The crew at Bistro Vendome, 1420 Larimer Street, will be cooking up Tournedos Rossini, a classic French steak dish supposedly created for the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, at their Thursday French Classics tonight. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings –…
A year ago, Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski were just hitting their stride at Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, garnering national accolades in the process. And then on March 9, fire broke out in the chimney of the wood-burning oven, forcing Oak to close for months so that the entire space…
When Hogshead Brewery opens this spring near Sloan’s Lake, it will boast what might be the first stainless-steel craft brewing system manufactured in Colorado…
It all started with a rum collection and a tiki night. “I collect rum, and while I was bartending at Madison Street, I started bringing in my own rum collection, which then turned into a great tiki culture on Tuesday nights,” says Matty Durgin, who, along with Wade Kirwan and…
In just a week and a half, the Denver outpost of The Kitchen will make its debut on 16th Street, extending the community-based restaurant empire Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson began in Boulder eight years ago to the Mile High City. And while Musk has promised that the Denver space…
New Saigon is one of the oldest Vietnamese restaurants in Denver, and its kitchen is one of the most comprehensive, turning out not just pho, but hundreds of dishes from Vietnam’s culinary canon. For this week’s review, I stopped by the restaurant that’s been under the same ownership for 25…
Drinking wine and writing about it for a living is hardly anything to complain about. In fact, we’re positively jazzed about how far the wine programs at many of our favorite Denver haunts have come. One particularly inspiring development in recent years has been the opening of several wine bars,…
New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins has finished the installation of its 16,000-square-foot canning line and plans to begin using it this week. The first beers off the line will be 16-ounce tallboys of Fat Tire and Ranger IPA, but the brewery’s newest beer, Shift Pale Lager, will be released…
This was hailed on the menu as “Spicy Thai shrimp.” Spicy? Hardly. But if you have a sweet tooth, the sugary sauce could double as dessert. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…
Jenna Johansen, the former exec chef — and still part owner — of Dish restaurant, in Edwards (she’s now in Denver, engaged to Il Mondo Vecchio sausage king Mark DeNittis, who’s involved with a new project, Salumeria Cansano in Wash Park), is strutting her culinary prowess on a new Bravo…
Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Flipping pizzas at Pizza Hut. That was Brett Shaheen’s first introduction to a professional…
It would have been so much easier to just pay that bar tab. Instead, Robert Engles is slated to be in court in Boulder today, where he’ll face charges of criminal mischief, felony menacing and defrauding-an-innkeeper. On Saturday night, 42-year-old Engles was drinking…and drinking…at Centro Latin Kitchen, a Big Red…
Balls! Yesterday Lori Midson revealed that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, will be launching a new venture devoted to meatballs — yes, meatballs — with two partners, probably in the University of Denver area. “I’m not leaving Row 14, but I am opening…
Cafe Options, 1650 Curtis Street, will host a Work Options for Women’s cooking class tonight. Join Chef Rachel Kesley, executive chef of WaterCourse Foods, for a tutorial on how to make veggie burgers…
Denver Restaurant Half Month, not surprisingly, is bringing out the glutton in all of us, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to stamp your name on a seat at one of the 340 feedlots offering multi-course feasts between now and Friday, when the culinary orgy…
We’re three days from through Denver Restaurant Week. Kitchen staffs are napping, diners are moving their belts over a notch — and there are still eight more nights of great eating, with 340 restaurants across town offering special $52.80 dinners for two. (See the full list of Denver Restaurant Week…
New Saigon may not be the oldest Vietnamese restaurant in town, but it comes close — nearby T-Wa Inn opened in 1984, beating New Saigon by just a year. Current owners Thai Nguyen and Ha Pham took it over in 1987, and their kitchen has been turning out a vast…
Denver Tofu has been providing this city’s restaurateurs and consumers with a local source of tofu for forty years. But as we reported last week, Haruhisa Yamamoto, who has owned the company since the 1970s, is closing his factory and leaving the business. “The plant is under eminent domain by…
On March 29, when our Best of Denver® 2012 issue hits the pavement, we’ll announce which Denver joint has the best breakfast burritos. You have until midnight on March 22 to vote for your favorite, along with everything else food-and-drink-related, but in the meantime, this breakfast burrito may — or…
Outposts of Bubbachinos — the burrito-and-green-chile chain owned by Leonard Cordova, a grandson of the original Chubby’s owner, Stella Cordova — have expanded so quickly in this town over the last few years, we can barely keep up…
No. 34: Alfajores from Maria Empanada…
Any restaurant that presumes to go by the name Falafel King had better serve excellent falafel. Fortunately, not only does the Falafel King at 825 Colorado Boulevard serve great falafel, but the people serving it were charming and happy to point out the vegetarian- and vegan-friendly dishes on the roster…
