Restaurants

What can three or four million dollars buy you? A summer home in the Hamptons, a small company or, if you’re Taco Bell, sweet, meaty vindication…

Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part one of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part two of my interview will run in this space tomorrow. Justin Cucci has spent the majority of his life in…

Sean Kenyon’s discussion of whisky — no “e,” please — prompted this story from Harvey: On a plane recently, a passenger asked the flight attendant, “What kinds of whiskey do you have?” She proceeded to list a few, when he interrupted, in a whiney, patronizing tone: “That’s Scotch!” And she…

When Mt. Everest Restaurant & Bar opened late last year, I had high hopes that it would be a true Tibetan-Nepalese restaurant, with a board full of blood sausage, yak, water buffalo and all the other exotic, high-altitude animals…

Alcohol bombs, beer bottled in dead animals… if you’ve been wondering what those crafty brewers over at United Kingdom-based BrewDog will think of next, wait no longer. In a stunt inspired by the upcoming Royal Wedding, the brewer is unleashing Royal Virility Performance, a beer laced with Viagra…

When Patrick’s Nite Club closed a few years ago, Aurora lost one of the only places in that town where you could hear live jazz. But with the opening of Wine & Roses Jazz Supper Club on April 8, that void is now filled. Wine & Roses promises to host…

On Friday, April 27, Jorge Hinojosa Alonso and Jean-Claude Delville will head to the Wellington Webb Building at 1:30 p.m to attend a hearing that’ll determine whether their new watering hole, Vinue Food and Wine Bar, located at 2817 East Third Avenue, will get its liquor license. The wine bar,…

US Thai Cafe is one of our favorite Thai restaurants in Denver; the Edgewater spot landed our Best Thai Hot award in the Best of Denver 2011, and I just sang the praises of its fiery curries in a Second Helping review. So we were thrilled to learn that Ma…

Dan Ohlson, the former owner of Chez Jose, the burrito joint in Cherry Creek that shuttered last December after a seventeen-year run, swore up and down that he’d never open another restaurant in Cherry Creek. Never. He vowed, too, that he’d never have an underground space. Ever. Ohlson is now…

The chef of the mountain restaurant where the above snap was flashed is obsessed with lamb — and I was equally obsessed with shoving it down my throat. 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…

Severely pissing off a shload of soap-opera viewers is probably not the most strategic career move that chef Mario Batali has ever made, but then, again neither was his alleged Food Network blackmail attempt — and he’s still sitting on a fat pile of cash. But will his latest television…

April is the cruelest month, not the least because street sweepers take to the roads in Denver, leaving lots of tickets in their wake. And, in the case of the Famous Dave’s at Stapleton, a fair amount of havoc: A privately owned street-sweeping vehicle ran into the barbecue restaurant early…

The orange slice outraged Sazerac lovers who spied Lori Midson’s Guess Where I’m Drinking post yesterday morning. The King had several choice words about the cocktail, including these: It may have tasted good, and it may have been made with rye, but it wasn’t a Sazerac. Just like slapping a…

Do you want more goat?” A tiny man was watching as I made my way along the buffet, ladling bright-orange chicken tikka masala and dark-green saag paneer onto a pile of rice, then adding a couple of golden-brown vegetable samosas, their flaky pastry too hot to touch. I’d already speared…

I’m almost always disappointed by buffets, and I’m not just talking about those suburban brunch monstrosities, with their questionable produce and meat-carving stations. I’ve also been let down by most buffets at restaurants with a more exotic, global bent. They seem like such a good idea, a way to experience…

Last week, Joe Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates, was heading home from Madison Street, the Congress Park neighborhood restaurant he opened in October of last year, when he started to think about dots — specifically, connecting those dots to Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TAG and TAG RAW BAR,…

A reader shot us an e-mail earlier today, posing a food-related question to “Ask a Mexican” columnist Gustavo Arellano: I absolutely love flour tortillas made with lard, but I have not been able to find a place that sells them in Denver. Everyone seems to think that vegetable shortening will…

When the plans started forming for Satchel’s on 6th, which opened this weekend at 1710 East Sixth Avenue, one member of the original crew from Satchel’s Market was notably missing — specifically, former chef Jens Patrik Landberg. Turns out, the Swedish native had his own restaurant up his sleeve. He’s…

According to the Wall Street Journal, this is the peak of egg season — or something like that, since this declaration comes alongside an explanation that says the “peak” will last for the next nine months. Regardless, the paper rounded up recipes for five egg dishes from restaurants across the…

For the past two years, Cindy English has hawked her pupusas from among the vendors that line the sunny path at the Boulder Farmers’ Market, and last year, she expanded her operation to the frozen-foods section of Whole Foods, beginning with the Pearl Street store and eventually making her way…

Last night, Denver’s who’s who of chefs congregated at the Colorado Convention Center for Chefs Up Front Denver, a fundraiser that benefited Cooking Matters, a nonprofit that fights childhood hunger and malnutrition and teaches healthy food courses to underserved families on a budget. The multiple-course dinners, prepared tableside by Denver’s…

On Friday night, I made dinner reservations in the bar of a restaurant that’s run by a chef who’s very familiar with my unapologetic disdain for filet mignon, and, as you can see from the above snap, my place setting that evening drove the point home. I do, however, have…