Lance Barto, the former exec chef of Strings, will be in the kitchen when Central Bar & Bistro opens this summer in Highland. “You’ll find fun, creative, seasonally driven American food that incorporates French techniques with great American cooking,” Barto told Lori Midson last month. In the meantime, he’ll offer…
As bartenders in this town dive deeper into their craft, we’ve seen a lot of housemade sodas pop up on lists. Several places make their own tonic, for instance, and a few turn out their own ginger beers. We know of places trying to work out the kinks of more…
Denver has an abundance of Vietnamese restaurants, all devoted to a culinary canon that marries French and Chinese cooking into dishes that are delicious whether you’re eating noodles on the street or chowing down at a formal feast. Dozens of pho shops dot Federal Boulevard and South Havana Street, and…
Westword caught some sh*t for our Sh*t People From Denver Say video, especially from readers who thought we omitted a few key catchphrases. So we compiled a list of sh*t our video should have said, including this line submitted by a reader: “All the good ethnic food is in Aurora.”…
Chances, which opened last year at 1135 Bannock Street, has moved into the LoDo space at 1320 15th Street formerly occupied by Rack & Rye and, most recently Sauced. Chances will have a soft opening today and will host a variety events over the weekend to celebrate the new digs…
New Belgium Brewing’s social media specialist created a small controversy yesterday when he complained in his blog on the brewery’s website that the federal government was “leaking upcoming beer labels” and that bloggers were following suit. But the points he made ring hollow…
When Brett Zimmerman and his team at the Boulder Wine Merchant are throwing an event, you’d be wise to rearrange your schedule and get there. The master sommelier offers some unique opportunities to taste rare wines in fun contexts, thereby expanding the horizons of his buyers and giving wine fans…
Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part two of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Grizzly Bar in Roscoe, Montana. It’s located in a podunk town…
What’s John Waters’s favorite movie-watching snack? In anticipation of “An Evening With John Waters at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design this weekend, we asked the famed filmmaker several questions submitted by Westword readers, and then threw in the movie-snack question. His answer? . “I love candy!” he…
City Fruit is powered — literally and figuratively — by Kendra Vaughn. Every weekday, the young entrepreneur gets up at 5 a.m. to pack a bicycle cart full of the freshest produce she can find. Then she prepares for a day of fighting downtown traffic, dressing for battle in layers…
The raves are coming in for the Wooden Table and its talented chef, Brett Shaheen, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview. Shaheen has worked at kitchens around Denver, and left a gig as exec chef at Osteria Marco to do his own thing — in the ‘burbs…
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…
