Food & Drink

The first time a plate was set before me at Crave Real Burgers, I nearly choked. I was sitting at the brightly lit bar that faces the open kitchen, surrounded by the din of a busy dinner service and sucking down a mint chocolate chip milkshake. But when I got…

Over the past few years, the booming burger business has included everything from new joints trying to re-create the classic burger to restaurants so redesigning the burger that it’s sometimes no longer recognizable, as at Crave Real Burgers. And then there are the spots that fall somewhere in the middle,…

Jonathan Power, formerly of Root Down and one of the masterminds behind the Noble Swine Supper Club, is currently putting together a menu for Crema Coffee House, where he and owner Noah Price have some big plans in the works. After discussing those plans, though, we got to talking about…

Over the weekend we heard that Shazz was dark, so we stopped by the new American restaurant that Benny Kaplan opened almost three years ago in northwest Denver to get more details. The restaurant was certainly quiet, and the lack of activity will continue for at least a few more…

There’s nothing quite like a plate of artisan cheese and a chilled (but not too cold) glass of beer to make you feel like you’re living the good life. And to keep it simple. Beer and cheese. They are gifts from nature that satisfy the soul. While Colorado doesn’t have…

Steuben’s does it; Jensen Cummings, the executive chef at Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar has plans to do it; and Keegan Gerhard, the chef/pastry king at D Bar Desserts has been quietly doing it for months. What, exactly, is it that we’re talking about?…

No. 57: Hama Hama herbed oyster from Jax Fish House-Denver…

For 25 years, Jorge Alonso was a partner in Grupo Anderson’s, the Mexican restaurant conglomerate that owns Señor Frog’s, which, if you didn’t know already, is where tourists who trot off to the resort towns in Mexico go to get drunk, hook up and pass out — usually in that…

If it walks like a chicken, and clucks like a chicken, it probably is a chicken — even if it doesn’t taste like chicken. Our server enthusiastically described the Chinese chicken dish in the above photo as “zesty.” At least, she said, that’s how customers have described it. They’re wrong:…

“Denver residents who have been to one of the six restaurants and bars run by Frank Bonnano would most likely agree that the experience means good food and service to match. With Lou’s Food Bar, which opened late last year, the 43-year-old chef has broadened his repertory with an American…

Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a bananas foster waffle to a devilish plate of shrimp diablo to this monkfish liver. For correctly identifying the ankimo as coming from Uoki, Jon S wins an EatDenver deck…

Restaurants whose websites have too little information. Restaurants whose websites have too much information. Restaurants whose websites don’t exist. Readers have plenty of their own gripes to add to our “Fifteen most annoying restaurant website mistakes.” And Cafe Society isn’t flaw-free, either. GFTW offers this: Good Lord. First of all,…

We ventured on to a local restaurant website recently, only to hear what had to be a MIDI file — yes, the synthy, cheeseball music from the Internet of 1998 — loudly playing in the background. Then we tried to click over the menu — but first we had to…

Michel Escoffier, great-grandson of the high priest of French cooking, Auguste Escoffier, arrived in Boulder this week to meet students at the newly renamed Culinary School of the Rockies. Auguste Escoffier, the former chef at the Savoy and Carlton hotels in London, has been called “the king of chefs and…

Much as I like the real thing, I am in no way above the white trash margarita. In fact, a slushified version of the drink is among my top guilty pleasures, especially when I’m sucking them down on a patio paired with bottomless rounds of chips and salsa. So when…

In late June, while cruising down Sheridan Boulevard, we eyed a liquor-license sign announcing that a restaurant named Nobu was taking over the former Walk-in Burgers space at 2255 Sheridan Boulevard. And we nearly cracked our head on the sidewalk, since Nobu, of course, is one of the most vaulted…

Earlier this year, Julia Buonanno and Dana Derichsweiler, the owners of Boulder’s Walnut Cafe and South Side Walnut Cafe, put the brakes on the food truck they ran with Ashlie Beckham, but that didn’t stop them from moving full speed ahead on a project they have going in Lafayette: The…