The week before I arrived in the Mile High City for a spring vacation, Westword named Uncle the area’s Best New Restaurant. That propelled Tommy Le’s restaurant straight to the top of my tome-like list of must-visit spots that had opened since I moved away from this town nine months…
For decades the Breakfast Queen was a greasy-spoon landmark at 3743 Federal Boulevard. But earlier this month it was transformed into Nick’s Diner, where Nick Mikelis and crew serve an extensive menu of Mexican, Greek and American diner fare to a growing number of Federal foodie fans. Westword’s Danielle Lirette…
In A Federal Case, Mark Antonation has been eating his way up Federal Boulevard, stopping at every non-chain joint he can find. Last week, he made it to Hong Kong Barbecue — an excellent consolation prize for his disappointing stop at Pho 555 the week before. See also: – Hong…
Announcement! We have a winner of our Mateo rosé wine dinner. We asked Cafe Society readers to guess how many glasses of rosé Mateo poured in May, 2012. The correct answer is 144 glasses. The person who came the closest to that number without going over, is Rex_Grant, who guessed…
Ron Dupen and his business partner John Power are building a mini waffle empire, capitalizing on the sweet or savory Belgian street food that, says Dupen, an Australian, is as American as apple pie. In mid-May, on the corner of Seventeenth Avenue and Lafayette, in Uptown, the two partners will…
Ace, winner of our Best New Bar award in the Best of Denver 2013 (and voted Reader’s Choice for Best New Restaurant), just keeps getting better. On Sunday, it’s introducing a new happy-hour menu with make-your-own cocktail pairings, wallet-friendly fare and extended hours. For $5, you can customize your own…
Two years ago, Leonard Cordova — founder of the homegrown Bubba Chinos chain and one of the Cordova family members claiming to hold the original, iconic green chile recipe that his grandmother, Stella Cordova, introduced at Chubby Burger Drive Inn more than four decades ago — had grand plans to…
It doesn’t matter that deviled eggs are the ultimate picnic food — and picnic weather is still weeks away. If deviled eggs are on the menu, I’m ordering them, and in the case of these eggs, I’m ordering two. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Tomorrow is April 20, which means that you are smoking your “4/20 Eve” stash today in preparation for smoking even more tomorrow. In order to properly pay homage to this greenest of green holidays, you should stay hydrated, stay stoned — and keep the munchies fed with the best possible…
There have been rumors for years that Lechuga’s, one of the last old-time Italian joints in LoHi — once known as “the North Side” — is for sale. But now the property is officially listed — with a hefty $3 million price tag. The asking price may be outrageous. But…
We’ve been keeping close tabs on Bob Blair’s plans for a second, scaled-down restaurant in the Taxi development since last spring. It finally opened on Monday, in the Drive building across from Fuel, but like the name — which changed from Pit Stop to Refuel — and the opening date…
There are three menus at this excellent Asian restaurant: An Americanized menu that preaches all the usual suspects, a Chinese menu that requires translation (unless you read Chinese) and a Korean menu. The dish in the above pic — sizzling pork — isn’t on any of those menus, but it’s…
Matt Selby (Corner House), Kevin Morrison (Pinche Taqueria), Jorel Pierce (Euclid Hall) and Ian Kleinman (The Inventing Room) will congregate in the kitchen of Sean Yontz, exec chef of El Diablo, on Monday, April 22, for the first FIVE dinner showcasing the new crop of chefs that comprise Leigh Sullivan’s…
The subs at Snarf’s have been winning fans since the very first shop opened in Boulder in 1996. And soon, the homegrown chain will give diners even more reason to snarf Snarf’s: Snarf Burger will be opening this spring at 2000 Arapahoe in Boulder, in the space vacated by Daddy…
Tommy Lee Uncle 2215 West 32nd Avenue 303-433-3263 uncledenver.tumblr.com This is part two of my interview with Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Like most cooks, I enjoy the creativity of coming up with new…
I have great sympathy for folks who can’t digest gluten (as opposed to fakers who affect gluten allergies for attention), as well as those who can’t or don’t eat meat — because they face very limited menu options if they dare to dine out. That makes Wahoo’s Fish Taco a…
“I’m a cook, not a chef, and I really have absolutely no idea what I’m doing,” Tommy Lee tells Lori Midson in this week’s Chef and Tell interview. But he does it well enough that Uncle, his noodle bar in LoHi, just won our Best New Restaurant award in the…
When are they going to have another one? The question jostled about my brain for years, but I never got around to asking it, not because it’s taboo, as it would be when posed to parents of an only child — as if there’s something wrong with only children, which…
Bob Blair, the man behind the five-year-old Fuel Cafe in Taxi, finally unveiled Refuel on Monday. The long-awaited fast-casual concept — just across from Fuel in the Drive development — serves made-to-order sandwiches from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The sandwich shop also shares lobby space with…
A river of red sauce used to run through northwest Denver, where many first-generation Italian Americans settled and opened their own restaurants — which were later taken over by second- and third-generation Italian Americans. But those red-sauce joints have been disappearing; Pagliacci’s, Longo’s Subway Tavern and Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli…
Anyone who’s created a restaurant can tell you that there are many obstacles along the way to the actual opening. And that’s something the folks behind Cold Crush — a new spot going into 2700 Larimer Street in the hot, hot Ballpark neighborhood — are rapidly learning. Their plans to…
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 the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. It’s a good…
