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 over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting people…
Always on the hunt for al pastor tacos, I found what I was looking for (and a whole lot more) at an off-the-beaten-path taqueria far from Federal Boulevard. 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…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse, the self-described “goof” talks about his biggest cooking disaster (he made a bride spill tears — but not on purpose); the culinary wizardry of Troy Guard; his addiction to acid; and the trials and tribulations…
Back in April, a street sweeper almost wiped out the Famous Dave’s in Stapleton when it crashed into the front of the building. Although the dining room reopened the next day, the bar area had suffered more damage and has been shuttered since April 18. But today the bar will…
If you can’t make it to Paris, this sweet little wine bar will do in a pinch. Can you guess where I’m drinking? 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…
Okay, I admit it: I’ve never heard of the The Vaccines, a British punk rock band that Rolling Stone magazine calls “Hopped-Up Romantics Ruling the U.K. Charts,” which is rather strange, since the music mag compares the group of four to Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain, both…
Restaurants go dark all the time — even the best ones — but nonetheless, when I read the e-mail yesterday from Virgilio Urbano, announcing that he’d abruptly closed the original Virgilio’s in Lakewood, across the street from Belmar, I was stupefied. Frankly, I was beyond stupefied. The pizzeria is one…
Eight years ago, thanks to the money she was able to scrape together from refinancing her car, Annie Vick opened the first Pinocchios, a restaurant in Longmont that serves Italian classics like chicken marsala, spaghetti and meatballs, and manicotti. Since then, she’s been franchising, expanding into four privately owned locations…
A one-time Westword Best of Denver winner for its burger, this iconic restaurant and bar still draws a posse of politicos, power brokers and influential media types, but the majority of the wheeling and dealing takes place at lunch, while the dining room sits eerily barren during dinner. Can you…
Pam Read has owned Goddess Catering, a local catering business, for a few years — and when Satchel’s Market vacated its digs in Park Hill (the owners relocated to a spot next to Oliver’s market, where they created Satchel’s on 6th) — she jumped at the chance to expand into…
Chris Cina Hideaway Steakhouse 2345 West 112th Avenue, Westminster 303-404-9939 www.hideawaysteakhouse.com This is part two of my interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Zuni Cafe in San Francisco. I worked with Sean Kelly…
Dunkin’ Donuts is being sued again. Danielle Jordan, 47, a diabetic, alleges that the cup of coffee she ordered from her local DDs was laced with sugar instead of the artificial sweetener she’d asked for, and is seeking “unspecified damages” (code for a shload of coinage) after allegedly experiencing physical…
It was bun while it lasted: Eco-Burger has closed in Cherry Creek. David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, who also owned the now-defunct Q Worldly Barbecue, opened the burger spot exactly a year ago in the former home of Soleil Mediterranean Grill, which they’d closed three months earlier…
The news that Brian Laird, who lasted a decade at Barolo, is out after just a few months at at Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern , the restaurant that Peter Kudla put in his Vallagio project, has generated lots of response, including this from Tico: Know the feeling, I once ran…
In Greek mythology, Kaos is the universe and Gaia the earth — and the two are lovers, intertwined counterparts that create the existing world. Kaos Pizzeria, which opened two years ago, is the counterpart of Gaia Bistro, the five-year-old restaurant on South Pearl Street owned by Patrick Mangold-White and Jon…
No one goes hungry at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation — and that’s the whole premise behind tomorrow night’s gastronomic blowout that showcases the mad skills of more than thirty Denver kitchens and their virtuosos, all of whom congregate under one roof to feed fervent foodniks in an…
Daniel Klein’s resume includes some of the best restaurants in the world, restaurants including The Fat Duck and St. John in England, Thomas Keller’s Bouchon and Tom Colicchio’s Craft. Now he’s producing The Perennial Plate, a weekly web series about sustainable eating. While the first season focused on the kitchen,…
We’ve raved about Tocabe before — it won a Best of Denver award in 2009, and former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan gave it a stellar review. And even better: Tocabe is vegetarian- and vegan-friendly…
I sneaked away over the weekend, taking a jaunt to the mountains, where I found myself in a little town, population just over 100, that doesn’t have a whole lot going on, save for scenery gazing and a single restaurant with a gorgeous bar. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
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. “It’s June, which…
Chris Cina Hideaway Steakhouse 2345 West 112th Avenue, Westminster 303-404-9939 www.hideawaysteakhouse.com This is part one of my interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Chris Cina wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, didn’t have…
According to a recent article in 24/7 Wall St., a handful of beloved breakfast cereals are steadily declining in popularity — and may end up in the annals of cereal history rather than being shoveled into the eager mouths of children every morning. The cereals currently on life support are…
