Food & Drink

When Boulderites say “Meet you at the teahouse,” no one ever asks which or where. The Dushanbe Teahouse is an integral part of the Boulder scene, a fantastically decorated, Persian-Islamic themed place that features hand-painted tiles, intricately carved wooden pillars, an inside fish pool and rows of fragrant roses outside…

After hearing that Consumer Capital Partners — the Denver-based investment company that owns Smashburger — plans to open Tom’s Urban 24 Diner at 1460 Larimer Street this fall, Tom Messina, who’s owned and operated Tom’s Diner at 601 East Colfax Avenue for the past thirteen years, was “a little flattered…

“I’m bursting at the seams, I’m so excited,” says Comida Cantina owner Rayme Rossello, who just inked a deal to open a second Comida in a 2,700-square-foot restaurant space inside the Source, a behemoth indoor artisan European market, conceived and undertaken by urban developer Kyle Zeppelin, that will open early…

The big question isn’t why El Olvido closed, but how this Jaliscan eatery stayed open as long as it did. No sooner had it taken over the former home of Hades at 2200 South Broadway in the spring of 2011 than the city started a massive street project outside. And…

The remains of Brandon’s Pub, the oddly named Mexican joint that got its start in the Beauvallon in 2008, just when the building was about to go under wraps for repairs, then reappeared in the former home of Chez Jose in Cherry Creek North in May 2010, will be auctioned…

Wood-fired pizza is the primary lure at this neighborhood joint, but the salads, assembled with tomatoes just plucked from the vine, are a big draw, too. 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 comments continue to pour in regarding the imminent closing of Pagliacci’s, which Lori Midson reported here Saturday, and have inspired an outpouring of memories of the restaurant overseen by the sad, neon clown for more than six decades…and more discussion of the changes in northwest Denver…

Beats on the Creek, outside Coohills tonight, isn’t the only live music coming to LoDo this summer. The Market Street Summerfest, a free event, is coming to 20th and Market streets on Saturday, August 11. That’s a corner that’s home to El Chapultepec, the city’s oldest jazz club and one…

A stormy night in Boulder, rain lashing down, flood warning in effect, and four of us sitting in a comfortable corner of the Dushanbe Teahouse. Looking out, we can see the swollen creek rushing by, and we speculate on just how high it might rise. There’s no one on the…

Protesters gathered outside the First Avenue Hotel late yesterday afternoon, waving signs and asking the city to allow Sketch and El Diablo to reopen — and for employees of those restaurants to start collecting paychecks again. They’ve also started a petition on the web — at www.saveeldiabloandsketch.com — asking the…

Roostercat Coffeehouse will soon open as a fair-trade, farm-to-table coffee shop in a funky space at 1045 Lincoln Street…

The Squeaky Bean’s Johnny Ballen wasn’t at the Bean on Saturday night. Instead, he was bartending a party for the class of 1972 at Regis University — the same college that actor and comedian Bill Murray attended years ago. And Ballen, who wore one of his Squeaky Bean tuxes to…

There are as nearly as many variations on curries as there are countries, and while I’m a sucker for an incendiary vindaloo, and I can’t get enough of a piquant panang, the lamb curry in the above snap is not from an Indian restaurant; nor is it from a Thai…

This is the second in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Read the first installment, on Hazel Dell mushrooms, here. Sticky, fragrant, bright orange fat. Rendered from chunks of silky guanciale, it slathers the agliolini all’ Amatriciana pasta at Cellar Wine Bar,…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a rather anemic roast beef sandwich from Pajama Baking Company to green chile-smothered carnitas from Citygrille to a heap of deep-fried Mexican onions specked with red chile flakes…

No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Beat the heat with a spiced drink with a little hit of caffeine to keep you going. This recipe (inspired by The…

On August 19, Pagliacci’s — which has been owned by the same family since 1946 — will serve its last bowl of minestrone. “It’s been an awesome experience,” says Mark Langston, whose mother bought the place from other relatives in 1977. “It’s just time to move on.” A developer has…