It’s 5:30 p.m., and the scent of nightfall — the faint breeze of kitchen gusts — already permeates the air when I pull my car up to the meter. And inside twelve, Jeff Osaka’s Larimer Street restaurant, the smells grow more intense: Osaka and a brigade of chefs are concentrated…
When you think of snacking at Denver International Airport, you may think of Panda Express or Burger King. But according to the latest annual study by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, DIA now has the healthiest airport food in the country, and tops the list for the first…
“We’ve always been a little fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants,” says Dave Thibodeau, co-founder of Durango’s Ska Brewing. “So, Modus was different. It was the most we had ever worked on a beer recipe and a style… It was the exact beer that we wanted to brew and it just blew up right out…
If chefs can crown corn chips with beef, chicken, carnitas and mock meat, then why not smoked oysters? That’s the unorthodox (and delicious) approach this kitchen takes with its nachos, a foreseeable addiction. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Govinda’s Garden has been a staple for Denver’s vegetarians for years. The eatery at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, (perhaps) better known as the Hare Krishna movement, has gone through various incarnations, but always returns with its vegetarian buffet on Friday and Saturday nights. After changing its name to…
When it comes to good, old-fashioned fun, Punch Bowl Social knows how it’s done. After converting a 24,000 square-foot former big lots into a mecca of entertainment, Punch Bowl Social opened last year with three bars (punch a specialty); the Elevated Diner serving breakfast, lunch and dinner; a coffee spot…
The bobas in the above snap didn’t come from a bona fide Asian-style bubble teahouse. Instead, the fruity slushies and smoothies with their fat straws and soft tapioca pearls are blended at a timeworn restaurant that sizzles with steer. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Chino Latino, the little tequila and taco shop owned by i-Fish, has closed. i-Fish, which is right next door, will turn the space into Little Fish, slated to open in January. See also: Jake Rand, formerly of Elway’s Downtown, opens i-Fish, a new downtown Pan-Asian restaurant…
The Bonefish Grill, a Florida-based seafood chain, just opened its latest metro location today in Lakewood. See also: Bonefish Grill is “polished casual,” and a pretty safe bet…
Last night, following the Denver Bacon and Beer Festival, eight local bartenders — Ryan Conklin (St. Ellie), Todd Mayville (Asti D’ Italia), Stuart Jensen (Green Russell), McLain Hedges (the Proper Pour), Kevin Burke (Colt & Gray), Melissa Durant (Acorn), Holland Rock-Garden (Roosevelt) and Anika Zappe (Star Bar) — gathered behind…
Cafe 180, a donation-based, pay-as-you-go restaurant in Englewood that’s been paying it forward, feeding anyone and everyone, independent of their financial situation, for the past three years, is bringing its charitable philosophies to a kiosk on the 16th Street Mall. Starting today, the kiosk, located near the D&F Clock Tower,…
Give a final farewell to the former Nathan’s Funtastic Fun at 3085 South Broadway. The one-time indoor amusement park in Englewood is slated to become a 4,580 square-foot Chick-Fil-A quick-service restaurant with drive-thru and outdoor seating — and that means the existing building will be demolished. If that ball room…
Let us give thanks for holiday dishes that appeal to everyone sitting around the table on Thanksgiving — carnivores and plant-based eaters alike. This week, a traditional side dish with a twist: instead of spinach, we’re using kale, and instead of cream, we’re using cashew cream. And believe us when…
The twenty-plus blocks stretching up Larimer Street from Speer Boulevard have become a real restaurant row, full of ambitious dining rooms and casual comfort joints, bars both upscale and still down-and-dirty. And dotted through those blocks are coffee spots– some dating back decades, some just open (MegaFauna’s little in-store cafe,…
Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of larb from Real Thai, a Wheat Ridge newcomer, to a platter of street tacos, paired with salsas, from Taqueria 7 Salsas, a terrific joint that I discovered while cruising down Sheridan Boulevard. And then there…
A recent Time magazine story on the “13 Gods of Food” left a bitter taste when it failed to include a single female chef — although seven male chefs made the cut, and sixty more were included in an accompanying article. To be fair, some female food entrepreneurs were included…
The original Atomic Cowboy rode onto East Colfax Avenue a decade ago, and the bi-level bar lassoed a wide range of regulars when it added to its corral with Denver Biscuit Company, serving early-morning eats, as well as Fat Sully’s, for lunch and late-night slices. Fat Sully’s already had a…
Tonight is celebrity waiter night at Ocean Prime, where All-Pro linebacker Von Miller and Bronco teammates will trade in their day jobs and run interference at the front of the house. The fundraiser begins at 7 p.m. with a cocktail reception and silent auction; dinner will follow at 8 p.m.,…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed twelve,Jeff Osaka’s restaurant that will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a big bash Monday. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked to Jesper Jonsson of Randolph’s about his long culinary trip to the Warwick Hotel. And Mark Antonation reached New China Kitchen in his Federal…
The national animal rights group Mercy For Animals gathered, along with local volunteers, in Larimer Square at around noon today to urge the lunchtime crowd to consider living a vegetarian lifestyle. It was hard to miss the group, which was joined by a giant inflatable puppy who lay in a…
There are numerous spellings for this fiery and tart toasted rice salad that’s a daily staple in Isan, a rural area of Thailand that borders on Laos, the birthplace of larb, laab, lahb or laap, but no matter how you spell it, the intensely aromatic flavors of dried ground chiles,…
Dancing Pines Distillery was one of the first twenty licensed distilleries in Colorado, opening in Loveland and selling its first bottle in September 2010. Now, three years later, husband-and-wife team Kristian and Kimberly Naslund, and partner Chris McNay, distribute their spirits, rum in particular, in 25 states. Kristian had been…
