Satchel’s Market, 5021 East 28th Avenue, was closed for summer vacation last week, leaving the colorful building dark for five days. Vacation is over, though, and as promised, the Park Hill restaurant has reopened for business…
Happily, the truce between Civic Center Eats and Cherry Creek Fresh Market has opened the doors for many vendors to make regular stops at both events. One vendor taking advantage of the new arrangement is 528˚, a wood-fired pizza oven on wheels, which has also been making regular appearances at…
If Oskar Blues Brewery was a Girl Scout, we’d all be rolling our eyes out of our heads at the merit badges crowding her sash. Fortunately, the brewery’s accolades derive not from rescuing kittens from trees or helping grandma cross the street, but from the conscientiousness of the company and…
Everyone hates Alex. The viewing audience hates Alex. His fellow contestants hate Alex. Ask any food obsessive you encounter whether Alex stole Ed’s pea puree, and the answer will be an unhesitating “of course” — though no one really knows for sure. So, perversely, I’ve been feeling kind of sorry…
If you don’t know who Ron Ben-Israel is, then we’re going to make the wild guess that you aren’t getting married anytime soon. Or didn’t get married anytime in the recent past. Or don’t follow celebrity weddings at all. Or never watch Wedding Central, the cable television network devoted to…
Celebrate this town’s most liquid assets tonight at Infinite Monkey Theorem, 931 West Fifth Avenue, which at 5 p.m. will host “First Fridays with Drunken Monkey: Art Under the Influence,” with live music and wine by the glass. Visit www.infinitemonkeytheorem.com…
If we’re to believe our mothers who constantly shoved toast into our hands on our way out the door before school, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast is more than just sustenance, though: It’s another meal to indulge your gastronomic cravings. To appease your mother and…
So what do you do when you’re a big magazine publisher that’s strapped for cash? Close a couple of magazines? Build new mobile apps? How about open a restaurant?…
Oi Nguyen and her son, Nhanh Tran, spent weeks standing outside the front door counting feet before taking the plunge. “We’d been looking for a restaurant location for more than three years, and when we found this one, we thought we had a hit, but just to make sure, we…
Highland Tap and Burger didn’t just take over the space that once held Panaderia Guadalajara. It’s also swallowed up the spot next door at 2223 West 32nd Avenue that had been occupied by Aztec Sol. The tequila bar had a selection of tequila as impressive as the setting was modest…
A lovely summer small plate, comprised of shrimp, yellow pear tomatoes, watermelon and cucumbers, set the stage for a litany of beautifully-crafted dishes created in a kitchen that just keeps getting better and better. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
It doesn’t take much to convince us to splurge on a Dairy Queen Blizzard — Reese’s, cookie dough, Snickers, whatever! — but today there’s even more incentive, because all participating Dairy Queens will donate a buck or more of the purchase price of every Blizzard to childrens’ hospitals throughout the…
Brendon Doyle Jonesy’s EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 This is part two of my interview with Brendon Doyle, executive chef of Jonesy’s EatBar. To read part one, click here. One food you detest: Tripe. It’s awful — like chewing on textured bubble gum. One food you can’t live without:…
You already know that chef Ian Kleinman is launching a new dessert cart in August, but this week he stopped by the Westword offices to give us a preview of how he makes peanut butter sorbet using liquid nitrogen, which puts a -320F freeze on the stuff. Liquid nitrogen has…
Back in March, I christened Lon Symensma one of the sexiest chefs on the culinary planet, a pronouncement by which I still stand, especially since unearthing a Youtube video of the hot shot kitchen magician foraging for food around Vietnam — research for his new restaurant, ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro,…
Barely a year has passed since MM Local got off the ground in Boulder, but this year — the company’s second harvest season — it’s aiming to secure more than 15,000 pounds of produce from Colorado farmers to preserve for customers, an accomplishment that would allow people to eat local…
On the first and fourth Thursdays of each month, Colorado Winery Row, 4640 Pecos Street, hosts a free Ladies Night tasting from 3 to 8 p.m. featuring Colorado wines, live music and food. It’s perfect for a girls’ night out. For more information, visit www.coloradowineryrow.com. If you’d rather sip with…
“I still hate dining alone. That’s probably the hardest part. Figuring out how to sit comfortably in a restaurant without a date by your side. Some restaurants are good for it, others are terrible. You adjust, I guess. But I avoid it if I can.” I’m sipping a Campari on…
There may be a few lonely faces in the crowd at Rodney’s restaurant in Cherry Creek, but Rodney’s second outpost, in the Tamarac Square shopping center, is about to become a very lonely business. As Developers Diversified — the owners of both the center and the land under it —…
TINGK! The traditional metal bar bell’s sound is unmistakable. Even in a crowded spot with punk-rock jukebox blaring, the clang of the clapper, long rope tied beneath it, crashing a solo shot somewhere between the bell’s mouth and the sound ring — everyone hears it. But that’s the point. Most…
Same concept, different location — and by different location, we mean barely. Longtime Cherry Creek lunch spot Pasta Pasta Pasta vacated its original space at 278 Fillmore Street and moved just two blocks away, to 2800 East Second Avenue, on Fillmore Plaza. Why the hopscotch jump? Owner Lisa Miller explains…
Elway’s Downtown might not be the first restaurant that comes to mind when you start thinking of veggie-friendly options. First of all, the Elway’s brand has always been more about steak and seafood than tofu and Bibb lettuce — but I was pleasantly surprised when I sat down for lunch…
