All systems are go for Tavern Platt Park, which will transform the former home of India’s Pearl (and Lola, Micole and Greens before that) at 1475 South Pearl Street. Tavern Hospitality Group, which bought the building, had a hearing with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses on July 2…
I’m not sure which is more blistering: the pavement or this panang curry, which packs more heat than a desert sky in July. 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 a pool –…
Beau Simmons Jonesy’s EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 www.jeatbar.com Part one of my interview with Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy’s EatBar, ran yesterday; below is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Longman & Eagle in Chicago, whose motto is “Eat, Sleep, Whiskey.” They use local…
It never fails: Just when I become emotionally — and occasionally physically — attached to a certain fast-food item, the corporate overlords snatch it away like fiendish villains in a Joss Whedon movie (or one of his TV shows that hasn’t been cancelled prematurely). Okay, so some items don’t sell…
Two prominent restaurateurs are involved in very public spats with the city. Frank Bonanno, owner of Osteria Marco, among other restaurants, admits he can be a “dick.” Especially when fighting the Denver Department of Environmental Health: posting missives on his blog aimed at Danica Lee, the department’s food program manager…
Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe will donate ten percent of sales from all eight of its locations to the Red Cross wildfire relief fund today…
El Diablo does not look like this tonight. There are no crowds. In fact, the restaurant is closed, as is Sketch, its sibling next door. Very early yesterday morning, the city slapped the entire First Avenue Hotel building with notices to vacate the premise — immediately…
Colfax Avenue has always been Denver’s main thoroughfare. Created after the Rush to the Rockies of 1859, the Gateway Road flourished in the decades that followed as both a business district and a social hub, right up through the 1950s, when touristy motels lined both sides. But like Radiator Springs…
The second iteration of Beehive, chef/owner Janice Henning’s pared-down, seasonal foods showcase, opened yesterday in Boulder. The slim space that once housed Saxy’s Cafe now looks rustic yet serene, with stark white furniture and whimsical jar lights dangling overhead…
Ah, summer…and watermelon…and arugula…and goat cheese. Four of my favorite things, and this salad? It’s my new go-to for roughage. 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 a pool — and every Monday,…
There’s nothing more delicious than an evening spent in the company of friends, enjoying the magical experience that is the simultaneous consumption of inspired cuisine and grape-based libations — otherwise known as food and wine. Layer on top of that the fact that we can enjoy these heavenly events at…
When you’re sitting on the patio outside Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks, watching the uniquely Denver action along the 16th Street Mall and enjoying a happy-hour cocktail and a big slice of chocolate cake from Cake Bubbles in Lakewood, it’s easy to forget that you’re sitting in a link of…
Copper Kettle Brewing scored some hand-painted, custom table tops recently that incorporate not just game boards — like backgammon and checkers — but a few of the young brewery’s accolades, including its Great American Beer Festival medal and, of course, its nod as Best Brewery for Neighbors in Westword’s Best…
Opinionated. Tenacious. Temperamental. And, at times, a “dick,” especially when he’s in a courtroom arguing his case on front of a judge, who’s presiding over the latest infraction levied against him by the Denver Department of Environmental Health, with whom Frank Bonanno, who owns Luca d’Italia, Mizuna, Bones, Lou’s Food…
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. According to Barb,…
Beau Simmons Jonesy’s EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 www.jeatbar.com This is part one of my interview with Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy’s EatBar. You can read part two of our chat tomorrow. Beau Simmons stretches out in his garden, his face tickled by the leaves of his heirloom-tomato…
Happy birthday to 7-Eleven, which turns 85 today. And everyone is invited to join in the festivities, which include miniature birthday accessories, chances to win some sweet prizes — and free Slurpees for all…
Nearly a decade after it buzzed off from its home in central Denver (the spot now occupied by Table 6), the Beehive is back. But this time, chef/owner Janice Henning has landed in Boulder — where her farm-to-table approach isn’t nearly as novel as it was in Denver a decade…
In addition to its daily Study Hall happy hour (select drafts, cocktails and house wines for $3), Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, 1317 14th Street, will host a new Hump Day happy hour every Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. featuring deals on “not-so-classic” craft beer and shot combinations and…
Sonoda’s has shuttered at 550 Broadway. This location wasn’t technically part of the local sushi chain; two years ago, it was sold to a former employee of Sonoda’s with permission to use the name. But the spot had been struggling of late and once the lease was up, the current…
I’ll never forget the first time I came face-to-face with Pete Ryan. We were meeting at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, where he had just become the school’s executive chef/instructor, and, as usual, my watch was stuck on slow. “You’re fucking late,” he reprimanded me. And then, for the…
Brown Dog Pizza lost the fight of its lives last year when the Telluride-based pizzeria got its chain yanked by a throng of vocal neighborhood pit bulls who raised holy hell when the pizza joint attempted to secure a liquor license for the space at 1001 South Gaylord Street. And…
