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…
The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver’s onetime kitchen and an erstwhile mobile vegan experience, is known for a lot of things — dick jokes and anarchist sentiments included — but gentility is not one of them. This explains why, in the group’s new series of cooking videos, the time lapse between pressing…
Rumors have been flying across Denver chef circles that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, was ditching his gig behind the line to open a new restaurant — a rumor that’s only half true. See also: – Contest: Guess the location of the Slotted…
Forget Top Chef. Safeway’s Next Chef Competition is looking for local talent, and there’s not a moment to waste, since the deadline is March 7. So fire up your skillet (yes, that’s an intrinsic part of the project) as you read the contest announcement:…
Applebee’s just hired hot Boulder-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky — the same creative outfit that Arby’s recently signed — to give the ubiquitous American meat-starch-veg spot an image boost of some kind. But here’s the rub: Unlike Arby’s, Applebee’s doesn’t really need a facelift…
On Friday, Lori Midson broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the exec chef at Ambria (and a partner in the four-month-old restaurant) had been fired in the middle of Denver Restaurant Week. “I was relieved of my position — told, simply, that it wasn’t working out — and I’m really…
Root Down, 1600 West 33rd Avenue, will host its monthly raw-food dinner this evening, when diners can enjoy a special three-course raw vegan dinner prepared by Raw Food-Certified chef Daniel Asher. And because it’s Denver Restaurant Week, the meal will only cost $26.40! Reservations are required, though; call 303-993-4200. And…
What’s your favorite shrimp dish?” my friend asked our waiter. He’d been standing beside our cramped booth, shoulders slumped, holding a small notepad in one hand and studiously avoiding our eyes while we studied the huge menu and sucked down the sugary, freshly made lemonades he’d slid across the table…
Last week, I broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the opening chef of Ambria, had been fired during the height of Denver Restaurant week — one of the busiest weeks of the year and an incredibly risky (some would say incredibly stupid) time to boot your executive chef off the…
Denver Restaurant Week ends this Friday, March 9, so be sure to take advantage of the $52.80 per couple deals available at the 340 participating restaurants while you still can. And don’t forget to share your dining experiences here for a chance to win a DRW gift certificate for $52.80…
Sherry, a fortified Spanish wine that ranges from light and dry to round and sweet, has fallen by the wayside as a fashionable beverage. In fact, we’re willing to bet that today more people associate sherry with old ladies or cooking wine than with something they’d pair with dinner. Brett…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in this series: It’s been almost a year since that full-length mirror-initiated wake-up…
