Excitement has been building over the past few months as ramen fans have watched the progress of Osaka Ramen in River North; it’s Jeff Osaka’s first restaurant venture since he closed Twelve on Larimer Street late last summer. Now there’s even more to look forward to: a second Osaka Ramen…
January is a slow time of year for many restaurants, as potential customers attempt to recover from holiday overindulging and overspending. That’s just fine with Z Cuisine owner and chef Patrick DuPays; it gives him a little time to give the kitchen a good overhaul and to make some long-planned…
Visit Denver launched the menus for the 2015 Denver Restaurant Week on its website today to help get Denver diners salivating for ten days (no, not a week!) of discounted meals at the city’s top restaurants. This year’s Restaurant Week will take place from February 20 to March 1, encompassing…
Tyson Holzheimer Butcher’s Bistro 303-296-2750 2233 Larimer Street Tyson Holzheimer grew up in Montana, in a family where do-it-yourself was a necessity rather than a passing trend. “I first skinned an animal when I was ten,” he recalls. Using a knife to separate muscle from skin and bone was just…
Ian Kleinman is back at it, applying his molecular magic to another batch of breakfast treats at his fourth doughnut pop-up — this time at Sunnyside Burger Bar in LoHi. Kleinman, known for his Inventing Room food lab and catering company, will be whipping up his biggest menu yet –…
Colorado is the nation’s leading grower of millet, a grain used mostly for birdseed but that’s cropping up in more and more recipes, due in part to the fact that it’s gluten-free and is a good source of protein, at 11 grams per serving (compared to protein powerhouse quinoa at…
From the recent proliferation of wood ovens turning out pitch-perfect renditions of the street pizzas of Naples, Italy, to odd interlopers from Wisconsin, Georgia and Washington, Colorado’s pizza options have exploded in recent years. Purists and transplants may still wave off Denver as a second-rate pizza town, but there’s no…
Pupuseria San Salvador sits in a small strip mall a few blocks south of Denver city limits, along a stretch of Federal Boulevard that doesn’t exactly invite culinary exploration. Along with a bonsai nursery and some auto repair shops, there’s Sheridan City Hall — a utilitarian tan brick structure with…
Denver International Airport continues to top lists of U.S. airports known for healthy eating and quality restaurants. The latest addition to a stable that already includes Elway’s, Root Down, Etai’s Bakery Cafe (formerly Udi’s) and two New Belgium tap rooms (the Hub and the Spoke) shouldn’t hurt the airport’s reputation,…
Two Vietnamese stalwarts on Federal Boulevard have changed hands. DaLat Vietnamese Cuisine was purchased last last year, then closed for a renovation and reopened on New Year’s Eve with a new look but the same chef who’s been putting out refined and delicious dishes — like the intense flavors of…
White Fence Farm was sold to new owners Tom Piercy and Craig Caldwell in November, ending a decades-long run by original proprietor Charlie Wilson. It was tradition for the fried chicken farm to close for the month of January, but Piercy and Caldwell — both cold-weather lovers — are keeping…
Zocalo Restaurant and Bar went dark on East 11th Avenue in August after being seized by the Colorado Department of Revenue for unpaid taxes. There haven’t been many signs of life since an auction in early September, but now a sign has appeared in the window indicating that the space…
California’s two-year ban on the production and sale of foie gras, the fattened duck or goose liver subject to heated animal welfare debates, ended this week as U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled that the law contradicts existing federal poultry regulations. California voters originally approved the ban in 2004,…
Matt Andrew opened his first Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint in Atlanta, Georgia in 2008, after getting his start in the fast-casual restaurant world with the Moe’s Southwestern Grill chain. There are now fifteen Uncle Maddio’s franchises in the Atlanta area alone, with more popping up every day throughout the South,…
Matt and Carrie Stein ladled up the first bowl of clam chowder yesterday at the Chowder Room, one of the first Denver restaurants to open in 2015. We stopped by to check out the quaint maritime-themed dining room, the soups — there will be three daily plus a vegan “chowder”…
It doesn’t look like much now, but in a few months Avanti Food & Beverage could be the hottest new restaurant and bar collective in the city. Being created in an old printing building on a hill with views of Coors Field, downtown and the the LoHi neighborhood, Avanti will…
During 23 years in the seafood industry, you build a lot of connections and develop a solid foundation of knowledge for sourcing the best fish for a restaurant. Chef Matt Stein is putting all that experience and knowledge to good use at the Chowder Room, his restaurant that opens tonight…
Elvis Presley would have turned 80 today were he still alive, but at Nick’s Cafe in Lakewood, the King lives on, fueled by memorabilia and anecdotes from owner Nick Andurlakis. Andurlakis, whose claim to fame is a hand in the creation of the Fool’s Gold Loaf at the long gone…
Rioja celebrated its tenth anniversary in November, and now it’s taking some time off for a facelift so that it can enjoy its second decade with a fresh look. Owners Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch are closing up their Larimer Square favorite on Friday and will reopen on February 2…
From the start, Glaze by Sasa seemed an unlikely combination: a bakery with a crazy horizontal rotisserie cake oven built for turning out German/Japanese baum cakes and a sushi bar headed by Wayne Conwell, one of Denver’s most revered names in raw fish. Still, the merger of the former Glaze…
City Stacks Books and Coffee opened in December on a block of Wazee Street downtown previously short on retail establishments. Father and son owners Kevin and Ben Gillies are aiming for a neighborhood coffeehouse ambiance with a selection of books geared toward city dwellers — think architecture, design, sustainable food…
Chef Toby Prout and Jimmy Callahan, co-owners of Leña on Broadway, started planning the pan-Latin American menu for their new restaurant months before they even found the location, much less started construction. The two traveled to California and sampled their way through some of the state’s top Mexican, Central American…
