Diego Zhang’s Burger Cafe invites you to “taste the adventure,” but there’s one less place where you can do that. The owners — who just took third place in a business-plan competition — have closed their outpost at 12073 East Arapahoe Road and are focusing on their store at 6851…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN JULY * Applebee’s (re-opening after remodel), 410 South Colorado Boulevard, Glendale Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue Bites, 2796 South Broadway…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from this molten molcajetes at Agave to a still-unidentified order of Mexican eggrolls to a mysterious, maligned cheese plate to a plate of pig at Vita . For correctly identifying Vita (“that place is wonderful!”), Shawn wins a DINR…
In the event that you missed our best bites of the week, here’s a recap. Laura Shunk reports that Zona Moore, the 84-year-old matriarch of her namesake tamale hut, got busted, along with her son, for trafficking stolen goods — specifically cigarettes. Moore is out on bond, and smokes are…
Let’s start with the big question: How many dollar bills are you going to have to part with? “Nothing on our menu will be more than four bucks,” promises Ian Kleinman. Thank Jesus for that, otherwise those of you hyperventilating over the $20 lobster rolls being doled out from the…
It’s not the best cheese plate on the planet, but it is a new addition to a menu that hasn’t undergone a revamp in years. And while the mozzarella, which is made in-house, definitely needs some attention, the fact that the kitchen is making an attempt at crafting their own…
Our recent story on the cost of Denver’s street food brought out plenty of snarky opinions, as you debated the value of lunch from a truck. Most of you seemed okay with paying prices between $5 and $10, but the Mexican feast and the $20 lobster roll, especially, were the…
Dylan Moore, chef of Deluxe, Delite, Deluxe Burger and the proud owner of the Little Orange Rocket, the new Deluxe streetmobile, sat down with us last week to discuss his growing empire of restaurants, his fetish for fish sauce and tacos and how he managed to fuck up fish for…
Last week, Scottish brewery BrewDog released a beer called The End of History. It’s 55 percent alcohol and it comes encased in a dead animal — specifically, a stoat or a squirrel. Oh, and the brewery only made eleven bottles, so it’s charging $764 for the stoat, $1,070 for the…
A South Carolina woman who thought her car was running “rugged” late last week took the vehicle to a local mechanic — and what he found did not ease her anxiety pangs. As the mechanic ran a diagnostic check, he was surprised to find a cheeseburger and pickle at the…
Okay, so I was drunk and really hungry, which are the only two reasons why anyone could possibly be persuaded to order the Mexican egg rolls in the above pic, which arrived with hollow interiors harboring, well, next to nothing. The thin tarps of cheese on top? Trickery. Can you…
The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge Aaron Schock, a very young Republican Congressman from Illinois, explained, legislators aren’t allowed…
“No cigarett” [sic] read the chalkboard sign outside of Zona’s Tamales at 713 East 26th Avenue today. The ordering window of the tiny restaurant was littered with new paperwork, too: “No tabacco products” was scrawled on a sheet of paper. Another slip assured visitors that Zona’s would be open regular…
The bikini barista coffee shop trend may have only begun in Colorado (for more on two stores in Colorado Springs, see below), but it has reached full, mature size in the Seattle area, where a “pop-punk” band called Quickie recently released a song and video dedicated to the java princesses…
My father’s family hails from the East Coast (more or less), so I chalk up my cotillion classes and love of fancy restaurants to that part of my blood. But my mother is born-and-bred Midwestern, from Missouri, where I also spent six years going to school. If you’ve ever lived…
Brunch is the best time to eat at Satchel’s Market, but don’t try it this weekend. The restaurant is dark right now, with a note on the menu posted on the door at 5021 East 28th Avenue noting that Satchel’s is on summer vacation until early August. When the spot…
“We want people to understand the quality of produce that we use here at the restaurant,” says Max Mackissock, exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, the seasonally-driven, New American restaurant with an alter to the late Farrah Fawcett and a thimble-size kitchen that’s rolling out its summer farm stand today…
If you’re lunching at the Steuben’s Food Truck in Civic Center Park today, you could win a free slice of coconut cake if you’re one of the first two people to tell the crew where Steuben’s found its truck, which has since named Pearl. We’ll give you a hint: The…
Dylan Moore Deluxe 30 South Broadway 303-722-1550 Delite 32 South Broadway 303-722-1278 Deluxe Burger 5325 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-5683 This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Dylan Moore, exec chef of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger. You can read part one here. Culinary inspirations: Fresh ingredients. I try…
It’s Sunday night at Yak and Yeti, and most of the tables in the upstairs alcove are full. I find myself whispering over our feast, desperately trying to keep my table’s conversation private. “WHAT?” my father yells. “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU WHEN YOU MUMBLE.” I feel so self-conscious that…
After 22 years, 14th Street Bar and Grill, the Boulder restaurant that’s been slinging California cuisine from its address at 1400 Pearl Street since 1988, is calling it quits. One of Boulder’s first restaurants to instill a real wood-burning oven, which produced some killer pizzas and smoky burgers, the popular…
The hot chicks at Hot Chick-a-Latte are decked out in their 911 Emergency gear today (the bikini barista coffee shop at 4736 East Colfax Avenue, has a different theme every day), but its the now-closed Perky Cups, which operated a similar business in Aurora until last month, that may need…
