Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual concept, will open its eighteenth location — the sixteenth in Colorado — today at 14740 West Colfax Avenue, in the new Denver West project. To celebrate, the restaurant will be giving away prizes and menu items all month long — check the Facebook page…
The town already has three Tom’s (Tom’s Home Cooking, Tom’s Urban 24 and Tom’s Diner), as well as three Hideaways — Hideaway Steakhouse in Westminster, Hideaway Kitchen & Bar, and Hideaway Tavern in Commerce City (there’s also Herman’s Hideaway). And next week, it will have both a Corner Office and…
Mike Lucas opened Luke’s — A Steak Place more than twenty years ago, and it has been an established steakhouse ever since. But this year Lucas decided to retire, leaving the restaurant in the hands of new owner Robert Meyer. Over six weeks this fall Meyer completely renovated the interior…
Back when Fuqua Development was still touting Walmart as the major tenant in the project planned for the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Jeff Fuqua promised that there would be a “chef-driven” restaurant on the site — inspiring some critics to ask…
When I asked the bartender if he had mezcal, his eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. “You want mezcal!? he exclaimed. “Oh, man, a gringo girl who likes mezcal. Wow.” Not only did he pour me a potent margarita but he brought out the mezcal bottle, too, egging me…
On last night’s season five episode of Top Chef Seattle, Tyler Wiard (nickname T-bone), the culinary director of Elway’s — and the exec chef of Elway’s Cherry Creek — is sent packing, along with fellow chef Chris “CJ” Jacobsen, the two of whom were bludgeoned by judges Gail Simmons, Padma…
Jay Leandro Pub 17 on Welton Street 1750 Welton Street hyatt.com/gallery/pub17/index.html 303-295-1117 Part one of my interview with Jay Leandro, exec chef of Pub 17 on Welton Street, ran yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Pho Fusion on Hampden. I used…
“Food programming has come a long way since Julia Child cooked her way into our hearts,” Gretchen Kurtz wrote earlier this week. “For all her affability, Child was trying to do one thing: demystify fine cooking for an audience dependent on canned soup and casseroles.” But did Child, and all…
I can hear the noise already, a rising roar of complaint over my decision to spend a thousand-plus words on So Perfect Eats, a two-year-old eatery in Cherry Creek North that feels more like a grab-and-go lunch spot than a restaurant worthy of review. But before you rant — whether…
Updated: The contest is closed, and we’ll be in touch with those who’ll receive invitations..A delicious Drambuie cocktail at Williams & Graham, our Best New Bar in the Best of Denver 2012, got us in the holiday spirit…and spirits. And in that holiday spirit, we decided to share this delicious…
It’s incredibly difficult to do justice to the thousands of remarkable cookbooks published in 2012, but after spending days — weeks — roaming through the recipes and lush food porn of hundreds of them, I’ve picked out my favorites. These are the cookbooks that stock my selves at home, and…
You can get chicken tikka masala here, as well as vindaloo and biryani, but this is a restaurant — Indian, obviously — that offers so much more, including a delicious cashew chicken curry strewn with cilantro. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Jay Leandro Pub 17 on Welton Street 1750 Welton Street hyatt.com/gallery/pub17/index.html 303-295-1117 This is part one of my interview with Jay Leandro, exec chef of Pub 17 on Welton Street; part two of our conversation with run tomorrow. According to Jay Leandro, it all started with a chicken. “I was…
Ondo’s Spanish Tapas Bar, 250 Steele Street, is commemorating three years in business this evening with drink specials — including $3 Basque cider and $5 house wines — throughout the night. There will also be a traditional, Basque-style Pintxos bar featuring a variety of tapas for $2 each. See also:…
In honor of National Cookie Day, EDGE Restaurant & Bar unveiled a twelve-foot Christmas tree made from macaroons today, at a reception introducing new general manager Matt Barber. The tree will remain on display until New Year’s Day. See also: -Soccer Saturday at EDGE -Feast with the 1-percenters at Edge…
The forces-that-be at Kentucky Fried chicken have constructed the ultimate in culinary cross-marketing: combining KFC’s fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies with its original-recipe fried chicken to create an original-recipe cookie formula. It’s a clucking weird idea, but are these new hybrid cookies the next big thing for KFC — or an…
Jerry Feld bought his bar at 404 Broadway before he was even old enough to have a liquor license; for the first year, it was in his uncle’s name. Feld went on to run Club 404 for sixty years, creating generations of fans. But once he hit eighty, he was…
Want to get lucky as you ring in 2013? The Westword New Year’s Eve Guide will be inserted in our December 13 issue and will include information on select December 31 entertainment options to ensure that when the clock strikes twelve, you don’t strike out. If you know of any…
Mellow Mushroom seemed like the perfect place to celebrate the passage of Amendment 64, what with its giant, color-changing psychedelic mushroom motif. But this pizza chain is based in Atlanta, and last time we checked, Georgia wasn’t anywhere close to legalizing marijuana. Still, we’ll give a thumbs-up to Mellow Mushroom’s…
It was my lucky day, stopping at a restaurant/bar that stocks Avery Odio Equum, a brilliant sour that’s a rarity, given that only 443 cases were produced. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered…
The phrase “say my name” may get you slapped at a bar under normal circumstances, but today it could net you a free Sweet Jim Beam Bacon Swiss burger at Red Robin. That’s because on December 4, participating locations of Red Robin will give a free burger to anyone whose…
Jenn Wohletz doesn’t like Guy Fieri. She’s been an anti-fan since the late ’90s, and recently served up “Five reasons why Guy Fieri should drive to Douchebagistan and never come back.” And responses to her piece keep coming. Some positive, some definitely not… See also – Five reasons why Guy…
