Denver has lots of great Mexican restaurants, a few good Latin American restaurants, and not many South American restaurants. But Fogo de Chao, which opened this summer, would be a great restaurant on any continent. Here are Denver’s ten top way-south-of-the-border restaurants. Aji Latin American Restaurant 1601 Pearl Street, Boulder,…
Beginning tonight, Sushi Sasa, Wayne Conwell’s hip temple of Japanese cuisine at 2401 15th Street, is adding late-night hours to its lineup. “Over the past few months, we’ve had numerous customers showing up at our doors after 10:30 wanting to eat sushi, so we thought, hey, let’s stay open later,”…
Here’s a formula you wouldn’t think would work for a bakery in the middle of downtown Denver: Customers enter at one end of a shop, drop a dollar into a giant plastic jug, retrieve a small paper bag filled with three fresh-from-the-oven cookies and exit out the other end. There’s no…
“This is the perfect hearty recipe to help warm your body from the chill in the air,” says Lance Barto, the executive chef of Strings and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 98 Mac-and-cheese fries from Jonesy’s EatBar…
Paul Piciocchi has had his hands full this fall, turning the former Alto space at 1320 15th Street into not one, but three venues — and also running his other popular Denver club, Tryst, at 1512 Larimer Street, right up the street from his new project. A third of that…
David Sax traveled the world in search of an authentic deli, examining the cuisine that was once at the center of Jewish culture. Did he find one? Learn whether his search was successful today at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, 350 South Dahlia Street, at a special deli…
Does reading this blog make you hunger to write? Westword is expanding its Cafe Society coverage, and we’re looking for a great freelance writer with a passion for food and restaurants, as well as the ability to produce stylish and knowledgeable news and opinion pieces about the Denver dining scene…
The patio at this classic dive is filling up fast — with both people taking advantage of what could be the last warm weather for some times, and their pooches. But remember: No dogs inside. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Both readers and restaurateurs had a lot of suggestions for what to do with the former home of Mojitos — which isn’t surprising, considering that this spot at 1120 East Sixth Avenue is a good location just begging for a good operator to go into it. And while I’ve already…
Steelhead trout, beautiful beets just yanked from the garden, greens and risotto. Half of the dish — the trout and the beets — was spot-on perfect, while the second half — a gummy risotto that had turned to mush and the wilted weeds, which were gritty and intertwined with the…
The only thing better than a fabulous food scene on the big screen is a scene involving brutal, unabashed violence (True Romance, or anything Tarantino for that matter), or a fantastic food moment involving sex (9 1/2 Weeks, for example). But while some culinary scenes will leave you yearning to…
846 Broadway has been a lot of things over the years. Failed restaurants have come and gone; bars have landed here, done well for a little bit, then died. I’ve spent time at every one of 846 Broadway’s incarnations over the past seven years and, with the exception of their…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 99 Alaskan reindeer sausage from Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs…
Yes, yesterday’s Guess Where I’m Eating? cakes were from City Bakery, Michael Bortz’s place up at 5454 Washington Street, an industrial-park setting that gives no hint of the wonderful things being created inside. Except for the smell, of course. Although Bortz breads and desserts are featured at many restaurants around…
This is part two of my interview with Lance Barto, exec chef of Strings. You can read part one of my interview with Barto here. Best food city in America: Northern California. Right, I know that it’s not a city, but the whole northern region of California seems to have…
John Hickenlooper will announce the Mayor’s Design Awards tonight, but we can tell you that two of the fifteen honorees are restaurants: Root Down and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria. Both restaurants opened last year, in old spaces made remarkably new. In Root Down’s case, a vintage service station was turned into…
Nothing can take the place of an actual trip to Italy to explore the language, culture and cuisine — but this is probably the next-best thing. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting an Italian class tonight on the region of Sardegna. The syllabus includes a three-course…
On my first visit to Fogo de Chão, I was like Augustus Gloop in the chocolate factory — set loose in Wonka’s main room, eyes like saucers, jittery with excitement and trying desperately to shove everything into my mouth that would fit. And each time I half-cleaned a plate, some…
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to praise the cocktails of Randy Layman, the bartender at Avenue Grill. I already know that Randy is one of Denver’s up-and-coming superstar bartenders, but I had no idea that he’s such a romantic. But when he serves me a Dearly Beloved ($10),…
This week’s review of Fogo de Chão contains one important bit of wisdom: No man can live solely on giant hunks of skewered meat delivered by strapping young Brazilian men. Trust me, if it could be done, I’d already be doing it. As would my darling wife, in a heartbeat…
For some of us (like me), there just aren’t enough hours in the day to eat all the barbecue that we want. There are barbecue sandwiches for lunch, pulled pork for dinner, ribs and sides for a midnight snack, maybe a little cornbread and chicken picked off the bone at…
