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…
Danger. That’s the sign on the door of Sketch, which is supposed to host an opening for a showing of 9News reporter Kirk Montgomery’s photographs tonight. The sign — as well as five different letters signed by Michael Roach, Building Official with Development Services in the Denver Department of Community…
Copper Kettle will nearly triple the size of its brewery space this August when it expands next door and adds storage and refrigeration space. “We are producing a lot of beer, but we don’t have anywhere to store it right now,” says brewery co-owner Kristen Kozick…
Trust me: The green chile, jolted with heat, is far better than the burgers, which this joint has been ballyhooing for years. Or, as some would say, resting on its laurels. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess…
Our colleagues over on the Backbeat music blog have been pouring themselves into watering holes all over town, to determine Denver’s ten hippest bars — or is that hipster bars? See that list here: Denver’s ten biggest hipster bars. Follow @CafeWestword…
“I’ve been involved with food since I was six, and I’ve always dreamed of having a restaurant in an old building with a wooden roof and exposed brick — a space to create whatever I want,” says Pepe Aparicio, who, along with his brother, Gianfranco, will open Taita, a Peruvian…
We’ve lauded Thai Lotus more than once, and with good reason: The unassuming eatery, tucked next to Chianti and El Senor Sol, could use a little promotion. And it definitely deserves it. Because once you’ve stopped in Thai Lotus, you won’t make the mistake of overlooking it again…
The second of three new sushi joints just opened in LoDo. After a series of preview parties, Blue Sushi Sake Grill opened yesterday in the former home of Dixons on the 16th Street Mall (or at least some of it; the other portion is now Lucky Pie)…
Vance Johnson, once a key member of the Three Amigos, moved to the Western Slope years ago and is putting his second restaurant in Grand Junction, which he plans to call Vance’s Epicurious. But some people aren’t impressed by the former Bronco’s choice of locations…
Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street in Boulder, is teaming up with the Boulder Wine Merchant for a special vintage Burgundy wine-tasting and dinner tonight. The restaurant is limited to one bottle of each wine, so space is limited…
Happy hour can absolutely be the happiest time of the day for three reasons: cheap booze, cheap food and free people-watching. Which makes the patio at Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks a place of unmitigated joy from 3 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, when happy-hour specials keep flowing out of…
Upslope Brewing announced today that it will build a second brewery and tap room in Boulder to handle the ever-increasing demand for its beer. The new location will be in Flatiron Park, at 1898 South Flatiron Court, near 55th Street, and include a 2,300-square-foot tap room. It will allow Upslope,…
It’s been nearly a decade since the farm-to-table Beehive had Denver diners buzzing. (It occupied the spot now filled by Table 6.) But chef/owner Janice Henning is now putting the final touches on a brand-new Beehive — this one right off Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall…
Molecular doughnuts: It’s what’s for breakfast — and the Inventing Room’s Ian Kleinman doled out 150 of them this morning, some specked with bacon-Nutella powder, others jumping with pop rocks, at Table 6, which is a pop-up shrine to Kleinman’s long Johns (and java from Two Rivers Coffee, in Arvada)…
Vance Johnson, one of the Three Amigos on the Denver Broncos in the late ’80s, is about to open his second restaurant on the Western Slope. He already has VJ’s Outlaw Ribs in Parachute, the town where he now lives. And soon he’ll open Vance’s Epicurious in Grand Junction. Vance’s…
This is the first in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. In rows and rows of old shipping containers in dark, dank buildings, fungi grow are growing in neatly stacked and sealed plastic bags. These modest mushrooms will soon be shipped out…
I ingested some horrible food this weekend, including a breakfast burrito that’s responsible for the fact that I didn’t sleep — at all — last night, but before that malicious attack, I feasted at another restaurant that turns out deep-fried Mexican onions marinated in fresh lime juice and specked with…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified breakfast burrito stuffed with smoked elk sausage to a heap of Cajun spice-slicked shrimp from the Crawling Crab to a duo of ballpark pretzels…
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. This recipes blends two cuisine styles for the best of both worlds: We’re taking the English tradition of eating baked beans on…
For more than sixty years, Gaetano’s has been a northside institution — first as a joint owned by the Smaldones, Denver’s legendary mob family, and then by the Wynkoop group, which bought the place in 2005. Now the spot is closed until September for a major facelift, which has both…
There’s plenty on the culinary calendar this week, everything from picnics to pizza. Here’s just a taste:…
