Last week, during one of our recent torrential downpours, I ducked into a restaurant to dry off and shake off the shivers with a hearty bowl of steaming minestrone soup. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Oak Tavern exec chef Jeremy Roosa. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: I’m always growing and learning, so I would like to think my proudest moment has yet to really happen. Looking back,…
Tonight, garden designer and cookbook author Lucinda Hutson will speak at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street, as part of the Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series. The garden will host an herb-garden tour at 5:15 and a Slow Food Denver tasting at 6 p.m.; the lecture starts at 7. Admission is…
Tonight at Vita, 1575 Boulder Street, the restaurant is offering two-for-one wine by the glass — with more than twenty varieties to choose from — plus $3 draft beers and $4 well cocktails to benefit Sports for a Cause…
There are more than forty restaurants in Denver’s Lower Highland neighborhood, and that’s if you stop counting at I-25. Extend the boundary by one block to the Platte River and you pick up another seven: a sushi place, a gourmet pizza shop, a wine bar/coffee shop, a date-night destination, a…
Back in February, trudging drunkenly down the middle of High Street in near-whiteout blizzard conditions, Darren and I decided that if the just-opened Jezebel’s could hold on through the winter in its outskirts-of-town location, we’d have found our summer spot, our walking-distance watering hole — the Holy Grail for Cole…
The Mercury Café isn’t known for its beer-drinking masses. Tango dancing, slam poetry, organic snacks? Definitely. Beer? Not so much. But the thirty-plus-year-old club/cafe/community gathering place nevertheless sells more beer made by Wynkoop Brewing than any other place in town – aside from the Wynkoop itself. It beats out the…
This classic dive was recently purchased by a new owner, who did a little updating inside — including adding the new “signage” hyping the patio. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
The Place: The Avenue Grill, 630 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-861-2820. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deal: $5 martinis; $3-4 draft beers; $4-5 house wines; $3-6 appetizers…
I love Paula Deen. I mean, which other high-profile chef whose mug is plastered all over your TV screen, gets hit in the face with a ham, loads her promotional videos with lewd sex talk and profanity, accidentally drops her pants, revealing her beige granny undies, while strutting across the…
After last Saturday’s “Spring Chicken” Hush Denver dinner on the roof of the Denver Art Museum Residences, the chefs from Sweet Basil pined for a platter of tacos, which they got in abundance (and happily shared) at a local restaurant renowned for its Mexican grub. Can you guess where I’m…
The city’s band of Brothers is about to get larger. As Jon Solomon reports in this week’s Bar Back column, the former Red Room at 320 East Colfax Avenue will soon be home to Uptown Brothers Brewing Company, which is slated to open May 24. But unlike My Brother’s Bar,…
Paramount Cafe 519 16th Street Mall 303-893-2000 www.paramountcafe.com…
Ted Turner’s bringing his bison to Boulder. Ted’s Montana Grill will open its ninth Colorado restaurant the first week of October at 1701 Pearl Street. The city is a good fit for the steak and comfort food chain says Ted’s co-founder and chief executive officer George McKerrow Jr. “We chose…
Jeremy Roosa Oak Tavern 1414 Market Street 303-888-0655 www.oaktaverndenver.com “I dress like a clown, I play with food, fire and sharp knives, and they pay me. Does it get any more fun than that?” asks Jeremy Roosa. The executive chef of Oak Tavern, a LoDo watering hole that serves sandwiches,…
Govinda’s all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffet is back! The restaurant, located at the Hare Krishna temple at 1400 Cherry Street, closed its doors last fall when its former cooks went to India. It reopened last month with a new chef, Sri Raga, who is carrying on the restaurant’s tradition of serving up…
Crime doesn’t pay — especially when you’re stealing 3.2 percent beer. Dominic Lujan and Demetrio Rivera were thirsting for adult beverages and not acting like adults — so at 5:30 a.m. one recent morning, they hatched a brilliant plan to rob the local Loaf ‘N Jug. Since options are limited…
Asher Brewing Company is Colorado’s first (and, right now, only) certified organic brewery, and tonight you can taste its creations at Terroir’s Community Beer Dinner. The three-course menu features mussels, chiles, roasted tomatoes and shallots topped with poblano chili romesco sauce and paired with Hippie Nectar wheat; apple/chard-stuffed pork tenderloin…
Jax Fish House, 928 Pearl Street in Boulder, kicks off a new dinner series tonight. Every month, Top Chef champion Hosea Rosenberg will host a dinner based on a different theme. Tonight’s is “Found in Translation: Inspiration from Hong Kong.” Dinner starts at 6 p.m. and costs $100; sign up…
Kevin Morrison thought he was onto something when he created his new Mexican street food venture, but naming it “Pinche Tacos” — “pinche” is Spanish slang roughly equivalent to the F-bomb — hasn’t exactly struck a positive chord with everybody. The Downtown Denver Business Improvement District was so uncharmed, in…
At the Italco Spring Food Show, held yesterday and today at Mile High Station, it was all about charcuterie, salumi and cheese and me slinging all the cheese, charcuterie and salumi I could down my throat. I’ve admitted, albeit not publicly (until now), that I’m a salumi slut — that…
Scott Taylor wants Denver residents to wake up every morning in the coolest cycling city in the world – and he plans to help by serving them coffee from a bike-thru window. The owner of the Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop at 1611 Platte Street opened the bike-thru, called Happy Coffee, three…
