In case you haven’t heard, our esteemed governor, John Hickenlooper, proclaimed August 10, 2011, “Denver Burger Battle Day” in the state of Colorado. No, seriously. It’s true, and for Jeremy and Kelly Kossler, the brains behind the Denver Burger Battle, a beefy combat among twelve Denver restaurants, all of which…
Not that Charlie Palmer needs much of an introduction: The world-renowned, James Beard award-winning master chef, whose progressive American cooking, stylized with classic French techniques, has generated accolades all over the country, presides over an extraordinary number of restaurants, from New York to Dallas, Washington DC to Sonoma, Las Vegas…
Our list of the “Five Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver” had a couple of readers wondering about the absence of JJ’s. But which JJ’s? From thespot84: I’m excited to try all of these. For straight up chinese takeout/delivery downtown, however, JJ’s Bistro is truly hard to beat. And this from…
Do good while enjoying yourself tonight at Hops for Habitat at the Plains Conservation Center, 21901 East Hampden Avenue. From 5 to 9 p.m., enjoy brews from fifteen breweries, live bands, food, wagon rides, wildlife and lovely scenery. Tickets are $30; for more information, call 303-693-3621 or visit www.plainsconservationcenter.org. For…
Looking for an indulgent end to the week? Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, 8100 East Orchard Road in Englewood, will present the CBCC Martini & Cigar Mixer from 3:30 to 6 p.m. A hundred bucks buys you appetizers, cigars, door prizes, raffles and premium drinks. For more info, call 303-831-0720…
As if the food wasn’t reason enough to head over to Masterpiece Delicatessen, you now can get a proper drink to go with your artistically crafted sandwich. The popular three-year-old deli just got a full liquor license and is serving cocktails, beers from Oskar Blues and wine from Infinite Monkey…
When Chinook Tavern shuttered its longtime home in Cherry Creek North back in the summer of 2008, many regulars were left crying in their one-liter steins, wondering where they would ever find another place to drink German beer and eat veal wiener schnitzel. Now they have their answer: The new…
It’s frighteningly easy to go very, very wrong with Chinese food in this city: for every Szechuan, Taiwanese or dim sum gem, there are at least two dollar-a-scoop joints, fast food outposts and restaurants that proffer nothing more than bastardized, Americanized versions of orange-flavored chicken and beef with broccoli. Still,…
It wasn’t nearly as bad as the walkout that Troy Guard, the owner/chef of TAG, experienced two weeks ago when a vocal majority of his staff hoofed it out the door after news that Guard and his soon-to-be-ex-wife had a parting of ways, but Andrew Casalini, the owner of Satchel’s…
Wazee Supper Club opened its doors back in 1974 under Angelo and Jim Karagas, five years after the same duo erected My Brother’s Bar just nine blocks away. Since then, the bar and restaurant, which has since been passed from the hands of the Karagas brothers to the Wynkoop Holdings…
The same company that’s pushing the all-natural tastes of XINGtea have teamed up with the Ball Corp. to introduce a canned water. The zero-calorie Just Pure Water, created by Colorado-based New Age Beverages, comes in berry, lemon lime and orange flavors. “What we wanted to do was come out with…
When Len & Bill’s went dark after fifty years, Denver lost one of its great dives. But now Mike’s Tavern has opened in the space at 2301 South Broadway. Bartender Nicole Keeney, whose father is Mike, says Len & Bill’s regulars have been coming in and telling her stories about…
When former TAG team (and married couple) Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan added Madison Street to their restaurant empire, they tapped a member of the TAG kitchen, Rob Michels, to serve as executive chef, where he worked alongside Troy to revamp the menu. Three months later, after the Guard and…
Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Andy Martinez, exec chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t travel as much I’d like…
The University Boulevard location of Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill has closed, but the homegrown Mediterranean fast-casual chain will continue to grow. “It wasn’t the best location for us,” explains marketing and PR manager Beth Hardy, who notes that the University of Denver location, unlike two over on South Colorado Boulevard, had…
Readers have been pouring out the jokes since Molson Coors announced that it will release Animee, a beer geared towards female non-beer drinkers, in the UK. From Claire: The Virginia Slims of the beer biz. From eCurmudgeon: Otherwise known as Zima with a new label…
You can have a beery good time in Denver tonight. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Avenue in Boulder, will offer the Asher Beer Dinner, which pairs six different beers with seasonal tapas. For more info, call 303-993-8131. Encore, 2550 East Colfax Avenue, will host the Uinta Beer vs. IMT Wine dinner,…
No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas…
For this week’s review, I headed out to Tao Tao Noodle Bar in Aurora, where David Lee and May Sung have resurrected many of the dishes they had on the menu at the original Chopsticks China Bistro on Federal and Mississippi. Not only did I like everything I ordered, I…
Lance Barto started behind the burners at Strings three years ago, working his way up to the executive chef role in 2009 after then-lead chef Aaron Whitcomb left for YiaYia’s Euro Bistro in Greenwood Village. Now, Barto’s heading over to the line at Wild Catch — the seafood restaurant that…
When Justin Brunson, the captain behind the magnificent Masterpiece Deli, opens Wild Catch, a sustainable seafood restaurant in Uptown, he’ll steer his kitchen along with a tag team of several other high-profile chefs — none of whom, by the way, are from TAG, Troy Guard’s Asian restaurant in Larimer Square…
We’ve always been pretty cranky about the lack of Colorado-centric food items at Denver International Airport — especially Colorado-centric food items that visitors can take back home as souvenirs from this state. But that will soon change: Provenzano Resources, which is in charge of adding fourteen kiosks and 24 RMUs…
