Bayou Bob’s Restaurant & Bar, 1635 Glenarm Place, is now featuring fresh crawfish shipped from Louisiana every Thursday during happy hour. The seafood boil is accompanied by live music until 7 p.m. See also: – Ten restaurants that will bowl you over with New Orleans fare – Big Easy Creole…
Matt Selby didn’t set out to operate a cafeteria-cum-pantry for the RiverClay condominiums rising five stories above Corner House. But since he and his two partners unveiled this 1,250-square-foot eatery in January, that’s precisely what it’s become. “People would come down in their pajamas,” marvels Selby. Hugging the corner of…
A throng of thieves — or maybe it was just one holdup artist — got away with swine snatchery on Sunday, the day of EatDenver’s Big Eat bash, where forty restaurants, several wineries and breweries and more than a thousand revelers congregated at Sustainability Park…and that leaves the mud pit…
After more than two decades at 1585 South Pearl Street, the Budapest Bistro has closed its doors. The restaurant owned by Anna Hellvig, who was also the chef, had updated its look several years ago — but with all the other changes on South Pearl Street, the time looked right…
New Belgium Brewing just announced that construction of its new brewery in Asheville, North Carolina, will be delayed by eight months, meaning the facility may not start making beer until 2016. “The adjusted construction timeline is the result of increased capacity coming online in Fort Collins this year,” New Belgium…
I’ve apparently been duped…for decades! During dinner last night at a red-sauce Italian joint, I ordered “homemade” spaghetti and meatballs, only to learn from our server that the noodles aren’t homemade at all. It’s a carryover, he told me, from the old days, when spaghetti — the fat strands made…
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 the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Pete and Barb…
Northglenn will get its first craft brewery on June 1 when Vance Sabbe — a former homebrew shop owner — and Rich Aggen open Beer By Design. The 5,000-square-foot brewery and taproom features a twenty-barrel brewing system and four forty-barrel fermenters, along with about 100 seats. See also: – Photos:…
Jimmy Bernat Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill 1530 Blake Street 303-298-5000 lodojimmys.com This is part one of my interview with Jimmy Bernat, exec chef of Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Jimmy Bernat began working — and cooking — in a professional kitchen…
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…
Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University since 1990, wrote the original version of The Paleo Diet a decade ago, but the eat-like-a-caveman regimen has taken off in recent years, given a real workout by CrossFit fans. By accident or design, chefs around town are offering dishes that fit…
Pizza Fusion, 571 East Colfax Avenue, is celebrating its second anniversary by offering a buy-one-get-one free pizza deal on June 1 — and there’s no charge at all to look at a new mural painted by local artist Ratha Sok. The pizza joint will also feature a $2 daily deal…
New York City — one of the most captivating cocktail capitals of the country — gets no love from Esquire magazine in its recently published list of the top seventeen bars in America. But, guess what? Two Denver bars — Ship Tavern and Williams & Graham — grace the roster,…
Nine years ago, my husband and I put together a short list of cities where we’d want to raise our kids. New York, where we lived at the time, wasn’t on it. Denver was. Months later, to see if both his potential job and the city seemed like the right…
Yes, that pizza is charred — not because the pizza yanker screwed up, or the oven was at the wrong temperature, but because I like a little char and blister with my chew. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Copper Kettle Brewing will answer a few prayers made to the gods of chocolate this summer by bottling its award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout. The brewery won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011, just five months after opening and has been planning to bottle the beer…
FEAST! Vail descended upon the alpine mountain village over the Memorial Day weekend, and for a first-year event, this was definitely a winning feast fit for foodists, cocktail connoisseurs, oenophiles and beer drinkers. From a small-plate extravaganza that showcased the talents of several local chefs, including Frank Bonanno, Elise Wiggins,…
The suburbs are notoriously short of great ethnic restaurants, but one gap has been filled in Northglenn, where Saigon Basil just opened at 10665 Melody Drive. The family-owned restaurant features an extensive menu of traditional Vietnamese cuisine; keep reading for a look at the space and the food. See also:…
Forty Denver restaurants, including Biker Jim’s, Euclid Hall, Jonesy’s Eat Bar, Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Linger, Panzano and Pinche Tacos, along with beers from Breckenridge Brewery, Great Divide, Mountain Sun Brewery and Wynkoop Brewery, wines from Bookcliff Cellars, Bonacquisti Winery, Cottonwood Cellars, Mesa Park and Two Rivers and…
The building that now houses Federal Bar & Grill has gone through many changes since its 1904 construction. Turned into the Micky Manor, a neighborhood Italian joint, in the ’30s, it went through several owners before closing altogether two years ago. Now new owner Christopher Mohaupt has put his twenty…
Szechuan Chinese — nestled in the corner of a strip mall off Garrison and Sixth Avenue — is a destination spot for this town’s dumpling lovers, and earned Best of Denver awards in ’06 and ’07. But the vegetarian menu here is reason to celebrate, too; several tofu dishes are…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified flight of craft beers from a brewery whose suds you’ll never find in liquor stores, to a spicy Szechuan chicken dish from a Chinese restaurant that also remains unidentified, to a Greek salad from a pizza…
