Happy, Dave Query’s Asian noodle joint in Boulder, shuttered yesterday, leaving in its wake the Bitter Bar, a craft cocktail lounge — and the other half of Happy. And if that sounds confusing, Query, who spearheads Big Red F, the restaurant group that includes Happy/Bitter Bar, along with the West…
Santiago’s is a Denver institution, selling one of this city’s most iconic versions of green chile as well as rightly famous breakfast burritos. But one of the city’s nearly two dozen locations has just been locked up for good…
“It was just time for a change,” insists Eric Rivera, the executive chef of Cafébar, a new modern American restaurant, owned by Dane Huguley, that unlocked its doors last week in Washington Park at 295 South Pennsylvania Street. Rivera, who was the opening chef of Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…
While everyone else used the hoods of their trucks as makeshift tables to inhale the tacos from this parking lot-anchored street cart that does a bang-up business — even on a Sunday night — we ate ours on the stoop of the dentist’s office next door. Can you guess where…
Restaurant openings far outweighed closings last month, with the long-awaited Charcoal heating up the scene. Here’s our Restaurant roll call for September:…
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. One big misconception about a meatless diet is that plant-based eaters must subsist on salad, and salad alone. Another…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, featuring everything from a still unidentified dish to a breakfast burrito at Twisters to this plate of sushi, the most discussed Guess where? entry ever. For correctly identifying it as coming from Land of Sushi, Woody wins an EatDenver deck…
At 10 a.m. today, the Colorado Restaurant Association and other organizations that oppose Initiative 300, the Paid Sick and Safe Leave proposal on Denver’s upcoming ballot, will host a “300 against 300” rally in Skyline Park, just off the 16th Street Mall at Arapahoe. The organizers are trying to bring…
Last weekend, Jennifer Jasinski and Max MacKissock, two of Denver’s best — and most beloved — chefs got hitched in California. Jasinski, who owns Euclid Hall, Bistro Vendome and Rioja, where she’s the executive chef, and MacKissock, the exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, met several years ago, and the…
Last night, while tottering drunkards, some strapped with clinking beer can necklaces, stumbled by the floor-to-ceiling windows of ChoLon, Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard, who resides in Chicago, Fruition exec chef-owner Alex Seidel and Lon Symensma, the owner-chef of ChoLon, were in Symensma’s kitchen, safely secure from the ensuing debauchery…
As if vegetarians don’t get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn’t love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we’ve been slaving away in our cubicles all day, we’ll…
When the beloved Book End Cafe shut its doors on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder after a twenty-year run, owners Phil and Christine Shull didn’t give up the space. Instead, they teamed up with John Platt, the chef-owner of Q’s Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado to create an entirely…
In this week’s review of Ale House at Amato’s, I reminisce about family trips to the original Breckenridge Brewery, where my parents would take my brother and me after forcing us to enjoy the great outdoors. Thanks to my dad’s love of brewpubs, though, we also made regular trips to…
Tickets are going fast for EatDenver’s Harvest Week, the local, independent restaurant organization’s annual celebration of Colorado produce, livestock and products, including wine, beer and spirits. This year’s tribute to the state’s bumper crop of foodstuffs will feature a series of multi-course pop-up meals, paired with liquid assets, created by…
If there were a Santiago’s outpost closer to my house, I’d probably find myself succumbing to their breakfast burritos more often, but instead, I get my fix here, at this house of breakfast burritos, every day burritos, tacos, and Indian fry bread. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Denver restaurants are throwing everything they’ve got against the Yes on 300 campaign, which just put out a mailer linking the listeria hysteria to the Paid Sick and Safe Leave ballot proposal. And at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 3, local restaurateurs and their employees and supporters will be coming…
Lori Midson just served up round two of what Denver chefs consider their favorite tools in the kitchen, a list full of tips about knives, pasta machines, souvlaki machines, band saws… And then there was this lovely response from Jamey Fader, the man behind Lola: Favorite kitchen tool? My wife,…
More than 2,000 people showed up for the final Civic Center Eats of the season. “It was a great summer and went out with a bang,” says Kevin Morrison of Pinche Tacos. “It was a record day for us.” With the shutterings of Deluxe’s Little Orange Rocket and Crazy Good,…
Knives, meat grinders, tweezers. Every chef has a favorite kitchen gadget, and as part of my Dish interviews with many of the Denver chefs who make culinary magic in this city, I asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Not surprisingly, knives are sacred (although for several different reasons), and…
Beginning at 7 a.m. this morning, early-rising college kids from the University of Colorado stumbled into Snooze, the fifth outpost from brothers Adam and John Schlegel, who opened the original Snooze, a breakfast and lunch joint commanding mind-blowing waits, in the Ballpark ‘hood in 2006. Since then, the duo has…
Not a pretty fish on the plate and not a pretty fish in the water. Still, at this Mexican restaurant that hooks its patrons with a seafood-centric menu, there are plenty of other dishes that are photogenic — just not this one. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
It was fun while it lasted, but the last Civic Center Eats of the season gets rolling in Civic Center Park at 11 a.m. today. The gathering of gourmet food trucks and carts has been a movable feast all summer, but after today the event will go into hibernation until…
