No. 10: Pierogi of the Day at Rebel Restaurant Rebel Restaurant in River North isn’t a Ukrainian Restaurant; owners Bo Porytko and Dan Lasiy have way too much up their culinary sleeves to settle on one style of food — but they certainly know their way around Slavic specialties. So while…
Most parking meters around Denver are limited to two hours, an irritant for people who want to linger over dinner downtown — and a bonanza for the city agency that issues the tickets when those meters expire. So while you might find a parking spot by Butcher’s Bistro —which is celebrating its…
I’ve always loved food, so it’s not surprising that many of my memories are in some way related to food, whether eating it in restaurants, bakeries, ramen shops, creperies and even on street corners, or standing in various kitchens with grandmothers, aunts, college friends, parents, in-laws and my own children…
There’s nothing wrong with faithfully recreated Neapolitan classics, but sometimes you want to add a little fun to your pizza routine. At Denver’s two Pizzeria Locale eateries — at 550 Broadway and 3484 West 32nd Avenue — culinary director Jordan Wallace is mixing things up a little This month, the fast-casual…
Bill Miner and Brian Albano finally got the go-ahead from the city yesterday afternoon, so their new deli and market, Il Porcellino, is officially in business today. The doors of the shrine to swine will open at 10:30 a.m. In addition to a range of house-cured meats, cheeses and packaged…
Restaurateurs Juan Padró and Katie O’Shea Padró and chef-partner Max MacKissock are putting their new Italian eatery, Bar Dough, through its paces this week with a couple of friends-and-family lunch and dinner services before they swing the doors open to the public on Monday, October 26. The restaurant, located next…
Brothers Kris and Jason Wallenta have turned the space that once held D Bar into Dos Santos, opening their upscale, Uptown taqueria this summer. The place already has a legion of fans — and Gretchen Kurtz joins them with her review of Dos Santos this week. Says Megan: Seriously deeeeeelish Adds Judi:…
Yesterday we reported that a new eatery called Rusty Bucket Restaurant & Tavern will be coming to the Lower Highland neighborhood on the ground floor of a new apartment complex being built there. There are already plenty of Rusty Buckets around — nineteen and counting throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and…
Last week we dished up five places to get a great bowl of gumbo on National Gumbo Day, to honor Cajun and Creole chef Paul Prudhomme, who passed away earlier this month. Reader suggestions followed, one of which was Red Roux — but it turns out that Red Roux isn’t the name of the…
What’s in a name? Plenty of trouble, when a restaurant with a trademark discovers that another spot with a similar-sounding — and sometimes even identical — name pops up in the same town. The Wazee Supper Club waged a long-running battle when Wazoo’s opened up down the street; sibling restaurant…
The news yesterday that Lower48 Kitchen will be shutting down on November 7 at the corner of 21st and Lawrence streets brought with it curiosity about the situation of the Inventing Room, scheduled to open on October 31 in a space that was once Lower48’s Service Bar concept. “Does this…
Several Mexican grocery stores around town also feature little eateries — but few advertise their services as graphically as Carniceria la Sierra at 3170 West Alameda Avenue, one of several taquerias Mark Antonation featured in his story about three spots where you can get your groceries and tacos in one…
I’m supposed to be writing about chilaquiles. Instead, I’m eating them. Oh, I tried to sit at the computer and soldier on. Tried hard, in fact. But in the end, all those thoughts about cumin, serranos and lime got to me. So I did what any hungry critic would do:…
When Lower48 Kitchen opened in 2013, it immediately grabbed the attention of our food and drink staff, winning our Best New Restaurant award for that year. Over the next two years, owner Mario Nocifera and chef Alex Figura proved with innovative dishes, top-notch hospitality and commitment to quality that the…
In a heartfelt message to all of its fans, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe announced yesterday that it will close on October 30 — after more than thirty years on West 33rd Avenue — and the comments have been pouring in. “We’re calling it a retirement,” says Oscar Aguirre, the eldest…
The neighborhood many are calling LoHi these days hasn’t always been the epicenter of hip, destination dining out. Before Old Major, Uncle, Williams & Graham and Highland Tap & Burger set up shop, the area was a modest, heavily Hispanic neighborhood with a few old Victorians and Denver Squares rising…
It has been a hurry-up-and-wait situation for chef-inventor Ian Kleinman, who’s been champing at the bit to get his dessert emporium, the Inventing Room, open ever since he announced plans for a brick-and-mortar space to hold his laboratory of sweet experiments. But the big day is finally coming: The Inventing…
It’s the end of an era. Just over thirty years ago, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe opened in a storefront at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. And about five minutes after that, an artist whose studio was in the then-decidedly lowbrow Lower Highland neighborhood called Westword to say that he’d just found Denver’s…
Neighborhood bistro Table 6 has been churning out elevated American cuisine since 2004, and despite being in business for more than a decade with a few chef changes along the way, it’s still holding strong as one of the most consistently recommended restaurants in Denver. One of the OG pioneers…
The twin restaurant spaces at 1617 California street downtown have seen a few eateries come and go: Fontano’s Subs, An’s Lemongrass Grille — and most recently, Planet Sub, which closed on October 7. And while Larkburger is currently making a go of it in the right-hand space, reader Jason Dennee…
Allegro Coffee is expanding from roasting to serving. The company’s beans are already available at Whole Foods, as well as at a small shop in the Adams 12 administration building in its home base of Thornton. And next month, Allegro will open a stand-alone coffee shop in a a 4,000 square-foot…
A secret really isn’t much of a secret if it’s plastered on signs all over town, but sometimes the message gets lost among the many distractions of urban strip malls advertising everything from foot massages to children’s dental clinics. But if you look closely and pay attention, the word “taqueria”…
