Food & Drink

In my second helping of Spanky’s, a faux roadhouse near the University of Denver that serves up a convivial atmosphere and a weekly fish fry, I mentioned that the place also hosted Geeks Who Drink on Wednesday nights. That was wrong. The bar has long since abandoned the weekly trivia…

“Tonight’s the night, as Neil Young would say,” quips Joe Kaplan about tonight’s episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, in which Guy Fieri, the bleached-out blonde whose hair resembles the scrappy, canary-colored bird from Charlie Brown, brakes at the Bagel Deli, the decades-old shrine to Jewish comfort food that Kaplan…

Last September, Andrew Casalini shuttered his vibrant Park Hill restaurant, Satchel’s Market, to make way for a new concept called Satchel’s on 6th, which was originally slated to debut late last year in the Larimer Associates-owned building at 1710 East Sixth Avenue. And after months of delays, the place is…

Eating oysters on the half-shell in public is normally prim and proper, with the beautiful, icy tray placed in front of you with its tiny fork and diminutive ramekins of horseradish and wedges of lemon. You garnish the oysters, one by one, with nibs of hot sauce, and then sigh…

There are those of you who read this blog and undoubtedly assume that all I eat is pork, every which way, and tacos — usually with pork. And for the most part, you’re right, but there are occasions when I’ll forgo my obsessions to sink into a salad. Can you…

The Ale House at Amato’s was all lit up last night, displaying its new neon sign to the neighbors while wining (or beering) and dining some friends inside. But while the place looks ready to go, there are a few details to work out — and so the official opening…

TAG|RAW BAR, the newest Larimer Square spot from Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan, is serving up a roster of dishes that contains nothing cooked at a higher temperature than 120 degrees. And after the TAG|RAW BAR food porn we posted last week, we had high expectations. We returned to the…

It’s been a long time coming, but they’re baaack! Restaurateurs and long-wedded couple, Mel and Janie Master, whose original, groundbreaking Cherry Creek food temple, Mel’s Bar and Grill, was one of the Mile High City’s most revered restaurants until it shuttered in 2007, when the duo relocated to be closer…

Joining the throngs of kids on spring break this week is the staff of Encore, who are taking the week off to revive their mojo, while executive chef Paul Reilly creates a new menu and spruces up the joint. “A la Barolo Grill style, I’m giving the staff a week…

Members of the Yelp “Elite Squad” in New York City recently received a chiding e-mail asking them, among other things, to stop acting like greedy trolls; to stop freeloading the grub; to quit auctioning off their event RSVPs to the highest bidders; and to quit bringing their entire families to…

Gordo Loco is fast gaining a reputation for its fast, filling 98-cent breakfast burrito, which it starts making at 6 a.m. every morning. But Gordo Loco offers many other burritos, including the monstrous El Diablo that was featured at its grand-opening celebration last Sunday, a month after Gordo Loco opened…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified (and superlative) mac and cheese to soba noodles at Bones to the huge dessert plate pictured above. For correctly identifying it as coming from Virgilio’s Pizzeria and Wine Bar, KM wins an EatDenver deck…

Hush founder Michael Olsen’s attempt to get a liquor license for 250 Steele Street — where he’d like to open a more adult version of Hush, geared to the Cherry Creek crowd, in the former home of Tambien — has met with some opposition, leading to a many-hour-long hearing last…

One of the last open spots in LoDo is now full: The former Blues on Blake space opened today as 1Up, a vintage video arcade and bar that will also be serving a full bar menu — next week. For today, the food options are limited but the beverage and…

Hot off the heels of the announcement made by Naked Pizza that it’ll bust into the Mile High market comes word from another green pizza chain that Denver’s its next stop: Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Pizza Fusion will open its first restaurant in Denver in May, in conjunction with Colorado Coalition…

Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms); Frank Bonanno (Bones, Green…

It’s sometimes hard to tell which 16th Street Mall food carts have vanished for good and which are just taking an extended break, but after a craving for golden pastries stuffed with vegetables and meat — the most authentic Argentine empanadas in the city — gave way to a fruitless…

Weddings always walk that fine line between a celebration of a happy couple and blatant displays of narcissism (for instance, why else would ugly bridesmaid dresses exist than to make a bride seem all the more radiant?), but this stunt takes the cake — literally…