When the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street, opens its doors for guests this fall, it will also give Denver a new place to eat: EDGE Restaurant & Bar. Defined by the Four Seasons as a “contemporary steakhouse,” the eatery will also feature wild game and a tapas menu, as…
No joke, people. That watermelon you see in the above pic is actually on a menu. Draped with crème fraîche and garnished with fresh mint, it made our jaws hit the table and our eyes go buggy — just as it will yours. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Searching for a lunch venue for a friendly reunion today, I was pleased to stumble upon H Burger Co’s Facebook page, touting the advent of Monday Funday. Echoing H Burger’s Tuesday deals, Mondays at the five-month-old burger joint, 1555 Blake Street, now feature a new list of specials, including $1…
Now you can have your pie and eat it, too. This is, if you were wondering, a three-pie cake (cherry, apple and pumpkin)…
“Carmelo’s favorite color is red, which was dominant in the decor and the cake. The inside was red velvet with cream cheese fillings, alternating with chocolate cake, chocolate cream, & dark chocolate ganache (Lala’s favorite). We used gold to add luxury. Real gold was used for centuries with food to…
There’s good news and bad news about Swallows Video Lounge & Bar, the pre-party/happy-hour gay bar now occupying the former Tosh’s Hacienda/Kiva space at 3090 Downing Street. The good news is that – six months after launching and three months after I expressed “high hopes” for its success in a…
Last week, at a secret gathering of street-food vendors, these mobile entrepreneurs conducted a test run for what Josh Wolkon, owner of the Steuben’s Food Truck, called Denver’s own version of the Portland pod, a frequent meet-up of trucks and carts in that Oregon city that draws the crowds and…
Diego Zhang’s Burger Cafe invites you to “taste the adventure,” but there’s one less place where you can do that. The owners — who just took third place in a business-plan competition — have closed their outpost at 12073 East Arapahoe Road and are focusing on their store at 6851…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN JULY * Applebee’s (re-opening after remodel), 410 South Colorado Boulevard, Glendale Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue Bites, 2796 South Broadway…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from this molten molcajetes at Agave to a still-unidentified order of Mexican eggrolls to a mysterious, maligned cheese plate to a plate of pig at Vita . For correctly identifying Vita (“that place is wonderful!”), Shawn wins a DINR…
Uptown Brothers Brewing Co., the current bar and future brewery that opened two months ago in the former Red Room at 320 East Colfax Avenue, presents Medicinal Mondays: Show the bartender something that identifies you as a medical professional (doctor, nurse, X-ray technician, chiropractor, acupuncturist, aromatherapist, even dispensary employee) and…
Head to the Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, for today’s Avery Anniversary Party celebrating Avery brews; admission is $20 and includes all-you-can-eat barbecue, live music and more — a rare beer tasting option is an additional $20. The celebration runs from noon to 5 p.m.; for more…
Randall Layman, a bartender at Vesta Dipping Grill, is just back from New Orleans, where he attended his first Tales of the Cocktail. We’ll be printing his dispatches all week (read the first installment here). Day five: Our last morning in New Orleans is probably the hottest. After a quick…
Hungry? Slam Bar, 9660 East Arapahoe Road in Englewood, will host a Hot Dog Eating Contest to benefit Food Bank of the Rockies today at 2 p.m. — and you can still enter. Eat enough, and that $15 entry fee will be a bargain. For more info, call 303-799-1300 or…
It’s too late to sign up to compete inSalsa Wars — but head to the Denver Central Library, 10 West 14th Avenue Parkway, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. today to see for yourself which of the six finalists made the best salsa. Although the judges will have the final say,…
In the event that you missed our best bites of the week, here’s a recap. Laura Shunk reports that Zona Moore, the 84-year-old matriarch of her namesake tamale hut, got busted, along with her son, for trafficking stolen goods — specifically cigarettes. Moore is out on bond, and smokes are…
Let’s start with the big question: How many dollar bills are you going to have to part with? “Nothing on our menu will be more than four bucks,” promises Ian Kleinman. Thank Jesus for that, otherwise those of you hyperventilating over the $20 lobster rolls being doled out from the…
If the long line and full tables that greeted us at St. Mark’s Coffeehouse this morning are any indication, Denverites can’t start their days without a caffeine-fix. So it should be no surprise that we ranked number four in the Daily Beast’s list of the top twenty most caffeinated cities…
Randall Layman, a bartender at Vesta Dipping Grill, is just back from New Orleans, where he attended his first Tales of the Cocktail. We’ll be printing his dispatches all week (read the first installment here). Day four: Sleeping in again (don’t close your curtains if you want to wake up…
It’s not the best cheese plate on the planet, but it is a new addition to a menu that hasn’t undergone a revamp in years. And while the mozzarella, which is made in-house, definitely needs some attention, the fact that the kitchen is making an attempt at crafting their own…
Our recent story on the cost of Denver’s street food brought out plenty of snarky opinions, as you debated the value of lunch from a truck. Most of you seemed okay with paying prices between $5 and $10, but the Mexican feast and the $20 lobster roll, especially, were the…
Dylan Moore, chef of Deluxe, Delite, Deluxe Burger and the proud owner of the Little Orange Rocket, the new Deluxe streetmobile, sat down with us last week to discuss his growing empire of restaurants, his fetish for fish sauce and tacos and how he managed to fuck up fish for…
