Unless you count pork fat for sausages, Hank Shaw — author of the blog Hunter Angler Gardener Cook and recently published book Hunt, Gather, Cook — hasn’t bought a single scrap of meat since 2005. To gather food, he forages, angles for his fish, hunts game for his meat and…
Just as the H Burger brass had hoped, Little H Burger Co opened its doors today. After a soft opening on Tuesday, Little H will be serving up burgers, milkshakes and more for its first official day of business. The location at 727 Colorado Boulevard is a fast-casual version of…
One month ago, Zydeco’s opened quietly in the old Trios Enoteca spot in LoDo, bringing Cajun specialties to the neighborhood. Turns out, though, that was just a limited version of the restaurant. “It was more of a soft opening,” says Justin Archuletta, who does marketing for the new place. “They…
When Cezary Grosfeld moved to the States six years ago from Poland, he went shopping at a Target store, where he found himself wandering down the nail polish aisle, a display that befuddled him. “I couldn’t figure out why it was called ‘polish,’ or, rather, why it was Polish,” quips…
Unlike most breweries, Denver Beer Co doesn’t have any year-round staples, and owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford like it that way. In fact, when they opened on August 12, Berger said he wanted the brewery’s tap list to be compared with those at the city’s chef-driven restaurants, full of…
Some people don’t like to ratchet up their frankfurters with a heap of toppings, preferring instead to stick to the bare basics — like ketchup. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
Jensen Cummings Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar 891 14th Street 303-825-0100 www.row14denver.com This is part two of my interview with Jensen Cummings, exec chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar. Part one of that interview ran yesterday. What you’d like to see more of in Denver/Boulder from a…
When Brad and Libby Birky started SAME Cafe five years ago, people thought they were nuts. So did the Birkys, really. Even before they opened the doors to the restaurant — the name stands for So All May Eat, and they’d adopted a pay-what-you-can model that had been tried in…
Opening chef Chris Cina is out at Hideaway Steakhouse, and the new chef will introduce a new menu on Monday. But that may not be enough to save this spot, suggests Egotastic: The sad part is that without Chef Cina that place would have never even made it this far…
Remember Vail’s Wildflower? The restaurant was legendary, and at 7 p.m. tonight The Empire Lounge and Restaurant, 816 Main Street in Louisville, will host a Wildflower Throwback. Wildflower’s founder, Jim Cohen, who owns the Empire, will host this gastronomic tribute. Admission is $65; to make a reservation, call 303-665-2521. For…
Bottoms up! Whisky master Robert Sickler will join the diners at tonight’s “An Evening with Crown Royal”; the multi-course meal will be paired with Crown Royal cocktails. The fun — and food — starts at 6:30 p.m. at Elway’s Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street; for more details, call 303-312-3107 or go…
Jennifer Yu learned to bake for stress relief, first when she was in graduate school for geology at Cornell University, and then at Cal Tech. “I took cookies into work all the time,” she remembers. “People would ask, ‘How do you make your cookies?’ I’d tell them, ‘You use real…
When he founded the fast-casual Kokoro more than two decades ago, Mareo Torito had visions of growing the concept into a national chain. But from its original location at 2390 South Colorado Boulevard, it never spread beyond metro Denver — and now one of the three locations, at 555 Broadway,…
When Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin first leased the space that would eventually house Olivéa, they realized that the property abutted a piece of land leased by a rather unusual tenant: Elaine Granata was using the lot for the very urban Granata Farms. The farmer and the restaurateurs forged an…
“Hideaway Steakhouse brings on new Executive Chef, Todd Adkins, who has cooked for President Clinton and J Lo and has studied in Paris!” exclaimed the press release that landed in my inbox last week from Hideaway Steakhouse, the Westminster shrine to steer that opened in late March with Chris Cina,…
This week’s review sent me down a spiral of nostalgia, as I ate my way through Argentine staples at Caminito Tango, a Denver restaurant that you could find in any neighborhood in Buenos Aires. And everything from the pace to the pastries made me think of long meals enjoyed in…
Apart from rosé, is there any wine more universally misunderstood and underappreciated than riesling? There simply aren’t enough column inches allotted us to spout off the multitude of reasons this varietal is one of only three whites worthy of being classified as a “noble” grape, but its year-round drinkability, epic…
Oregon’s Deschutes Brewing is blitzing Denver this week as part of an eleven-city tour that promotes such staples as Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Inversion IPA and Black Butte Porter, as well as seasonal specialties like Jubelale, Hop Trip and the Abyss. The Deschutes reps started last Saturday with the annual…
With the arrival of fall comes the call for comfort food, and there’s nothing more comforting on a chilly autumn day than a big bowl of macaroni and cheese. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Jensen Cummings Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar 891 14th Street 303-825-0100 www.row14denver.com This is part one of my interview with Jensen Cummings, exec chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar. A broom and a dustpan — these are the tools of my trade,” declares Jensen Cummings, who’s shuffling…
It may have a hard-to-locate front entrance, but that hasn’t prevented Colt & Gray from becoming a big player on the Denver restaurant scene since it opened in August 2009, offering upscale gastropub fare paired to a stellar list of cocktails, beer and wine. And when a bank exited from…
What’s a professional eater to do? After a year on the job, Cafe critic Laura Shunk found that she’d gained twenty pounds, and “I now had more rolls on my body than a pastry truck, more cottage cheese on my thighs than a breakfast buffet, more jelly in my belly…
