It’s been an entry on the beverage menu at Table 6 for ages, but we’re starting to see a common line popping up on drink lists around town: an invitation to diners to send a six-pack of beer to the kitchen — an invitation that caused quite a bit of…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle deserves a day off — so he’ll be back to blow off some steam. I’ve been in the food service industry for eighteen years, back and front of the house. Waiting tables is one of those jobs that make you want to gnaw on…
True, there’s an abundance of roughage masking what lies underneath, but once you pluck the lettuce from the heap, you’ll discover a quartet of flautas, devoid of grease, swiped with crema and logged with deliciously spiced potatoes. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
If you’re looking to have a devilishly good time tonight, make plans to attend the Sotol Hacienda de Chihuahua dinner at El Diablo, the rollicking Mexican cantina in the Baker ‘hood, whose kitchen extols the virtues of exec chef Sean Yontz. Tonight though, Yontz is sharing his kitchen with his…
Joel Warner’s post on the Perk Cycle — the bike-powered coffee cart that was just rolled out by Wash Perk Coffee Shop — inspired a response from Michael Rosacci, who sent us shots of Thai street carts that included a full-blown kitchen on the back of a motorbike. Along with…
Two very new, very different restaurants are winning raves. The first? Troy Guard’s TAG|Raw Bar, which opened yesterday in the newly remodeled Walkway at Larimer Square — a few months behind schedule, but definitely worth the wait. Here’s one assessment of the debut lunch: it was sooooooooo good. felt super…
On the kind of unseasonably warm winter afternoon that makes people pick up and move to Denver — and makes native Denverites fall in love with the city all over again — a breeze was blowing down Santa Fe Drive, and the garage door of Interstate Kitchen & Bar was…
Interstate Kitchen & Bar might have been designed to invoke a classic roadhouse, but it’s a hip — and clean — rendition. Not so Spanky’s Roadhouse, a faux roadhouse that opened in the University of Denver neighborhood more than twenty years ago — and has the grime to prove it…
At exactly 11 a.m. today, the doors of TAG|RAW BAR, located in the newly remodeled Larimer Square walkway, swung open, and by 11:30, the orange sherbet seats at the pint-size raw bar were jammed with chefs, including Lola’s Jamey Fader, curiosity-seekers, tourists and regulars from TAG, the whimsical Larimer Square…
New Orleans-based Naked Pizza has grown quickly, thanks to a savvy, semi-political social-marketing strategy and even savvier mission, “to transform the nutritional profile of the fast food industry by providing an all-natural pizza,” according to its website. The company started in a Katrina-ravaged area of the Big Easy in 2006…
Earlier today, in Portland, the James Beard Foundation released the listage of superstar chefs, restaurants and restaurateurs who are finalists (semifinalists, of which there were several from Colorado, were announced in February) for the James Beard Awards. The winners will be announced on May 9, in New York City, and…
When David Lee’s Chopsticks China Bistro, in Greenwood Village, was seized by the state at the end of last year for non-payment of taxes, it left a major void in Denver’s culinary scene; Chopsticks was one of the few places that served authentic, homemade xiao long bao — dumplings packed…
It used to be that no other macaroni and cheese in Denver rivaled the decadent, white-trashy version dished out at Tom’s Home Cookin’, but then, last week, I discovered a formidable competitor in town that might — dare I say it — even be better than Tom’s. Can you guess…
Beginning today, the Squeaky Bean, the wickedly cheeky stamping ground in Highland that turns out some of the best food in the city, is cutting back its noshing hours, eliminating breakfast and lunch altogether to concentrate on brunch and dinner. “Doing three services a day is really really hard, and,…
With Denver’s first IKEA opening in Centennial in the fall, it’s pretty much guaranteed that for the first few months the place will be crammed like a herring barrel with gawking newbies and affordable Swedish furniture fanatics, everyone newly converted from “WTF is IKEA?” to “Holy Jesus! Have you been…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified Italian breakfast (the photo above is another clue) to a breakfast burrito at La Fuente to a plate of crab legs. For correctly those kickers as coming from Shanahan’s, Simoney wins an EatDenver deck…
Last week, we gave two EatDenver decks to the diners who had the best/worst Denver Restaurant Week stoies. Now, as thanks to all the hard-working restaurant employees who had to slog through two weeks of the promotion, we’re giving an EatDenver deck to one of their own: Brian Melton of…
The news that Jason Sheehan is leaving the Pacific Northwest to return to the East Coast and a job at Philadelphia Magazine inspired numerous comments that indicated Sheehan may be long-gone as the Westword food critic, but will never be forgotten. And there was no love lost on either Philadelphia…
…But no, he’s not returning to Denver. In early 2010, after almost eight years as Westword’s Cafe critic (and six months after his memoir, Cooking Dirty, was published), Jason Sheehan moved to our partner paper in Seattle, the Seattle Weekly. But now he sends us this update: I swore for…
If you’re not completely liquored-out after yesterday’s St. Paddy’s Day festivities, it’s shaping up to be a beautiful weekend for a beer tasting. And while Upslope’s already got a pleasant spot for brew touring — the taproom frequently puts out lawn games to entertain imbibers — it’s offering more incentive…
This fall Denver will get its first IKEA, when the massive showroom that hawks value Swedish furniture is slated to finally open its doors in Centennial. And the store seems to be on schedule, because it just started hiring its staff. And because shopping at IKEA is frequently an all-day…
It’s never been easier to go vegetarian or vegan, and the annual Great American Meatout (which happens every year on or around March 20) is a fantastic reminder of what we can do for our bodies and for the planet by simply changing our eating habits. Keep reading for a…
