When Rayme Rossello was first approached via e-mail by the developers of The Source, she declined their invitation to become part of the proposed project in RiNo. “I wrote back, ‘No thanks,'” recalls Rossello, because she had her hands full with the restaurant she’d opened a few weeks prior. That…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
You can order kung pao chicken from the menu at this Asian restaurant, which is exactly what my parents did, but the kitchen’s strengths reside in the more unfamiliar dishes like the Malaysian curry laksa, a flavor-bombed noodle-and-shrimp stew that benefits from the rich river of yolk that oozes from…
Yesterday Sean Kenyon shared 25 things you never knew about bartender Mikie Mazzotta, who works at the Squire. Kenyon’s been going to this bar for thirteen years — as long as he’s lived in Denver. “It reminds me of the dives that I haunted in Jersey City, so it definitely…
Mary Nguyen has been busy opening Olive & Finch, but she hasn’t ignored Parallel Seventeen, the pan-Asian restaurant she opened eight years ago. And tonight at 6 p.m., Parallel Seventeen will host a four-course, holiday-inspired dinner emphasizing local ingredients — pork belly dumplings and carrot-and-thyme tarts with herbed goat cheese…
At the end of October, Samir Mohammad quietly departed the kitchen at Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, a bustling open galley of pizza, pastas and Americanized Italian food that he’d spent the past year commanding. “I left because there was a difference in views between me and the owners –…
The former home of Colorado Lace has stood empty at 200 East Seventh Avenue for years, despite being in a prime restaurant neighborhood. Or is it empty because of that? With Racines just down the street at 650 Sherman Street and Mizuna, Vesper Lounge and Bones across Seventh Avenue, neighbors…
In case there was any doubt about how big the craft-brewing industry has become — or about its impact in Colorado — the industry’s trade group said today that small and independent craft brewers contributed $33.9 billion to the U.S. economy in 2012. Colorado’s craft brewers contributed $1.6 billion to…
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (Park Hill), there lived two craft-beer lovers who had to travel across town almost any time they wanted to try a new brewery. So the couple, Ryan and Christa Kilpatrick, decided to open their own brewing palace, Fiction Beer Company,…
It was my kid’s birthday over the weekend, and when you’re fourteen, spending time with your parents is about as much fun as taking final exams, so we shooed him and a friend off to their own table, while we — the embarrassing parents — squatted at the bar and…
As Westword’s Ask the Bartender columnist, I’ve talked with many bartenders for Cafe Society’s “Behind the Bar” series, posing numerous questions to Denver’s top bartenders…and often receiving the same answers: “I love chartreuse,” or “I’m really into smoked cocktails/barrel aging/bottled cocktails.” See also: A bartender by any other name…is still…
Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a better-than-expected bowl of hot and sour soup from Red Coral to a potent whiskey-based cocktail, aptly named the “drunken sailor,” from Ace to a breakfast burrito packaged in (gasp!) Styrofoam from a takeout Mexican joint…
Everyone reaches a point during the holiday season when the thought of one more bite of holiday food makes you feel like never eating again. You’ll get over it — we promise — but in the meantime, there are plenty of other comfort foods that can fill you up without…
Remember the jingle “Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee”? That double-negative motto could work just as well for Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies. Jenn Wohletz labeled that tin of cookies one of the worst Xmas foods — but it definitely has its defenders. Here’s just a taste of the responses. See…
The second annual Uncork for a Cause event takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Four Seasons Hotel. The fundraiser for Freedom Service Dogs of America will be hosted by Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker and his country-singer wife, Jessie James; the couple’s community project, Decker’s Dogs,…
On a cold December day, Gretchen Kurtz found plenty of heat at Thai Monkey Club, which she reviews this week. Darren Pusateri, chef of Gallo Di Nero, dishes on his favorite ingredients and favorite show — Extreme Cougar Wives — in the current Chef and Tell. And Mark Antonation’s trip…
Considering the Golden Age diners that occupied every table but mine, the absence of chile sauce on the table and a multi-page menu that reads like every other pedestrian Chinese menu, I didn’t have high hopes for the hot and sour soup I ordered at this long-standing Chinese restaurant, but…
Hall Brewing, which has been operating out of a production-only barn outside of Parker for the past eleven months, will open a new taproom for the first time today in town. See also: Grist Brewing is the first of many new breweries in the southern suburbs…
Thai Pot Cafe, a tiny Thai place on Colorado Boulevard, is relocating to some bigger digs at the beginning of 2014, just two blocks away from its current strip mall location. See Also: Thai Monkey Club: This place is hot!…
In late October, Marc Dak, along with his wife Stacy, a St. Louis native, opened Arch Pizza in Park Hill, a joint that’s modeled after Imo’s, a celebrated, family-owned, St. Louis-based pizza chain that dispenses cracker-thin crusted pies, cut in squares and paved with Provel cheese, a blend of processed…
Here is where I confess what many would consider a sin: Up until a few weeks ago, I’d never stepped foot inside Voodoo Doughnut. I have never shoved a cock-and-balls doughnut down my throat. Old-fashioned doughnuts, sure, Glazed doughnuts. Check. Doughnuts glistened with chocolate. Of course. But not a cock-and-ball…
Old School Burgers had a lot of fans when the mini-chain started cooking in Colorado almost a decade ago, but other burger joints soon took over the market. And since the Old School Burgers at 1760 South Havana Street in Aurora turned off its grill more than two years ago,…
