For a guy who doesn’t like drama, Bryan Dayton, a nationally-recognized bartender, sure knows how to set the stage. On graduation weekend last month the Oak at Fourteenth co-owner found himself facing a restaurant with lots of empty seats — even though the place had been booked solid. And Oak…
Beast + Bottle opened this spring with “approachable nose to tail” fare from executive chef/owner Paul Reilly and a smart bar menu. But the restaurant’s best-seller is actually the last item on the dessert menu, the Chocolate Dacquiose. Pastry chef Andrea Wight has modeled it after a Reese’s Peanut Butter…
Today’s weather should seal the deal: It’s summer. Whether we’re going for a single scoop or a decadent sundae, one of our favorite ways to celebrate the summer is ice cream. Here are the ten best places — both tried-and-true neighborhood favorites and a few exciting new joints, listed in…
Zeppelin Developments, which developed the nearby Taxi complex, is working hard right now to transform an 1880s ironworks building at 3530 Brighton Boulevard into The Source, a curated European-style artisan food market and retail space in the hot-hot River North (RiNo) district. Although Visit Denver is already touting the Source…
The season premiere of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters will hit televisions on Wednesday, July 24, and among the contestants battling for $100,000 in prize money — money that will benefit a charity of the winning chef’s choice — is Jennifer Jasinski, exec chef and owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall and…
A few years ago, Pink Tank’s David Mueller was working sales, doing well and able to pay all of his bills — but he wasn’t satisfied. “I was really unhappy not spending time with my family, so I decided to get out of sales and start a business,” he explains…
A burger with fries is an indulgence that I try to stay away from, but every so often, the urge just hits, as it did last weekend, and while this is a joint where you can get your burger topped with just about everything the burger gods are willing to…
Duy Pham Epernay 1080 14th Street 303-573-5000 This is part two of my interview with Duy Pham, exec chef of Epernay; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What’s the best food- or kitchen-related gift you’ve been given? I have three. The first is when Corky Douglass, the owner of…
Buffalo Doughboy won the Best Bakery award in the Best of Denver 2010. Business boomed, and in April 2012 the bakery moved out of its tiny spot in a Victorian home off Broadway for a space three times as large, and a mile south on Broadway itself. But business in…
Mark Antonation has been eating his way up Federal Boulevard in A Federal Case, and yesterday he reached Pho Duy, the third spot in Denver’s trio of terrific noodle joints in one strip mall. You’d think that would be enough for some people…but no. See also: – Pho Duy: round…
Civic Center Eats started this week at Civic Center Park. The food-truck fest lands at the park at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays through September 26. See also: – Photos: Civic Center Eats rolls into the heart of Denver – Civic Center Eats will expand next summer: Keep on (gourmet…
We have a history, Oak at Fourteenth and I. It’s not of the salacious, I-dated-someone-in-the-kitchen variety, but of the professional sort: I’ve reviewed the restaurant before. I did so at the now-defunct Denver Magazine in the weeks after Oak opened in November 2010, during what co-owners Bryan Dayton and Steven…
The Hawt Dog & Sausage Eatery originally opened in Cherry Creek North in January 2012. Its claim to fame was an elaborate take on a traditionally uninteresting tubular food (hot dogs and sausages), but that wasn’t enough to keep the place open. It closed last November. But last month there…
After sixteen years of brewing beer near the banks of the Cherry Creek, the Bull & Bush will finally bottle up some of its own liquid gold to sell elsewhere in Denver. The first beer off the line was the brewery’s flagship, Man Beer, an award-winning malty IPA that looks…
Squeaky Bean won’t turn one until later this month, but already the restaurant has given LoDo a couple of presents: an outdoor patio with seating for sixteen, and a new happy hour that starts at 4 p.m. (an hour earlier than the restaurant used to open) and runs until 6…
Lone Tree Brewing has brewed a pair of special beers that are being served only at the four Parry’s Pizza locations — in Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock and Parker. The first beer, which will be available year-round as a house beer, is Landon’s Wanna Walk Wheat, an unfiltered…
Last night at Green Russell, six local bartenders — Joe Hines (Williams & Graham); Kevin Burke (Colt & Gray); Gerard Collier (Corner House); Ragen Horacek (Ace); Randy Layman (Steuben’s); and host Adam Hodak, the star bartender of Bonanno Concepts — battled for supremacy in the Colorado Wine Cocktail Celebration competition,…
How far does she go? You’ll have to tune into Bravo beginning on Wednesday, July 24 to see whether or not Jennifer Jasinski, executive chef of Rioja, makes it all the way on Top Chef Masters. Jasinski, who just won the Best Chef Southwest James Beard Foundation award — and…
The farmers at the Boulder Farmers’ Market, which returns today from 4 to 8 p.m., take root in unexpected places. Although some come from generations of farmers, others were blown onto the land by the high hippie winds of the 1960s or the current foodie mantras of local and organic…
Duy Pham Epernay 1080 14th Street 303-573-5000 This is part one of my interview with Duy Pham, exec chef of Epernay; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. epernaylounge.com We’re boat people,” chuckles Duy Pham — but he’s dead serious. Born in Saigon, Pham snuck out of Vietnam with…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Pizza joints are popping up along Broadway, which lost a couple of Mexican mainstays last month. Although Adelita’s Cocina y Cantina opened a few weeks ago at 1294 South Broadway, that’s still a mile south of where Juanita’s and El Diablo closed their doors. Will the opening of a sixth…
