Don’t be confused by the sign over the door: The 9th Avenue Grill is gone, but the space at 900 Jersey Street is back in business as Jersey Street Bar and Grill. It’s been open for a few weeks now, and the owners are hoping for a long run in…
Props to the Spicy Pickle for having the guts to roll out its new Harvest Panini, essentially a Thanksgiving — or Pilgrim — sandwich remade and given a less holiday-specific (or politically thorny) name. I have a long and delicious history with Thanksgiving sandwiches but have bemoaned the difficulty of…
Charley Sinden The Lobby 2121 Arapahoe Street 303-997-9911 www.thelobbydenver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with chef Charley Sinden. We’ll run part two of Sinden’s interview tomorrow. By his own admission, Charley Sinden was a teen who liked trouble. He was the kind of kid who would smack…
After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue — a giant maimed chicken — near the McDonald’s on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. City officials should be lovin’ it. The…
Six weeks ago, Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, closed its doors for a complete remodel of its space, undertaken in order to expand the dining room of the flagship and add two new restaurants to the family: Pizzeria Locale, featuring wood-fired Napolitano pizzas, and Caffè, a grab-and-go…
Get your vine on: West End Wine Shop, 777 Pearl Street in Boulder, will present a wine tasting featuring vintages from Oregon and Washington with importer John Salamanski and Manuel Sanchez from 5:30 to 7 p.m. tonight. It’s free to attend; for more info, call 303-245-7077 or go to www.westendwineshop.com…
Firenze a Tavola, 4401 Tennyson Street, is rolling out the orange carpet for Halloween this month with a Halloween Community Table, a mobster-themed dinner (four courses served family-style) with traditional East Coast Italian-American cuisine. Admission is $28, and the meal starts at 7 p.m tonight.; for details, call 303-561-0234 or…
I am a simple woman. My heart can be won by various forms of carbohydrates, meat and fat, combined in excess and presented in one glorious dish. So it took just one look at the folded paper menu on my table at Euclid Hall to stir my interest. The restaurant,…
After falling in love with Euclid Hall, I decided it was time to return to Rioja: Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch’s first restaurant, the place where I sometimes take out-of-town guests but rarely go to otherwise. Still, this Larimer Square spot has been packed since the moment it opened six…
My strange aversion to the smell of some Asian restaurants dates back to my glamour days as an advertising exec in Manhattan, when I was barely eking out a living and my lifestyle was a lot more like Dick Whitman’s than Don Draper’s. I lived with three roommates in a…
Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, the third restaurant within one block for partners Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch, who also own Rioja and Bistro Vendome, was one of the hottest openings of the summer. The crowds packed into the beautifully refurbished space that most recently held the grimy Martini Ranch…
Maybe it’s the change in seasons, or the fact that I live in an ancient bungalow with single-pane windows and a thermostat that doesn’t understand the concept of heat, but whatever the reason, I’ve been on a macaroni and cheese kick for the past two weeks, even guiltily breaking out…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Jimmy the Butcher isn’t used to performing for a large audience. “He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it,” says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owner of Marczyk Fine Foods, where Jimmy “the Butcher” Cross works…
Read carefully, because opportunities like this don’t come around very often. Cuervo is celebrating the release of a tequila (or re-release, because the tequila is Tradicional Silver, the original recipe from 1975), and the liquor brand that a lot of us associate with nights of epic debauchery is throwing a…
If you’re looking for something to do this Halloween weekend but enjoy good food over dipping a ladle into a bowl of spiked punch with eyeballs floating in it, these parties may be just right for you. (Don’t see your Halloween food event listed here? Hype your party in the…
Until recently, Olmeca Altos, a 100 percent blue agave tequila from the Los Altos region of Jalisco, Mexico, had only been available outside of the United States, but in July of this year, the double-distilled agave juice was introduced stateside — specifically in Chicago and Denver — and last night,…
Halloween is still a few days away, but Qdoba Mexican Grill just served up a special treat: a recipe for honey chipotle pumpkin seeds created by Ted Stoner, director of strategic project development for the homegrown chain. He’s the head chef who comes up with all the new items for…
Let’s be honest: Halloween is not a holiday that typically conjures up images of wine drinking. Visions of miniature Snickers bars, pumpkin-flavored beer and slutty costumes? Absolutely. Still, as any serious wine lover will assure you, not even the omnipresence of glowing jack-o’-lanterns needs to get in the way of…
Steele Platt is back in the Denver restaurant business. The 1982 graduate of the University of Denver opened several restaurants/clubs in the Tivoli — including Kahlua, EFEX and the Boiler Room — back in the ’80s, before the old brewery became the student union for the three colleges on the…
A couple of weeks ago, when I reviewed Big Bill’s New York Pizza, I also made a trip to Lil’ Ricci’s at 5332 DTC Boulevard, a link in the local chain of pizzerias where Bill Ficke got his start before opening his own Lil’ Ricci’s outpost, which eventually became Big…
Judging from the comments posted after Friday’s update on the neighborhood campaign against Mod Livin’, the mediation session Thursday night only heightened hostilities. Erick Roorda and Jill Warner — owners of Mod Livin’ and partners with Dylan Moore in Deluxe Burger, the retro restaurant that opened in a corner of…
