Food & Drink

Action sports enthusiasts and culinary entrepreneurs Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson just kicked their business model into high gear. Eighteen months after opening Cheapskates Action Sports Bar in Arvada, Galbraith and Stinson now have a second Cheapskates location in Aurora. Curious to see what an action sports bar looks like,…

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. When it comes…

It took a year to find the ideal space, but after an exhaustive search, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, the nationally-renowned owners of Boulder-based Frasca Food and Wine, Pizzeria Locale and Caffe, have inked a deal to open a second Pizzeria Locale in Denver. See also: – Best Pizza 2012…

The space at 1434 Blake Street has been home to many concepts over the past fifteen years. Originally the legendary hipster hang-out City Spirit, which closed in 1997, it then became Andrew’s Pub, followed by Bender’s Sausage Haus, The Lure, SportsBook, PreGame Sports Bar & Grill, the Blake, Kraine Station…

Pies used to be seen as the either the coup de grace on Thanksgiving or snarky protesters’ tool of choice. (Remember when Ann Coulter, Ralph Nader and Jeff Skilling, former president of Enron, were all pied?) Then in 2011 the lattice-topped treat hit the big time, and Nation’s Restaurant News…

Those of you who insisted that Frank Bonanno would turn the former Lancer Lounge into an “over-hyped concept” — which is what at least one person claimed when we broke the news that Bonanno would be taking over the evicted bar wedged between two of his restaurants — will likely…

Johnny Carino’s very first location was in Colorado Springs, and Chris Peitersen, the chain’s executive chef who’s also vice president of Culinary Development, was born in Denver (he still holds season tickets to the Denver Broncos). So it’s fitting that Johnny Carino’s is rolling out its new menu items –…

We must eat to live — but sometimes what we eat and drink also kills us. The oddest things can cook our goose. This past year saw many food-assisted expirations and accidents that were peculiar, creepy — and very, very unappetizing. Here’s our list of the five weirdest food deaths…

Would legendary New York Times critic Craig Claiborne have approved of Gretchen Kurtz reviewing So Perfect Eats? “If the granddaddy of restaurant criticism didn’t think restaurants had to have tablecloths, a maître d’ and a mixologist to be considered fair game,” she writes, “then neither do I.” Still, she’s come…

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual concept, will open its eighteenth location — the sixteenth in Colorado — today at 14740 West Colfax Avenue, in the new Denver West project. To celebrate, the restaurant will be giving away prizes and menu items all month long — check the Facebook page…

The town already has three Tom’s (Tom’s Home Cooking, Tom’s Urban 24 and Tom’s Diner), as well as three Hideaways — Hideaway Steakhouse in Westminster, Hideaway Kitchen & Bar, and Hideaway Tavern in Commerce City (there’s also Herman’s Hideaway). And next week, it will have both a Corner Office and…

Mike Lucas opened Luke’s — A Steak Place more than twenty years ago, and it has been an established steakhouse ever since. But this year Lucas decided to retire, leaving the restaurant in the hands of new owner Robert Meyer. Over six weeks this fall Meyer completely renovated the interior…

Back when Fuqua Development was still touting Walmart as the major tenant in the project planned for the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Jeff Fuqua promised that there would be a “chef-driven” restaurant on the site — inspiring some critics to ask…

When I asked the bartender if he had mezcal, his eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. “You want mezcal!? he exclaimed. “Oh, man, a gringo girl who likes mezcal. Wow.” Not only did he pour me a potent margarita but he brought out the mezcal bottle, too, egging me…

On last night’s season five episode of Top Chef Seattle, Tyler Wiard (nickname T-bone), the culinary director of Elway’s — and the exec chef of Elway’s Cherry Creek — is sent packing, along with fellow chef Chris “CJ” Jacobsen, the two of whom were bludgeoned by judges Gail Simmons, Padma…

Jay Leandro Pub 17 on Welton Street 1750 Welton Street hyatt.com/gallery/pub17/index.html 303-295-1117 Part one of my interview with Jay Leandro, exec chef of Pub 17 on Welton Street, ran yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Pho Fusion on Hampden. I used…

“Food programming has come a long way since Julia Child cooked her way into our hearts,” Gretchen Kurtz wrote earlier this week. “For all her affability, Child was trying to do one thing: demystify fine cooking for an audience dependent on canned soup and casseroles.” But did Child, and all…

I can hear the noise already, a rising roar of complaint over my decision to spend a thousand-plus words on So Perfect Eats, a two-year-old eatery in Cherry Creek North that feels more like a grab-and-go lunch spot than a restaurant worthy of review. But before you rant — whether…