Steven Redzikowski was having lunch with his parents in Boulder when his phone beeped. “My mom and dad and I were having lunch at Brasserie Ten Ten in Boulder, and then I got the text,” says Redzikowski, executive chef of Acorn at the Source and Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder…
A lot of restaurants, including this one, have “secret” menus, and on this particular in-the-know menu, there’s a clone of the Big Mac, only this version, heaped with shaved steak, melted American cheese, lettuce, pickles and onions, is way better than anything that comes out of the kitchen from the…
After nearly six years at WaterCourse Foods, last week exec chef Rachel Kesley was let go. “It’s complicated, but ultimately it came down to direction,” she says. “I always gave 150 percent to my job….I put my heart and soul into that place, and it’s actually really sad.” What will…
Shoni Jones Root Down C Concourse, Denver International Airport 303-342-6959 rootdowndenver.com This is part one of my interview with Shoni Jones, exec chef of Root Down at DIA; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. “Oops, I was way off,” says Shoni Jones, the executive chef of Root Down…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
From wine tours to local restaurants, from a tasting of local brews to a food festival in the mountains, there’s no shortage of culinary activities in Colorado to please your palate. On Colorado.com, the Colorado Tourism Office just released a sampling of the best food adventures across the state. Here’s…
Four partners — Araceli Reynos, Ezzie Dominguez and brothers Isaias Poot and Juan Bootista, all of whom hail from the Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico — have joined together to open one of Denver’s only Yucatanian restaurants: Mayan Manjar Yucateco, which unlocked its doors last Friday, taking over the space…
This year’s Best of Denver — make that “Beast” of Denver — is behind us, but we’re already starting to think about next year’s issue, and while Lower48 was our pick for this year’s Best New Restaurant, the photo above, a marvelous dish of wood-fired octopus, comes from a restaurant…
Inga’s Alpine Lounge, says owner Leigh Jones, “is our ’60s and ’70s version of a swinging kind of apres ski lounge, an over-the-top place where, if it were a lodge on a ski mountain, would have a fur bikini-clad female villain or vixen of the moment on the slopes skiing…
No fooling: Casa Bonita is the restaurant that Coloradans love to hate. The manufactured Mexican village on East Colfax just celebrated its fortieth birthday, and fans and foes alike marked the occasion by spilling out memories of great times and bad food. But even Casa Bonita’s kitchen has its supporters…..
“I want that!” insisted my kid, frantically wagging his finger toward the table adjacent to ours, the center of which was dominated by a plate that had flames erupting from the center. I have never had a pu pu platter in my life, so this was our golden opportunity, and…
Hidden under the fancy Hotel Boulderado, literally below tourists dining on the patio was one of the best college bars Boulder had to offer — Catacombs. Sadly, no new college kids will get to wander to that often overlooked end of 13th Street, stumble down the windy stairs and explore…
“I like a good impromptu dance party,” Rachel Kesley acknowledged last year when I asked her to reveal something about herself that most people weren’t aware of. And while Kesley got the boot last week from WaterCourse Foods, the venerable vegetarian restaurant in Uptown, whose kitchen Kesley spearheaded for nearly…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a do-your-body-good vegetarian plate from the Kitchen Next Door (Glendale) to a whiskey-potent cocktail from Work & Class to big bowl of fleshy mussels bobbing in a saffron-smooched broth…
More than two dozen restaurants opened this month, including the long-awaited Gozo and Troy Guard’s stunning Guard and Grace. But the big news was how many longtime spots on the Denver dining scene called it quits — including longtime steak-mecca Emilene’s in Aurora and the Catacombs Bar in the Hotel…
While eating our way around town over the past few months to find the Best Brunch — an award that ultimately went to Fooducopia — we found many other brunches worthy of note, and served up a dozen in our list of the twelve best brunch spots in Denver. We…
The Best of Denver 2014 is now out, inspiring heated conversations about everything from Best Hamburger to Best Vegetarian Restaurant. Our Best Chef for 2014 is Darrel Truett of Barolo Grill: Even though “Barolo Grill has always been synonymous with owner and front-of-house face Blair Taylor, even he would admit…
If you have only 24 hours in New York, “You can’t go wrong with Grimaldi’s, a coal-fired pizzeria under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge,” wrote Time magazine in a story detailing ten things not to miss in the Big Apple. “Not only will you get a memorable pie, you’ll…
After several months of eating everything from headcheese to lamb vindaloo (blame it on Best of Denver, people), I took a much-needed break from digesting animals to focus instead on stuffing my gullet with vegetables, and while this restaurant does serve meat dishes, it does a bang-up job of saluting…
Lawyer/politico and certified barbecue judge has added another accolade to his resume: His first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, is a finalist for the James Beard award; the winners will be named the first weekend in May. But first, on…
We’ve just published our annual Best of Denver issue, which includes more than a hundred awards in the Food and Drink section alone, all for winning restaurants, chefs and dishes that make the Denver dining scene something worth celebrating. For instance, there’s Rioja, which just won Best Chef’s Counter, almost…
I drink coffee — a lot of it — but I don’t drink caffeine, and finding great decaffeinated coffee beans isn’t easy. But at this roasting facility that also doubles as a “java room,” the interior of which looks a lot like a tap room, the decaf beans are chock…
