The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working hard to increase the mix of menu options on the 16th Street Mall, expanding hours as well as offerings. “One of the things we’ve been striving for for the last couple of years is to increase the quality, predictability and overall appearance and…
When Nancy Weagant gave up her three-decade dental career five years ago, she decided to head into the kitchen. “I grew up in San Francisco, and I watched my mom cook forever,” she says. “And I studied abroad in France and Italy. I just knew this is what I wanted…
The Justice League of Street Food hosted its first bash of the season last weekend, and on Friday, the Food Truck Renegades will follow up with a street-food party of their own. Twelves trucks and carts — Crock Spot, Street Eats, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick it…
Gabrielle Hamilton has been on top of the culinary world for the past couple of years. In 2011, she landed a James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York City for her simple fare at Prune, besting April Bloomfield, Wylie Dufresne, Michael Anthony and Michael White and quipping, charmingly,…
Best of Denver award-winner Denver Seitan Company has been mysteriously absent as of late: no presence at this past Sunday’s Neat Market, no Denver Seitan pizza at the Marquis — and we just found out why: The health department embargoed and confiscated all DSC wheat meat due to permitting issues…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part two of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Read part one of my interview with Romeo. What’s your best piece of advice to culinary-school grads? Be open to learning things beyond what you…
I am a huge fan of noodle-sucking. I will suck noodles in such a disgusting, socially-reprehensible way that I even get filthy looks from small children. Slurp. Slurp-slurp. And Noodles & Company knows how to feed my fix. I’ve always liked the Denver-based chain for its fast-cazh convenience and prices,…
The talk continues about T|ACO, the updated taqueria with the awkward name that opened yesterday in Boulder. It’s not the first hip taqueria in the area, of course. Pinche Taqueria gave the Pinche Tacos concept a permanent home last year. And in February Comida Cantina opened a brick-and-mortar version of…
The Downtown Denver Partnership has revved up its vendor program on the 16th Street Mall, with more mobile food carts and expanded hours. But the new rules are threatening to drive some of the old carts away. “The working hours are supposed to be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m…
If you like your cocktails the hue of neon turquoise blue, and your belly has the capacity to endure the waves that come along with it, then this, people, is your poison. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
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. “Most of us…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part one of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Before her two-year stint on a food truck, Serena Romeo had never worked in…
DiFranco’s, 955 Lincoln Street, will open today in the Beauvallon building, a space that has swallowed up many earlier restaurants — but owner Ryan DiFranco is sure he can break the curse with his concept. “The emphasis is on local, fresh Italian food,” DiFranco says. “Denver needs a good local…
T|ACO opens today in Boulder. It’s a new concept from the folks behind H Burger Co. (an outpost of that joint just opened in Boulder, too), and readers agree that the place looks good — the urban taqueria is a 62-seat homage to tacos and spaghetti Westerns — and the…
Twin Peaks, the Texas-based chain that first appeared in Colorado last year at Colorado Mills, has opened a new location at 299 East Flatiron Crossing Drive in Broomfield. The restaurant boasts numerous high-definition TVs, a made-from-scratch menu, 29 degree draft beer, a hunting lodge motif and, of course, what Twin…
Here, at this tap house, which overlooks an expanse of green, you can get a generic bloody Mary with vodka, or a bloody Mary liquid-fueled with vodka and a craft beer. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess…
Skoops Ice Cream & More didn’t make our list of the best ice cream parlors in Denver, mostly because we gave precedence to spots that make their own ice cream…
When you eat at T|ACO, which opens in Boulder on Wednesday, you’ll be sharing space with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Annie Oakley, Raquel Welch and Robert Duvall — or at least their likenesses…
The concept behind The Garden, which recently sprouted in the former Kate’s at 35th Avenue spot, is deceptively simple: seasonal dishes — including raw, vegan, gluten-free and nut-free fare, as well as entrees with consciously sourced meat and dairy — served at brunch, and brunch only. Some of that concept…
When Malissa and Scott Spero decided to expand Hooked on Colfax, their coffee shop on Colfax, they didn’t anticipate an expensive, five-month wait to get their permits from the City of Denver…
Kitchen magician Ian Kleinman is ensconced at James Mazzio’s Studio F for the rest of the week, where he’ll be offering a special pop-up dinner that plays with liquid nitrogen. Lori Midson was there for the debut of Kleinman’s nine-dinner run. So was Stefan:…
One side effect of being a restaurant critic is that you can’t help analyzing every bite that goes into your mouth. It’s automatic. At dinner I might be having a fascinating conversation about something very far from food, but under the surface my brain is still buzzing with passing thoughts…
