During last summer’s Kitchen Nightmares makeover of Pantaleone’s pizzeria on South Holly Street, chef Gordon Ramsay made many recommendations to owners Pete and Paulette Fafalios. And while Pete rejected some of Ramsay’s suggestions, he took him up on others, and during the course of the show, Pantaleone’s underwent big changes…
Trademark disputes — some of them nasty — have become commonplace in the craft-brewing industry in recent years, but most of the ones involving Colorado beer makers have been with out-of-state companies, preserving a congenial in-state camaraderie. But the newest dispute pits two popular local breweries against one another. On…
The dreaded lime shortage is hitting home — and restaurateurs are starting to put the squeeze on customers. Not only are bartenders slicing limes thinner and thinner, but some spots are raising prices for anything that calls for the in-short-supply citrus. Benny’s Restaurante y Cantina, for example, has just added…
Mark Manger, the creator of the GrOpener one-handed bottle opener (and a former Westword photographer) is back with a new twist on his invention — and has already raised enough with his second indiegogo campaign to move things along. The Grab-K is a thinner keychain version of the original. Although…
For the most part, the menu as this Mexican joint is a carbon copy of its competition — burritos, enchiladas, chile rellenos, tacos and combinations of all four — but there a few dishes that stand apart from the usual suspects, including a plate of shrimp bobbing in a garlic-scented…
Almost two years after they purchased the building at 2036 Broadway that had most recently housed the Rockaway Tavern and Triangle Denver before that, the owners of Wurstküche, a Los Angeles-based concept that combines exotic sausages with a beer hall, are slated to open their Denver location in July –…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Several bars and restaurants around town are planning parties for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby gallop, and while it’s the opportune time to dig out your frilly hat and dress the part, at least one bar — namely the Bar Car — is predicting that at least a handful of people will…
Chris Canales Volta Mediterranean Restaurant 2480 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder 303-938-8800 voltaboulder.com This is part one of my interview with Chris Canales; part two of my chat with Canales will run tomorrow. Volta, with its sophisticated menu, swank interior and elegant al fresco courtyard, is far from the world where executive…
When I decided to start writing A Federal Case, I did so out of sheer curiosity. I live in a neighborhood that borders Federal Boulevard, a street that has served as an occasional dining destination but also as a conduit to other areas of the city. At the time, I…
Pantaleone’s 2120 South Holly Street 303-757-3456 Pete Fafalios is passionate, stubborn — and no longer stuck in the past. Nor is Pantaleone’s, the pizzeria on South Holly Street that he founded in 1985 with his wife, Paulette, which survived not just Denver’s downturn in the ’80s, but the recent recession,…
Since it started in San Francisco, Dishcrawl has been striving to connect people with local food and “re-imagining the way people think about food, drink and their community.” Dishcrawl events — which are set up like pub crawls, but focus on food rather than events — now span more than…
Blue Spruce Brewing, serving Mexican food, pub fare and beer made on the premises, opened for business on Saturday at 4151 East County Line Road, in Centennial. Owned by former biology teacher Rick Kane, Blue Spruce opened with eight of its own brews (although some have already kicked), including honey…
Our recent list of the twelve best pizza spots in Denver raised a ruckus. In an outpouring on the Cafe Society blog, people took sides as if their dough — not the floury white stuff — depended on it. Interestingly, no reader gave a shout-out to Pantaleone’s, even though the…
“The question ‘what is Wuerzburger’ has been answered. It is the freshest, foamiest, liveliest, pleasantest beer seen in Boulder,” read an August 12, 1905, article in the Boulder Daily Camera. “Wuerzbuger (pronounce the z as if it were a t) would be called ‘hot stuff’ were it not that it…
When Govinda’s Garden, the weekend-only vegetarian/vegan dinner buffet, re-opened last October, it quickly became insanely popular; within a half-hour of the restaurant openings its doors, the dining room was usually full. And now we’re going to get even more of a good thing: another dinner and three lunch shifts have…
Man does not live by bread alone. There’s vegan cheese, for example, and raw crackers, all part of this cheese plate that was far from half-baked. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post — on the Cafe…
The Thirsty Lion Gastropub & Grill opens today at One Union Station — no, not inside the renovated train station, but in the new building next door, just off the 16th Street Mall. Unlike the locally-owned restaurants going into Union Station, the Thirsty Lion is out of Oregon. The original…
Happy first birthday to Adelitas Cocina y Cantina! Brian Rossi’s hot-spot on South Broadway will celebrate with $1 tacos all day today (a regular deal on Taco Tuesday), capped with a 9 p.m. El Mayor tequila toast and birthday cake. But the anniversary party will continue all week with $6…
Saturday’s Boulder Farmers’ Market boasts loads of bedding plants, including tomatoes and basil for the hopeful and optimistic. Best not to plant these out too soon, though, with colder weather expected to linger. Sue and Mark Parsons have brought their vibrant tomato plants. Rocky Mountain Fresh, a farm outside Lyons,…
Last night, in Los Angeles, Jason Patz and Allison Widdecombe, both of whom are behind the stick at Williams & Graham, emerged as finalists in World Class 2014, the esteemed United States Bartending Guild cocktail competition that’s sponsored by Diageo, the world’s largest producer of spirits, including Johnnie Walker, Baileys…
For the past few years, Hosea Rosenberg, who won the Top Chef title — and $100,000 for his victory — on Season Five of the Bravo reality show, has focused his time on growing Blackbelly Catering, a full-service events and catering company that sources most of its ingredients from Blackbelly…
