Linger is known for an eclectic mix of dishes from all over the world. You can, for example, load up on falafel while your dining partner picks at a bento box. It’s a place for just about any taste preference and the staff is incredibly accommodating to allergies and diet…
Brik on York owner Travis Gee threw open the doors yesterday to welcome customers to his new wine bar and eatery featuring an imported Italian wood-burning oven and a menu designed by executive chef Shoshana Frost. Gee’s approach to designing the space was to honor the building’s history and bones…
Gerald Vevelhymer opened the original Taco House on Federal Boulevard in 1958. Not long afterward —1961, to be exact — a building housing a burger joint went up on Littleton Boulevard. It soon turned into a Taco House franchise and since then, not much has changed. Different owners have come…
Blue Pan Pizza opened last night on West 32nd Avenue, filling its twenty-seat dining room with neighborhood pizza lovers looking to try the Detroit-style pies that owner/chef Jeff Smokevitch has already popularized at his Telluride pizzeria, Brown Dog. Takeout orders also kept the kitchen busy in the new space across…
For more than two decades, Taste of Thailand served up some of the town’s best Thai food from a small storefront in Englewood. But with that building slated for demolition, Noy and Rick Farrell started looking for a new location — and found a great one at the corner of…
The Italian wood-burning oven is fired up and the wine is flowing; Brik on York, Denver’s newest wine bar, opens today at 3:30 pm. on East Colfax Avenue. Owner and sommelier Travis Gee took over the former Tulper’s watch repair shop and converted it into a airy and welcoming space…
Nothing says summer like sangria. Cucina Colore, the Cherry Creek mainstay that I review this week, serves both red and white versions. I’m partial to the white, with cantaloupe, mango, pineapple and papaya that all pack a fruity punch from the brandy, orange curacao and peach schnapps in which they’re…
There was a lot to love at Latke Love, but the Park Hill eatery closed at the end of May 2014. Now it’s getting ready to make a comeback, at a location that has not yet divulged. And when Latke Love does return this summer, it will not only have…
The Art Hotel opened yesterday on Broadway in the Golden Triangle, on the same block as the Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum and the Clyfford Still Museum. The hotel’s restaurant, Fire, is now open too, featuring a menu from executive chef Chris Jakubiec (most recently of Plume, inside…
Dough expert Jeff Smokevitch of Blue Pan Pizza recently earned high honors for a gluten-free pizza at the World Pizza Championship in Parma, Italy, where he competed with scores of other pizza pros from around the globe. It turns out that the dough for the pizza that helped him win…
The comments have been coming fast and furious — mostly furious — since we posted our list of the ten best green chiles in Denver two weeks ago. Readers argued over what we’d included on the list — one called it “yuppie bullshit” — and what we hadn’t: Where was…
Cucina Colore has had an enviable run. As other restaurants in Cherry Creek North have come and gone, this beloved Italian eatery, with its big windows and landscaped patios, has kept cooking for more than twenty years. Founded by chef-owner Venanzio Momo, who once owned a coterie of Colore-branded outfits,…
When the Englewood building in which Noy and Rick Farrell had opened Taste of Thailand in 1994 was scheduled for demolition, rather than throw in the towel, they decided to pack up the kitchen and find a new home. After several months of construction and a brief closure (although the…
Brik on York’s Shoshana Frost is training the staff on the Acunto Mario Classico wood-fired oven that was shipped from Italy, then installed and put through an eight-day curing process after a month at sea. Frost is no stranger to Acunto ovens; this handmade brick model will be the centerpiece…
Bad news for the month-old Greedy Hamster, which took over the downtown space on 14th Street vacated by the Belvedere: The brick facade above the pub’s patio — and a large part of the the rest of the building — collapsed onto the sidewalk yesterday afternoon. The Denver Fire Department…
We can almost taste that Detroit-style pizza now: Michigan natives and friends Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanagin have fired up the ovens and are just about ready to open Blue Pan Pizza at 3930 West 32nd Avenue. The new eatery has been several years in the making; Smokevitch started Brown Dog…
Chicken is seldom my protein preference when I’m dining out; it’s just such an everyday meat without personality or pop. Kids eat a lot of chicken — when they’re not eating other bland foods like white bread, juice in a box and orange crackers shaped like fish. Fried chicken, when…
The Centennial Tavern at Jonesy’s closed on the last day of May after several months in business under that name — and several years as Jonesy’s Eatbar before that. Or did it? Regulars and fans of the relaxed, neighborhood bar and kitchen will be delighted to know that the tavern isn’t quite…
Nocturne, River North’s newest jazz and supper club, launched the summer version of its Renditions dinner and music series last Thursday with a set from the Tom Gershwin Quintet and a matching tasting menu from chef Dustin Beckner, with accompanying beverages from sommelier Scott Mattson, who owns Nocturne with his…
It’s hard to put my finger on exactly what Wild Eggs, on the edge of Washington Park West, is trying to be: a strip-mall chic, neighborhood breakfast joint or a modern art gallery devoted entirely to egg photos. I had been expecting just another franchise with decent food with a…
When Wonderbowl moved into a space next door to longtime favorite Pho Duy last year, it seemed an odd cozying-up. After all, the owners of Wonderbowl also run Pho Duy 6 in Broomfield. Still, flirting with the new noodle house on Federal Boulevard was a titillating experience that yielded some…
The 1400 block of Larimer Street is one of Denver’s oldest areas, but a hundred years after the city’s founding, it had sunk to Skid Row Status. Enter developer and historic preservationist Dana Crawford, who turned things around. This summer Larimer Square is celebrating its fiftieth birthday with a host…
