Angel’s Sports Bar is with the angels

After three years, Angel’s is now with the angels, and its sprawling space at 1630 Federal Boulevard overlooking Invesco Field at Mile High has a “for lease” sign.Although it served Mexican food, Angel’s real draws were the company and the location. And this past August, it also had an amazing…

Someone’s in the Kitchen…with plenty of beer

Head to Boulder to toast the start of March, which is starting like a lamb. Monday, March 2, from 5:30 p.m. until close, the Kitchen (Upstairs), at 1039 Pearl Street in Boulder, will offer a three-course, prix fixe menu paired with beers from Boulevard Brewing Co., a Kansas City brewery…

Roll call: Restaurant openings and closings since January 1

We’re working hard to stay on top of the restaurant industry news — a challenging task in these uncertain times. Whenever we hear of restaurants opening or closing, we post it on this blog; now we’re going to start summarizing the action at the end of the month. And there’s…

The Old Blinking Light grows its own … beef?

The restaurant garden is so trendy, the concept is almost becoming commonplace. Potager has a garden. So does Colterra. Bistro One and Root Down plan rooftop gardens this spring.But gardens have their limitations. In a garden, you can grow fruit, herbs and vegetables.You can rep these to the public, use…

Making vanilla to pay the bills: a talk with an ice cream alchemist

We live in a great food city. It’s not New York. It’s not San Francisco. And it shouldn’t be. Denver is more intimate and interconnected, with a culinary web stretching across the metro area. We have quirky shops, gourmet institutions, plenty of hole-in-the-wall joints and an active consumer base always…

Candy Girls: IKEA Chocolate Bars

Last week, Aubrey was off cavorting in San Diego while Liz was stuck at home, forced to sample some of the grossest candy in Candy Girls’ history. It wasn’t all fun and games for Aubrey, however, as she had promised to bring back strange and unknown treats from IKEA and…

Eat, drink and be scary this weekend

The big food news, of course, is the extension of Denver Restaurant Week, which started on February 21; 158 restaurants have signed on to continue their $52.80 deals through March 6. For all the info, go to www.denverrestaurant.week.com In Vail today, Bud Light presents Jo Jo’s Mardi Gras Band in…

Top Chef: Hosea Rosenberg

Well, at least someone in the restaurant industry has some money now… You’ve all heard that Colorado’s own Hosea Rosenberg (chef at Dave Query’s Jax Fish House in Boulder, at least for now…) won this year’s Top Chef prize.  He walked away with a slot at this year’s Food +…

Veggie Girl: Moongate Asian Grill

When I have a craving for sesame tofu, I head to the one restaurant that I know gets it absolutely right: Moongate Asian Grill, at 745 Quebec Street. Moongate cooks up a variety of Japanese, Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese dishes, with an extensive vegetarian selection — but I end up…

SAME Cafe: How much do people pay?

In this week’s Westword, Jared Jacang Maher reports on SAME Cafe, the non-profit eatery on East Colfax that lets customers pay what they want (or can). In a related slide show, Maher, with help from photographer J. Knight, shows what recent SAME customers chose to pay for their meals…

Up Close: Bistro One’s Olav Peterson

In his review of Bistro One, Jason Sheehan talks with chef Olav Peterson about the delicate process of building the perfect dish. In this week’s slideshow, photographer J. Knight captures Peterson at work doing just that…

Mee Yee Lin is gone, but its former homes live on

Mee Yee Lin was once the town’s best dim sum restaurant. But then competitors — including the surprisingly good Super Star Asian — moved into the neighborhood, and Mee Yee Lin moved from its original home at 3090 West Alameda Avenue to a much bigger spot at 2295 South Chambers…

Maynard James Keenan and the bottle of the bands

Top Chef may be over, but you can still see stars — in person — when Maynard James Keenan, the frontman for Tool and Puscifer, and vintner Eric Glomski, his partner in Arizona Stronghold Vineyards, host a bottle-signing from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight and again from 4:30 to 7:30…

The Hangar Bar is still flying high

It’s not easy to belly up to the bar at the Hangar Bar (8001 East Colfax Avenue). The bolted-down stools are positioned so close to the wooden elbow rest/ledge that extends from the chipped, Formica-surfaced bar that you leave with bruises on your sternum and knees if you settle in…

La Torta is the king of tortas

Had Steve Ells found his inspiration for Chipotle in Guadalajara rather than San Francisco’s Mission District, the result would have been Las Tortas. Instead, this spot inside a weird little strip mall/roadside plaza space that was once home to Les Delices de Paris (now at 600 South Holly Street) is…

SAME Cafe: The restaurant where you pay what you can

To find out what recent customers paid for meals at the SAME Cafe, go to westword.com/slideshow. The first thing Brad Birky does is hand me an apron. “Would you mind starting on soup duty?” he asks, guiding me toward two large industrial cookers near the front counter. “This is tomato…

Colicchio goes a-whorin’ for Diet Coke?

On Oscar night, the entire food world was abuzz. Not because of anything that happened during the Academy Awards ceremony, but because of one of the (million and one) commercials that showed during the proceedings: namely, the Tom Colicchio Diet Coke spot that appeared to show the Top Chef judge and…

In anticipation of the Top Chef finale

I swore a few weeks ago that I wasn’t going to write another word about Bravo’s Top Chef until it stopped sucking. Until they stopped breaking the action every thirty seconds with completely inappropriate product placements (Diet Dr. Pepper cookoff!), until Fabio and Stefan stopped giving the mafia kiss of…

Auld Dubliner now Marmalade Bar & Cafe

The Auld Dubliner, at 2796 South Broadway, closed just five weeks ago. Now owners Phillip and Lorri Donaghy, who also owned the Squealing Pig in Cherry Creek (which closed last month, too), have reopened the place as Marmalade Bar & Cafe. It’s open daily for breakfast at 7 a.m. and…