Colorado has produced several successful Mexican chains — the Rio Grande group, for example, and Santiago’s, which seems to add another outlet every week. But one longtime chain is suffering from shrinking pains — and its employees are suffering, too. Last week, the Armadillo closed its restaurant in Littleton, and…
On Friday, the 300 (or so) restaurants participating in Denver Restaurant Week will be posting their $52.80 (for two) menus for the two-week eating orgy that starts on February 25; we’re offering $52.80 to both the diner and the restaurant employee who offer the best Denver Restaurant Week survival tip…
For anyone who has ever spent too much time in the grocery store, wrinkling their foreheads while reading ingredient lists and pondering the nutritional benefits of calcium sorbate or xanthan gum, NuVal is designed to help. The nutritional rating system scores most food on a 1-100 scale — and the…
My close friend-slash-accidental mentor, Allen Johnson, is visiting from Mississippi this week. It’s always bittersweet to see him, only in that it sucks to see him go. He happens to be one of the most inspirational people I’ve ever met, especially when it comes to cooking. His professional advice aside…
The burgers at Crave Real Burgers are monstrous creations, patties stacked so high with other ingredients — including things like pulled pork, duck and, um, hot dogs — that sometimes it’s hard to find the beef…
The Denver Tech Center location of Fourleaf Chopped Salads isn’t particularly convenient; it’s tucked away in a strip mall off the I-25 frontage road and located a little below street level, so it’s easy to miss. And the hours of operation — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays only…
Twenty-seven years ago today, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe opened its doors at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. The area has changed a lot since then — this part of Highland is now the best restaurant neighborhood in the city — but the Aguirre family still runs Rosa Linda’s. Here’s an e-mail…
I’m hot for this cocktail, called the “Burning Ring of Fire.” Made with pepper- and cucumber-infused vodkas and muddled cilantro, mint and basil, it’s selling like a house afire at this new restaurant. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
The Denver Tech Center is “an area distinctly lacking in interesting ethnic food,” I said in last week’s review of Street Kitchen Asian Bistro. In fact, I almost expanded that sentiment to cover everything south of Hampden Avenue, an area filled with fast-casual and upscale chains that tend to overshadow…
The city of Lafayette has been hosting the Quaker Oatmeal Festival since 1996. This annual celebration starts with an oatmeal breakfast, which leads into an oatmeal baking contest, a health fair and a 5k run, and ends with hundreds of people getting plenty of fiber in their diets — and…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a big $2 breakfast burrito to an order of goat curry to this cocktail in a plastic cup. For correctly linking the glassware to the Grizzly Rose, Dawn wins an EatDenver deck…
Bento Japanese and Asian Cuisine, which opened just last fall, has closed at 890 South Monaco Parkway — an address that’s already swallowed up a Silver Mine Subs outpost, Grilled Skewer Vietnamese and a Famous Philly Cheesesteak. And Bento wasn’t the only restaurant to open and close in just a…
Hunched in a club-chair bar seat under the glow of multi-colored Christmas lights, I looked nervously at my boyfriend. “Where’s the rest of the noodle?” he asked, glaring. “You ate it, didn’t you? You’re supposed to be judicious with the noodle.” “But I liked the noodle,” I responded. “I liked…
When Mizuna alum Tony Clement and his wife, Mandi, took over the operations of Wild Catch after Justin Brunson and his team made an abrupt exit from the three-month-old spot, they brought new fare to the restaurant, changing out the seafood-focused menu for a list heavy on meat and game…
Waffle Brothers isn’t just “serving one warm waffle at a time” to Denverites. As of late last night, Boulder fans are also basking in the sweet aroma of waffles hot off the iron. January 12 marked the official grand opening of a Waffle Brothers store on the Hill in Boulder,…
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that adults love candy and soda pop just as much as kids. According to Patrick Evans, owner of the new Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop at Writer’s Square (technically 1512 Larimer Street), the majority of his customers are between…
Since Dairy Queen’s closure in 2006, the space at 1100 13th Street in Boulder has been a black hole for restaurants — sucking the life out of them until they disappear altogether, leaving nothing behind but the faint smell of a working kitchen, a “For Sale” sign stuck to the…
Jason Sheehan is gone — he wrote his last review for Westword two years ago — but certainly not forgotten in this town. He’s mentioned in our Letters to the Editor column this week, and yesterday, his name popped up in an Eater Denver “The Gatekeeper” interview with Paul Attardi,…
The South Pearl massacre continues! After three years on that street, Seven Cups is preparing to close its doors. The low-key tearoom’s afternoon tea service and Mahjongg nights will run until January 22, and the store will remain open as it sells its remaining merchandise. This is the fourth closing…
Deluged by Republican presidential candidates who wanted to politic with the people dining at New Hampshire’s Colby’s Breakfast and Lunch restaurant — and customers complaining about the interruptions — a manager put up this sign: “No Politicians No Exceptions.” “There is a time and a place, and the customers should…
It’s all about suburbia today. After reviewing Street Kitchen Asian Bistro, Laura Shunk went on a hunt for the “Five best places for lunch near the Tech Center,” which inspired a number of suggestions — some of them ethnic joints, which she’d said were in short supply in the southern…
Koan Goedman, one of the top-notch baristas at Crema Coffee House, has always wanted to own his own coffee shop. But after a trip to Coffee Fest in Seattle last year, he began pondering the idea of a roastery, too. “I started talking to the Diedrich’s roasters, who were there…
