Three and a half years ago, husband-and-wife team Peter and Delinda Fatianow opened Indulge Wine Bar in Highlands Ranch, bringing the southern suburbs a tapas-focused spot with a massive by-the-glass list — and a stellar patio, featuring couches, fire pits, and sweeping views of the Front Range. And now, the…
The last meal I had at Ambria was stunning. From the crisp, goat-cheese-and-almond-studded raw carrot salad to roasted beets pooled with celery root pesto to a well-cooked ribeye, it was one of the few meals I had all year that was truly close to perfect. By the time I’d scraped…
The chain of Rio Grande Mexican restaurants has been hard at work re-tooling the kitchens across the company, and, as I wrote in my review a few weeks ago, the downtown restaurant, at least, has been successful, even if it still has some work to do. That LoDo location is…
No. 32: Lamb posole from Encore…
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. Pinch pie, says…
Most chilaquiles make me happy, even the ones that aren’t as good as they should be, but none make me happier than the ones you get here — a plate-spanning stack of stale tortilla chips smothered in a chile-laced verde topped with three large eggs that stream rivers of school…
It’s a perfect day to dine on a patio. But not at My Brother’s Bar, whose urban-oasis deck is under construction — much like the area all around My Brother’s, since the demolition of the 15th Street Street viaduct started last Sunday. (The lane heading into downtown is still open.)…
Denver City Council last night approved $5 million in tax-increment financing for a new Target store — only the second in Denver — that will be built at the former home of Tamarac Square. But some people will be more interested in another facet of this $40 million development: a…
We’re down to the Final Four in our Street 16 menu matchup. And one of the contests is very tough: Boulder versus South Federal Boulevard. The “foodiest” town in America versus Denver’s ethnic strip. Yesterday, one reader was so torn he wondered how to split his vote. But no more…
Matt and Rosemary Lopez have owned Taza de Cafe on 44th Avenue for six years, where they’ve hawked a variety of coffee-based treats — including a horchatte, a latte made with horchata. Two years ago, they started thinking about adding another business to their portfolio, and they began looking around…
The gather and huddle in the early afternoon, often under the threat of ominous skies threatening to dump buckets of snow in their champagne flutes and on their foie gras. But that doesn’t stop the hearty oenophiles and gastronauts from making the airborne gondola pilgrimage to the mountaintop picnic on…
Green chile-heads, I’ve noticed, divide into a couple of camps when it comes to debating who makes this city’s best version of a food that graces just about every Mexican restaurant’s menu in town: half swear by the Colorado-style gravy-like green; the others won’t touch it if it’s not in…
Yesterday, while driving down Hampden, I noticed a sign for a forthcoming Texas Roadhouse, just one of many chains that gang the River Point at Sheridan, a mega-mall sprawl at Hampden and Santa Fe that gives shoppers at Super Target and Costco the opportunity to chow at Chili’s, Subway, Panera…
Despite the proliferation of restaurants in the Lower Highland neighborhood over the last couple of years, the area still isn’t quite ready to call Uncle. In fact, we keep getting word of new projects going into the area, including a restaurant actually called Uncle…
Lower Highland solidly won against Capitol Hill in the round of 8 in our restaurant neighborhood tournament, and Tennyson squeaked by the favorited Upper Larimer, due to some serious campaigning on social media. In this match-up of Tennyson and LoHi, who you got? Vote below!…
If this thing had bulging eyes, insists my kid, it would look like Jaws. That’s a bit of a stretch, but the mouth, which opens to a clear pond of fresh coconut water, is a bit creepy. As far as I know, there’s no restaurant in Denver proper that serves…
Eating Mexican food as a vegetarian isn’t easy, and as a vegan? You might as well forget it unless you’re at a plant-based restaurant. Or at Old Blinking Light Kitchen & Cocktails in Highlands Ranch…
Our Street 16 menu matchup is down to the final four, with the first face-off between South Federal Boulevard and Boulder. These are both great restaurant neighborhoods — even if their restaurants have almost nothing in common…
HDNet’s Drinking Made Easy hosts Zane Lamprey and Steve McKenna spend their days traveling across the country and drinking on camera, using their show as a medium to showcase the local drinking culture of towns from all over the map. On next week’s episode — which airs Wednesday, April 4…
Alex Waters, the owner/chef of Bistro One, is taking a sabbatical, albeit a short one. “My kids and I are heading to the mountains today for a little break, and then it’s back to work,” says Waters, who will close Bistro One, his four-year-old restaurant, on Thursday and reopen it…
Colorado chefs cook their asses off — not just in their respective restaurants but at culinary events all over the city, and last night was no exception, as thirty chefs from Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs convened at the Colorado Convention Center to cook at Colorado Chefs Up Front, a…
As we’ve been doing for a few weeks now, Cafe Society is out to find the single-best neighborhood for eating-out in Denver with our Street 16 tournament. Size doesn’t matter, but restaurants do. We started with sixteen areas of metro Denver and now we’re down to four. In the first…
