Were you there last night when Club 404 issued last call under the ownership of the Feld family? If you can’t remember, take a look at our slide show — it might help you remember. And there is plenty to remember about the legendary Club 404, which Jerry Feld opened…
Three words: messy little suckers. 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…
Rob Lawler The Truffle 2906 East Sixth Avenue 303-322-7363 www.denvertruffle.com This is part two of my interview with Rob Lawler, former chef and the sovereign of cheese at the Truffle. Part one of my chat with Lawler ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I really don’t travel much anymore, and…
Tucked into the matrix of warehouses and industrial buildings near I-25, Santa Fe and Evans is GreenHouse Coffee, a large green bungalow plopped across the street from the Evans light-rail station at 2190 South Delaware Street. Open from 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday, this cozy spot arms…
Wild Catch reopened last night — several weeks after partner/chef Justin Brunson walked out and most of the staff followed him — with Mandi and Tony Clement rolling out a meaty menu that’s a major departure from the sustainable seafood focused on in the original lineup. Many regulars caught the…
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. Like Pete and…
Ocean Forest Cafe, a self-described “wild and artictic [sic]” — and certainly eclectic — restaurant, opened in Lakewood in 2007, but just last year, it rolled out a menu full of Sichuan specialties as well as Thai and Chinese-American dishes. But when we recently passed by the strip mall where…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Rob Lawler points out that brains aren’t just for zombies (they’re also for eating), but zombies were on the brains of a half-dozen boys who gathered this past weekend for a birthday party — and that killer zombie cake, in all its blood…
Just got off the horn with Mandi Clement, who, along with her husband (and ex-Mizuna chef) Tony, are now consulting at Wild Catch, the former sustainable seafood restaurant that Daniel Kuhlman opened in August — and subsequently shuttered — several weeks ago when then-chef and co-owner Justin Brunson made the…
This is part one of my interview with Rob Lawler, former chef and the sovereign of cheese at the Truffle. Rob Lawler The Truffle 2906 East Sixth Avenue 303-322-7363 www.denvertruffle.com When you actually want someone to cut the cheese, Rob Lawler, who owns the Truffle with his wife, Karin, does…
Last week the Huffington Post served up a food trend list — which Jenn Wohletz thought was one of the worst food trend lists ever, confessing that she was “Bugged by the Huffington Post’s ’11 Biggest Food Trends of 2011.'” After all, meatballs? Fancy donuts? Macarons? And insects for number…
Eder Yanez-Mota is antsy. His coolers and freezers are empty, and his restaurant, Chili Verde, has been closed for almost two weeks during one of the busiest times of year, thanks to a fryer that caught on fire November 30. But today he’s re-stocking all of his food, and he’s…
It’s not easy to find a good veggie burger when you’re off the meat wagon, but thankfully, Smashburger — a homegrown chain whose burgers have garnered rave reviews since it opened its first location on Colorado Boulevard in 2007, and which was recently listed as a rising-star company in Forbes…
When a second Waffle Brothers opens later this month on the Hill in Boulder, you can expect more than just waffles: “There will be a sexy Australian up there, too,” teases Rod Dupen, who hails from Sydney and owns the Waffle Brothers in Denver with business partner John Power, who’s…
“You would not have bought this book and read this far into it if your food culture was intact and healthy.” Michael Pollan I’m just about finished with Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, a great read that’s as fascinating as it is depressing. It’s the kind of book that…
My kid turns twelve today (Happy birthday, Elliott!), and that calls for a celebration, which, in our house, typically means dinner out. We began the festivities last night — not with pizza or burgers — but here, at this Asian restaurant, where we slurped bowls of ramen and stuffed our…
When Forbes recently released its list of 100 rising star companies in 22 industries, “privately held up-and-comers with compelling business models, strong management teams, notable customers, strategic partners and precious investment capital,” exactly one restaurant company made the cut. And Colorado’s very own Smashburger didn’t just make the list; it…
Denver has always been a center of the beer-making world — but until recently, you could have argued that Boulder was a better craft-beer town. But after counting up the number of craft brewers coming to Denver, Jonathan Shikes just asked, “Has Denver finally surpassed boulder as a beer city?”…
Clutching a Mason jar full of hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps and trying hard not to spill, I stared pleadingly into the eyes of a snarling man in flannel who was attempting to push past me. “Excuse me!” he repeated, without a trace of sympathy. I was trying to get…
After a series of pop-up dinners at Cafe Options, which played host to chef Max MacKissock and several squad members of the soon-to-reopen Squeaky Bean on Friday and Saturday night, the staff celebrated by shotgunning beers in the kitchen. The Squeaky Bean’s irreverence is alive and well…
Novo Coffee does the vast majority of its business wholesale, selling its beans — some of our favorite beans in Denver — to restaurants and cafes. But for the past five years, the company has also kept one retail location by the Denver Art Museum, where patrons can score a…
I have no idea why restaurants continue to ring plates with specks of parsley, but regardless of needless adornments, the buffalo pot roast, wreathed with butternut squash, at this longstanding American gathering place, more than makes up for it. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
