100 Favorite Dishes: Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa

No. 18: Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa Don your leather pants and pink coat and get ready for a superb ride of flavor when you order the Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa. It sings with rich omega-three and well-balanced heat, and has a pleasing texture thanks to the…

Reader: All of Denver Is Losing a Gem When Le Central Closes

The sad news spread quickly yesterday: After 34 years, Robert Tournier is retiring, and closing Le Central, “the affordable French restaurant” he opened at Eighth and Lincoln back in 1980 and has been running ever since. Says Joseph: The neighborhood is losing a gem. Really sad to see this go. Adds…

Glaze Ending This Chapter; Closing on September 4

Like the exquisite, twenty-layered baum cakes that have been spinning inside its imported rotisserie oven – affectionately dubbed the Red Dragon — the past few years, Glaze is a restaurant with many strata. It opened as a bakery, became a joint sushi bar-bakery for a brief period, then earlier this…

100 Favorite Dishes: Mongolian BBQ Duck Buns at Linger

No. 19: Mongolian BBQ Duck Buns at Linger Though Linger is housed in what used to be part of the Olinger Mortuary, these Mongolian BBQ duck buns are anything but deadly. In fact, you might consider them life-savers, especially if you indulge in the $5 order available found during happy…

Reader: Fat Tire Is a Gateway Beer Into Craft Brews

Although New Belgium has long made 3.2 beer for festivals, the brewery will now be selling 3.2 Fat Tire — which means 4 percent alcohol by volume, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight — in cans and bottles in order to enter states like Utah, with specific liquor requirements. As a byproduct…

Le Central Bids Adieu: Closing September 13

An affordable French restaurant? Mais ouis. Le Central charmed Denver from the moment that Robert Tournier opened his restaurant at Eighth and Lincoln — and for the next 34 years, Le Central stayed true to its goal of serving good, inexpensive French fare in surroundings as accessible as the price…

Photos: Euro Crepes Joins the Fold on South Broadway

Euro Crepes just opened at 1842 South Broadway, and the restaurant held a grand opening bash filled with crepes, sounds, fashion…and crepes this past Sunday, with griddles working full time both inside and outside the eatery. We sent photographer Danielle Lirette to the party, and she brought back this taste…

Chef Kyle Foster of Colt & Gray Joins Rebel Restaurant

Kyle Foster, chef de cuisine of Colt & Gray, has taken on a new challenge at Rebel Restaurant, which opened earlier this summer in RiNo. While he’s still in charge of the charcuterie program at Colt & Gray, he approached Rebel owners Dan Lasiy and Bo Porytko asking for more culinary…

Will and Coral Frischkorn Add a Second Cured in Boulder

Will and Coral Frischkorn opened Cured in 2011 with two ideas in mind for their business. The first was that “we wanted a place with what we eat for dinner six nights a week,” says Will. The second was simply this: “Passion.” Four years later, those two ideas have produced…

Racines Is a Time-Tested Denver Brunch Staple

In a Denver dining scene full of rotating doors, mere survival is an accomplishment — and not only surviving, but thriving for thirty-plus years is a real accomplishment. One of the OG diners in the city, Racines is the go-to place for a predictably solid brunch, where you can reminisce…

Tacos DF Serves Up Mexico City Street Food

South Parker Road, especially the stretch in east Denver before it crosses into Aurora, isn’t exactly one of the city’s focal points for Mexican eateries. If you want to find the kind of restaurant density it takes to do a proper taqueria crawl (you know what I mean: at least…