Before Liu Zeng Qun opened Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine, his Szechuan restaurant in Aurora (which I review this week), he spent eight years working for the man who secured the visa that brought him over here: Johnny Hsu. Hsu is the man behind Imperial Chinese Restaurant; he’s owned restaurants…
Six breweries have opened in the Denver area so far this year, and there are more on the horizon. And while craft beer lovers might say it’s impossible to have “too many breweries,” it is becoming exponentially more difficult to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of competition. But the…
Last weekend, I strolled through a Front Range farmers’ market (one that I’d never been to), and after picking my way through baskets of beautiful tomatoes, tri-colored carrots and beets, I came face-to-face with a food truck I’d never seen — a truck that turns out a damn good breakfast…
After a four-month delay, Arvada Beer Company will open today at 11 a.m. in a 95-year-old brick building that has been gutted and restored to make room for the brewery and other shops. “It’s been a long journey, but we are really excited,” says co-owner Kelly Floyd. The delays were…
Inspired by the parillada at Caminito Tango, last week Laura Shunk served up Denver’s five best weekend-only restaurant specials…
Get into the Halloween spirit at Beatrice & Woodsley, 38 South Broadway, which is hosting Ghosts by Lantern Light tonight and tomorrow night. The event, which start at 6:30 p.m., features uncommon, Halloween-themed cuisine that will be served in the cellar of the restaurant. Tickets run from $48 to $72…
Crimson Canary, the second restaurant from the owners of Interstate Kitchen & Bar, opened at 6 p.m. today in the former home of Mona’s at 141 South Broadway. The Italian-American restaurant is named after a 1945 who-done-it. As co-owner Joey Newman told Cafe Society last week: “We’re drawing from the…
Trick-or-treating always seemed so harmless. Sure, candy isn’t great for your teeth — but are those little morsels of sugary-goodness more sinister than we ever imagined? A common argument against marijuana is that it’s a “gateway drug” — but what if Halloween candy is, too? After all, long before candies…
Colorado’s children suffer from two seemingly contradictory food-related health problems: hunger and obesity. That’s the word from the Colorado Children’s Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on improving children’s well-being, which organized a luncheon/discussion on the issues of childhood hunger, obesity and poverty yesterday…
We ambled down to Freshcraft last night looking for a pint of beer and a snack. But to our dismay, the spot was dark…
At the end of service on Saturday, October 29, 8 Rivers Modern Caribbean Restaurant will close the doors for good at 1550 Blake Street, its third location — but not its last. After opening their first restaurant, the Jamaican Cafe, in Santa Monica, California, chef Scott Durrah and his wife,…
Great Divide Brewing is known for taking big, bold beer styles and turning them on their head, and they plan to mix it up again by releasing an unexpected beer — a light lager — at an unexpected time: winter. Nomad is a 5.4 percent ABV Bohemian pilsner that will…
“Let’s just put it this way: The restaurant isn’t closing, but new partners are coming in, and they don’t need me,” begins the conversation with Michael Long, the now-former executive chef of Aria (and before that, Opus), the restaurant he opened last December in Cherry Creek…
I haven’t heard a word about this new neighborhood, strip mall Italian restaurant, whose parking lot is more often empty than full, but the romantic, dim-lit dining room, coupled with the pastas emerging from the kitchen, makes it worth a visit — even if the service is a bit quirky…
Pay no attention to the notice on the website of L’Asie Fusion Bistro, which announces that the Asian-French fusion restaurant would be closed as of October 3. When we stopped in yesterday, the restaurant was up and running. But it’s definitely in transition. The ownership has changed, and the spot…
Scott Yosten Steakhouse 10 3516 South Elati Street 303-789-0911 www.steakhouse10.com This is part two of my interview with Scott Yosten, exec chef of Steakhouse 10. Part one of my interview with Yosten ran in this space yesterday. Favorite food city: Chicago. The ethnic boroughs and neighborhoods turn out the best…
It’s another holiday season of broke-ass broke-ness, but I can still celebrate Halloween with the finest tricky treats that the Dollar Tree has to offer. I found some surprisingly boss candies between the aisles of off-off-off brand toilet cleansers and reeky Christmas candles, and since Halloween is a holiday primarily…
For the last few weeks, Laura Shunk has been writing about local restaurant gardens and what the chefs are doing with the fruit of their labors. And while the snow may have put those plots — and the series itself — in the deep freeze, the story on Justin Cucci,…
Maybe you like wine, but don’t have the first idea how to start educating yourself about it. Leave that to the Alliance Francaise de Denver, 571 Galapago Street; the club has been hosting Educational French Wine Tastings focusing on different regions of France for the past few months. From 6:30…
Boulder has welcomed several wood-fired pizza joints in the last couple of years, and it’s not exactly short on Italian restaurants, either. So we were curious how Tossa, which signed a lease on a place near Folsom and Arapahoe two months ago, would differentiate itself from the rest…
This week’s review took me out to Aurora to experience the Szechuan cooking of Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine, a restaurant that opened last year after Liu Zeng Qun left Imperial Chinese Restaurant to do his own thing. In addition to a meal, I got a primer from one of…
It may have been 80 degrees on Monday, but after six inches of snow, Denver’s warm fall is over — temporarily, at least. And when the weather’s like this, there are few things we want to do more than cozy up in the corner of some warm restaurant with an…
