There are plenty of bars and restaurants around town hosting Halloween events this week. In addition to pouring spirits, some restaurateurs will be introducing guests to the spirits that reportedly haunt the storerooms and back halls of their establishments. But a few spots don’t need to conjure up special-occasion parties;…
With a positive review of Argyll from our restaurant critic, Gretchen Kurtz, and Punch Bowl Social packing in the crowd at its hot Broadway location, it would be easy for CEO and founder Robert Thompson and his team to rest on their laurels. Instead, they’re striving for improvement and expanding…
With all the food-named breakfast and brunch spots in town – Toast, Jelly, the Delectable Egg — it’s hard to know what really distinguishes one from the other. There’s no secret with Syrup. With an entire menu of homemade syrups and flavored butters, it’s hard not to opt for one…
For years, we’ve heard that Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery, which opened in northwest Denver in December 2008, would soon have a second outlet — maybe in downtown, maybe on Broadway, maybe in Aurora, on Broadway. But now that second Tocabe is becoming a reality…in Centennial? See also: Tocabe Does…
Stoic & Genuine 1701 Wynkoop Street Aside from the name, everything about Stoic & Genuine shouts seafood. In the raw bar, oysters and crab legs glisten on ice. Emerald-glass floats, salvaged from fishing nets, fill a case by the hostess stand. Light bounces off mirrored panels like moonlight on silvery…
Pete Turner Illegal Pete’s Six metro locations (with more to come) illegalpetes.com Pete Turner never expected to wind up on the Drudge Report. But that’s where he landed last week — while he was dealing with an eleven-week-old baby, fighting a cold, moving the original Illegal Pete’s that he’d opened…
It’s been a year and a half since Taylor Swallow, his wife Kajsa and chef Brian Laird, whose cooking skills have taken him around the metro area since he departed Barolo Grill in early 2011, signed a lease for a new restaurant in transitional Jefferson Park, a neighborhood until recently…
There’s a new development going up at 2601 Larimer Street in Ballpark/River North, and it’s called, appropriately enough, 2601 Larimer. It will feature 20,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space — that’s the important part — and last night 2601 threw a neighborhood party to introduce its concept…
Menus are changing faster than the leaves, as chefs update their offerings to reflect the season. But at Panzano, executive chef Elise Wiggins approaches her menu with more than just fall produce in mind. She’s also aware of the way autumn makes us feel. See also: Fall Has Arrived at…
The conversation about Gretchen Kurtz’s recent review of Kobe An Shabu Shabu, a long-anticipated restaurant that opened this year in LoHi, got hot — hot enough to disintegrate the shabu shabu meat and veggies that diners are supposed to drop in hot broth and swish into a DIY dinner. See…
Helga’s German Restaurant and Deli hides midway between a Holiday Inn Express and a JCPenney (both high on the list of depressing businesses), in a warren of seemingly permanent road construction and suburban mall sprawl. There’s also a U.S. Army recruiting office and a Chuck E. Cheese’s nearby, just to…
Lunch options for the Denver Tech Center crowd are about to get a little more interesting. Fry bread and Indian taco specialist Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery announced last week on its Facebook page that it will be opening a location in Centennial near Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. See also: Jelly…
Czech Potato Pancakes from Sobo 151 Bar & Grill 151 South Broadway 303-778-1560 Sobo 151 isn’t known as a culinary destination, but those with a hankering for hockey and hearty Czech fare will always head here. When you’re watching the Avs — or playing billiards or trivia, or even listening…
Since Massimo Ruffinazzi, who was born and raised in Italy and then was a chef/partner at Il Fornaio, took over the Shangri-La coffee house in LoHi three years ago, he’s given neighbors plenty of reasons to hang out there. Great coffee, for starters, as well as homemade breads, salumi plates…
Boost Burger, the automotive-themed burger joint on South Federal Boulevard, opened last spring in a building that had previously housed a branch of Bubba Chinos. Things were looking good over the summer as a new, permanent sign went up to replace the original banner. But now the windows are boarded…
Since he opened his first store in Boulder almost twenty years ago, Pete Turner has been serving up big burrito as well as lots of community support for neighbors, musicians and other good causes. But recently, Illegal Pete’s has also been the source of plenty of food for thought: A…
This week in Cafe Society, Mark Antonation visited with Lorena Cantarovici, who moved Maria Empanada from Lakewood to South Broadway this year. Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Kobe An Shabu Shabu, an offshoot of Kobe An, a longtime Japanese restaurant in Lakewood that just closed in anticipation of a move to Cherry…
Lo Stella Ristorante opened in 1850 in Portofino, Ital and now, over 160 years later, Denver is getting a taste of the famous restaurant that has been in the same family for eight generations. Lo Stella Ristorante opened today in the former home of Gallo di Nero in the Golden…
Caulden Jackson, a Johnson & Wales student and sous chef at the Early Bird in Westminster, braved a barrage of Halloween-themed challenges to take the top spot on Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen. The Texas-born father of two did everything from bob for eggs to cook cricket stew on a shovel,…
The first Hopdoddy Burger Bar opened in Austin, Texas in 2010. There will be seven locations on Monday, when the newest Hopdoddy opens next to Union Station. Hopdoddy President Dan Mesches says the company chose the location because of its combination of historic and modern surroundings. “We love the urban…
Fooducopia Corner Store & Cafe in Washington Park was named Best Brunch in Westword’s 2014 Best of Denver edition, so I thought it deserved a taste, especially on my birthday weekend. And while the nice, if flustered, service and long wait times indicated a tiny kitchen a little overwhelmed by…
Billboards have gone up around town, asking “Can you spot the pot?” They’re from smartcolorado.org, of course, the leading opponent of legalized marijuana. But the Denver Police Department is also cautioning parents that their kids might be handed pot-laced candy this Halloween, and media outlets are jumping on the story…
