“The husband-and-wife team that owns the place spent a few years in northern Spain,” my server explained when I asked her about the dishes at Ondo’s, the last restaurant Jason Sheehan reviewed before leaving Denver. “Obviously, you’re going to have twists sneak in anywhere, but they really try to adhere…
Acknowledging the fact that many athlete-owned restaurants have the name to pull in the patrons but very rarely have the menu to support the buzz, The Daily Meal set out to separate the strike-outs from the home runs. The blog rounded up the ten best eateries owned by sports stars,…
After five years working for Great Divide Brewing, Patrick Langlois has embarked on a new mission, one that explores local food, cooking and, at almost all times, beer. Each week, he’ll be sharing a new adventure in his kitchen — pairing his experiment with a good brew. This is the…
Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, crowds convened at Mona’s on South Broadway after having received an e-mail just hours earlier revealing where they were supposed to meet. They were greeted with a torrontes white wine, and they introduced themselves to one another. And once a sizable group had filled the…
Just outside of Denver, a restaurant/bar now occupies a former warehouse by the railroad tracks. And it made tracks with our Bloody Marys, which were extremely tasty, loaded with spice and booze, just the way I like them. All aboard! Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who…
You can trace the history of Hart’s Corner Bar & Restaurant through the black-and-white photos hanging on one wall of the building at 5201 West Mississippi Avenue. Hailed as the oldest business in Lakewood, it got its start as a root-beer stand during Prohibition, then became a small barbecue joint/gas…
Que Bueno, that culinary mainstay on Concourse B at Denver International Airport, closed five months ago for a major remodel that’s now more than two months behind — although DIA officials promise that the place could reopen any day. In the meantime, travelers can take some comfort in the fact…
Last week Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a very controversial Sazerac to an appetizer of sweetbread “sandwiches” at Bittersweet to this plate of falafel and hummus. For correctly identifying it as coming from Udi’s, steveandtinacater wins an EatDenver deck…
Could a new machine make servers obsolete? That was the question posed by Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds column, which contemplated a future in which the automated E La Carte would be taking your order — and replacing servers like Garratt. “We can only hope!.” replied JeffParker. And…
I was out in Stapleton last night when I found myself with a late-night craving for pupusas, the El Salvadoran staple that looks like a fat corn tortilla stuffed with cheese, pork or vegetables. And since it wasn’t practical to drive up to Boulder to Pupusas Sabor Hispano, our pick…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Last September, Rich Wong and his partner, Sharyn Nissen, rolled out a food cart, named it Street Eats and began pimping everything from Hawaiian-style kalbi ribs and Peking barbecue pork buns to chicken and andouille sausage gumbo and wild boar dogs tricked-out with cranberries and apricots from behind the confines…
News of Williams & Graham, a speakeasy opening in Highland in June, has people licking their lips — “darling,” “awesome,” they rave — but also worrying about the crowds it might attract. Bigskrimping, for example, offers this: Sound super sweet! But really why tell people about it on this blog,…
Almost two months after Jorge Pingarron first told Cafe Society that he was opening a “Mexican, but not Mexican” restaurant on South Broadway, the native of Acapulco has made good on his word: El Olvido opened last night with a fiesta, and when we stopped by today, there wasn’t a…
There are some restaurants that start off with a bang and falter, others that never even make it off the ground, and still others that put their best foot forward straight out of the gate and never stop evolving. The above snap was flashed at a restaurant that, while still…
Three months after Shannon Aten moved back to Boulder to make her dream of owning a pastry truck a reality, she’s ready to debut her wheels. The Tasterie Truck, which Aten and company have affectionately named “Madeline,” is getting wrapped in shades of teal, purple and green today, and it…
For the past several months, behind the walls of a two-story, converted apartment building in Highland, Todd Colehour, a former executive with Kona Grill, along with his business partners and startender Sean Kenyon, who works behind the bar of the Squeaky Bean and writes our weekly “Ask the Bartender” column,…
Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part one of my interview with Cucci ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t have one. Like…
Lori Midson’s new Chef and Tell interview with Justin Cucci, chef/owner of Root Down, has people talking. From booyah: this man gets it From Lipster: It’s interesting that he uses “pussies” as a derogatory term and then, in nearly the same breath, refers to all of the women who work…
On Saturday night, the new incarnation of Satchel’s on 6th unlocked its doors, uncorked the wines and unearthed a small, tidy menu that trumpets the talents of exec chef Jared Brant, who’s done time in the kitchens of Bones and Mizuna. The fifty-seat space, kitted out with exposed red brick,…
When Wolfe’s closed in December, it took one of the town’s best vegetarian barbecue options with it. But at least there’s still barbecued tofu on Colfax Avenue, thanks to OiNKs! BBQ…
Yesterday, while having lunch, I made the dire, dire mistake of ordering a Cuban sandwich that was served — not grilled, not pressed, not melted — on challah bread. I shoved it away after the first soggy bite, setting my sights, instead, on the hummas and falafel that my dining…
