Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, which owns the building where the Rackhouse Pub is due to open next week, bottles a unique product. The micro-distilled whiskey is made with locally grown barley and aged in charred white oak barrels. When a batch is ready–once or twice a month–the distillers put out a…
The new Tony’s Market at 950 Broadway may be the only place in town where you can drink a beer or glass of wine while you do your shopping — legally. That’s because the market opened with a liquor license that covers not just the bistro inside the market, but…
For a brief, brief moment, Blazer’s Street Market was my favorite market in Colorado. I mean, it was perfect: beautiful produce, a lot of it local, a lot of it organic, just stacked up in massive piles all over this store at 15550 East Sixth Avenue in Aurora. Everything was…
Last week we asked for your favorite dive (among the nominees: El Chapultepec, Lancer Lounge, Squire, PS Lounge, BarBar, Berkeley, Charlie Brown’s Lion’s Lair). Now it’s time to prove your devotion: Write a love letter/tribute to your favorite dive bar, professing sincere fidelity to its wood paneling and nicotine-stained ceiling…
Last weekend, Elise Wiggins, executive chef at Panzano (909 17th Street), held a cooking class at Bear Mountain Ranch, home on the range to the Black Angus steer that ranch owners Debbie and John Medved are raising for Wiggins, who is using the beef at Panzano. The cooking class, which…
There are lots of reasons we may want to patronize some television restaurants. Maybe drive-in to Arnold’s (Happy Days) for a burger and a shake; have some brunch and a peek at the afterlife at Der Waffle Haus (Dead Like Me); or enjoy a tuna on toast (with a side…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Frank Bonanno, executive chef-owner of Osteria Marco, Mizuna, Luca d’Italia and Bones. You can read the first part of Midson’s interview with Bonanno here. Culinary inspirations: My mother and my sister. When I was six, seven, maybe eight, my mother and…
“I love the gastropub concept, I love the word ‘gastropub’ and I love Leigh Jones,” declares Brendon Doyle, the former exec chef of Campo de Fiori who’s now in command of the kitchen at Jonesy’s EatBar, the gastropub at 400 East 20th Avenue, as Jason Sheehan reports here. Doyle didn’t…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen.There are different levels of reality in the kitchen, and I am stuck in several of them. I remember when,…
No matter how much you think you know about beer, it never hurts to learn more. Tonight at 6 p.m., Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, located at 1937 Market Street, will host a Beer Class, where you can learn about the history, regions and production of beer while sampling…
Back in the day — and I’m talking way back in the day — there was only one word to describe a place where a stranger could stop, sit down and, for two bits or so, get something to eat. That word was “restaurant” — based on the word restaurer…
Cowboys are my weakness. I recently went on a six-hour trail ride in southeastern Colorado with some local ranchers. When one of those ranchers spotted a rattlesnake, he jumped off his horse, grabbed his rope, killed the snake with the rope and cut off the rattle – which he then…
Jing has one of the sexiest rooms in Greenwood Village — which is roughly equivalent to having the hottest car on the Hyundai lot. But it also has one of the city’s up-and-coming young chefs: Jay Spickelmier, an American kid in a Chinese restaurant (like the Korean family running the…
It has been a long time since I stood a shift in any kitchen. By my own (admittedly poor) accounting, it has been 2,650 days since I last picked up a knife, pulled on my whites or stood before a stove in any sort of professional capacity. I’ve missed it,…
The sandwich: ‘Atsa Turkey Meatball What’s on it: Sage and cranberry turkey meatballs, melted provolone and marinara sauce on a roll. Where to get it: Larimer Hot House (2810 Larimer Street, 303-292-3008) How much: $7 for the sandwich; $10 for a meal deal A couple of years ago, I started…
Just got off the blower with Leigh Jones from Jonesy’s EatBar (a self-proclaimed gastropub that I loved despite the label when I reviewed it back in May), and she let me know that things are again changing over at her half-eponymous restaurant. Chef Matt Brown, who came on late last…
The sign on the door announces that Chedd’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese, 1906 Pearl Street, is “closed for remodeling until further notice,” but a call to the joint’s local headquarters resulted in a more concrete announcement — namely a disconnected phone line. And a peek through Chedd’s dirty windows shows a…
Halloween is always a big day at the Wynkoop Brewing Co., because the pub celebrates its birthday that day (it’s 21 years old this year) and because of the annual Denver Gorilla Run, a 5.6K race in which everyone dresses up as a gorilla and raises money to support the…
The Rackhouse Pub is slated to open next week with a slightly pared-down beer menu, but a seriously cool look. Located inside the former Heavenly Daze Brewery, at 200 South Kalamath Street, the Rackhouse will feature twenty tap handles (mostly Colorado microbrews), rather than the fifty that had been originally…
“Look, I see a lot of things in restaurants that I think are really unacceptable, and it pisses me off, because I think that Denver diners deserve a lot better than what a lot of places are doing, and if that view makes me seem too outspoken, that’s okay with…
Directly across the street from Swing Thai, less than a block away from Fontana Sushi, exactly one block from Thai Basil and a short three-block walk from Crazy Asian Cafe, sits the future home of Asian Diner. And once it opens at 295 South Pennsylvania Street, that will make five…
The Denver Five — Tyler Wiard, Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s) and Jamey Fader (Lola and Big Red F Restaurant Group) will convene tonight at Elway’s Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, Wiard’s home turf, for the fourth in a…
