The Denver County Fair may have celebrated some of this city’s most innovative entrepreneurs — but the vendors selling food there didn’t rank among them. Jenny An’s criticism of the eating opportunities at this inaugural fair got her labeled a “commie” by AllAmericanVet: What kind of comi writes a bad…
KimBa Grill, the fast-casual Vietnamese noodle house located at 1470 South Santa Fe Drive, has closed after eighteen months of business. John Forde opened the spot in March of 2010, but according to a recorded voice message, the location didn’t generate enough traffic to keep the restaurant afloat. “We are…
It’s that time of year again. Wine Spectator has just unveiled its annual list of restaurants with admirable cellars, bestowing the eateries with tiered awards of excellence — and giving anyone who chooses a restaurant for its wine list a handy place to start. Of the 3,700 places worldwide that…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
When Biker Jim first hauled out his wiener wagon nearly six years ago on the 16th Street Mall, he wanted frankfurter fans to know that he wasn’t pushing dirty dogs jacked up with unidentifiable bits, pieces, or by-products, so he created a slogan — “Our meat is no mystery” –…
In 2009, when Jason Sheehan, Westword’s former restaurant critic, reviewed Organixx, whose menu verbiage touted “the best of organic, natural, local, wild caught and traditional products available to us,” he wanted to hate the joint. ” I’m not coming to your restaurant to join your cult or be converted. Just…
If you’ve ever had a huarache, the sandal-shaped Mexican canvas of fried corn dough smeared with refritos and layered with marinated meats, onions, shredded lettuce and crumbles of cheese, then you know how good they can be. Los Carboncitos makes a killer huarache — the huarache in the above pic…
In case you haven’t heard, our esteemed governor, John Hickenlooper, proclaimed August 10, 2011, “Denver Burger Battle Day” in the state of Colorado. No, seriously. It’s true, and for Jeremy and Kelly Kossler, the brains behind the Denver Burger Battle, a beefy combat among twelve Denver restaurants, all of which…
Not that Charlie Palmer needs much of an introduction: The world-renowned, James Beard award-winning master chef, whose progressive American cooking, stylized with classic French techniques, has generated accolades all over the country, presides over an extraordinary number of restaurants, from New York to Dallas, Washington DC to Sonoma, Las Vegas…
Our list of the “Five Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver” had a couple of readers wondering about the absence of JJ’s. But which JJ’s? From thespot84: I’m excited to try all of these. For straight up chinese takeout/delivery downtown, however, JJ’s Bistro is truly hard to beat. And this from…
As if the food wasn’t reason enough to head over to Masterpiece Delicatessen, you now can get a proper drink to go with your artistically crafted sandwich. The popular three-year-old deli just got a full liquor license and is serving cocktails, beers from Oskar Blues and wine from Infinite Monkey…
It wasn’t nearly as bad as the walkout that Troy Guard, the owner/chef of TAG, experienced two weeks ago when a vocal majority of his staff hoofed it out the door after news that Guard and his soon-to-be-ex-wife had a parting of ways, but Andrew Casalini, the owner of Satchel’s…
Wazee Supper Club opened its doors back in 1974 under Angelo and Jim Karagas, five years after the same duo erected My Brother’s Bar just nine blocks away. Since then, the bar and restaurant, which has since been passed from the hands of the Karagas brothers to the Wynkoop Holdings…
The same company that’s pushing the all-natural tastes of XINGtea have teamed up with the Ball Corp. to introduce a canned water. The zero-calorie Just Pure Water, created by Colorado-based New Age Beverages, comes in berry, lemon lime and orange flavors. “What we wanted to do was come out with…
When Len & Bill’s went dark after fifty years, Denver lost one of its great dives. But now Mike’s Tavern has opened in the space at 2301 South Broadway. Bartender Nicole Keeney, whose father is Mike, says Len & Bill’s regulars have been coming in and telling her stories about…
When former TAG team (and married couple) Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan added Madison Street to their restaurant empire, they tapped a member of the TAG kitchen, Rob Michels, to serve as executive chef, where he worked alongside Troy to revamp the menu. Three months later, after the Guard and…
Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Andy Martinez, exec chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t travel as much I’d like…
The University Boulevard location of Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill has closed, but the homegrown Mediterranean fast-casual chain will continue to grow. “It wasn’t the best location for us,” explains marketing and PR manager Beth Hardy, who notes that the University of Denver location, unlike two over on South Colorado Boulevard, had…
Readers have been pouring out the jokes since Molson Coors announced that it will release Animee, a beer geared towards female non-beer drinkers, in the UK. From Claire: The Virginia Slims of the beer biz. From eCurmudgeon: Otherwise known as Zima with a new label…
No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas…
Lance Barto started behind the burners at Strings three years ago, working his way up to the executive chef role in 2009 after then-lead chef Aaron Whitcomb left for YiaYia’s Euro Bistro in Greenwood Village. Now, Barto’s heading over to the line at Wild Catch — the seafood restaurant that…
When Justin Brunson, the captain behind the magnificent Masterpiece Deli, opens Wild Catch, a sustainable seafood restaurant in Uptown, he’ll steer his kitchen along with a tag team of several other high-profile chefs — none of whom, by the way, are from TAG, Troy Guard’s Asian restaurant in Larimer Square…
