Charlie Palmer will be opening two restaurants in the spot at 1631 Wazee Street that most recently had been home to Big Game (and Il Fornaio before that). District Meats will be taking over about two-thirds of the space, including that big dining area; Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza will be in…
After a long run as Pogue Mahone’s and a shorter run as McMullen’s Irish Pub, a new bar called Clavin’s Bar & Grill moved into the space at 17904 Cottonwood Drive in Parker last month…
Sauced, a pizza joint and watering hole, is moving into the former Rack & Rye spot, which opened almost two years ago at 1320 15th Street, between Mix Music Lounge and Lavish. While the bar should be open this weekend, the place won’t start serving food until next week. Follow…
Talk about a sign of the times: El Chile Rojo has closed at 801 Santa Fe Drive, with a sign in the window announcing “Japanese sushi restaurant coming soon.” Back in December 2008, when United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine devoted its “Three Perfect Days” feature to Denver, most of the restaurant/bar…
No. 54: Carnitas with mole verde from Tarasco’s…
“My family owned a casket company in New Jersey, which has nothing to do with anything, except that even people who own casket companies have to eat,” quips Stephen Lo Iacano, a Jersey native who in 1987 moved to Vail — a town, he says, that doesn’t know its meatballs…
It’s been six months since Tom Nash signed a lease in east Boulder, where he planned to build a lunch and happy-hour restaurant in an area of town that also holds Avery Brewing Co. and the original Ozo Coffee Roasters…
The photo doesn’t do this dish justice, but if you’re searching for a good — really good — shepherd’s pie, along with some of the best craft beers in the city, then this is your place. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com This is part two of my interview with Eric Rivera exec chef of Cafe|Bar. Part one of my chat with Rivera ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Bouchon, in Napa Valley. The food and service were just spot-on perfect. We were…
Any way you slice it, LoDo is soon going to be rolling in pizza dough. Charlie Palmer, the New York-based chef and restaurateur whose portfolio of restaurants across the country includes such big names as Aureole, Charlie Palmer Steak, briscola, Astra and Dry Creek Kitchen, is now coming to Denver,…
One of the most coveted restaurant spaces in LoDo — the former Dixons Downtown Grill, which closed on Labor Day — has been snatched up by Brendan McManus, who owns Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House in Louisville…
Six years ago, while his Black Cat restaurant was under construction in Boulder, Eric Skokan and his wife, Jill, planted a garden in their back yard…
Robert Camacho is a former liquor store owner, but earlier this year, he picked up a spot on 32nd Street in lower Highland and switched his focus from booze to sweets…
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. Even though it’s…
Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com It’s been just three weeks since Cafe|Bar opened its doors, but executive chef Eric Rivera already feels very much at home. The 26-year-old, who was born in Ohio and raised in Colorado, had spent the past three years leading the line…
Denver’s burger emporiums keep multiplying like calculators, and here, where this burger was snapped, the staff is obsessed with a certain number that is greater than one and less than 100. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…
While Cherry Creek is not the restaurant hot-spot it once was, there’s still plenty of action in the area. In a quick turn-around, La Merise is slated to open today in the former home of Argyll, at 2700 East Third Avenue. And Cafe Bisque — now known simply as Bisque…
Twin Peaks is coming to Colorado, the Texas-based chain proudly announced yesterday, bringing baseball, beer and boobs, as Laura Shunk reported here. That post prompted this from bizzygeek: Thanks for the heads up CS Editors! While you’re at it, are there any new McDonald’s locations springing up around town that…
When Olav Peterson and his wife, Melissa Severson, drew up plans for the former gas station that would become Bittersweet, they focused on two patios that, in addition to seating, would provide them ample room to grow their own produce…
Think you make a kick-ass guacamole? Save it for Monday Night Football. At the nationwide Avocado Takedown, which stops in Denver on Sunday, November 6, no one gives a fat seed if you can make a worthy guacamole. What the judges — and that includes yours truly — do care…
Look out, Denver. Just when you thought our restaurant scene couldn’t possibly get any better, the fast-growing Texas-based company Twin Peaks — which has previously expanded into pretty peak-less states like Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma — is bringing more “scenic views” to the Rockies…
In late August, while on a food journey in Glenwood Springs, I had dinner at the Pullman, the newest restaurant — a farm-to-table venture — from chef Mark Fischer, who owns Six89 and Phat Thai in Carbondale, and soon, a second Phat Thai in Cherry Creek, slated to open later…
