Duck, duck…meatballs — and just in time for Monday’s opening of the Slotted Spoon, but these duck orbs are not from Jensen Cumming’s new meatball hut. They were, however, the best dish I tried on a menu that’s now overseen by a new chef after the opening kitchen commander made…
Curtis Caldwell — beloved partner, brother, son, friend, chef, philanthropist, master hula-hooper, magician and one of the kindest souls the Denver restaurant community has ever known — passed away just under a week ago at Denver Health. And while we continue to try and cope with his loss, the Vesta…
Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend, which means everyone will be turning their attention to New Orleans, where the annual championship game will be played. If you weren’t able to make it to the Big Easy, it’s still easy to get your Cajun food fix right here in Denver at…
Holy tequila! What a difference a cool million makes. That’s the approximate coinage spent on remodeling Tamayo, Richard Sandoval’s modern Mexican restaurant in Larimer Square that was closed just under four weeks to significantly upgrade the two-tiered space, which now looks like a brand new restaurant that fits beautifully into…
There’s no name on the sign above the door of De Steeg Brewing, in an alley off West 44th Avenue. Just the image of a Belgian-style beer goblet. But Craig Rothgery wasn’t trying to be hip when he signed a lease on an alley space in the Tennyson Street art…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beloved restaurant, brewery or shop in possession of a good reputation also has no shortage of negative Yelp reviews. Denver’s best (and worst) have been served with plenty of them, with Yelpers yapping about everything from bad service to bad salsa, bad…
If you’re one of those optimistic types who think that you can haul a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken to a Super Bowl shindig and generate a touchdown for your meager efforts, you might want to rethink your place on the playing field, because the people who created the ten…
In January, there’s often a shake-out in the dining scene. But while twenty new restaurants opened in metro Denver last month, including Corner House with chef Matt Selby at the helm, there were relatively few closings. And two longtime fixtures on the scene — Jax Fish House in LoDo and…
Super Bowl fever is spreading, and even though the Denver Broncos aren’t in the game, local restaurants and bars are serving up plenty of opportunities to score with deals this Sunday, February 3. Here’s a peak at the playbook, and feel free to pass off audibles in the comments section…
Breckenridge Brewery announced today that it will move from Denver to Littleton, building a $20 million farm-like campus on a rural, twelve-acre spot on South Santa Fe Drive and cementing its future as both a Colorado-based brewery and a tourist destination. The campus, located near the Platte River Greenway, right…
Under the Sun, the new, “slightly upscale” restaurant and taphouse created by the owners of the Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries group, is now open in the space underneath Southern Sun Pub & Brewery at 627 South Broadway in Boulder. The eatery features 21 in-house beers on tap, as well…
Buried beneath all that roughage is a hearty winter soup, a medley of black-eyed peas, diced ham and vegetables, that paired with a hefty sandwich, is the ideal dinner on a blustery day. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Paul Nagan Zink Kitchen + Bar 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-779-1559 www.zinkdtc.com This is part two of my interview with Paul Nagan, exec chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar; part one of our interview ran yesterday. Favorite dish on your menu: I like our housemade lamb sausage. We…
For the last several months, Duy Pham, who solidified his cooking prowess years ago at the long-departed, French-inspired Tante Louise, has been working on opening Epernay, a splashy new downtown restaurant and Champagne lounge near the Denver Center for the Performing Arts — a restaurant with a small kitchen, and…
James Kunz has been making his own beer for four years, but before December, he’d never entered a homebrewing contest — let alone won one. But that changed when the rookie took top honors in the Mountain Sun Pub group’s stout competition by, well, releasing the Kraken. Starting in mid-February,…
Culver’s, home of the ButterBurger, was recently named the number-one fast-food chain for food and beverage on Chain Restaurant Consumer’s Choice Award list. And with nine Colorado locations for Culver’s, if you haven’t yet indulged yourself with one — or more– of its hand-spun frozen custard concretes or a sandwich…
Denver diners love their burgers — big or small, beefy or veggie, gourmet or greasy. Best Burger is always one of the most hotly contested categories in our Best of Denver Readers’ Poll (find the Best of Denver 2013 poll here), and we’ve got our buns on the run testing…
Tattered Cover, 9315 Dorchester Street in Highlands Ranch, is hosting author Anne Byrn for a discussion and signing of her new cookbook, Unbelievably Gluten-Free: 128 Delicious Recipes: Dinner Dishes You Never Thought You’d Be Able to Eat Again this evening. See also: – Reader: Gluten-free diets are not a fad…
Are Brussels sprouts the new beets? For years, chefs delighted in turning the slippery red vegetable that nobody liked as a kid into one we couldn’t wait to eat, glass of white in hand, with dollops of goat cheese and a light douse of vinaigrette. Now chefs have taken on…
Subway may have run into trouble by shorting the measurements of its footlong sandwiches, but the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses has gotten nothing but kudos for the rule change it made late last summer, allowing “bona fide restaurants” within 500 feet of a school to apply for a…
Several Denver breweries and restaurants will serve as mini art galleries between now and February 10, displaying the work of more than twenty artists who use recycled skis and snowboards as their canvases. The displays are part of Art of Winter, “a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artists and innovators expressing…
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…
