ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro celebrates its first anniversary

Time flies when you’re having fun — and serving good food. ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, 1555 Blake Street, is hosting an anniversary celebration today with a multi-course menu featuring dishes from seven of Colorado’s top chefs. Happy birthday, ChoLon…and here’s to many more! For details, call 303-353-5223 or go to…

Tres Jolie is the girliest place in town

Six years ago, Holly Smith was trying to decide whether she wanted to open a restaurant to indulge her love of cooking, or open a woman’s boutique that sold scented candles, imported candies and pretty home decor…

Six biggest Colorado-related food scares

Beware the killer cantaloupes! It sounds like a horror-flick spoof, but for Jensen Farms in Holly, it’s all too real. In September, the Colorado farm recalled all of its potential globes of death, approximately 300,000 cases. Nonetheless, the case of the listeria-carrying melons already ranks as the second-most-deadly food-borne outbreak…

Barbecued tofu at Brothers satisfies soul-food cravings

First Wolfe’s closed, then OiNKs! bit the dust, leaving very little besides Moe’s in terms of barbecue options for non-meat-eaters in the metro area. But there is another chain option — a locally grown chain, of course — that serves up a decent barbecued tofu: Brothers BBQ…

Guess where I’m eating?

If you thought the lines during the mid-day lunch crush were bad at Biker Jim’s cart, you should see the lines at this joint. And, frankly, I just don’t get it. Waiting a good thirty minutes for an elk-jalapeno-cheddar dog smothered with pedestrian chili and nacho cheese seems like a…

Karma Chameleon hot dog stand opened by a former computer progammer

It’s certainly not the traditional career path: Tracee Campbell traded computers and office politics for hot dogs, sausage and sunshine. A computer programmer and teacher for ten years in Orlando, Florida, Campbell now owns the Karma Chameleon hot dog stand at the corner of 10th Avenue and Broadway…

Tuesday Date Night at Sketch

Sketch is best known for its wine and small plates these days — but the restaurant will be flashing back to its Cherry Creek incarnation every Tuesday. That’s when Tuesday Date Night will offer a different main course, sides and dessert from the original Sketch menu, along with a selection…

Tres Jolie is full of pretty things…and delicious food

“I hate you.” My brother whispered that sweet sentiment with utter sincerity as we stood in line at Tres Jolie. To our right, a chalkboard listed the available sandwiches and salads, tea-service options and champagne cocktails, all written in curlicued script in pastel colors. At the bar beyond the pastry…

Welcome to the Ikea Cafe, a 550-seat monster

At Tres Jolie, shopping while eating is a delightfully indulgent experience; you can sip a champagne cocktail while picking up throw pillows or snack on a cookie while custom-mixing lotion. But this is not the only place in town where you can spend the afternoon consuming both food and goods…

Santiago’s on 84th closes up shop

Santiago’s is a Denver institution, selling one of this city’s most iconic versions of green chile as well as rightly famous breakfast burritos. But one of the city’s nearly two dozen locations has just been locked up for good…

Three recipes that celebrate the end of watermelon season

Watermelon typically peaks from May through August, but this year, excellent specimens of the fruit are still available all over the city. We’re at the end of the season, though: Farmers’ markets are beginning to wind down, and watermelon is currently flooding roadside stands and grocery stores for the last…

Foodography: Cafébar opens in Washington Park

“It was just time for a change,” insists Eric Rivera, the executive chef of Cafébar, a new modern American restaurant, owned by Dane Huguley, that unlocked its doors last week in Washington Park at 295 South Pennsylvania Street. Rivera, who was the opening chef of Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…

Guess where I’m eating?

While everyone else used the hoods of their trucks as makeshift tables to inhale the tacos from this parking lot-anchored street cart that does a bang-up business — even on a Sunday night — we ate ours on the stoop of the dentist’s office next door. Can you guess where…