TAG|RAW BAR, Troy Guard’s house of (mostly) raw foodstuffs that are good for your body and soul, is one of the city’s most petite restaurants, but by the start of Denver Restaurant Week(s), Guard and his gang will have doubled the size of the below street level space in the…
One woman’s favorite dumpling is a dish someone else dumps on. In 100 Favorite Dishes, Lori Midson recently raved about the xiao long bao at Lao Wang Noodle House. Those wrappers are too thick, sniffs one critic. Listen to him, pleads another reader:…
A friend once trained under a master sushi chef for a couple of years, and it was mesmerizing to watch her work a knife around a vegetable or piece of fish. She was slow and methodical, paring precisely to shape each element of a dish into a delicate, edible work…
It’s been nearly two years since restaurateur Ed Novak retired, selling the forty-year-old Broker, one of downtown’s last fine-dining bastions, and its only surviving sibling restaurant, the Cork House Wine Restaurant, to Jerry Fritzler, a long-time employee and partner…
Jennifer Rosen had an amazing array of interests. We met her in the early ’80s, when she and sister Robin Chotzinoff covered a Chippendale’s show: Jenny provided the photos, Robin the words. Robin went on to provide many more words as a longtime staff writer for Westword, but we always…
No. 45: Pasta puttanesca from Sketch…
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 — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver dining deck, worth up to $520 in discounts at…
After readers responded to my lament about the lack of interesting ethnic food near the Tech Center, I decided to explore not just the southern suburbs, where I grew up, but the entire circle outside of Denver city limits, looking for the best ethnic restaurants in the metro area, strip-mall…
Hunter Pritchett Luca d’Italia 711 Grant Street 303-832-6600 www.lucadenver.com This is part one of my interview with Hunter Pritchett, exec chef of Luca d’Italia. Part two of my chat with Pritchett will run in this space tomorrow. Hunter Pritchett and his kitchen crew are thumbing through an Italian phrasebook, one…
The long, strange trip of Quiznos, a homegrown chain, took another turn yesterday when Avenue Capital Group, a New York hedge fund, took controlling interest in the company. Reports the Wall Street Journal, “The deal, approved by all Quiznos creditors, keeps the chain, known for toasted subs, out of bankruptcy…
Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza, a New Mexico-based company that has a restaurant at 550 Broadway, managed to do what Brown Dog Pizza, an outfit out of Telluride, could not — secure a liquor license for 1001 South Gaylord Street. Brown Dog got badly bitten in that dogfight, which involved…
No. 46: Xiao Long Bao from Lao Wang Noodle House…
Like bubble tea and flavor-it-yourself water, kombucha is yet another trendy liquid. It’s a tea-based beverage that’s fermented with yeast and bacteria, which is supposed to yield some kind of “healthful” results — or so we’ve heard. Healthful or not, the stuff does give you a bit of a boost,…
Hot dogs are haute in Cherry Creek, where The Hawt Dog & Sausage Cafe opened last week. And now Geisty’s Dogg House, featuring gourmet sausages, sliders and wings, is set to open next month at 1116 13th Street on The Hill in Boulder. The Geisty’s website promises that customers can…
We’ve written before about the vegetarian food at Elway’s Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street. The restaurant remains one of our favorite (and least obvious) places to grab a bite to eat in the area — you wouldn’t think a steakhouse would cater so well to vegetarians, but this one does. In…
Hooked on Colfax, the eclectic, buzzy java joint at 3213 East Colfax, is planning a big expansion, one that will double its square footage and seating capacity, which is busting at the seams, says barista Zach Griffin…
Denver lays claim to several noteworthy Middle Eastern restaurants, but there are plenty of flops, too, including the place where the above snap was flashed. Achingly slow service, a server whose vocabulary consisted of nothing more than “no problem” and lukewarm food completely devoid of seasoning made this a total…
Richard Sandoval opened his first restaurant in New York City fifteen years ago, and since then, his empire has expanded across the United States. He currently has six spots in Colorado, including the recently opened Cima in Avon, Venga Venga in Vail and a pair of La Sandias in Northfield…
Cherry Creek, once a dining hot spot, has cooled off considerably in recent years. But the area saw several new restaurants join the Creek lineup last year, and two of the first openings of the new year are both in Cherry Creek North. An outlet of Pasquini’s , the fifth…
It wasn’t long ago that I demoted Cherry Creek to a culinary wasteland — or something like that — but as soon as the words slipped from my fly trap, I had to eat them. Over the past few months, Cherry Creek has been blitzed with new restaurants: La Merisse,…
We noticed last week that Campagna Pizzeria — the restaurant Alex Gurevich opened almost two years ago in a Sixth Avenue storefront that has seen a lot of eateries come and go over the years — was closed and undergoing renovations. It appeared that the space would reopen as a…
“No self-respecting Cherry Creek snob would go to someplace named ‘Wrap Dawgs,'” wrote a frequent Cafe Society commenter when I announced that a new hot dog joint, whose name was Wrap Dawgs, planned to open at Second and St. Paul…
