Black truffles, shaved and whole, and bone marrow peppered with Hawaiian red sea salt on a stark white plate at a restaurant whose chef doesn’t try to steal the spotlight — even though he could. The dish in the above pic was one of many in a succession of fantastic…
The band playing in this space wasn’t enough to distract me from a much needed cocktail Friday night. Nor was the art show hanging on the walls, although I ordered the No Ka Oi pomegranate punch, named after one of the pieces in the exhibit. Can you guess where I’m…
The Tilted Kilt, which opens tomorrow at 1201 16th Street in the former ESPN Zone space, has a menu. I know this because I ordered from it last night during a preview dinner. But when you’re surrounded by hot guys that inch up their kilts on command and girls dressed…
Randy Layman began working at Avenue Grill seven years ago and convinced his twin, Ryan, to join him there four years ago. The identical (except for Ryan’s longer beard) bartenders poured kick-ass cocktails together, doubling your fun, until November 1 — when Ryan moved across the street to work with…
“I made a decision, I’m doing it and it’s happening this weekend.” That’s Mark Dym, owner/chef of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, 2129 Larimer Street, talking about his new brunch, which starts this Saturday, November 14. “We’re keeping it simple, with just a few breakfast pizzas, bottomless mimosas for eight bucks or…
A few years back, I spent Thanksgiving with the large family of a friend whose house was tucked into the side of a mountain somewhere near Durango. Like most families at Thanksgiving dinners, we had segregated ourselves into two groups: those who were slamming wine and watching football, and those…
It’s been a long, rough ride for many of the shops at Denver Pavilions, with some high-profile restaurant disasters, including the Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe space on the still-empty bridge, which replaced the disastrous Cafe Odyssey, where diners got to eat at Machu Pichu (yum). But through it all, one…
Once upon a time, a man named Noah Alper created a little bagel company called Noah’s New York Bagels; it grew up to become Einstein’s Bagels. The man behind Einstein’s is also an author who wrote Business Mensch, and Alper will be speaking at 7:30 a.m. today at a breakfast…
These Guess Where I’m Eating posts usually go the same way: One of us puts up a picture, offers a few words, then asks you to guess where the dish is from. You good folks guess Chubby’s (if it’s a burrito, which it usually is), or West End Tavern or…
If you’ve been anywhere near the Denver Pavilions recently, then you know what an utter and complete construction zone clusterfuck it’s been. But it appears that the cone zones, yellow tape and dust bowls are finally coming to an end. And to celebrate that milestone — or as some would…
When I wandered through the first kitchen where I worked, very few things were clear. But I eventually learned how something showed up at the back door and ended up on a plate, as well as the hierarchy of the kitchen and the speed it takes to get ready for…
It’s not too late to make a reservation for tonight’s food and wine dinner at Frasca, the Boulder food shrine to all things brilliant. Tonight’s dinner, hosted by Kevin Pike of Terry Theise Estate Selections, is all about grower champagnes, often referred to as “farmer fizz,” according to Bobby Stuckey,…
As Bella, 1920 Market Street served upscale Italian fare. As B-52, it was bar chow. As the site of the Real World: Denver, the space served up mostly melodrama. But when new owners Shane Alexander and Josh Hawkinson took over the LoDo building and turned it into Theorie, they hoped…
I recently raved about Chili Verde — the new, kinda-upscale Pueblan restaurant at 3700 Tejon Street. Poblano crepes, perfect ceviche, all kinds of seafood — I loved the grub, the service, the room, everything about the place. The only thing that had me slightly concerned? The fact that the Yanez-Mota…
One of my favorite Denver restaurants just added blue plate specials to its menu, including shrimp and grits, which is the dish you see in the above photo. But while the addition of blue plates to the board just reinforces my unhealthy addiction to said restaurant, the fact that it…
If you’re looking for a quick lunch downtown, your options just got a hell of a lot tastier, thanks to Mike Winston and Bryan Hume, two cooks who worked the line together at Table 6, 609 Corona Street, before striking out on their own and opening Gastro Cart last week…
Thanksgiving is still two weeks away, but should you feel like tackling a turkey early (you know, just for practice), Dedric McGhee, exec chef of Thyme on the Creek, the in-house restaurant at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder (and the former chef of El Monte Sagrado in Taos), offers…
Six months after it opened in the former home of the Squealin’ Pig at 2700 East Third Avenue, Robert Thompson’s starts serving lunch today. “We’ve been fortunate to have built some momentum lately and our customers have been requesting a moderately priced, high-quality lunch spot in Cherry Creek,” he explains…
To mark the fifth annual Denver International Wine Festival, set for November 12 and 13, Mayor John Hickenlooper has pronounced this Denver Wine Week. The festivities kick off today at Cilantro Fusion, the new restaurant at 1531 Stout Street, at an event sponsored by Loire Valley. The big tasting is…
Time to toast a dozen students at the University of Denver School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, who have organized the first-ever DU Vin Festival Grand Tasting. The Grand Tasting runs from 2 to 6 p.m. today, in the HRTM Building at 2044 East Evans on the DU campus…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were hanging on every last word of our hi-larious stories about the time we spent getting up close and personal with the regulars at Nob Hill Inn, which may very well be the best damn dive bar in…
Bastien’s Restaurant 3501 East Colfax Avenue., 303-322-0363. Bastien’s isn’t retro; the rest of the world is. Looking for the cocktail culture of the ´50s? Bastien’s has it. Early-´70s swinger swank? It has that, too. Bastien’s doesn’t change with the times; the times change around it. Like they say, even a…
