Six weeks. That’s how long, optimistically, Bryan Dayton expects it will take to rebuild Oak at Fourteenth after fire ravaged the space, causing damage everywhere from the attic to the basement…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on February 26, and while tonight is the last official opportunity to take advantage of DRW (some restaurants are extending the offer through the weekend), it’s still not too late to snag a seat at one of the 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts. As…
A week after Virgilio’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar caught some dine-and-ditchers on video, the town is still buzzing about how these ditch-bitches managed to get away with hogging and jogging. But while the now-notorious YouTubed “meatball gang” from Virgilio’s may have scored some free eats, they’re paying for them with…
Talk about bitter irony. A mere two days after Oak at Fourteenth, one of Boulder’s best new restaurants and bars, erupted in blazes after a “false” ceiling of the restaurant caught on fire, Food & Wine magazine released its listage of the country’s best new bars — and Oak at…
It’s been many, many months since floor leaks forced the closure of Samba Room in Larimer Square, but as late as December of 2010, the company, along with Larimer Associates, the group that owns the space, were optimistic that the place would eventually reopen. It wasn’t to be. E Brands,…
My recent review of Carmine’s on Penn, wherein I wrote about being egregiously upsold by a server who’d initially gained my trust, garnered this question from reader Matt: I was just hired as a server a few nights a week, and I’ve never done it before. I wondered if you…
That, people, is some of the most amazing pizza I’ve sunk my teeth into in years — not just in Denver, but anywhere. Thin-crusted, paved with an herb-laden sauce, tricked-out with just the right amount of cheese, topped with quality ingredients and greasy in all the good ways, it’s fitting…
St. Paddy’s Day isn’t until next Thursday, but already, Fadó Irish Pub and Restaurant, the behemoth Irish-themed watering hole, roughly the size of Dublin, is gearing up to paint the town green — starting with your bald head…
Denver Restaurant Week officially began on February 26, and with it, bargain-priced multi-course menus, some including alcoholic libations, from hundreds of the top food temples in and around Denver. DRW officially wraps up tonight, and the most difficult decision, of course, is where to plunk down your plastic for your…
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…
Two decades ago, when the first LoDo Limelight Awards were handed out, restaurants were few and far between in lower downtown. But today the restaurant and hospitality industries are the heart of LoDo, and businesses ranging from the venerable Oxford Hotel to the brand-new ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro were honored…
The news that Boulder, the “foodiest town” in the country, will finally get a specialty cheese shop when Cured opens next month was greeted enthusiastically by most readers — and with some skepticism from Dave M: There was a great specialty cheese shop in Boulder a couple years ago. The…
Way too often, I’m steered in the wrong direction by leaving my food fate in the hands of a server (or counter person), mostly because I can’t make up my mind, which is no one’s fault but my own. Still, it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth when…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on February 26, and while rezzies are filling up fast, especially now that we’re in the final stretch, it’s still not too late to snag a seat at one of the 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and tomorrow. Tonight is no exception…
To the electrician who completely fucked up Biker Jim’s opening, you pretty much suck. Jim Pittenger, aka Biker Jim, was all set to fling open the doors of his new brick-and-mortar, Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, on St. Paddy’s Day, but thanks to a half-ass electrician, the sausage slayer has had…
Something weird and vampiric is happening to Mike Isabella and Richard Blais on Top Chef: Mike is getting chubbier and cockier by the week, while Richard shrinks visibly, becoming ever thinner and more irritable, muttering that he hates, hates, hates everything he cooks — and this after receiving praise from…
When Boulder was named America’s foodiest town by Bon Appetit last year, it won the honor despite the fact that Boulder has no specialty cheese shop. For the last few years, anyone looking for a unique cheese in this town would generally look for it at Whole Foods. And while…
A Littleton strip mall has claimed another victim: Pot of Pho has closed in the same complex that recently lost an outpost of Big Papa’s BBQ…
Will Cisa The Corner Office 1401 Curtis Street 303-825-6500 www.thecornerofficedenver.com/food/dinner This is part two of my interview with Will Cisa, executive chef of the Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar. In part one of that interview, Cisa dished on monumental cooking disasters, Euclid Hall’s boudin noir and the impossible thirty-minute…
In his effort to win, well, everything, Charlie Sheen claims he’s trying to be the first person to appear on every television network. Which, we guess, includes Funny or Die, because that’s the website that’s hosting his cooking show, Charlie Sheen’s Winning Recipes…
Last year the B.U.F.F. Brothers Group sold four of their bars — the College Inn, Dirk’s, Gibby’s and Pifler’s — to the Little Pub Company. B.U.F.F. Brothers co-owner Rob Lanphier says the sale basically came down to money: The Little Pub Company, which now owns nineteen saloons in the area,…
My review of Ototo Food and Wine Bar was originally slated to run on Thursday, March 3. I’d eaten three meals at the place, written the review and signed off on what I thought was the final version — and then on Saturday, February 26, two days before that issue…
