Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Balmy weather aside,…
When Ozo expanded into downtown Boulder, opening a shop on the West End of Pearl Street, it also added a new feature for coffee lovers: a brew bar, which gives Ozo the capability of brewing to order three ways. To build the buzz around that — and also educate interested…
Lon Symensma ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro 1555 Blake Street 303-353-5223 www.cholon.com This is part two of my interview with Lon Symensma, executive chef of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro. In part one of that interview, Symensma rips on bird’s nests, extols the virtues of lop chong and admits that his favorite…
The 1500 block of Blake Street is one of the most restaurant-centric spots in the city, and although one of those restaurants — Marrakesh, at 1530 Blake — just closed, it will soon be replaced by TD’s Dogs. Todd Regan calls his concept “all-American food,” which means TD’s Dogs will…
After a glitchy start of the month, our comments function is working again — and readers are putting it to good use, commenting on everything from Denver Restaurant Week (best and/or worst stories will win an EatDenver deck) to cranky carnivores. And then there’s Kyle Garratt’s latest In the Weeds…
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…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime time…
Udi’s Pizza Cafe Bar has created something amazing with its monthly Udi’s Supper Club — a multi-course, family-style vegan feast of absurd proportions held on the last Monday of every month, with 10 percent of the proceeds benefitting a different charity each time. Udi’s Supper Club works like this: You…
As you’re undoubtedly aware, our Best of Denver readers’ poll, wherein you vote for all of your favorite stuff in the Mile High City, is full of food-related categories, including nachos, a subject of big debate in this city. The towering heap in the above snap always generates a litany…
“It’s gonna be Mexican, but not Mexican.” So says Jorge Pingarron, who’s opening El Olvido in the former Hades Bar & Grill (and South Broadway Grill, and El Ranchito, and, long ago, Mr. Steak) spot on South Broadway. And what he means by “not Mexican” is that he’s not going…
Leigh Jones already owned Jonesy’s EatBar, the Horseshoe Lounge next door and Bar Car, which opened just last June in the former home of the Recovery Room, so she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (which…
On a recent trip to Durango, I had what may have been one of the best, most unusual food creations every to grace the fine, square state of Colorado — and it came from Texas. Now Texas, as most old-school Coloradans know, is a place to be scorned. But frankly,…
Pardon the interruption, but over on Latest Word, our news blog, we’re holding a contest for the best memory of the King Soopers at Ninth and Corona, which unveiled its new look at a grand opening today. The winner gets $50 in groceries from the neighborhood grocer: Enter here! Also,…
Lon Symensma ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro 1555 Blake Street 303-353-5223 www.cholon.com This is part one of my interview with Lon Symensma, executive chef of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Lon Symensma talks faster than a hyped-up auctioneer, the words rolling…
Restaurants were filling up before six yesterday as Denverites got out in the good weather and into the good deals at Denver Restaurant Week. We’re collecting diners’ stories about Denver Restaurant Week here, and after it ends on March 11, we’ll award EatDenver decks to the two people who share…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 6 p.m., there were prime time…
I love the dizzying pace at which restaurants open in this city, bringing us new culinary visions and new gastronomic possibilities from new (and sometimes not-so-new) chefs. But there are times when nothing beats a good old neighborhood joint, a place that’s settled into its surroundings over the years, an…
After ten months of renovation work — while the store remained open — King Soopers is about to officially unveil the new look of its location at Ninth and Corona. At 9 a.m. tomorrow, shoppers will be able to take part in the grand re-opening festivities, which include specials exclusive…
Seven years and lots of leopard carpet mileage later, Deluxe, Dylan Moore’s (formerly) moody restaurant on SoBo, is getting a major makeover — and a new menu. Moore, who also runs Delite, the lounge next door, as well as Deluxe Burger and the Little Orange Rocket, closed on Saturday night…
No. 66: Sea scallop and rock shrimp noodle bowl from Bones Like a lot of people, I spent the majority of my years as an undergraduate obsessed with keeping my waistline shaped to a size two (those days are long, long gone) and spending whatever leftover scholarship money I had…
In the past two weeks, our culinary escapades have taken us to two gas stations: first, to Pho Bowl, which recently opened in a Conoco in Denver. Then, this past weekend, we checked out La Choza, a taco trailer that’s practically attached to a Sinclair on the Diagonal Highway in…
When Allyson Tran opened her first pho joint, Vina Pho & Grill, in Edgewater in 2009, she’d really been looking for a spot in Boulder. “I always wanted to go to Boulder,” she says. “My first plan was to open there, but we couldn’t find a location.” Now she’s finally…
