Last week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Cafe Byblos, a new Mediterranean restaurant whose sunny interior and bright flavors transported her to a much warmer place. Over the last few months, Cafe Byblos has collected many fans…but not of its pita, apparently. See also: – Review: A quick trip to a land…
Artopia, Westword’s eighteenth annual celebration of Denver’s arts and culture scene, takes place this Saturday in the Golden Triangle. The event features live music and DJs, fine artists, poets, culinary artists and cocktail creatives at City Hall, the Living Room, Salty Dog and Bar Standard. Visit the Artopia website for…
Denver finally got snow again this week, but Gretchen Kurtz found a warming trend at Cafe Byblos, the restaurant she reviewed this week. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson interviewed Jeremy Thomas, chef of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar. And Mark Antonation continued his culinary tour of Federal Boulevard…
Whenever we have people over, it seems there’s always someone who doesn’t eat meat. I’m sympathetic to the cause; after all, I grew up in a house with a vegetarian. To complicate matters, guests often aren’t fond of soy, so I’m always on the lookout for riffs on rice and…
Update: Congratulations to whippingcupcakes! You and a guest have won a free chicken-and-waffle brunch. Check your e-mail for details on how to claim your prize. Original post: Do you love chicken and waffles? Central Bistro & Bar does, and thinks the Chicken & Waffle dish it offers for brunch –…
Last fall, in early September, Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, jetted to Denver, his film crew on his heels, to film footage of an upcoming episode of his wildly popular television show, in which Zimmern stuffs his gullet with foodstuffs that some people would find peculiar…
The java was a little cold, and so was the soup, but the eggs Benedict at this wee breakfast and lunch spot were simply perfect, the lemon-smooched hollandaise and yolk-soaked eggs draping the salty sheets of ham lurking beneath. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
While much of the action on South Pearl Street centers on the 1400 South block — where Tavern Platt Park will break ground in March, and Izakaya Den will move in May — there’s plenty of activity four blocks south. That’s where the original Park Burger expanded last year, Makan…
At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the phone call that Steve Ballas and his wife, Linda, had been waiting eleven months to get, finally came. On the other end of the horn was Keith Montoya, owner of Denver-based Doc 1 Solutions, and the local partner with LS Travel Retail, a multi-billion…
Chad Yakobson talks fast and he doesn’t stand still — not when there is so much to do. The founder, owner and head yeast whisperer at Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project is in the midst of a major expansion at his northwest Denver Barrel Cellar, adding employees, barrels, storage space…
Announcement: We have a winner of our free Guinness for a year from Fado Irish Pub contest. The actual number of Guinness pints served during the month of March, 2012, was 13,854. Ericwrites came the closest without going over with his guess of 12,656. Congrats! On Friday, Fado Irish Pub…
Brittany Hill is back in business. The first upscale restaurant to open in Thornton — a special-occasion place renowned for its view — closed in 2007, and went through several ownership/management changes as various ventures attempted to resurrect the legendary spot. Now it’s reopened as a Crystal Rose event and…
Is Denver a chain-restaurant town? That’s what Joel Klatt declared on talk-radio before the Super Bowl, and that’s exactly the image that Mark Antonation hoped to dispel when he invited Klatt to dinner at Squeaky Bean. Where they ate some amazing things, including cauliflower couscous. See also: – Joel Klatt…
The Medicated Chef Contest — the first worldwide cannabis cooking competition — takes place at the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, tomorrow at 6 p.m. See also: – Medical marijuana: Top 10 medicated edibles in Colorado – Ask a Stoner: Where can I get good old “pot”? – The…
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it…and repeat it. On Sunday, a car crash outside of Gaetano’s sent a minivan spinning off West 38th Avenue up to the restaurant’s front door, and pushed a Ford Probe right through the patio on Tejon Street into one of the…
“Hunger is hard to recognize in America,” CBS’s Charles Kuralt intones gravely over images of malnourished children. “We know of it in other places, like Asia or Africa. But these children, all of them, are Americans. And all of them are hungry.” That was the message of the landmark 1968…
Yesterday Glacier Ice Cream & Gelato opened its newest output at 3455 South University Boulevard in Englewood. And while the weather could soon be as chilly as a frozen dessert, the seasonal selection available from this Boulder-based chain is still enough to inspire a stop anytime of year. That’s why…
The menu at this watering hole is big departure from the kind of cooking that you’d normally expect from a chef whose roots are firmly entrenched in Italian cuisine, but the contemporary take on the Reuben — and the German potato salad — point to a chef who can’t be…
In advance of the Super Bowl, 104.3 The Fan morning sports commentator Joel Klatt declared that Denver was a chain restaurant town without a unique food culture. In the course of the subsequent Twitter barrage, chef Paul Reilly of the soon-to-open Beast + Bottle jumped to Denver’s defense with this:…
Jeremy Thomas Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar 1512 Curtis Street 303-534-1155 www.legranddenver.com This is part two of my interview with Jeremy Thomas, chef of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. What’s never in your kitchen? Green peppers. When I worked at Sacre…
The craft-beer industry has always been community-minded — not to mention budget-conscious. Although there are many big craft brewers, there are many more tiny ones, and most of them only came about because someone risked everything by maxing out their credit cards and cashing in their 401k, savings account and…
As the chef at Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Jeremy Thomas sees a lot of oysters. The one food he can’t live without, though, is crab lebs. “I’ve loved them ever since I was a little boy eating at SeaGalley by Southwest Plaza,” he tells Lori Midson in this…
