With entrees like coffee-rubbed Kurobuta pork chops and horseradish crusted salmon, 1515 Restaurant, located at 1515 Market Street., has long been one of Denver’s premier fine dining establishments for New American cuisine. But don’t forget about the wine.1515’s wine list has received Wine Spectator’s “Award of Excellence” nine years in…
You no longer have to lug your own butt cushion to the Empanada Express Grill, which up until three weeks ago was a simple freestanding trailer peddling Venezuelan street snacks — empanadas, arepas and cachapas — from an asphalt landing strip in Golden. Its new location at 2600 East Street…
September is Hunger Action Month, and department store giant Macy’s is partnering with Feeding America and food banks across the country to fight hunger here at home. Macy’s will launch its “Come Together” awareness and fundraising campaign, which aims to feed 10 million people suffering from hunger, from 6-8 p.m…
Don’t let the camera angle fool you. That’s a GIGANTIC margarita, made with well tequila and sweet and sour straight out of a gallon jug. Is it delicious? Nope. Not even close. But this venue has been serving these golden jugs for years. And the crowds can’t seem to get…
Holly Hartnett has been a fixture on Denver’s restaurant scene for a long time, working at Table 6 and its previous incarnation, the Beehive. Last October, she finally opened her own place, Venue, at 3609 West 32nd Avenue, and with that came a new set of challenges for Hartnett, including…
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. If tiny beads of fat begin to dawn on the surface of a Hollandaise, I know the…
Colorado lamb: It’s what’s for dinner, at least this week — Harvest Week — when nearly forty metro restaurants are offering special menus focusing on ingredients local to Colorado. Like lamb paired with french fries (my favorite in the city), jus and drunken horseradish made with Stranahans Colorado whiskey. This…
Interstate Kitchen & Bar made its debut on Thursday, September 10, at 901 West Tenth Avenue (the former Santa Fe Tequila Company space). It’s a kitschy urban roadhouse bedecked with utilitarian shelving — a la Home Depot — and a psychedelic robin’s egg blue paint palette. In the back, by…
Denver is playing host to the Olympics of beer games this month — and it could be a historic one if the city’s fortieth annual Oktoberfest also turns out to be its last. Larimer Associates, the real estate company that owns Oktoberfest as well as Larimer Square and numerous other…
David Hannes, president of the Writer Square Condominium Association, has had his hands full dealing with the ongoing renovations at Writer’s Square, which have turned the downtown oasis into a concrete desert. He lives above the restaurant that had been Zaidy’s Downtown Deli, and he’s also kept a close eye…
At 8 p.m. tonight, Suite Two Hundred, the upscale club up in in Larimer Square, will be the site of a bartender competition hosted by Hpnotiq — you know, the blue, 35-proof liqueur made from vodka, cognac and fruit juices. ‘Tenders will compete for their drink to become the official…
Zaidy’s Deli, a mainstay at 121 Adams Street in Cherry Creek for decades, opened a downtown outpost several years ago in Writer Square. It did a decent breakfast and lunch business there, but the crowds flocking to LoDo and Larimer Square in the evening — and walking right past Zaidy’s…
The three-day Denver Food & Wine Classic wrapped up on Saturday, September 12 with a Grand Tasting on the wet and sloppy grounds (thanks, rain) of Metro State College. To see a slideshow of all the fun, including some action snaps of Denver Five chefs Jamey Fader, Matt Selby, Troy…
Lucy at the Landmark, the mezzanine-level restaurant inside Comedy Works South, at 5345 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village, had closed in early July and just reopened on Thursday, September 10 after what sales manager Heidi McMillen calls a “menu redo.” It’s now a “great family-oriented, economically-friendly restaurant with American food…
El Grito — the day when Mexicans across the world commemorate that country’s independence from Spanish rule — isn’t until September 16, but Richard Sandoval, chef-owner of Tamayo, La Sandia and Zengo, is getting an early start on all the celebrations. Beginning today and continuing though Sunday, September 20, all…
Independent restaurants across town are offering specials right now to celebrate Harvest Week. This order of albondigas is one of those specials; guess where we found it?…
The big restaurant news is Harvest Week, sponsored by DINR, which continues through September 18. Here’s what else is cooking around town: September 14: TAG Beer vs. Wine Dinner at 1441 Larimer Street, $75 for four courses, www.tag-restaurant.com. September 15: Elana Amsterdam signs The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook at the…
As we reported here last month, the space at 1320 15th Street that had been occupied by Alto, Greg Goldfogel’s Italian restaurant, has been picked up by Paul Piciocchi, who runs Tryst and Sutra Dance Bar & Lounge. And now we know what Piciocchi plans to put into that spot…
Leapin Lemurs EnviroKidz Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Here’s a partial list of ingredients in Leapin’ Lemurs: “organic corn meal,” “organic whole grain corn meal,” “organic evaported cane juice,” “organic peanut butter,” “organic molasses,” “organic cocoa,” “organic soy oil” — as opposed to “soy oil assembled in…
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. Chef took off early last night, leaving the show to me — and miraculously, I did not…
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 few parallels between writing and cooking. Both involve creativity and dedication, but the similarities pretty…
For proof that summer’s scorch is coming to a screeching halt, all you have to do is look to Tambien, the Cherry Creek Mex in the city at 250 Steele Street that’s been turning out rockabilly and ribs to the faithful every Sunday since April 26. This was one of…
