You know the drill at the majority of Thai restaurants in Denver: You pick your entree and the server asks how spicy you want it. You can even call out a number from a scale printed on the menu in many cases. And at the top of that scale are…
What started out as a weekend shack at the BigWonderful in RiNo and then became a mobile kitchen — one good enough to win our Best Food Truck award — has found a permanent home in Parker. Jozi’s Kitchen & Shebeen is now the only South African restaurant in the…
Westword writers — and many other people who live and work in the Golden Triangle — are losing their home away from home. At the end of the month, Rooster & Moon, the classic coffeehouse (and bar! ) that moved into an old VFW post at 955 Bannock eight years…
Ryan Fletter started working at Barolo Grill in 1994 — the year it opened — and took ownership of the Cherry Creek stalwart just over a year ago, after putting in nearly twenty years there (with a few brief stints away from the restaurant). Now, for the first time in…
No 63: How the West Was Won, or Biscuits and Gravy at Dozens Restaurant Before delving into this delectable dish, it should first be noted that the Dozens Restaurant in Aurora is not exactly the same as the other Dozens downtown. In fact, it’s been its own entity for 22…
Ever since Denver Deep Dish stopped slinging pizza at the Bar Car at 819 Colorado Boulevard just over a year ago, the watering hole’s tiny kitchen has been getting by with basic bar food. But now you can pick up a little something porky to go with your PBR: A new…
Juan Padro Highland Tap & Burger 2219 West 32nd Avenue highlandtapdenver.com Sloan’s Lake Tap & Burger 1565 Raleigh Street, Unit 100 sloanstapandburger.com Juan Padro, co-owner of Highland Tap & Burger and Bar Dough, swears that his initial foray into the restaurant industry was a mistake. He and his wife, Katie…
The block of Wazee between 17th and 18th streets downtown seemed to be crying out for a new restaurant — a counterpoint to the aging McCormick’s Fish House, something a little more glamorous than the other casual eateries on the same stretch. A cavernous office space at 1550 Wazee seemed…
The U Baron Group, which operates a string of Silvi’s Kitchens and Etai’s Bakery Cafes throughout Denver, rebranded the Silvi’s at 2250 East Colfax as the Good Son in March 2015, bringing Detroit-style pizza and a long beer menu to the Lowenstein Theater complex. But the group has now sold…
When I travel, I plan my days around meals, not sights. Doesn’t a lemon granita, with lemons plucked from a nearby grove and turned into a tart slushie, say as much about the gentle breezes of Sorrento —and the lifestyle of those lucky enough to call it home — as…
Chef Stephen Kleinman, a mentor to many a talented cook in Denver over the years, opened Pop’s Place at 2200 Lawrence Street in April with Jim Pittenger, owner of Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. The two took over the restaurant space vacated by Lower48 Kitchen late last year, hoping to lure neighbors from…
Our long hunt for Westword’s next restaurant reviewer has ended — and we’re pleased to announce that we’re returning to the tried and very, very true. Gretchen Kurtz, a seasoned pro who takes the role of reviewer very seriously, is back as our Cafe critic, offering her educated, opinionated take…
A Taste of Colorado, now in Civic Center Park, doesn’t capture every taste in town. Laura Shunk, Westword’s former restaurant reviewer, just spent a year in China. While she was there, she realized just how much she missed green chile as well as other favorite foods and places in Denver, as…
Food for thought comes from our music section, which recently visited musician Gregory Alan Isakov, who’ll headline at Red Rocks tonight, on his four-acre farm just outside of north Boulder. Isakov, who was born in South Africa and raised in Philadelphia, originally moved to Colorado to go to horticulture school. He’s…
A number of Denver restaurants closed in August, some longtime favorites like Z Cuisine and Black Pearl, others relative newcomers like Osaka Ramen in Cherry Creek. But no closure generated more response than the shuttering of Patsy’s, after 95 years on Navajo Street in northwest Denver, one of Denver’s most rapidly…
August kept up the pace of restaurant openings this year, with twenty new eateries and bars debuting. But it was the closings that caught our attention; we lost some old favorites as well as newcomers that had quickly won our hearts. Fortunately, some we’d miss most have already announced plans…
No. 64: Super Pass Key Special at Pass Key The Colorado State Fair is back in Pueblo, which means you do not want to pass up one of the first vendors you see as you enter the fairgrounds: Pass Key on the Go. For more than fifty years, the Pagano…
The tiny Boulder cottage at 2328 Pearl Street that was home to John’s Restaurant for decades will open as River and Woods on Tuesday, September 6. The new eatery comes courtesy of restaurateurs Josh and Kate Dinar and chef Daniel Asher, best known in Denver for his previous work spearheading the…
As you turn onto Raleigh Street from Colfax Avenue to the south or 17th Avenue to the north, you wonder if your GPS didn’t send you on a wild goose chase. After all, there couldn’t possibly be a hip new restaurant smack in the middle of an older residential neighborhood…
I didn’t become a rabid fan of green chile until the last time I moved away from Denver. Don’t get me wrong: I liked the stuff before. I grew up in this city, so I ate my fair share of green chile as a child; I have a particularly distinct…
Big news, Denver: The wait for the highly anticipated 715 Club is finally over. The bar that once belonged to the legendary Charles Cousins, in the heart of Five Points at 715 26th Avenue, will host a soft opening Labor Day weekend; doors will open at 8 p.m. tomorrow, September 2…
When Z Cuisine and Z Cuisine Bar A’ Côté two doors down consolidated last year, chef/owner Patrick Dupays closed the right-hand dining space to nightly guests, using it instead for large groups and special dinners. And now it seems that the entire operation has closed — or is at least on extended hiatus. A…
