Colorado lamb: It’s what’s for dinner, at least this week — Harvest Week — when nearly forty metro restaurants are offering special menus focusing on ingredients local to Colorado. Like lamb paired with french fries (my favorite in the city), jus and drunken horseradish made with Stranahans Colorado whiskey. This…
Interstate Kitchen & Bar made its debut on Thursday, September 10, at 901 West Tenth Avenue (the former Santa Fe Tequila Company space). It’s a kitschy urban roadhouse bedecked with utilitarian shelving — a la Home Depot — and a psychedelic robin’s egg blue paint palette. In the back, by…
Denver is playing host to the Olympics of beer games this month — and it could be a historic one if the city’s fortieth annual Oktoberfest also turns out to be its last. Larimer Associates, the real estate company that owns Oktoberfest as well as Larimer Square and numerous other…
David Hannes, president of the Writer Square Condominium Association, has had his hands full dealing with the ongoing renovations at Writer’s Square, which have turned the downtown oasis into a concrete desert. He lives above the restaurant that had been Zaidy’s Downtown Deli, and he’s also kept a close eye…
At 8 p.m. tonight, Suite Two Hundred, the upscale club up in in Larimer Square, will be the site of a bartender competition hosted by Hpnotiq — you know, the blue, 35-proof liqueur made from vodka, cognac and fruit juices. ‘Tenders will compete for their drink to become the official…
Zaidy’s Deli, a mainstay at 121 Adams Street in Cherry Creek for decades, opened a downtown outpost several years ago in Writer Square. It did a decent breakfast and lunch business there, but the crowds flocking to LoDo and Larimer Square in the evening — and walking right past Zaidy’s…
The three-day Denver Food & Wine Classic wrapped up on Saturday, September 12 with a Grand Tasting on the wet and sloppy grounds (thanks, rain) of Metro State College. To see a slideshow of all the fun, including some action snaps of Denver Five chefs Jamey Fader, Matt Selby, Troy…
Lucy at the Landmark, the mezzanine-level restaurant inside Comedy Works South, at 5345 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village, had closed in early July and just reopened on Thursday, September 10 after what sales manager Heidi McMillen calls a “menu redo.” It’s now a “great family-oriented, economically-friendly restaurant with American food…
El Grito — the day when Mexicans across the world commemorate that country’s independence from Spanish rule — isn’t until September 16, but Richard Sandoval, chef-owner of Tamayo, La Sandia and Zengo, is getting an early start on all the celebrations. Beginning today and continuing though Sunday, September 20, all…
Independent restaurants across town are offering specials right now to celebrate Harvest Week. This order of albondigas is one of those specials; guess where we found it?…
The big restaurant news is Harvest Week, sponsored by DINR, which continues through September 18. Here’s what else is cooking around town: September 14: TAG Beer vs. Wine Dinner at 1441 Larimer Street, $75 for four courses, www.tag-restaurant.com. September 15: Elana Amsterdam signs The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook at the…
As we reported here last month, the space at 1320 15th Street that had been occupied by Alto, Greg Goldfogel’s Italian restaurant, has been picked up by Paul Piciocchi, who runs Tryst and Sutra Dance Bar & Lounge. And now we know what Piciocchi plans to put into that spot…
Leapin Lemurs EnviroKidz Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Here’s a partial list of ingredients in Leapin’ Lemurs: “organic corn meal,” “organic whole grain corn meal,” “organic evaported cane juice,” “organic peanut butter,” “organic molasses,” “organic cocoa,” “organic soy oil” — as opposed to “soy oil assembled in…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. Chef took off early last night, leaving the show to me — and miraculously, I did not…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. There are few parallels between writing and cooking. Both involve creativity and dedication, but the similarities pretty…
For proof that summer’s scorch is coming to a screeching halt, all you have to do is look to Tambien, the Cherry Creek Mex in the city at 250 Steele Street that’s been turning out rockabilly and ribs to the faithful every Sunday since April 26. This was one of…
What you might have missed this week while eating peaches and honey with a steak knife…Anika Zappe, bartender at Root Down, told us about her favorite drinks and least favorite customers.Cheers! We learned a second Toast location will open next month in Cherry Creek.Chef Mark Dym of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza…
Okay, so the general definition of “slider” is a person or thing that slides. Easy enough. But it’s also a popular bar food that, in the case of the slider in the above pic, certainly slid when I ate it. Topped with Kobe beef, caramelized onions and Gouda, it was…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. This is a story about how a dish makes it from my mangled mind onto the plate…
Mark Dym, owner-chef of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza, 2129 Larimer Street, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, is one of the participants in Harvest Week, which means that he’ll have a special menu that’ll pay homage to local ingredients, including Palisade peaches, homegrown tomatoes and goat cheese,…
Tony Bourdain, culinary superhero, book author, brazen, beer drinking badass, global wanderer, Food Network bully and host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations, is lecturing his way across America, regaling sold-out audiences with stories of how he once ate the rectum of a warthog. Presumably you can encourage Bourdain to…
Cheba Hut raised a toasty toast this week when a Weld County District Court judge overturned a ruling that had denied a liquor license to the sub shop’s Greeley location. In April, Robert Frick, who rules on Greeley liquor licenses, turned down the company’s request, citing Cheba Hut’s pot-related marketing…
