I can only imagine what Chauncey Smaldone, the youngest of the loan-sharking, book-making Smaldone brothers, would’ve said when Lou’s Food Bar hung out its shingle down the street. For decades, Smaldone ran Gaetano’s, a cherished Italian-American restaurant that his family founded in 1947, and he no doubt would’ve seen Lou’s…
I can only imagine what Chauncey Smaldone, the youngest of the loan-sharking, book-making Smaldone brothers, would’ve said when Lou’s Food Bar hung out its shingle down the street. For decades, Smaldone ran Gaetano’s, a cherished Italian-American restaurant that his family founded in 1947, and he no doubt would’ve seen Lou’s…
Williams & Graham just celebrated its first birthday. And although the new take on an old-style speakeasy at 3160 Tejon Street hit some bumps on the road to opening — including a liquor-license snafu — the path has been clear since it opened last November. In fact, the place is…
Jerry Feld bought his bar at 404 Broadway before he was even old enough to have a liquor license; for the first year, it was in his uncle’s name. Feld went on to run Club 404 for sixty years, creating generations of fans. But once he hit eighty, he was…
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It’s incredibly difficult to do justice to the thousands of remarkable cookbooks published in 2012, but after spending days — weeks — roaming through the recipes and lush food porn of hundreds of them, I’ve picked out my favorites. These are the cookbooks that stock my selves at home, and…
Rick Abitbol, a longtime Denver-area brewer, will open his own place in Wheat Ridge today at 4 p.m., pouring a lineup of big beers with a low gluten content. Brewery Rickoli will be the suburb’s first brewery (though not its only one, once Colorado + Liquid Art Works opens next…
Each week, Strange Brewing taps a new, small-batch creation: just one barrel of whatever head brewer Tim Myers and buddy Harry Smith (who is starting his own brewery next year) can think up. Along with the beer, they take a pic of the wort as it is being brewed and…
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. “In the days…
Check back tomorrow to see another round of our favorite Chef and Tell quotes. Thanksgiving is a day that gives us food for thought and time to reflect on the things for which we’re thankful – our health, our friends, our kids, our jobs and dogs, wine, and the family…
Why is it so hard to get your eggs “soft-scrambled” in this city, especially at a joint where breakfast is the main meal of the day? Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into…
The last of this year’s community dinner series at Firenze a Tavola takes place this evening, in the lower level of Parisi. The four-course feast is inspired by the northern-Italian cuisine of Friuli…
There are many things that are better in threes — including pizza shops. And now Denver-born Sexy Pizza is looking to add a third store to its current two for a Sexy Pizza threesome. See also: -Sexy Pizza gives pot-positive police a slice of the action -Sexy Pizza’s sexy facelift…
When you gaze out those big picture windows of the Peaks Lounge, on the 27th floor of the Hyatt Regency Denver, you may not spot much snow on the mountains — but inside the bar, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Particularly if you try one of the…
The original location of Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli closes at 3 p.m. today, vacating the century-old building at 3130 Lowell Boulevard where it opened back in 1996. Owners Heidi and Steve Naples blame the closing on a dispute with the landlord; they say they’re looking for another spot in the neighborhood…
If you’re a relative newcomer — i.e., not someone with a “Native” sticker on the bumper — you might be surprised to hear that Highland wasn’t always a synonym for “hot, new restaurant.” Back in the day, the area once known as Little Italy was full of family-owned restaurants dishing…
Tivoli Brewing, which resuscitated one of the oldest names in Denver beer history earlier this year, is getting ready to dive back into the vaults for a second historically themed beer. The first was based on the name and recipe for Tivoli Beer, which was brewed in Denver in the…
Middle Eastern restaurants are nothing new in Denver. A trek down Colorado Boulevard teases with a multitude of small, family-run Mid-East feast houses tucked into strip malls; the asphalt that’s Colfax pimps a few, too; and Aurora, where international restaurants dot the corners of every block, has its share of…
Del Norte Brewing, which has been making award-winning Mexican-style lagers in Denver since 2007, has apparently ceased production. Over the past several days, brewery owner Joe Fox hasn’t returned calls or an e-mail seeking comment, but several people in Denver’s craft-beer scene say they believe Del Norte has sold most,…
We have a ritual on Thanksgiving that includes a stop at the zoo, followed by an all-American breakfast before we head to my mom’s house later in the day for the real feast. Apparently, everyone else had the same idea that we did, because the zoo was packed and there…
After ten minutes in the kitchen, surrounded by mounds of meatballs, I finally broke the silence: “Who’s got meatball jokes?” I asked. Jensen Cummings stopped me. “No, we’re not going to do that. We’re not going to be the guys that tell the bad ball jokes,” he declared. Cummings (also…
The coffee alone makes Crema worth a stop — which is both good and bad news for this city’s vegans, because if you stop for the coffee, you won’t be able to get any Beet Box vegan baked goods. The coffeeshop recently stopped carrying Beet Box products and instead is…
