We’re on a Denver Restaurant Week money streak, having just given away $52.80 to two big tippers, both of whom entered our first Denver Restaurant Week contest, in which we asked industry folks and diners alike for their best advice on how to get the most out of the two-week…
The Daily Camera pulled out of its 119-year-old digs on Boulder’s Pearl Street in early 2011, but Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate, the group that purchased the building in 2010, had already begun planning a project that would raze the current structure and rebuild a mix of office and retail…
Given the recent history of the space at 3555 West 38th Avenue, it’s not surprising that Argentinean restaurant Caminito Tango has closed its doors. It opened last May, following Viejo Domingo, which lasted just under a year. Playa de Oro preceded both restaurants, and as paper signs on the restaurant’s…
No. 36: Pop-tarts from Devil’s Food Bakery and Cookery…
In the almost-six months since Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s restaurateur Josh Wolkon and his cohorts — including wife Jen, Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman and Jeff Bustos — took over the old Storz Garage space next to Steuben’s, they’ve been busily drawing up plans to convert the address…
There have probably been a bazillion sandwich combinations invented since the first prescient human stuck filling between a couple of slices of bread, but only a handful of those have become icons of culture and cuisine. There’s the pastrami on rye, of course, which embodies the spirit of a New…
Lisa Bailey and Keegan Gerhard have looked at several locations around town where they could put a second location of D Bar Desserts, the spot they opened on East 17th Avenue back in 2008. And now they’ve decided where to put it: not in Denver but in San Diego, where…
Who says that waffle cones have to be filled with ice cream? Here, you have two choices: the conventional way, or you can order a savory cone stuffed with everything from macaroni and cheese to root vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part two of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I really like going to Euclid Hall. Anywhere I can go…
LoHi remains the city’s hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, with would-be restaurateurs still looking for open spaces in the area. The most recent project announced is Central Bistro and Bar, going in right on the edge of Highland, where Lance Barto will be serving new American food. But what about…
Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, among other things, to interpret a dish based on the line “eight maids a-milking” from the Twelve Days of Christmas carol; others stored energy by helping themselves to the dried fruit and cheese spread on the…
It’s National Margarita Day, and although that’s not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:…
If you wanted a rock-solid reason to become a member of this private country club — which I’m not — all you need to do is wrap your lips around its burger, a towering skyscraper of bacon, blue cheese, an onion ring, lettuce, tomatoes and peppercorn-crusted beef. It’s called the…
Corey Cunningham moved to Denver from New Jersey to take the executive chef job at Baur’s Ristorante (now Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar), but after a few years, he split and headed to Boulder where he stepped into Brasserie Ten Ten as a sous. Now, he’s manning his own…
Not that we need to remind you, but today — whoo-hoo! — is National Margarita Day, which means that bars and restaurants all over the metro area are liberally pouring the popular tequila cocktail, including Pica’s Mexican Taqueria, in Boulder. And earlier this week, we held a contest, giving one…
Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part one of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Before Jeremy Kittelson opened Ambria in mid-November, he conducted a tasting, and while he was visibly excited…
Mayor Michael Hancock will learn to flip a Denver omelet today at a photo opp pushing Denver Restaurant Week. A Denver omelet? That may be the dish that’s been labeled with this city’s name, but it’s hardly the best example of this city’s cuisine. Former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan was…
When the first Spicy Pickle opened at 988 Lincoln Street in 1999, it quickly drew faithful fans with its hearty sandwiches — always accompanied by a homemade pickle. That early rush fueled lots of dreams, dreams of the kind of success that other homegrown chains, most notably Chipotle, which started…
When I bumped into my neighbor the other day, we got to talking about sausage. He’d recently acquired a beautiful new meat grinder and has been having a great time with it. I, coincidentally, have always wanted to make my own sausage, and asked if he’d show me how. “Of…
After a long day in the office, there’s nothing like kicking back with some happy-hour drinks — and maybe some happy-hour bites, so that you can still drive home safely. While the wine system at the Living Room, 1055 Broadway, is a lot of fun to geek out on, even…
It’s been nearly nine months since Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk put together the deal to take over the old Gumbo’s space, where they planned to open a Denver outpost of The Kitchen, the Boulder restaurant they put on the West End of Pearl Street in 2004. “We want to…
There aren’t many chicken wings in this city that fly right, but these meaty suckers, rubbed with bold spices, are an exception. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool…
