Toshi and Yasu Kizaki have been serving Pearl Street for two decades, first with Sushi Den, which they opened in its current home twenty years ago, and then again with Izakaya Den, which first started serving dinner in 2007. Both of those spots pack crowds into cavernous spaces every day…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off nearly two weeks ago, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and Friday, when it all comes to an end. Tonight is no exception…
Four of us went out last night for Denver Restaurant Week, although only one of us ordered the DRW menu, which didn’t include the foie gras sandwich and accompanying duck egg, beautifully graced with caviar and petals of black truffles, that set us back $52.80. Yes, you read that correctly:…
Don’t misunderstand: Lee Hayward enjoys a night out as much as the next guy — maybe more, since he and his wife, Kathy, wrote the book Drinking and Driving in Colorado, recently re-released as the more tastefully named Tapping Colorado Craft Beer: A Guide to Centennial State Brewpubs. But looking…
Vine Street Pub is getting ready to raise the roof on its new brewery. But first it had to lower the floor. “We dropped the whole thing about three feet,” says Brian Hutchinson, head brewer for Vine Street. The goal is to make room for a twelve-barrel brewing system and…
Earlier today, Swirl Girl Kendra Anderson lamented common wine-service flubs in Denver restaurants, berating spots that propagate listless lists and serve poorly temped juice. And while each one of her points rings true with us, we’ve got another bone to pick: the etiquette of the tasting pour…
Jensen Cummings, the chef de cuisine at TAG, jokingly calls Denver Restaurant Week “Denver Restaurant Half Month,” a phrase he’s coined to remind diners (and the service industry) that DRW is definitely longer than the one week its name implies. But if DRW was, in fact, one week long, then…
What the hell is up with the wine service at certain Denver restaurants lately? A slew of recent visits to a number of reputable spots around town resulted in being treated to some pretty egregious wine service faux pas. None of these restaurants were places where you’d know better than…
Craft beer has been the star of a recent documentary, a television series and a couple of YouTube videos over the past year. Now another feature-length documentary is scheduled to be released this summer. Most of these efforts have been serious, noble — sometimes overly so. Leave it to the…
Sputnik, the hipper-than-thou Baker ‘hood bar, renowned for its hangover weekend brunch, live music acts and globetrotting menu catering (mostly) to vegetarians and vegans, has gone dark, at least until tomorrow, when the tatted ‘tenders can begin pouring booze again. Seems as though the groovy watering hole got itself into…
With just four more days to go before Denver Restaurant Week ends on March 11, many diners are still scrambling for reservations. But some are sitting back, unbuttoning their pants, and digesting everything that’s gone before. Hotdog, for example, is taking a much-deserved break. But first, he offered this comment…
Restaurants will be celebrating Fat Tuesday across the city; here are some of the parties we know about. (If we missed yours, feel free to post a comment to let readers know what you’re doing!)…
When Stan Geels opened Stella’s Coffeehaus in the front room of a Pearl Street bungalow in 1991, some of his neighbors told him that the place wouldn’t last six months. “It was a boom-and-bust street,” Geels remembers. “But I liked the neighborhood, so I didn’t hesitate. When we opened, I…
On the night of Saturday, March 5, a man who clearly likes to eat and the two children accompanying him, waddled through the doors of Virgilio’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar, shoved a feast down their greedy gullets, and ditched the bill — and Virgilio Urbano, who owns the restaurant, caught…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime-time spots…
For the past 28 years, Juanita’s has been a Pearl Street mainstay, holding on to its sliver of storefront space that led to a well-worn front dining room and back lounge, even as other establishments turned over for newer, trendier concepts on either side of it. But on March 1,…
2011 promises to be a big year for hometown restaurateur Steve Ells. While his Denver-based Chipotle keeps expanding, Ells also has a new fast-casual Asian concept (possibly called ShopHouse) in the works, which is opening somewhere in the states — most likely in Washington, D.C. And come May 1, he’ll…
No. 65: Luther burger from Crave The scene at Crave, especially on weekends, can be complete pandemonium, with bodies crushed to the walls, standing in wait to wrap their jaws around what may very well be the most off-the-wall burger inventions this city has ever seen. Head burger boss Micah…
This week in food kicks off with a Fat Tuesday bang and continues with plenty of food and drink to coax you out of your Lenten sacrifices. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead:…
A year and a half after Francine Gindi opened the Gindi Cafe in the Peloton in Boulder, it was time to make some changes. “Things were a little scattered. We wanted to hone in on what was working well and make it better,” explains Jayson Debellis, former coffee roaster and…
This is, bar none, my favorite watering hole in Denver. It’s a convivial joint with awesome, conversational tenders, a kick-ass beer selection, including Left Hand Brewing Milk Stout, a jukebox that deserves its own mention, irreverent artwork and an eclectic trove of regulars who will gladly extend a hand when…
MJ Sadeth has spent over twenty years in the restaurant business; she once owned House of Kabob, Shiraz and the now-defunct Saffron, restaurants she sold four years ago. So when she started building Eggs and More in Greenwood Village, she drew on what she’d learned over the course of two…
