No. 5: Salt & Pepper Soft Shell Crab at Hop Alley Score a seat at Hop Alley and you’ll notice a number of things about the Larimer Street Chinese eatery. First, no one seems to mind waiting. That’s likely because everyone has an inkling (or proof from previous experience) that what…
Rohini and Marshall Miranda have been serving Indian cuisine in Denver for twenty years as the owners of Bombay Clay Oven in Cherry Creek. That’s given them plenty of time to hone service and recipes and to track customer favorites over the years. They’ll be taking some of those favorites…
Friday, March 21, was World Poetry Day, and on a damp day with big, chunky clouds hovering low over Boulder County, I found myself sipping ginger tea and reading poetry queued up by Facebook friends on my iPhone while waiting for an order of kitfo ba aib inside the new…
No. 6: Masa Dumplings at Arcana The inspiration for Arcana’s masa dumplings, explains chef Kyle Mendenhall, comes partly from gnocchi, partly from tamales and partly from the fact that the kitchen can procure house-ground masa from neighboring restaurant T/ACO. Taste the dish, and that’ll all make sense: The masa forms…
Readers respond to the news that Cherry Cricket, an iconic burger joint, will reopen in Cherry Creek in mid-April.
No. 7: Dry-aged New York steak at Colt & Gray No matter your personal preference on cut and cooking specs for steak, you should head to Colt & Gray to taste what dry-aging can do to beef. This is one of the few restaurants in Denver dry-aging in house; here…
This week we explored the city’s Korean restaurants, uncovering a new favorite, Shin Myung Gwan, in an old location (the former Sae Jong Kwan). From there we rounded up a list of the ten best Korean restaurants in metro Denver, the bulk of those in Aurora. Perhaps Bravo’s Top Chef…
Southern eatery Tupelo Honey is still a few weeks away from an opening date, but two features stand out already. The first is the location: At 1650 Wewatta Street, it will be the closest restaurant to the north platform of Union Station. Surrounded by an upsurge of new apartments, offices…
No. 8: Singapore Curry Laksa at Jaya Asian Grill Singapore’s hawker markets teem with hungry patrons who line up for a little satay, chili crab or samosa. Just about every center hosts at least one laksa stall, where an owner ladles spicy coconut milk-based broth pooled with chile oil over…
There was a little monkey business last night as the Infinite Monkey Theorem unveiled its new wine bar inside the Stanley Marketplace. This is the second Colorado tasting room for IMT, which was founded by winemaker Ben Parsons in 2008. The company’s main winery and tasting room is located at…
Seoul, South Korea is one of the best eating cities in the world: Women hawk spicy rice cakes from teeming market stalls, tiny parlors put out tasty fried dumplings at breath-taking speed, and restaurants are often laser-focused on serving a perfect version of just one or two dishes, be that…
No. 9: Two Vegetable Dishes at Old Major Old Major has built a reputation with pork and other meats, displaying its mastery of steakhouse cuts, cured Italian salumi and nose-to-tail cookery. But Justin Brunson’s four-year-old LoHi restaurant is more than just a one-trick piggy; it’s a destination eatery where diners…
The time has come to change our state’s “Welcome to Colorado” signs to “Welcome to Culinary Colorado,” because Bravo Media is bringing one of its most popular TV shows to town. Season 15 of Top Chef will begin filming in Denver, Boulder and Telluride this spring with now-familiar host Padma Lakshmi…
When Wednesday’s Pie opened in 2010 as the front for chef/restaurateur Frank Bonanno’s speakeasy, Green Russell, beneath Larimer Square, pies were only sold on Wednesdays (as the name suggests). After minor adjustments over the past seven years, though, the little diner-style foyer is now open daily for those looking to…
No. 10: Tuesday Night Thai Chicken at Cho77 Cho77 recently unveiled a couple of weekly specials to entice South Broadway denizens in the door on traditionally slow nights in a district more known for its weekend nightlife. On Tuesday nights, the deal is Thai fried chicken, which includes a couple…
Brothers Jason and Kris Wallenta started talking about opening a restaurant together before they were of legal drinking age. For a long time, they imagined that their eatery would be a pizzeria, but they first went with a taco joint: Dos Santos. Now they’re about to open White Pie.
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
A kitchen fire closed the Cherry Cricket, an iconic Denver burger joint, on Thanksgiving Eve. Five months later, the 71-year old Cricket has announced plans to reopen on April 11.
Chefs often find new ways to play with food, to escape the tedium of doing the same thing one too many times. Cooking over gas burners, for example, must become absolutely mind-numbing after the first several thousand times you baste a steak in butter or arc a panful of sizzling…
Que Bueno Suerte! was designed to bring modern Mexican to Old South Pearl. But there’s just no escaping the feeling that you should be getting more for your money.
No. 11: Bone Marrow With Short Rib Marmalade at Vesta After longtime Vesta chef Brandon Foster departed to become the executive chef of Project Angel Heart last year, Nicholas Kayser took over the kitchen at the twenty-year-old LoDo favorite, dreaming up a new slate of dishes to usher in a…
Sae Jong Kwan was a mainstay of Korean barbecue in Aurora for more than a decade; when Jason Sheehan first reviewed it ten years ago, he remarked on its bright vibrancy and its crowds, and loved especially the restaurant’s oxtail soup. By the time I got to it four years…
