Food & Drink

The news this past weekend was shocking: The owners of the Rocky Mountain Diner, a fixture in downtown Denver for two decades, had been unable to come to a lease agreement with the space’s owner, attorney Frances Konciljia, and on Friday had gotten an eviction notice: The restaurant had to…

Mark Dym isn’t a big proponent of hoopla or fanfare, and today’s opening of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria at Vallagio at Inverness, Peter Kudla’s “Midtown” retail, resident and restaurant development just off Dry Creek and I-25, was soft and quiet. By 2:30 p.m., fifty people, several of them families, had wandered…

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On Saturday night, the building at Eighteenth and Pearl in Boulder that now houses both Frasca Food & Wine and Pizzeria Locale was a frenzy of gastronomic activity: Both restaurants seem to have hit their post-expansion stride. And when we stopped by for a little Barbera, we also got a…

It might be winter (not that today is a good representation of that), but the cold bar at this convivial restaurant that pulsates with energy and verve is a hot new addition that will provide even more cold comfort when the sun’s summer shine makes us sweat into our margaritas…

While Denver lays claim to dozens of pho joints, Pho Bowl is the first to reside in a Conoco station. Yes, that’s correct: Inside the Conoco station at 3298 South Broadway, there sits a tiny cafeteria-like parlor of pho, just adjacent to where you can cash your paycheck, send a…

When we compiled our list of restaurants that have been in business, and run by the same family, for forty years or more, we missed one of the longest-standing Italian venues in the city: Pagliacci’s Italian Restaurant. Although it’s a baby by the standards of the Blue Parrot, that’s still…

At 4 p.m. yesterday, the Rocky Mountain Diner, an authentic slice of Americana that’s resided in the Ghost building at 800 18th Street for the past twenty years, was supposed to shut its doors, but when the clock struck four, the bar and dining room was still packed with lingering…

There have been so many restaurants at 26377 West 26th Avenue, the historic bungalow that once housed the original La Loma. So many, in fact, that when I stopped by the newly opened Gordo Loco last week and spoke to the building’s landlord who’s also a partner in this latest…

Why did it take Veggie Girl Amber Taufen so long to go from vegetarian to vegan? Partly the vehement vegans she encountered along the way, as she revealed in her “Open Letter to Militant Vegans”. That letter inspired dozens of responses — some mild, many militant. “Please don’t fight blame…

Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a still unidentified bouillabaisse to a bowl of chili with a grilled cheese side that fell flat at LoHi SteakBar to some ho-hum dim sum. For correctly divining that these dumplings are from Palace Chinese Restaurant, Fletch…

I have yet to show the video on the following page to my eleven-year-old kid, but when I do, I can absolutely guarantee you that he’s going to want to know why the hell he has to wait until he’s 21 to have a margarita. Give your ADD-addled kid a…

We were sitting at Pizzeria Basta’s bar today, sipping the very first glass poured from the restaurant’s very first keg of the Infinite Monkey Theorem Sauvignon Blanc — a wine we didn’t need a score guide to tell us was taut, citrusy and perfect for spring — when we had…

Dear militant vegans: Please, please, for the love of all things holy, do a favor for everyone — non-militant vegans, vegetarians and carnivores alike — and shut the fuck up already…

Every weekend, rain, sleet, snow, or sun, this Mexican joint pimps coastal creations from a makeshift ceviche bar outside its front door. And the tostadas de camarones, juiced with lime, laden with onions, cucumbers, cilantro leaves and tomatoes, and topped with slices of avocado, are two-for-one. Can you guess where…

Rich Grant, the communications director for Visit Denver, the convention and visitors bureau that started Denver Restaurant Week, insists that the Mile High City’s two-week marathon of meals, which kicks into high gear on February 26, is the largest in the country — and, according to the LA Times, it’s…