The historic, romantic Victorian at 1225 Logan Street has sat dormant for the past year, its last occupant, Maison de Fleur, a florist and event center that benefited from the wild rose bushes, skyscraping trees, ornate moldings and white wedding trappings that flow through the spacious, high-ceilinged rooms strewn throughout…
Red Robin may have been pegged by Zagat as one of the country’s best full-service chains, but the Greenwood Village-based restaurant company slipped in second-quarter earnings, and the major investors sacked the CEO, Dennis Mullen. Taking the reins of the bottomless fry-hawking joint is Stephen Carley, formerly CEO of another…
Terry Nichols has lost his drawn-out plea for more wholesome prison fare. Last Thursday, Colorado U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello dismissed the convicted Oklahoma City bomber conspirator’s claims that he needs a diet of “100% whole grain foods, bran products, unpeeled and uncooked fruits and vegetables, and legumes” in…
Mike Hayter and his business partner, Mike Refling, are getting ready to open their new sports bar, Hayter’s, in the former Lizard’s Bar & Grill space at 1920 Blake Street. And they moved here from Bozeman, Montana, to do it. “First of all, getting a license down here is so…
Il Mondo Vecchio salumi emperor Mark DeNittis, and the subject of last week’s Chef and Tell interview, spends the majority of his time pimping dry-cured meats, but the chef has other passions, too, including four-wheeling and camp cooking. His cookbook, My Jeep Grille Adventures, which he released last year, is…
Ali vs. Frazer. Chocolate vs. Vanilla. Blue Ray vs. HD DVD. Jacob vs. Edward. They are the battles of our time. Now, add Beer vs. Wine. While wine has held the place of honor for hundreds of years next to fancy food and grub at well-set dinner tables around the…
Two gritty mussels, one forlorn shrimp and a scant toss of rubbery calamari lobbed into a thick swamp of unseasoned tomatoes is hardly my idea of cioppino, which is a bummer, because the majority of the menu is smooth sailing. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Just because summer’s winding down to its inevitable end doesn’t mean that your rosé-filled days (and evenings) have to. Even if you aced this year’s rosé-drinking challenge with flying colors and have flown through cases of the five best rosés of summer 2010, no need to remove those rosé-colored glasses…
After two months of pouring drinks, Wash Park Underground, a new bar and restaurant literally underground at 266-B South Downing Street, in the alley behind Mecca Grill , is now serving burgers, sandwiches, sliders and a small assortment of other items from its subterranean kitchen…
Everyone loves to hate on fast-food chains — but even restaurant ratings experts like Zagat recognize their utility in a rundown now and then. The restaurant rating aggregator just released its third annual survey of fast-food faves:…
This Sunday, August 22, chefs Jeff Osaka (twelve), Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms), Scott and Deanna Parker (Table 6) and Justin Brunson (Masterpiece Deli and Lechon) will host a summer seafood feast at Infinite Monkey Theorem, the urban winery at 931 West Fifth Avenue, owned by grape guru Ben…
It’s sheer genius: Tonight TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, will present the Beer vs. Wine Dinner. Great Divide Brewing, master sommelier Doug Krenik and chef/owner Troy Guard have put together a four-course menu paired with beer and/or wine. Which pairing will you prefer? Decide when dinner starts at 7 p.m. Admission…
This past weekend, during the Mile High Music Festival, professional eaters Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti, “Big Sexy” Bryan Beard and Tim “Gravy” Brown competed in the Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast Sandwich Makers vs. Eaters Contest. How did it all play out? According to the Jimmy John’s “JJ Freaker Blog” posting,…
Denver’s third-annual Harvest Week begins Saturday, August 21 and runs through August 27, when nearly forty of Denver’s best independent restaurants will be offering special menus. Last night’s EatDenver Harvest Week kickoff party at Balistreri Vineyards was a fantastic celebration of local products and harvest flavors, as ten chefs worked…
Se7en, the Beauvallon’s newest tenant at 925 Lincoln Street, has only been open for five days, but owner Jax Wang promises to deliver food that this scene has never before seen nor tasted…
Baltimore’s Andrew Palmer is one cunning con, who had a slick scam going to grab some free grub. Palmer had been hitting the nicer restaurants in town as a solo diner, and when the bill was dropped on his table, he suddenly claimed he was having a seizure — think…
Ozo Coffee Co., located at 5340 Arapahoe Avenue, in Boulder, has been caffeinating crowds even from its semi-distant digs out on 53rd and Arapahoe since it opened in 2007, so it stands to reason that when the shop opens its second location, on a busy block of the west end…
Two months ago, Chris Cina exited his gig at Timberline Grill, a steak house at the Ameristar Casino in Black Hawk, to set sail for Jax-Denver, where he was tapped as the seafooder’s new chef de cuisine. His first day on the Jax line was June 16; his last day…
Blue Moon, the Belgian-style wit beer that was created inside Coors Field in 1995, is apparently also highly valued for its calming qualities. First it was requested by James Crowley during President Obama’s August 2009 beer summit on racial relations on the White House lawn, and now it has turned…
Everyone knows that Colorado peaches are among the best in the world — and it’s harvest season! Celebrate at the Lafayette Peach Festival on Saturday. And if peaches aren’t your thing, there are dozens of other options on the culinary menu this week. Here’s a taste:…
Jesse Morreale takes me by the hand and leads me down a narrow passageway, past the rustic wooden tequila lockers and kaleidoscopic altar littered with white candles, and into the lantern-lit dining room of El Diablo, the new Mexican restaurant at First and Broadway that he and executive chef Sean…
A great martini is a joy, and this one, which comes from a new restaurant in town, more than lived up to my expectations. Poured at the table, perfectly chilled and generous in size, it had the added bonus of a red olive as part of the olive garnish, which…
