Ambria got off to a fast start at the end of last year. Just two weeks after Ling & Louie’s closed on the 16th Street Mall, the Mediterranean-New American restaurant opened its doors in the same spot, with Ambria’s kitchen manned by exec chef Jeremy Kittelson, who was a part-owner…
Eureka! I’ve searched all over the city — and beyond — for the best paella, and finally, after years of hanging my head in despair, I’ve found the holy grail. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where…
Cafe Society dished up six Guess Where contests last week, including a mint julep from Williams & Graham — or as one cheeky commenter quipped, Wallace & Gromit. And even though the Derby is done, when it comes to mint juleps, it’s just way too easy to say, “I’ll Have…
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. The stores are starting to stock fresh, fat blueberries, which are perfect for muffins. These vegan offerings contain juicy blueberries and lemon,…
On Friday the Denver Business Journal broke the news that Trader Joe’s would be opening its second store at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard. (The first — which means the one that also gets to sell liquor under Colorado’s convoluted code — will debut next year in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street…
Mother’s Day is coming next Sunday, and restaurants throughout town are cooking up plenty of opportunities to show your appreciation. We’ll post a list of places that still have space later this week, for those in need of inspiration. In the meantime, here’s a rundown of what’s on the rest…
In early March, after Jeremy Kittelson, the opening exec chef of Ambia, was canned during a to-the-point meeting at the Cheesecake Factory, he made it clear that he wanted to stay in Denver: “I really want to find another restaurant, where we can do the same caliber of great cuisine…
Not only will the 16th Street Mall have a bigger range of food vendors than ever before this summer, but those vendors will be keeping much more extensive hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, under new contracts with the Downtown Denver…
Trader Joe’s has signed a deal for its first location in Denver, according to this story in the Denver Business Journal. The store will be on the southeast corner of Colorado Boulevard and Eighth Avenue, where Annie’s Cafe was once located. The spot was supposed to become a hotel, but…
In this interview, Pizza Republica’s Rona VanSlyck weighs in on the importance of being open-minded, her current back-bar obsession and the dive bar she frequents when she’s not at work…
The warm weather has us constantly craving ice cream, and yesterday, we listed our five best Denver parlors. While those are the places we’re most likely to go for a double-scoop cone, ice cream parlors aren’t the only places in town that turn out the dessert we crave: there are…
Big Choice Brewing opens in Broomfield today, pouring a little beer culture into a craft beer gap along the Highway 36 corridor. The 2,500-square-foot brewery and tap room will have four beers to start with and eight within a few weeks…
I love bun — deep bowls of Vietnamese rice noodles tossed with fresh herbs, fish sauce, grilled meats and a Vietnamese egg roll — and here, at this citadel of Vietnamese cuisine, just about every table was devouring one. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Happy Place: El Camino, 3628 West 32nd Avenue, 720-889-7946. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1.50-$2.50 beer specials; $4.50 house margaritas; $1.50-$6 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
By this time next month, the Lowry Beer Garden — the first bona fide beer garden in Denver — will be pouring suds, most of them local, from the confines of a new kitchen and bar that’s part of a larger 8,000 square-foot project in the new Hangar 2 project…
Mexican fare from fast-food chains usually isn’t authentic, healthy or even pretty, but it’s irresistible. And we all indulge from time to time — hitting the window at Taco Bell at 2 a.m. after a night of mainlining vodka gimlets; finding any excuse to grab a sunflower-seed-stuffed veggie burrito at…
After more than a year of planning and very hard work, Gary Lee Bomar finally opened Gary Lee’s Motor Club & Grub last weekend — and it looks like it was worth the wait. With Gary Lee’s, this stretch of South Broadway has really gotten into gear…
Happy Friday! Don’t drink too much at First Friday, because Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby will go head to head in a battle for your hearts and stomachs tomorrow. Here’s a quick rundown of all the action — and if you know of any Drinco de Mayo party/deals…
Rain or shine, we spend a considerable amount of time thinking about ice cream. It’s one of our very favorite desserts, not least because you can totally put it on the side of any other dessert and it doesn’t count as two treats: it counts as a la mode. This…
Wendy’s just introduced three new “Signature Side Dishes,” no doubt to bolster the chain’s efforts to keep Burger King out of the number-two fast-food spot — with McDonald’s holding fast at number one, of course. Wendy’s had better try a little harder, though, because only one of the three sides…
The house that former pimp Scottie Ewing built — better known as the Sugar House — is gone for good this time. The swingers’ club by night, burger joint by day (as the Alameda Grill) had been closed since February, when new owner Kelly Bailey, the former manager, was served…
Fifteen years ago, remembers Rick Betance, he hired James Lee at Zolo Grill, giving the bartender his first real bar job, a position that would plant the seeds for Lee’s rise to mixology stardom. Now, after Betance spent years as an owner and operator of a boutique hotel in the…
