Reader: So There’s a Possibility of Good Food in Denver?

Denver has two finalists in the <em>Food & Wine</em> People’s Best New Chef contest; both Alex Figura of Lower 48 Kitchen (our Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014) and Steve Redzikowski of Oak at Fourteenth and Acorn (our Best Chef in the Best of Denver 2015) are…

Chef Dakota Coburn Talks Tacos at Centro Latin Kitchen

Dakota Coburn’s quiet intensity expands into full-on enthusiasm as he reminisces about vacations in Mexico and his initial forays into that country’s cuisine when he was eight — from his first taste of real mole to tacos al pastor straight off the spit of a Puerto Vallarta street vendor to…

Review: Playful D Bar Denver Is Grown-Up Fun

So there I was, sharing a meal with my husband that shouldn’t have been romantic, given how packed and loud it was at D Bar Denver, an updated version of D Bar Desserts that opened in a new Uptown location this fall after an eight-month closure. But the place was…

The Soups Sizzle at Aurora’s Tofu House

I really know very little about Korean cuisine. I’ve had Korean barbecue and bibimbap and a few other iconic dishes, and I’ve pulled off David Chang’s recipe for bo ssam (a roasted pork shoulder dish that’s excellent for dinner parties) from his Monofuku cookbook. But when it comes to the…

Noodles Come at You Fast and Furious at Katsu Ramen

January 2015 wasn’t the start of the ramen bowl trend by a long shot, not even in Denver, but it was the date that Katsu Ramen flung open its doors in Aurora to stupendously long lines of noodle-crazy customers — so crazy that they ate through the kitchen’s stock by…

DJ Cavem Goes Green at Redline…and the White House

Ietef Vita, aka DJ Cavem, is everywhere these days. The 2013 Westword MasterMind  just spoke about his efforts to raise kids right through urban gardening at TedXManhattan, and tonight he’s hosting the Denver HipHop Green Dinner at Redline Art Gallery with his wife, Alkemia Earth, a vegan chef who’ll do a…