Food & Drink

There’s no shortage of places to get food along the 16th Street Mall. But if you’re after a grab bag of mediocre grub served from metal basins behind glass barriers — a food court, in other words — things are grim and getting grimmer. Last Friday’s closing of Panda Express…

Because I’m feeling especially generous today, here’s a hint list to help you nail this one:1.  Urban2.  Max3.  Bag4.  Not Brazil5.  Jump6.  Counter7.  Germination8.  Hill9.  Jack10.PorkThis should be easy…

RESTAURANTS OPENING IN JUNE Giovanni’s Italian Cafe, 3355 South Yarrow, Lakewood Pho-Yo, 2179 South Parker Road, Aurora Simm’s Steakhouse, 11911 West Sixth Avenue, Lakewood Johnie’s Bar-B-Que, 5280 West 25th Avenue, Edgewater Choppers Custom Salad Works, 5302 DTC Boulevard, Greenwood Village Einstein Bros. Bagels, 200 Quebec Street 3 Sons, 14805 West…

So…if you haven’t already heard about Jason Sheehan’s new memoir, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then your reading catalog clearly consists of titles that you should keep between yourself and your therapist. Oh, please. Shameless Sheehan has pimped his book here, here…

Parisi, 4401 Tennyson Street, marks the real start of summer tonight by introducing a four-course, hot weather menu at Firenze A Tavola: panzanella salad; tagliatelle pasta with asparagus, wild mushrooms and truffles; Milanese breaded pork chop with lemon aioli; wilted arugula with grilled fennel, pickled onion, carrots, artichokes and peppers;…

I was several whiskeys to the good on a recent school night when I found myself propped up against Sketch’s salumi bar, canting sharply like a ship taking on water.  I asked for the menu, gave it a cursory glance, then pushed it back across the dark, polished wood, slapped…

I didn’t eat today until 3:15 p.m., and while it was certainly late enough in the afternoon to forgo real food in lieu of something like, I dunno, chicken fingers, french fries and lots of liquor, which was yesterday’s lunch, I was desperate for breakfast, except I didn’t want a…

When Fogo de Chao opens at 1513 Wynkoop Street in mid-July, the Brazilian steakhouse chain will occupy — wait for it — 14,000 square feet, enough footage to house nearly 600 cows, at least by my mathematical calculations, where are based, more or less, on an average cow size of…

Colorado has plenty of homegrown fast-food and fast-casual chains to keep locals happy. There’s Chipotle, Qdoba, Smashburger, Einstein Bagels and Quiznos just to name a few. But Coloradoans also love their California fast food, and we’ve made some gains in the past few years, including a couple of new Del…

I’ve been checking out backyard chicken coops and downtown veggie gardens for months as part of my summer-long Urbavore’s Dilemma web series, and this week’s entry sent me to an unobtrusive Park Hill home in search of the origins of a pack of bacon I recently enjoyed — some of…

Brandon’s Pub has apparently evaded the Beauvallon curse…for now. When the sports bar with the Mexican kitchen closed its doors last week, people thought that Brandon’s Pub, located at 955 Lincoln Street, had succumbed to the same misfortune as many of its former neighbors, most recently Mr. Coco’s. But according…

The beleaguered Beauvallon building has swallowed another restaurant. Mr. Coco’s Bar & Grill, possibly the worst-named Mexican joint ever, has shut its doors at 925 Lincoln Street. Before it was Mr. Coco’s, that space had held, very briefly, Marni’s Steakhouse (which left behind its awning) and before that, Moe’s Southwest…

The only thing better than eating a fresh, gooey s’more is eating one for a good cause.  On Thursday, July 2, Metro Denver Promotion of Letters, a nonprofit offering tutoring and writing services for children, teams up with Forest Room 5 to bring you a night of s’more-making and fundraising…

At 6 p.m. tonight, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, is hosting an all-American food and wine event featuring the wines of California and the Pacific Northwest paired with a menu prepared by Flovor Catering, which includes house-smoked salmon with green goddess aioli; miniature chicken-in-a-biscuit sandwiches with watermelon relish; braised…

It’s 8:30 p.m. on the second Monday night of summer — but you don’t need a calendar to know that. You just need to see the lines outside of Little Man Ice Cream, which opened exactly a year ago at 2620 16th Street.You scream, I scream, we all scream…..

We’ve already posted the news about the ESPN Zone at 1187 16th Street going dark, but within moments of that announcement, something else popped up.  Namely, that a nice big chunk of that space has already been snapped up and will shortly be turned into another outlet of an Arizona-based…

Just got word that ESPN Zone, the 23,000-square-foot sports-centric playground and game center (and the only Denver link in the company’s national chain) at 1187 16th Street, went dark today, exactly one day after Greg Goldfogel pulled the plug on Alto, the Northern Italian restaurant and live jazz venue at…

This week’s question is for all you office drones out there, from one of your own: When time is tight and money even more so, what downtown cart serves the best grub in the city?Easy, right? Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. He has two locations now, one in Skyline Park at…

The rumors were rampant over the weekend that Alto, Greg Goldfogel’s northern Italian restaurant at 1320 15th Street, had shuttered. Turns out it wasn’t a rumor: Alto’s web site, which was still accepting reservations yesterday, is now entirely devoid of content, except for a mere seven words that admit defeat…

KJ’s Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that’s become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today — until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that’s just the start of the changes, promises manager Kassia Koukari…