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,…
It’s harvest season, and you can enjoy the fruits of all the labor at Kizaki’s Den Farm at tonight’s Farm Dinner at Ototo Food and Wine Bar, 1501 South Pearl Street. The kitchen will be serving up what’s being harvested that day from the Brighton farm owned by the Kizaki…
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…
Happy Place: Blue Bonnet Cafe, 457 South Broadway, 303-778-0147 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m., and Monday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to close The Deals: $2 domestic drafts; $2.75 imported drafts; $2 well drinks; $3.50 to $4.25 margarita specials; $1.99 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip…
Trios Enoteca, the cavernous wine bar and live jazz venue that’s held a brick-fronted piece of real estate on Wynkoop for nearly fifteen years, has dried up, shuttering last week after a series of closing parties…
The day I interviewed Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine, for this week’s Chef and Tell powwow, the kitchen crew had just been graced with a bounty of fresh beets, plucked straight from farm earth. The beets, in all their glorious, kaleidoscopic hues, are the platform…
The steak was simply a sidekick, the vegetables a throwaway. It was the baked potato (it’s a phase) that called out to me. 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 entered into a…
Frank’s Kitchen just celebrated its three-month birthday yesterday, but diners get the present today. The tiny cafe in the Whittier neighborhood — seating for ten, sixteen if it’s not too hot to sit outside — offered a fish fry last Friday that was so popular that Frank’s was out of…
Where do you take a toddler in Denver? Not to the Village at Edgewater, not anymore, not since the “soft play-cafe” closed this summer, after a noble attempt to provide a family-friendly environment. So where do you take a toddler in town? You stay home, suggests Dan5280:…
Cherry Creek knows how to throw a party, and the annual Food & Wine celebration in Cherry Creek North is always a big one. This year’s version includes two days of free culinary classes, a Grand Tasting and more, starting today and running through Saturday, August 20. For all the…
Time flies when you’re having fun, and what fun we’ve had this past year at both Stoney’s Bar and Grill, 1111 Lincoln Street (303-830-6839), and El Diablo, 101 Broadway (303-954-0324), which are launching one-year-anniversary parties tonight. El Diablo’s runs through Saturday, August 20, and will feature tequila toasts, music and…
The first time I ate at Jai Ho for this week’s cafe review, I spent several minutes staring at the menu. It was unlike any I’d ever seen: incredibly amusing yet borderline useless, with descriptions that made me laugh out loud and gave little help in determining what I’d be…
We’re equal opportunity in our love for Indian food, favoring specialties from both the north and the south, and marveling at the way chefs from all over the country blend spices into complexly layered stews. And here in Denver, we’re always on the hunt for spots that stand out from…
Jon Forget, the general manager of the British Bulldog, and Mark Berzins, owner of the Little Pub Company, which comprises nineteen joints in and around Denver, including the Bulldog, just opened Three Lions in the former Bank Bar & Grill at 2239 East Colfax Avenue. Three Lions is billing itself…
Just under four weeks ago, the old Graystone Castle overlooking I-25 reopened as a Doubletree Hotel by Hilton. And besides giving the place a makeover and a name change, the new owners also brought in a new restaurant: Radius Bar and Grill opened on the same day as the hotel…
