Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Palettes at the Denver Art Museum is part of the Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group, a name synonymous with fine dining. And for the most part, the aesthetically pleasing dining room matches its art-filled surroundings. To find out if the kitchen has a steady hand, read this week’s review of Palettes,…
It was a big upset — chains rarely win the editorial picks in our Best of Denver issue — but Native Foods Cafe, which added an outpost in Glendale’s CitySet last summer after already establishing a beachhead in Boulder , took Best Vegetarian Restaurant honors in the Best of Denver…
Back in January, Bones, Frank Bonanno’s noodle house in Capitol Hill, celebrated its fifth anniversary with a smashing seven-course dinner, and at least one of those dishes, namely the soy-braised pork belly ssam, a duo of pork belly and hoison-glossed duck mounted in a bamboo basket and served with glistening…
I spent last weekend in Steamboat Springs, a mountain town with a soaring restaurant scene that made for very good eating. And one of the restaurants that made a lasting impression was this bustling breakfast joint, which turns out some of the best corned beef hash in the Rocky Mountains…
Daniel Bradley 5280 Burger Bar 500 16th Street Mall 303-825-1020 5280burgerbar.com This is part one of my interview with Daniel Bradley, exec chef of 5280 Burger Bar; tune in tomorrow for part two of our chat. When you grow up in Burlingame, California, where fields of fresh produce are within…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Pigs, like people, arrived in waves to the islands of Hawaii, tagging…
On Monday, we shared the sentiments of a reader who can’t find good Mexican food on South Broadway. Since then, other readers have been offering their own thoughts — not just on spots to try (or avoid), but also of attitudes toward Mexican food in general. See also: Are there…
On Thursday, after several years lying dormant, Denver’s historic Colorado National Bank building, originally built in 1915 and still one of the most stunning architectural structures in the Mile High City, will reopen as the Renaissance Denver Hotel, a multi-storied masterpiece that features futuristic hotel rooms and a new restaurant…
When you travel around the world and devote the majority of your time to eating in restaurants, you take note of what you love, which sometimes turns into a wistfulness of what you wish you had at home: a neighborhood bistro, for example. That’s what happened with Mary Nguyen, chef-owner…
If Mary wanted a little lamb that mimicked the taste of beef, she wouldn’t come here, but if she wanted a hearty lamb shank that was strong-flavored, grassy and slightly gamey, which, in my opinion, is the way lamb should taste, then she’d likely be here every night. Can you…
You can always tell when a restaurateur is apathetic, even when it’s his first rodeo and the balls are to the walls. Phil Armstrong is the antitheses of the indifferent restaurant owner. Armstrong, who first made a name for himself five years ago, when he started an underground supper club…
Highland already has Prost Brewing, on the very edge of LoHi. And this month, it’s also scheduled to get Prost Fine Beer and Sausage, an outpost of a Frisco-based restaurant that has no connection to Denver’s Prost…except a mile or so of pavement. The two Prosts have agreed to avoid…
Dunkin’ Donuts continues to roll its way to doughnut dominance along the Front Range, with a location at 7615 West 88th Avenue in Westminster that opens this morning. Unlike some of the other new spots in the metro area, this Dunkin’ Donuts will not be open 24/7; both the drive-through…
Boulder will be getting a new upscale diner when Ella replaces Radda Trattoria in early June. Matt Jansen had opened the neighborhood Italian spot in the midst of north Boulder’s low-rise sprawl seven years ago, but now it’s reached the end of the line. See also: First look at Sunny’s,…
“Honestly, I never thought I would have more than one place,” reflects Troy Guard, a prolific Denver chef-restaurateur, whose restaurant empire, which includes TAG, TAG|Raw Bar, TAG Burger Bar, Los Chingones and Sugarmill, stretches far and wide — and just keeps growing, with a second TAG|Burger Bar and TAG|Raw Bar…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a cocky, chocolate-frosted doughnut from Voodoo to a burger paved with cream cheese and rings of jalapeno chiles from Providence Tavern to a lovely slice of chocolate cake from a super-tiny restaurant that’s doing everything right…
In late February, Hash, a breakfast joint owned by Heather Haupman, closed in Sunnyside, but the charming space wasn’t vacant for long. Ryan Turano, a chef who spent the last several years cooking in Breckenridge, snatched it up shortly after Haupman shuttered, and two weeks ago, he reopened it as…
In March, Governor John Hickenlooper introduced a craft-beer draft system at the Governor’s Mansion. Now he can show off another one of Colorado liquid assets there: wine. On Friday, Hickenlooper was at the Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery in RiNo to sign a bill that now allows Colorado wineries to bottle,…
Driving towards El Tejado, winner of our Best Breakfast Burrito — Eat-in in the Best of Denver 2014, we noticed that 4G’s has opened its fourth location, this one at 2200 South Broadway, in a space that was most recently home to an outpost of Zocalo, but had held many,…
This is finals week on the 45,000-student Auraria Campus, which means there could be a big run on coffee in the area. “I don’t like finals,” says Metropolitan University of Denver student Mathew McKenzie. “They are time-consuming because of all the studying. I will drink tons of coffee during finals…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz determined that things are going swimminglyat the latest outpost of Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, Jax Glendale is not just about the ocean.. Diane Snider of Row 14 is the star of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, talking with Lori Midson…
