Restaurants

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…

Though it pains me to say it, seeing as how it signifies the fast-approaching end of hiking season, fall has begun. I do enjoy this time of the year though, mostly for its comforting nature: chilly enough to bundle up, but not uncomfortably so; colorful enough to lift the spirits,…

Just when I thought I’d seen foie gras done every which way, it lands on an effing pizza! 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,…

Ever since Pot of Pho closed, finding good (meat-free) pho in the west suburbs has been a challenge. We still think Pho 95 makes the best veggie pho in the city, but sometimes, driving to Federal Boulevard seems like more trouble than it’s worth. So we were happy when Pho…

Charlie Palmer wants to know how the weather is in Denver. “Is it raining? Snowing?” he asks. “No, it’s beautiful,” I tell him. “That’s one of the reasons why I like Denver so much,” says the New York-based chef and restaurateur, whose portfolio of restaurants, which spans the country, includes…

For years, Que Bueno — by gate 52 on Concourse B — was the best reason to get through security early at Denver International Airport. And when this locally owned joint closed last fall for a rehab and expansion — from 1,118 square feet to 1,490 square feet, with a…

While some readers were splitting hairs over splitting plates, others were getting ready to welcome La Merise to Cherry Creek, where it will open on Wednesday in the former home of Argyll, at 2700 East Third Avenue. In a basement, if not necessarily a temple…

I stopped short right outside the entrance to Satchel’s on 6th. Past the threshold, I could see people sitting and sipping wine at a U-shaped bar in the center of the simple, beautiful space, illuminated by the sexy glow of candlelight reflecting off dark walls. But on the patio, where…

When Andrew Casalini and Jen Dactano packed up Satchel’s Market, it didn’t take long for another pair of restaurateurs to pick up the lease on their former spot in Park Hill. After years in the catering business, Pam Read partnered up with her cousin, Gary Fink, to turn the space…

The seeds for Moon Dog Farms, the massive urban garden at 333 22nd Street that’s run, in part, by the Mercury Cafe, were sown during a walk in the park…

There’s never been a particularly compelling reason for Denverites to waste their mileage on traveling to restaurants in Lakewood, unless you were headed to Cafe Bisque, a vibrant cafe that managed to make a longstanding name for itself with its stellar brunch menu that eventually expanded into dinner. But early…

In 2001, Matt Robinette sat with his wife, Roberta, brother Jonathan and sister-in-law Cristina in a Tahoe cafe, where they pondered selling Roberta’s Pueblo-style green chile in California, an area of the country that wasn’t familiar with the stuff. It took nearly a decade — as well as a move…