DJ’s Berkeley Cafe (this week’s review) blows the current economic bell curve by being not just full, but overflowing at a time when most restaurant owners would strip naked and hang coupons from their ding-dongs just to get a few more people through the door. A five-page wait list for…
Think you want to open a restaurant of your own? Well, before you get too excited, I suggest you check out djscafe.blogspot.com — a website that Jason Stallings put together to detail every phase of the construction at DJ’s Berkeley Cafe and all the nightmares that went along with it…
Bad news for you fans of serious Vietnamese food: Ha Noi Pho, my Best Taste of Hanoi, has been sold. This happened just yesterday, but already the joint is operating under another name: Can Tho Pho. At least according to the sign out front at 1036 South Federal. When I…
In this week’s Westword, Robb Walsh, the author of Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover’s World Tour, writes about why this Valentine’s Day weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come. Watch the video above to see Walsh properly shuck an oyster…
This week’s Westword, on newsstands and at westword.com later today, is especially friendly to foodies. Along with the usual lineup of reviews and columns, this week’s cover story, by Sex, Death and Oysters author Robb Walsh, focuses on the world’s vanishing oyster supply. To tide you over until this afternoon,…
Hisashi Takimoto, who owned Taki’s Healthy Japanese Food Restaurant, 341 East Colfax Avenue, died Monday at the age of 62 (read the Denver Post story here). Taki’s was an East Colfax landmark, and we have plenty of memories of the place, including one from just this week about Taki’s famous…
Oskar Blues will open its new tasting room, the Tasty Weasel, at 11 a.m. this Friday, February 13, inside its brewing and canning plant in Longmont. At 4 p.m., the Weasel will tap a firkin (roughly a quarter of a barrel) of something to celebrate the grand opening. In fact,…
We get a booth against the wall, where we drink tea and watch the neighborhood turn over on the floor; the clock rolling from breakfast rush into lunch. Almost everyone in the place seems to be a friend, a regular — making the Sunday morning or afternoon pilgrimage for eggs…
Maynard Keenan, famous for his loud lyrics with the legendary metal band Tool, is a man of varied tastes. And right now, he’s singing a different tune.Co-owner of Arizona Stronghold Vineyards, Keenan and partner Eric Glomski are off on a wine-bottle signing tour. At Whole Foods. You can wipe the mascara out…
Since last May, Chef Bruce David Mcginty has been running an interesting operation out in Arvada. Restaurant Blu and C-Level are attached restaurants, located in a waterfront building overlooking Hidden Lake. Restaurant Blu is more of a fine-dining place, while C-Level bills itself as ‘Arvada’s only waterfront sports bar and grill.’…
Way back – way, way back — before there was a microbrewery in every city, before the terms IPA and ESB entered the common lingo, before big, bold craft beers muscled their way onto liquor store shelves (before color photography, even), the pioneers of the microbrewery industry got their shaggy-looking…
One of the best things about Marczyk Fine Foods, other than the fine foods, is that the shop, at 770 East 17th Avenue, has found a way around the out-dated Colorado blue law that keeps grocery stores from selling full-strength alcohol: the owners have simply opened a liquor store in an adjacent…
This week’s review of Locanda del Borgo got me thinking about other spots in town where the view of Italy stops at the door — which exist wholly as Colorado restaurants that just happen to serve Italian food. What follows is a list of those places which most closely hew…
While the abysmal economic climate has stalled many proposed restaurant plans, the new owners of 3200 Tejon Street are moving ahead with their project to put a steakhouse in the former home of North Star Brewery. Sean Kelly (pictured) has already signed on as the chef at the new venture,…
Raisin Bran Crunch Kellogg’s Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Rice, wheat and oat flakes, supplemented by occasional (and mysterious) “clusters,” that are bumpy, wavy and serrated; the edges seem sharp enough to open an envelope. Raisins are also part of the package, but they’re not key players…
Denver Restaurant Week doesn’t start until February 21, but many restaurants are already serving up special deals. Last month Bistro Vendome, the French restaurant at 1420 Larimer Street (in an absolutely lovely space off the Arcade), extended its Sunday night mussels and frites deal through Thursdays. That nine-dollar deal is…
I’m a fan of Valentine’s Day. But not because of any love stuff. It’s because of conversation hearts, those super-sweet wafer-y candies with the fun sayings like “Mad 4 U” and “Lover Boy.” I’m also a fan of Halloween because of candy corn and of Fourth of July because of Cool…
We know that cupcakes aren’t technically candy, but luckily we’ve found a loophole around that for Valentine’s Day. The Shoppe, at 3103 East Colfax Avenue, is celebrating the holiday with a variety of adorable and delicious cupcakes all dressed up and masquerading as Valentine’s candy. But these are way better…
Last fall, Nigerian-born Ifiok Etuk began to transform the space at 2044 Clinton Street, Unit B, in Aurora into his own workplace, his own restaurant. The result is Hessini Roots International Cafe, a unique space that fuses soul food, African food and Mexican food into a veritable world tour of…
Found this comment posted on our piece about the campaign to ditch “Mustang,” the blue horse outside of DIA: “Denver’s nonprofits have to come together! While we may not be able to agree on the fate of the blue horse, one thing we can all agree on is that burgers…
At Denver International Airport, the Greetings From Colorado store at Concourse A sells T-shirts from Haiti (including models that list the wrong date for Denver’s founding) and souvenirs from anywhere but Colorado. But right around the corner, travelers will soon be able to get a real taste of this state:A…
For fresh, vegetarian- and vegan-friendly Japanese food at a super-affordable price, Taki’s always fills the bill. Located at 241 East Colfax Avenue along a seedy strip, Taki’s has been feeding the masses for over fifteen yearsand has been a mainstay stop for my husband and his friends since high school, back…
