Denver gained many liquid assets in 2011, and although Williams & Graham ran away with our Best New Bar award in the Best of Denver 2012, the city gained many more worthy watering holes last year, as shown by our list of Denver’s ten best new bars. Even if regulars…
Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, is hosting a culinary extravaganza this evening that benefits Brent’s Place, a local nonprofit that provides hope and help for kids stricken with cancer. Chef Jamey Fader has invited some of Colorado’s most distinguished chefs to create a multi-course feast for lucky ticket holders. (Westword editor…
The restaurant would soon fill up with middle-aged ladies who lunch, but when Rob and I first stepped into The Wooden Table, we were the ones on early-bird-special time. The dining room was empty at 11:15 a.m., and after the server manning the host stand gave us the “Sit anywhere…
When Rayme Rossello first announced her plans to build Comida Cantina, a stationary extension of her mobile concept, in Longmont, she had big plans for brunch: “In my dreams, I’d love to do a 9 to 5 service that’s old-style Mexican: long, leisurely, pork dinners and whole roasted chickens served…
Brett Shaheen and Jane Duncan Knauf cut their restaurant teeth in the city: The pair met at the long-closed Sambuca Cafe in LoDo; after that, Knauf worked for the Magnolia Hotel for years while Shaheen did time in kitchens in the Bonanno empire…
This spot raises the bar — literally — on cocktail culture. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver…
The metro area gained so many liquid assets in 2011, we had to do a lot of drinking before we could choose the winner of our Best New Bar award for the Best of Denver 2012. And even then, the awards kept spilling out for other new spots, including Best…
As I’m driving to the new Jack in the Box , which opened yesterday at 2020 South Federal Boulevard, the second new Jack in metro Denver in a month, I’m seriously wondering why anyone would stop to eat at Jack’s when both sides of the street, for miles, are dotted…
Longmont won big today when the Brewers Association, based just down the road in Boulder, released its annual list of the top fifty biggest craft brewers in the United States. Left Hand Brewing, which was founded in Longmont in 1993, cracked the list for the first time, logging in at…
“Corrido,” explains Yuri Kato, the director of Tequila Corrido, “is a type of music associated with the tequila smugglers of the border region. It’s romantic and story-telling.” And it’s also the name of a highland-region tequila that launched two years ago in Arizona but, thanks to Kato, is starting to…
It wasn’t until Gustavo Arellano, our Ask a Mexican columnist, started researching the spread of Mexican food in this country — or what passes as Mexican food in this country — for his new book, Taco USA, that we realized Denver was not only home to a unique green chile,…
Out of all the continents, Asia is by far the most vegetarian- and vegan-friendly. European cuisines tend to fall toward the bottom of the list — at least, as those foods are prepared in this country. So a French restaurant with good vegan dishes is a real find, and while…
After lamenting the lack of good service at many Denver restaurants, Laura Shunk served up five examples of restaurants that do service right, everything from Frasca Food and Wine to Frijoles Colorado Cuban Cafe. Readers were quick to add a few favorites, including the most royal restaurant of them all…
Today is the deadline for filing taxes with the Internal Revenue Service. In hopes of easing the pain, a couple of local eateries — one high-end, one decidedly low — are offering Tax Day deals. Just remember to hold on to the receipts!…
Gravity 1020 chef Sean Taylor and special guest Mark DeNittis of Il Mondo Vecchio and Cinque Soldi Salumeria will break down an entire hog, demonstrate how to make sausage with it, pair the meat with beer and serve a family-style dinner at a pig-out extravaganza that starts at 6 p.m…
By 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, the crew was on its sixth dinner in three nights, the wine was flowing, and everyone was getting giddy. But then, James Mazzio had reason to celebrate: He’d just taken over the space in the Icehouse that was formerly occupied by Mise en Place cooking…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, including a high-altitude Bloody Mary at The 10th in Vail, a forgettable blackened tuna sandwich from Ale House at Amato’s and an Ethiopian feast at Ras Kassa’s. But for correctly (and quickly) identifying the pizza above as coming from Pizza…
Earlier this year, Leigh Sullivan Enterprises — a hospitality-industry marketing, brand-management and public-relations consulting firm helmed by Leigh Sullivan — announced its fifth crop of chefs to fill out the ranks of the Denver FIVE, an organization that’s “a culinary group whose main goal is to celebrate and promote the…
After some service flubs at Charcoal, the subject of my most recent review, I lamented the fact that the quality of service in many of this town’s restaurants has not kept up with the ever-improving food turned out by the kitchens. There are exceptions, of course, and those are worth…
Ah, pig. There’s nothing more likely to put you in hog heaven — and heart-attack terroritory — than a dish of absolutely fresh chicharrones, delivered hot from the fryer. Can you guess where these came from? Here’s a hint:…
Chick-Fil-A, known for its iconic cow billboards and fried chicken patties iconically nestled between biscuits, is sweetening up its dessert menu by offering a new cookie, an updated brownie and several sundaes; it’s also bringing back its seasonally available Banana Pudding Milkshake starting today…
When Tyler Nemkov joined Cafe Society as a twenty-year-old intern from Johnson & Wales three years ago, he knew he wanted to pursue both a journalism and a culinary career. He opted to keep working in kitchens while he earned his degree at the University of Colorado — right before…
