Food & Drink

Latke Love, which started two years ago as a mobile food vendor, has opened a brick-and-mortar location in north Park Hill serving traditional potato pancakes smothered with all kinds of non-traditional toppings. “We had a food truck before. It’s a lot of work getting out there in the world and…

The Boulder location of H Burger Co.,1710 Pearl Street, has shuttered, and the LoDo location of the local burger chain will soon follow suit. The leases for both spots have been sold — the Boulder one to a new, yet-to-be-announced restaurant, and the downtown location at 1555 Blake Street to…

You won’t find any bison roaming anywhere near this pizza joint, but you will find its meat on the pizzas. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…

That Red Robin commercial hawking veggie burgers really got some vegetarians’ carrots in a boil. The ad starts with a mention of the meatless burger, followed by an actress saying, “We even have a garden burger just in case your teenage daughter is going through a phase.” This was probably…

It won’t be Pizzeria Basta, insists Kelly Whitaker, but “I can promise you that it’ll be epic.” Whitaker is describing the new restaurant that he, along with Andrew Birkholz, president of distributorship at Ciao Vino Selections, and Whitaker’s partners at Id Est Hospitality Group, the company that he founded when…

“You better cut that pizza into four pieces, cause I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” So said Yogi Berra, but Coloradans always seem hungry for more pizza options. And the Atlanta-based Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers is now taking a third slice of the metro market: It will open a…

Tamayo started the year with a million-dollar remodel of the space at the edge of Larimer Square that opened a decade ago; the menu got an update, too. Arnold Rubio has been in the kitchen since Richard Sandoval first opened Tamayo, his “modern Mexican” restaurant; today Rubio is the executive…

On my way home from the office today, I stopped at a convenience store to grab a bottled water, and when I walked inside, the clerk blurted out, to no one in particular, “It’s so motherfucking hot that I’d run around the block buck-naked if we could have just one…

I didn’t think much about dessert at The Universal, which I review this week, until I’d finished my tempeh banh mi. “Will that do it for you?” the server asked as she came to clear our plates. When we inquired about sweets, she said they didn’t have any. I knew…

Historians Ale House is about ready to make some history of its own: The new watering hole at 24 Broadway will open at 11 a.m. tomorrow, June 28. “Colorado is a majestic state with the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Our sports teams are heroic champions, the skiing is epic and the…

On Tuesday night Lower Downtown was filled with hundreds of revelers, who needed no urging to follow the suggestion of LoDo Bites that they “sip, sample and stroll” their way through one of Denver’s hottest restaurant neighborhoods. The restaurants that put out samples for this annual event: Bistro Vendome, Backcountry…

Paul Krzystyniak spent a year mastering the art of making cold-pressed juices from raw fruits and vegetables, and now he’s sharing the fruits of his labor at The Juicing Tree, the shop he opened last week at 1504 Ivanhoe Street. While cold-pressed juices — healthier because they don’t involve high-pressure…

Arnold Rubio Tamayo 1400 Larimer Street 720-946-1433 richardsandoval.com/tamayo This is part two of my interview with Arnold Rubio, exec chef of Tamayo; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What’s your idea of a great dining experience? I love great food, but a great dining experience really depends on superior…

It was just two years ago that Frank’s Kitchen opened its doors. The regular e-mail that Dina Berta, a longtime restaurant reporter, and her contractor-turned-chef husband, Frank, sent out last week was full of plans for the future after a successful car show. They were talking about doing more events,…

Timing is important when you’re making fluffy biscuits — or references to Paula Deen. When Gretchen Kurtz wrote her review of The Universal, comparing the sky-high biscuits to those of Paula Deen was a compliment. But by the time the paper with that review was off the press, Deen’s career…

Fried chicken would fit right in at The Universal. For that matter, so would Paula Deen, given all the butter whisked into the grits that have become synonymous with this breakfast-and-lunch spot in a Sunnyside strip mall. But the restaurant isn’t as Southern as those “grits of the day” make…