While other joints on Tennyson, such as the Hole, have closed, Hops & Pie is expanding. Drew and Leah Watson’s neighborhood hangout is taking over a space next door, and will more than double in size — as well as offer more food options, including “more appetizers, a few more…
He’ll have the spaghetti and meatballs, because he always gets the spaghetti and meatballs. I think I’ll have the cheesesteak tonight, though. I haven’t had one of those in a while.” The thirty-something woman and her husband were standing in Frank’s Kitchen discussing their dinner options. They didn’t need to…
For the past six months Dina Berta has thrown herself head first into the operations of Frank’s Kitchen, which she owns with her husband, Frank. But before she committed to life in the kitchen, she made a living writing about restaurants. As a business reporter at the Rocky Mountain News…
No. 50: Noodle jelly salad from Thai Street Food…
Since getting spiffed up a few years back, Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street has played host to more than twenty restaurants, a mix of fast-casual and full-service chains plus independently owned spots that has changed frequently. Now the development is about to get another new joint to replace a restaurant that…
The first thing you’re likely to notice upon breezing through the door at Coohills, a new French restaurant that opens in LoDo on Wednesday, is the show-stopping chandelier, a six-foot-tall contortion of twirls and spirals, twists and tangles, twigs and roots lustered with white lights. They’re wine vines…
The pies are one size fits all at this local pizzeria, but that’s the only thing about the joint that’s generic. 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…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. Shepherd’s pie is a comfort-food staple that contains several of our favorite things: mashed potatoes, tender veggies and a…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from a multi-cultural stumper to a meal Lori Midson could eat every day at Crimson Canary to this plate of doughnut holes. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jelly, Skggy wins an EatDenver deck…
After reviewing Edge, the restaurant in the fancy-pants new Four Seasons, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s five best hotel restaurants.” Edge didn’t make the list. Nor did Palace Arms in the Brown Palace, a second snub for the venerable hotel that has hosted every president since Teddy Roosevelt slept there…
Distilling has been exploding in the Rocky Mountains, and we’ve added enough distilleries in the last few years to just about stock an entire bar. Further proof (no pun intended) of this phenomenon: another vodka-maker is getting ready to enter the market, specifically on Larimer Street…
Just like many East Coast transplants here in Denver, husband and wife Bryan and Carey Adler missed one culinary treasure in particular: the deli. “My husband and I both grew up on the East Coast, and we have a soft spot for deli food,” Carey explains. “Every deli out there…
No. 51: Pork tenderloin with bread pudding and green split peas from the Wooden Table…
When you think of healthy restaurants in Denver, one of the healthiest cities in the country, a couple of spots whose menus are rife with the terms “organic,” “sustainable” and “local” come to mind: WaterCourse Foods and Root Down, for example. You won’t find them on Healthy Dining Finder –…
If what Food & Wine magazine writes is true, then I guess it’s high-time to haul my ass to Jus Cookin’s, an unabashedly American-as-apple-pie farmhouse-cum-restaurant that’s hustled homemade soups, double-decker hamburgers, chicken pot pie, chicken salad sandwiches, chicken-fried steak, chicken Parmesan and fried chicken since 1988, when it opened in…
The only thing Americans love more than a buffet is a holiday buffet. We also love that the fourth Thursday every November is a thinly-veiled justification for a massive meat-and-starchy gorge by evoking images of shysty Pilgrims and wary Natives sharing corn on the cob. But the real gem of…
If someone were to ask me the age-old question: “If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?” I’d simply point them to the snap above and call it a day. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up “Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter,” including the Fool’s Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Laura Shunk…
No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner…
Forty one years ago, Jerry and Deb Sturm opened the South Restaurant, an Englewood joint that turns out a massive board of Mexican-American fare and fish bowl-size margaritas in a festive space. Now, the family is getting ready to take their concept downtown: Next year, they’ll introduce Zi South on…
On November 2, Adam Schlegel woke up to a very sunny day — and not just because he’s in San Diego, where a new Snooze (the first one outside of Colorado) will open in about two weeks. The sun had barely gone down on November 1 when he got the…
It’s all Greek to me … but 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 a 2011 EatDenver dining…
