I love an ice-cold Manhattan almost anywhere, but the drink’s particularly delightful at this fine dining establishment in Denver — where the chef is smokin’ hot, and the bartender is adorable. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Patsy’s has been promising pizza for almost a year now. When the venerable red-sauce joint at 3651 Navajo Street was sold last fall to Kim DeLancey and Ron Cito (second cousin of founder Chubby Aiello), one of the managers there told me that pizza — a return to something that…
Number 4627 in a series of things you don’t learn in culinary school: handling trash bags. This lesson may seem of minimal importance, but it is not. If you put in more than five pounds of garbage and tie the bag too close to the top, it snaps and the…
Know an everyday hero in your community? Qdoba Mexican Grill is accepting nominations for its new online campaign geared toward recognizing the do-gooders in society, called Qmmunity. The campaign is a joint effort between the Denver-based Mexican restaurant chain and its national charity partner, Starlight Children’s Foundation, which has helped…
The Taste of Greenwood Village kicks off at 5 p.m. tonight at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center, 7800 East Tufts Avenue, with 32 restaurants, more than 30 wineries and a silent auction to benefit the Beacon Center, a Denver child-advocacy nonprofit. Ticket prices range from $50, which includes food samples…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Sean Kelly, exec chef of LoHi SteakBar. You can read part one of Midson’s interview with Kelly here. Ten words to describe you: Husband, father, cook, dedicated, extreme, blessed, impossible, critical, introspective and obsessive. Best food city in America: I adore…
Bluepoint Bakery is donating more than 3,000 pies to Project Angel Heart next month — and with every $25 pie the non-profit sells, it will be able to deliver five more meals to a client battling a life-threatening illness. You can order pies — cherry, apple, pecan and pumpkin –…
The sandwiches: Benny Mac and Persian Chicken Sandwich What’s on them: The Benny Mac is a breaded chicken cutlet, with mac-n-cheese, bacon and BBQ sauce; the Persian chicken is spiced chicken meatballs, mild roasted green chiles, lettuce and tomato, harissa and tahini. Where to get them: Sputnik (3 South Broadway,…
It’s been a while since I’ve found a formerly untrodden (at least by me) taqueria that showed promise, but that changed yesterday when I stumbled across this upbeat taco shack in Aurora. It was out of horchata, but had an ample supply of Mexican coke in the bottle, jarritos and…
At 6:06 p.m. last night, my phone rang. It was my kid — distraught, in real tears and as pissed off as your kid would be if Santa Claus showed up at your house dressed like Barney or, worse, a Teletubbie. “It’s closed!” he wailed, in between heaves and sniffles…
Sushi Hai, at 3600 West 32nd Avenue, celebrates its fifth anniversary tonight starting at 7 p.m., with half-off on sushi and drinks. The Scott Davis Project will be playing acoustic blues in the downstairs Hai Bar — a space guarded by an off-duty cop this past weekend. It was an…
Put your money where your mouth is tonight at the annual Simmer & Stir for the Cure, which runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Kimball Distributing, 1400 West Third Avenue. The $30 ticket gets you in the door for chef demonstrations, wine tastings and more; all proceeds will…
I was out eating when I heard that my father had died. Drinking, actually. But the place where I was — standing on a patio in a warm rain at ten o’clock at night, surrounded by new friends, a stiff whiskey in my hand — served food, too, and nothing…
Any ol’ bar, from snazzy to seedy, can offer $2 cans of PBR and still make more than a 300 percent profit on even the most egregious retail thirty-pack price; in Denver, plenty do, though often just during happy hour. The Squeaky Bean, however, is different. In a lot of…
Dave Query and I have not always seen eye to eye. Actually, for a long time, Query (boss of the Big Red F restaurant group, which owns Jax, Lola and the West End Tavern, among other properties) just flat hated my punk ass. And I was none too fond of…
Summer festivals have come and gone for the year, along with those golden opportunities to snag a slow-smoked turkey leg from the grill. The human appetite doesn’t know there’s such a thing as turkey-leg season. And that season isn’t now. When the craving hits, there’s really no proper substitute –…
I had a rough time of it when last I found myself under chef Chad Clevenger’s care at Mel’s Restaurant in Greenwood Village. But my experience was nothing compared to how Clevenger and his crew must’ve felt once my review of the restaurant came out. Still, I have to give…
Jonesy’s EatBar has some great fries. The mac-and-cheese fries in particular, served with a nice sprinkling of bacon on top. At the moment, they are probably my favorite fries in the city. The picture above? It shows my second favorite fries in the city — smothered with green chile, topped…
Chili Verde, the Mexican restaurant that opened this summer at 3700 Tejon Street, has a lot of things going for it. It has a lovely space, friendly service, and a menu that’s like a dream for anyone looking for a real taste of Southern Mexican and Pueblan cuisine. One thing…
You could once find the city’s best dive bars along Larimer Street, but gentrification has claimed most of those, leaving only the Star Bar at 2137 Larimer and now El Charrito, which has made a comeback at 2100 Larimer. This longtime Larimer haunt is only open after 7 p.m., and…
There are wine dinners…and there are wine dinners, like the one tonight at Restaurant 1515, Gene Tang’s experimental restaurant at 1515 Market Street that’s apparently the only restaurant in Denver approved by the health department to legally practice sous-vide cooking…
“Nothing that goes on my menus gets there by accident,” insists Sean Kelly, executive chef of LoHi SteakBar, the packed-to-the-rafters restaurant and watering hole that opened in June in Highland. “I have a tendency to make sure that everything is researched, and I try to be as true as possible…
