Mel’s reunion just like old times

Mel and Janie Master, who owned the original Mel’s Bar and Grill in Cherry Creek, until it shuttered in 2007, were back in town yesterday to host a Mel’s reunion at the Egg Shell of Cherry Creek — the space at 235 Fillmore Street where Mel’s resided for more than…

Vinue Food and Wine Bar coming to Cherry Creek

During our weekend travels through Cherry Creek, we spotted the above sign adhered to the window of the former Aera Studios, directly above the still shuttered Q Worldly Barbecue at 2817 East Third Avenue. “Vinue Food and Wine Bar,” it reads, along with an announcement that it will open this…

Reader: With your list of Yelp reviews, you’ve hit a new low

In New York, people are yelping over Yelp’s Elite Squad, “the most passionate Yelpers that makes our community so funny, useful and cool.” And poorly behaved, according to recent reports on the bad behavior of Elite Squad members. Those reports inspired Jenn Wohletz to write about the “Top five most…

Tonight: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives brakes for the Bagel Deli

“Tonight’s the night, as Neil Young would say,” quips Joe Kaplan about tonight’s episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, in which Guy Fieri, the bleached-out blonde whose hair resembles the scrappy, canary-colored bird from Charlie Brown, brakes at the Bagel Deli, the decades-old shrine to Jewish comfort food that Kaplan…

Satchel’s on 6th will open in the next couple of weeks

Last September, Andrew Casalini shuttered his vibrant Park Hill restaurant, Satchel’s Market, to make way for a new concept called Satchel’s on 6th, which was originally slated to debut late last year in the Larimer Associates-owned building at 1710 East Sixth Avenue. And after months of delays, the place is…

Guess where I’m eating?

There are those of you who read this blog and undoubtedly assume that all I eat is pork, every which way, and tacos — usually with pork. And for the most part, you’re right, but there are occasions when I’ll forgo my obsessions to sink into a salad. Can you…

TAG|RAW BAR makes us melt with foie gras

TAG|RAW BAR, the newest Larimer Square spot from Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan, is serving up a roster of dishes that contains nothing cooked at a higher temperature than 120 degrees. And after the TAG|RAW BAR food porn we posted last week, we had high expectations. We returned to the…

Tonight: Mel and Janie Master return to Denver for a Mel’s reunion

It’s been a long time coming, but they’re baaack! Restaurateurs and long-wedded couple, Mel and Janie Master, whose original, groundbreaking Cherry Creek food temple, Mel’s Bar and Grill, was one of the Mile High City’s most revered restaurants until it shuttered in 2007, when the duo relocated to be closer…

Encore takes a (spring) break

Joining the throngs of kids on spring break this week is the staff of Encore, who are taking the week off to revive their mojo, while executive chef Paul Reilly creates a new menu and spruces up the joint. “A la Barolo Grill style, I’m giving the staff a week…

Top five most ridiculous Denver Yelp restaurant reviews

Members of the Yelp “Elite Squad” in New York City recently received a chiding e-mail asking them, among other things, to stop acting like greedy trolls; to stop freeloading the grub; to quit auctioning off their event RSVPs to the highest bidders; and to quit bringing their entire families to…

Let the games begin! 1Up now open in LoDo

One of the last open spots in LoDo is now full: The former Blues on Blake space opened today as 1Up, a vintage video arcade and bar that will also be serving a full bar menu — next week. For today, the food options are limited but the beverage and…

Frasca’s Bobby Stuckey at the center of Denver Cochon 555 pig fight

Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms); Frank Bonanno (Bones, Green…

Empanadas Argentinas has vacated the 16th Street Mall

It’s sometimes hard to tell which 16th Street Mall food carts have vanished for good and which are just taking an extended break, but after a craving for golden pastries stuffed with vegetables and meat — the most authentic Argentine empanadas in the city — gave way to a fruitless…

Bride orders life-size wedding cake shaped like… herself

Weddings always walk that fine line between a celebration of a happy couple and blatant displays of narcissism (for instance, why else would ugly bridesmaid dresses exist than to make a bride seem all the more radiant?), but this stunt takes the cake — literally…