Food & Drink

If you’ve ever sat on the 11,000 square-foot patio at the Tavern Downtown before a spring Rockies game, you know that it’s not a bad place to be, and according to Nightclub & Bar, a national bar management publication, it’s the best place for a sports fan to be in…

With Valentine’s Day upon us once again, love is in the air. Birds are tweeting, butterflies are floating on the gentle breeze, and Internet connections are blinking away as the lovelorn hit up their hard-working little modems and wireless routers to locate a date. Finding that date can be as…

Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a big buffalo burger at Walk-In Burgers, to the refashioned green chile from Squeaky Bean that one reader compared to a Willy Wonka birthday party plate, to a delicious piece of pie. For correctly identifying…

While restaurants across town are touting last-second Valentine’s Day specials, some readers made their plans long ago: to stay home. Mmmmgood explains why in this response to Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds rant: I love me some restaurants and get out to as many as I can as…

Last October, Opas Sinprasong — a Thai national who once owned Siamese Plate, Siamese Plate on the Go and Sumida’s in Boulder and Louisville — pleaded guilty to harboring illegal aliens and failure to pay taxes. Yesterday he was sentenced: The restaurateur will do time, pay a hefty sum and…

No. 70: Curried split pea soup from Modmarket Laptop geeks? Everywhere. Colorado-centric surfaces, most of them reclaimed, recycled or re-purposed? Definitely. A futuristic, fashion-forward restaurant design? Yes, that, too. Bubbling brick-oven pizzas, housemade sparkling waters, organic iced teas and leafy salads mixed with good-looking, mostly organic ingredients? Check. A vegan,…

For the past few years, Pho So 1 has hawked pho and beef noodle soup from its free-standing spot at 1195 South Federal Boulevard. But at the beginning of this year, it was sold to a new owner — and became Pho Le. And that new owner, whose name is…

Things have gone, uh, smashingly for Denver-based Smashburger since it first opened on Colorado Boulevard back in 2007, serving American classics that have won over many burger-hungry diners. The chain has readily expanded since then, opening close to one hundred additional outposts from sea to shining sea. It’s about to…

On the last night of 2010 — New Year’s Eve — Charles MacDonald, the former chef de cuisine of Z Cuisine, the superb (and proper) French bistro in Highland pioneered by chef/owner Patrick DuPays and his wife, Lynnde, cooked his last dinner on the line. MacDonald had just accepted a…

Ever time I blow through the door at this, one of our favorite Denver restaurants, I fall completely head over heels for the menu, easily one of the most playful and provocative in the city, in part, thanks to the chef, who continues to push the culinary envelope, dropping bombshells…

This, we think, could be a golden opportunity to plant a wet, sloppy kiss on the hot guy (or girl) standing behind you in line, with whom you then make messy burrito love. All metro area Qdoba Mexican Grill locations (with the exception of the Vail store, which opens Monday)…

That special day is coming right up. The day when your significant other — whether it’s on credit or true love — will ask what you’re going to make for dinner. If it’s not reservations, you need to plan your Valentine’s Day evening very, very carefully. Here’s what not to…

Defenders of dill rose up yesterday to defend the noble herb (not to mention the blue cheese dressing at Steuben’s), which Laura Shunk had listed as one of the five things she’d like to see more often on menus. But we’ll give the last word — for now — to…

Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…

No. 71: Celery and lime popsicle from Spuntino Cupcakes? Done (unless you’re Chris Romer or one of his minions). Pies? Yes, I adore them, especially when they’re plumped with fresh fruit. But, as of about noon yesterday, I’m hot, like California boys on California “Gurls,” for popsicles. But not –…

The best thing about yesterday? The pies that flanked the tables during an early morning meeting that revolved — around what else? — food. The two slices in the above snap — banana cream and apple drizzled with caramel — made for a sweet breakfast this morning for a kid…