If you’ve spent much time at all in Estes Park, you’re probably familiar with Smokin’ Dave’s BBQ. Since 2007, chef/owner Dave Oehlman has been perfuming the mountain air with wood smoke and the meaty aroma of good barbecue. After slowly expanding southward over the past ten years — first to…

No. 4: Foie Gras Mousse at Charcoal Bistro Duck in to Charcoal Bistro on Old South Gaylord and you’ll find a completely different atmosphere than at its older sibling, Charcoal, in the Golden Triangle. While Charcoal is sleek, sophisticated and worldly, Charcoal Bistro is bright and casual while still maintaining…

Rohini and Marshall Miranda have been serving Indian cuisine in Denver for twenty years as the owners of Bombay Clay Oven in Cherry Creek. That’s given them plenty of time to hone service and recipes and to track customer favorites over the years. They’ll be taking some of those favorites…

Friday, March 21, was World Poetry Day, and on a damp day with big, chunky clouds hovering low over Boulder County, I found myself sipping ginger tea and reading poetry queued up by Facebook friends on my iPhone while waiting for an order of kitfo ba aib inside the new…

Southern eatery Tupelo Honey is still a few weeks away from an opening date, but two features stand out already. The first is the location: At 1650 Wewatta Street, it will be the closest restaurant to the north platform of Union Station. Surrounded by an upsurge of new apartments, offices…

No. 9: Two Vegetable Dishes at Old Major Old Major has built a reputation with pork and other meats, displaying its mastery of steakhouse cuts, cured Italian salumi and nose-to-tail cookery. But Justin Brunson’s four-year-old LoHi restaurant is more than just a one-trick piggy; it’s a destination eatery where diners…

When Wednesday’s Pie opened in 2010 as the front for chef/restaurateur Frank Bonanno’s speakeasy, Green Russell, beneath Larimer Square, pies were only sold on Wednesdays (as the name suggests). After minor adjustments over the past seven years, though, the little diner-style foyer is now open daily for those looking to…

No. 10: Tuesday Night Thai Chicken at Cho77 Cho77 recently unveiled a couple of weekly specials to entice South Broadway denizens in the door on traditionally slow nights in a district more known for its weekend nightlife. On Tuesday nights, the deal is Thai fried chicken, which includes a couple…

Chefs often find new ways to play with food, to escape the tedium of doing the same thing one too many times. Cooking over gas burners, for example, must become absolutely mind-numbing after the first several thousand times you baste a steak in butter or arc a panful of sizzling…

No. 11: Bone Marrow With Short Rib Marmalade at Vesta After longtime Vesta chef Brandon Foster departed to become the executive chef of Project Angel Heart last year, Nicholas Kayser took over the kitchen at the twenty-year-old LoDo favorite, dreaming up a new slate of dishes to usher in a…

Chef/restaurateur Justin Brunson opened Masterpiece Kitchen in Lowry a year ago as a kind of fancy diner, but when that concept proved less than successful, he decided to retool the entire menu.

Cochon555 is a national touring food festival that elevates the humble hog to celebrated status. While Cochon hits more than a dozen cities before culminating in the Grand Cochon (which will be held in Chicago this year), each event showcases the talents of local chefs who work with pigs raised…

Avelina opened downtown last summer under the ownership of North Carolina’s Urban Food Group, a small family of restaurants run by Kevin and Stacey Jennings. Denver chef John Broening and his wife, pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, were brought on as partners; the two helped launch one of the hottest menus on…

The pace of construction at the new Eastbridge Town Center in Stapleton is fast and furious, but an end is in sight. The Eastbridge sign is up and several restaurants are closing in on opening dates, including chef/restaurateur Lon Symensma’s Concourse Restaurant Moderne, which he expects to unveil in mid…

Antojitos are the food of Latin American streets, filling little snacks usually eaten outside of main meals, but which can easily make up an entire breakfast, lunch or late-night chow-down. In the United States, most diners are familiar with at least some of the many configurations of Mexican antojitos, including…

If you dine out much around Denver, you’ve probably eaten bread, buns or desserts from Hinman’s Bakery without even knowing it. Owner John Hinman opened his wholesale production facility at 4850 East 39th Avenue in Park Hill in 2015, and has since grown his business to include dozens of metro-area restaurants…

Colombian cooking isn’t exactly common in Denver, even if you count the food trucks. There’s Los Parceros, at 5922 East Colfax Avenue, which is closed until the end of March for remodeling, as well as the newer Antojitos Colombianos, at 1622 Leetsdale. And when truck season is in full swing,…

There’s a development on the Denver restaurant scene that’s supposed to be a pretty big deal: An Austin, Texas-based sushi restaurant called Uchi is going to open a new location at 2501 Lawrence Street in a condo development (read: “Denver Fugly”) slated to rise early next year. What’s the fuss, you…