. 49: Monkfish and Romanesco at TAG 1441 Larimer St. 303-996-9985 Troy Guard and his kitchen at TAG have made a reputation with bold and assertive Pacific Rim cuisine and glistening raw seafood presentations. But the menu at his flagship restaurant also highlight’s Guard’s deft touch with Mediterranean flavors and…
Last month, Glazed by Sasa became simply Glaze after parting ways with sushi chef Wayne Conwell, owner of Sushi Sasa across town. After hiring Kris Paladino, Glaze co-owner Heather Alcott temporarily pulled back to a lunch menu only. Paladino’s creations cover a creative blend of house-baked specialties — this is…
HuHot Mongolian Barbecue, already with several locations in the Denver area, is launching its fast-casual concept, NuHu Mongolian Express, starting tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the Golden Triangle. With a menu of six signature bowls, three style of noodles, rice, a wide variety of fresh vegetables and eight sauces, chief…
The Kitchen Table Cafe opened on a cold day in December 2013, serving hearty, warming Midwestern comfort food from a twenty-seat space in the underserved City Park West neighborhood. The first customers were neighbors and health-care workers from the Presbyterian/St…
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After dark, certain stretches of Denver’s suburbs might as well be rural farmland; what few lights there are appear distant and twinkling, and the black silhouettes of trees stand in for strip malls and rows of houses in more populous areas of town. A half-hour drive down Santa Fe Drive…
For years, Sunnyside — the neighborhood bounded by 38th Avenue, Federal Boulevard, Interstate 70 and Inca Street — was a food desert, with only a couple of notable Denver favorites, like the original Chubby’s, amid a handful of other taco joints and tortillerias. The growing popularity of the nearby Highland…
Restaurateur Troy Guard’s second incarnation of Bubu opens tomorrow in the Hangar 2 development in Lowry, just a few months after the original opened in the former home of TAG| Raw Bar off Larimer Square. This newest member of the TAG restaurant group has a brighter, more lively dining room…
No. 50: Smothered Breakfast Burritos at Chickee’s Lil Kitchen 4340 Zuni Street 720-329-3980 In a cute neighborhood with a perky name like Sunnyside, what could be more appropriate than a breakfast and lunch eatery so small you have to order from a walk-up window? Owner Harriett Sanchez might be willing…
For two decades, Taste of Thailand has been serving delicious Thai cuisine to healthcare workers, neighbors and other regulars, who all flock to the cozy dining room in Englewood; fans swear by chef/owner Noy Farrell’s “flu shot soup” to ward of winter malaise. She and and her husband, Rick Farrell,…
Two new cafes have opened on the west side of town, one in Lakewood and one in an appendage of Denver that pokes into the spawling suburb just off Sheridan Boulevard. The French Press Cafe and Bakery (the second branch of the original in Aurora) was forced to close in…
Scott Spears, Arvada native and owner of Scrumptious Ice Cream, just opened School House Kitchen and Libations on Tuesday in Olde Town Arvada in a former school house originally built in 1882. The spacious bar and restaurant features a towering bar of whiskeys with bottles that line shelves all the…
No. 51: Nashville Hot Chicken at Lou’s Food Bar 1851 West 38th Avenue 303-458-0336 On a recent trip to Nashville, Tennessee to scout potential locations for a new incarnation of his East Coast-style deli, Salt & Grinder, Frank Bonanno sampled his way through some of the city’s hot chicken, a…
Cherry Creek North was a top destination neighborhood in the 1980s and ’90s; longtime Denverites still fondly recall meals at the Fourth Story, Mel’s Bar and Grill, the Bay Wolf, Bistro Adde Brewster, Papillon and many others. But as hipper neighborhoods with cheaper rents became more popular with restaurateurs and…
Kristen and David Lewis Brewshine BBQ & Tap House 3109 Federal Boulevard 303-561-1111 For Brewshine BBQ & Taphouse, Kristen and David Lewis took over a building near the corner of Federal and Speer boulevards that had recently seen a couple of pizza places come and go; before that, it was…
Chef and restaurateur Frank Bonanno’s Colorado-centric food show, Chef Driven, is entering its second season, with six new episodes ready to air beginning Saturday, February 7, a 1:30 p.m. on Rocky Mountain PBS. Last season followed Bonanno, owner of Mizuna, Bones, Osteria Marco and several other Denver eateries, around Colorado…
When Teriyaki Madness, a fast-casual Asian chain based in Las Vegas, opened its first Denver franchise last May, the company promised the same “frenzy experienced by our raving fans who desire to have our dishes daily.” Apparently the frenzy was short lived, as the sole metro location, tucked into the…
Last year Chipotle and Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated and Eating Animals, teamed up on “Cultivating Thought,” a series of short essays from ten writers and “thought leaders” printed on Chipotle drinking cups and paper bags. Chipotle and Foer are now back at it, releasing a second…
Within minutes of being seated at a table in the middle of the vast dining room at King’s Land Chinese Seafood, the dim sum carts are circling and lids are being lifted to reveal dozens of steaming choices of dumplings, soups, buns and other bite-sized morsels. It’s difficult to say…
Customers looking forward to some potato tacos, a no-frills margarita or a basket of chips and salsa good enough to win Best Free Chips and Salsa in our Best of Denver 2014 edition will have to keep walking down Colfax Avenue. The door at Emilio’s Mexican Restaurant is locked and…
Chef/restaurateur Mary Nguyen opened Street Kitchen Asian Bistro in the Vallagio at Inverness development in Englewood four years ago as a south-suburban complement to her Uptown Parallel Seventeen, now repackaged as P17. Since then, she’s also launched Olive & Finch, which made our list of the ten best new restaurants…
