If you ask Foad Aftahi what he thinks about Denver’s Persian restaurant climate, he wrinkles his nose and shakes his head. “I don’t think you’ll find any good Persian restaurants in Denver,” he claims. And that, he insists, is why he opened Chicken Kabob, a tasteful, contemporary, fast-casual Persian restaurant…
Before Liu Zeng Qun opened Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine, his Szechuan restaurant in Aurora (which I review this week), he spent eight years working for the man who secured the visa that brought him over here: Johnny Hsu. Hsu is the man behind Imperial Chinese Restaurant; he’s owned restaurants…
Last weekend, I strolled through a Front Range farmers’ market (one that I’d never been to), and after picking my way through baskets of beautiful tomatoes, tri-colored carrots and beets, I came face-to-face with a food truck I’d never seen — a truck that turns out a damn good breakfast…
Inspired by the parillada at Caminito Tango, last week Laura Shunk served up Denver’s five best weekend-only restaurant specials…
Crimson Canary, the second restaurant from the owners of Interstate Kitchen & Bar, opened at 6 p.m. today in the former home of Mona’s at 141 South Broadway. The Italian-American restaurant is named after a 1945 who-done-it. As co-owner Joey Newman told Cafe Society last week: “We’re drawing from the…
Trick-or-treating always seemed so harmless. Sure, candy isn’t great for your teeth — but are those little morsels of sugary-goodness more sinister than we ever imagined? A common argument against marijuana is that it’s a “gateway drug” — but what if Halloween candy is, too? After all, long before candies…
Colorado’s children suffer from two seemingly contradictory food-related health problems: hunger and obesity. That’s the word from the Colorado Children’s Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on improving children’s well-being, which organized a luncheon/discussion on the issues of childhood hunger, obesity and poverty yesterday…
We ambled down to Freshcraft last night looking for a pint of beer and a snack. But to our dismay, the spot was dark…
At the end of service on Saturday, October 29, 8 Rivers Modern Caribbean Restaurant will close the doors for good at 1550 Blake Street, its third location — but not its last. After opening their first restaurant, the Jamaican Cafe, in Santa Monica, California, chef Scott Durrah and his wife,…
“Let’s just put it this way: The restaurant isn’t closing, but new partners are coming in, and they don’t need me,” begins the conversation with Michael Long, the now-former executive chef of Aria (and before that, Opus), the restaurant he opened last December in Cherry Creek…
I haven’t heard a word about this new neighborhood, strip mall Italian restaurant, whose parking lot is more often empty than full, but the romantic, dim-lit dining room, coupled with the pastas emerging from the kitchen, makes it worth a visit — even if the service is a bit quirky…
Pay no attention to the notice on the website of L’Asie Fusion Bistro, which announces that the Asian-French fusion restaurant would be closed as of October 3. When we stopped in yesterday, the restaurant was up and running. But it’s definitely in transition. The ownership has changed, and the spot…
Scott Yosten Steakhouse 10 3516 South Elati Street 303-789-0911 www.steakhouse10.com This is part two of my interview with Scott Yosten, exec chef of Steakhouse 10. Part one of my interview with Yosten ran in this space yesterday. Favorite food city: Chicago. The ethnic boroughs and neighborhoods turn out the best…
It’s another holiday season of broke-ass broke-ness, but I can still celebrate Halloween with the finest tricky treats that the Dollar Tree has to offer. I found some surprisingly boss candies between the aisles of off-off-off brand toilet cleansers and reeky Christmas candles, and since Halloween is a holiday primarily…
For the last few weeks, Laura Shunk has been writing about local restaurant gardens and what the chefs are doing with the fruit of their labors. And while the snow may have put those plots — and the series itself — in the deep freeze, the story on Justin Cucci,…
Boulder has welcomed several wood-fired pizza joints in the last couple of years, and it’s not exactly short on Italian restaurants, either. So we were curious how Tossa, which signed a lease on a place near Folsom and Arapahoe two months ago, would differentiate itself from the rest…
A few years ago, Joel Cline, a Denver chef who’s cooked at Castle Pines golf club, the long-gone Adega and the recently shuttered Argyll, was eyeing a space in downtown Littleton, where he planned to open a crepe cafe. But while he was pondering the situation, Penzys Spices, a national…
I’m always on the lookout for new Indian restaurants, and at this recently-opened Indian emporium located in a part of town that most foodniks bypass, I found the usual suspects, including a lamb vindaloo that was passable but certainly not fiery. Alas. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Scott Yosten Steakhouse 10 3516 South Elati Street 303-789-0911 www.steakhouse10.com This is part one of my interview with Scott Yosten, executive chef of Steakhouse 10. Scott Yosten has seen it all: a maître d’ who could acquire any drug you could ever want, another maître d’ who had the social…
Kyle Garratt recently headed to the West End Tavern in Boulder, where he took on the Wing King Challenge: fifty wings in thirty minutes. Man V. Food host Adam Richman gave it a try last year, and repeats of that show keep sending a lot of delusional eaters to the…
You can get great Chinese food in this town, but you have to know where to look — especially if you’re on the hunt for real Szechuan food, not the dumbed-down American version of the cooking of Southern China that’s a mainstay of dollar-a-scoop joints and many strip-mall spots…
One of the biggest challenges I face in life is making my girlfriend happy. We’ve been together almost four years, and I still haven’t a clue as to how to bring a smile to her face. It’s a beautiful smile, though, rare as it is, lighting up both the room…
