Several Denver restaurants make seasonal changes to their menus, but none with the clockwork regularity of twelve, which rolls out a new board on the first of every month. And Jeff Osaka, chef-owner of the place, isn’t simply recycling items from a dozen different menus. “We’ve been through three Februaries…
Next week, on February 11, the owner of David’s Kebab House, a tiny Mid-East feast joint tucked into an east Denver small-mall surrounded by international markets, is set to show up at the Wellington Webb Building on 1:30 p.m to attend a hearing that’ll determine whether the four-month-old kebab den,…
Two nearby spots in northwest Denver are offering diametrically opposed cold-weather deals. At Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe, 2005 West 33rd Avenue, Rosa Linda Aguirre has decided to fight the cold by making homemade chicken soup — and the rest of the family is volunteering to deliver your meal to you,…
We just published the Restaurant roll call for January, a compendium of new places that opened last month, as well as old places that closed. A few familiar names both closed and opened, after taking time in late December or early January for vacation or remodeling, or both. Among the…
Just got off the horn with Mark Anthony, the owner of Brickyard BBQ, who shuttered his northwest Denver bastion of Kansas City-style Q on January 1, sending residents in the Berkeley ‘hood scurrying to his Littleton outpost at 311 County Line Road to satiate their obsession for burnt ends –…
There’s not much happening on that plate in the above snap — nothing more, in fact, than fanned slices of hanger steak and a mound of under-seasoned butternut squash. But the hanger steak, a perfect ruddy mid-rare rimmed with a slight char, satisfied my primal craving. Can you guess where…
Jeremy Gobien went to school for ten years, got his Ph.D. in engineering from North Carolina State — and then decided to drop it all and brew beer in Colorado. “I can’t wait,” says Gobien, who plans to open Copper Kettle Brewing this spring with his wife, Kristen Kozik. “We…
Biker Jim, Denver’s favorite wiener wrangler, was one of 64 hot dog vendors across the United States whose dogs are on a roll to win America’s Best Hot contest, a March Madness-style bracketed battle co-conspired by Every Day With Rachael Ray and a few frankfurter freaks from Seriouseats.com, who claim…
January saw several high-profile openings, including Ocean Prime in Larimer Square, which opened right on schedule, and a few stragglers that didn’t quite hit their target dates in 2010. And you can say so long to the beloved Red Trolley, which has been transformed into Spuntino. Our Restaurant roll call…
The Culinary Institute of America’s Cream of the Crop scholarship has been awarded to only about ten young chefs a year for the past twelve years. So the chance of someone who’d just started cooking and baking in the past year making the cut would seem slim — but Alyson…
Our “Ten beers to stop drinking by 30” project flowed from a thirsty, beer-thirty, Friday afternoon discussion in the office. The post has inspired numerous recommendations and comments, including several wondering why PBR, which became so hip a decade ago, did not make the list. To which Nate 5280 responded:…
Every year, the Mountain Sun pub group celebrates Stout Month, complete with featured stouts on tap, a homebrew competition and the concurrent Chop Month, which features employees and owners styling their facial hair in unusual shapes. Take advantage of Stout Month specials, see some scary whiskers and taste some amazing…
At the end of business on Saturday, January 22, Rodney Utz shuttered his Rodney’s in Tamarac Square, ending a nineteen-year run. The closure came even though Utz still had six years left on the lease — but it would have been a lonely six years, since the rest of the…
Yesterday was the last Sunday to see the Henry Moore sculptures in the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street — but the people in the Around the World With Tea class were (wisely) holed up inside, where it was warm, sipping on seven different tea varietals, occasionally paired with a…
No. 75: Tom yum goong from Thai Flavor When it comes to Thai cuisine in Denver, US Thai gets all the accolades, and while they’re well-deserved, the beloved Thai temple in Edgewater has formidable — and fierce — competition, namely from Thai Flavor, a florescent-lit, brightly hued storefront anchored in…
Yes, those are fast-food fries. And, no, they’re not from McDonald’s. These are of the hand-cut, shoestring variety, and when they’re pulled fresh from the fryer and dusted with salt, they’re some of the best fries in town. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
Last Thursday, I found myself at an open-air mall in Broomfield learning to roll sushi from a nice Hispanic sushi master named Beto. Yes, I was at Benihana’s Sushi and Sake 101 instructional class, alongside about thirty other folks who’d doled out $35 to learn the basics of sushi rolling…
Looking for somewhere to spend Super Bowl Sunday? We’ve got a few options — plus beer dinners, workshops and more to keep you occupied in the meantime. Here’s what’s on the menu:…
The Coney Island Boardwalk diner, a weinie-shaped culinary adventure that began operations on West Colfax in the 1960s and later moved to Aspen Park and then Bailey, could soon be on the move again. The building (but not the land) is listed online for sale at $499,000 — and relocation…
More than a dozen Colorado chefs, including Elise Wiggins (Panzano), Michael Long (Aria), Austin Cueto (Restaurant Kevin Taylor), Frankie Semsem (Strings) and Paul Nagan (Zink Kitchen & Bar), are trotting off to the Renaissance Denver Hotel this afternoon to prep for tonight’s piggy extravaganza, part of the Colorado Pork Producers…
People get tattoos for plenty of reasons: a love of art, wanting to look awesome, insecurity, hoping to pick up super-hot chicks — but overall, it’s because they want to say something about themselves that will remain permanent. Evidently, as owner Lance Talon from Boulder Ink now knows, I really…
Cheap beer. It’s a libation that most of us down during our late teens and twenties. But like all childish things, there comes a time to banish these cheap cans and brands forever. We argued over which beers should and shouldn’t be included on this list, but we eventually came…
