In the almost-six months since Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s restaurateur Josh Wolkon and his cohorts — including wife Jen, Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman and Jeff Bustos — took over the old Storz Garage space next to Steuben’s, they’ve been busily drawing up plans to convert the address…
There have probably been a bazillion sandwich combinations invented since the first prescient human stuck filling between a couple of slices of bread, but only a handful of those have become icons of culture and cuisine. There’s the pastrami on rye, of course, which embodies the spirit of a New…
Lisa Bailey and Keegan Gerhard have looked at several locations around town where they could put a second location of D Bar Desserts, the spot they opened on East 17th Avenue back in 2008. And now they’ve decided where to put it: not in Denver but in San Diego, where…
Who says that waffle cones have to be filled with ice cream? Here, you have two choices: the conventional way, or you can order a savory cone stuffed with everything from macaroni and cheese to root vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part two of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I really like going to Euclid Hall. Anywhere I can go…
Denver Off the Wagon, a booze-centered blog boasting a couple dozen suds-sodden writers, will celebrate its first anniversary this week with a three-day party centered around a beer that the Wagoners brewed in January at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Wagon Ryed, as the beer is called, is based off of…
LoHi remains the city’s hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, with would-be restaurateurs still looking for open spaces in the area. The most recent project announced is Central Bistro and Bar, going in right on the edge of Highland, where Lance Barto will be serving new American food. But what about…
Good food for a good cause: Soup’s on at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, where many of Denver’s top chefs will be ladling up bowls of their gourmet creations at Soup for the Soul. A benefit for Porter Hospice and St. Anthony Hospice, Soup for the Soul…
Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, among other things, to interpret a dish based on the line “eight maids a-milking” from the Twelve Days of Christmas carol; others stored energy by helping themselves to the dried fruit and cheese spread on the…
On owner Sergio Negrin’s insistence, my meal at Frijoles Colorado Cuban Cafe, the Lakewood restaurant I review this week, kicked off with a strong, sweet shot of Cuban coffee, an excellent way to start a meal. The Negrins are delightful hosts, and though their menu is modest, it offers a…
As Patricia Calhoun wrote this morning, the Denver omelet isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…
A bevy of beer bloggers will appear on American Craft Beer Radio with Gary Valliere this Saturday when Colorado’s newest craft beer radio show takes the air for its third show at noon on 102.3 FM, the local ESPN affiliate. The show will focus on the experiences of bloggers and…
AC Golden Brewing will unveil a new beer today at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants as part of the beer-centered restaurant chain’s latest Mini Tour. The brew is an India Pale Lager, or IPL, made from four kinds of hops (Chinook, Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe) typically found in IPAs, but with…
Yesterday may have been a day of indulgence for those of you who used Mardi Gras as an excuse to stuff yourself with pancakes and get sloshed on Hurricanes. But if you’re still going strong, you’ll want to know that today is probably the best arbitrary hedonistic holiday of the…
It’s National Margarita Day, and although that’s not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:…
If you wanted a rock-solid reason to become a member of this private country club — which I’m not — all you need to do is wrap your lips around its burger, a towering skyscraper of bacon, blue cheese, an onion ring, lettuce, tomatoes and peppercorn-crusted beef. It’s called the…
Corey Cunningham moved to Denver from New Jersey to take the executive chef job at Baur’s Ristorante (now Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar), but after a few years, he split and headed to Boulder where he stepped into Brasserie Ten Ten as a sous. Now, he’s manning his own…
Breckenridge Brewing will release the first batch of Stranahan’s Well Built E.S.B. next week, a beer aged in Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey barrels for three months and brewed in conjunction with the high-end distillery, located just down the street. It’s the first collaboration between the two companies since they signed an…
Not that we need to remind you, but today — whoo-hoo! — is National Margarita Day, which means that bars and restaurants all over the metro area are liberally pouring the popular tequila cocktail, including Pica’s Mexican Taqueria, in Boulder. And earlier this week, we held a contest, giving one…
Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part one of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Before Jeremy Kittelson opened Ambria in mid-November, he conducted a tasting, and while he was visibly excited…
Mayor Michael Hancock will learn to flip a Denver omelet today at a photo opp pushing Denver Restaurant Week. A Denver omelet? That may be the dish that’s been labeled with this city’s name, but it’s hardly the best example of this city’s cuisine. Former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan was…
When the first Spicy Pickle opened at 988 Lincoln Street in 1999, it quickly drew faithful fans with its hearty sandwiches — always accompanied by a homemade pickle. That early rush fueled lots of dreams, dreams of the kind of success that other homegrown chains, most notably Chipotle, which started…
