Restaurants

After a somewhat chilly reception compounded by an hour of shivering in an incredibly chilly lounge area, the bread pudding in the above snap was the warmest part of the entire evening — even with the vanilla bean ice cream…

Deluxe Burger, the spot at 5325 East Colfax Avenue that’s a joint venture between Dylan Moore (Delite, Deluxe) and the owners of Mod Livin’ next door, blew past its February 14 opening, and didn’t open last week, either. But the beginning is in sight, according to a new post on…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, with questions regarding everything from inappropriate nachos to sushi in the shape of a heart. For correctly identifying that fishy entree at Go Fish, Sam is now the lucky winner of a DINR deck. Sam, send your contact…

Blue Ice Martini Lounge just hired a new executive chef — and with the hire, got a new feature: South American food. “We do food from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Colombia,” says chef Jose Santiago. “We have comfort food, and every weekend we are going to try to do a dish…

We hope you’ve already eaten lunch, because you won’t be hungry after this: Seems that California’s Olivera Egg Farm is facing six violations for permit violations stemming from local complaints about their reported daily pumping of chicken excrement into a 16.5 acre pond near the facility. The waste of more…

As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…

Rumors are flying that the forever vacant Il Fornaio space at 1631 Wazee Street is finally getting fresh blood, specifically from TurnTable Restaurant Group trio Jeffrey Chodorow, his son Zach and Dan Smith, the former president of Jillian’s restaurant and entertainment complexes. Smith, along with the Chodorows, who are also…

“The kitchen closes in five minutes,” warned the bartender, glancing anxiously at the clock. I quickly scanned the long menu before ordering a pair of fish tacos and the piquant shrimp cocktail paired with cold chips that had obviously been made long, long before they landed on my plate. But…

The traffic jam that resulted from Barack Obama’s visit to Denver yesterday proved a good time to check out developments along Santa Fe Boulevard — including the fact that the former Taco Bell at 14th Avenue is going to become a real Mexican restaurant. Although it looks like the “coming…

For many, many months, things have looked dim for the two dim sum institutions at Alameda Square. Endless construction has made it difficult to even see that Super Star Asian and King’s Land Seafood Restaurant are still open, and if you could manage the turn off Alameda, you still needed…

Monday was a happy day at Happy, the noodle house at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder that Dave Query’s Big Red F group opened a year ago as Happy Noodle House. Over the months, Query and company have made a number of adjustments at the restaurant — starting but not…

Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard — but the brothers who’ve taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partners behind Brooklyn’s (both the original and the one by the Pepsi Center),…

No, these aren’t strips of cactus from Rosa Linda’s vegetarian menu for Lent. They’re slices of green chile, flash-fried and served hot. Very, very hot. Can you guess where I’m eating?…

Ordering a fish sammich from a place that specializes in fresh-pressed, flame-broiled moo meat might not be the smartest choice, but you still shouldn’t need a painkiller to make your meal go down easy. But that’s what a customer discovered in his fish sandwich at a Burger King in Jacksonville,…

As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…

Restaurant and chef semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards were released this morning, which gives all the nominees exactly 32 days to chew on their success before the five finalists in each category are announced on Monday, March 22. The winners will be revealed on Monday, May 3…

This is part two of Sergio Romero’s Chef and Tell interview. To read part one, click here…

Just when it looked like the turbulence — a menu revamp just three weeks after opening and a relocation to Redskins territory for the former Denver Broncos football coach for whom the restaurant is named — at Shanahan’s, the multi-million dollar steakery and seafood house at 5085 South Syracuse Street,…

The woman whooshed through the doors and out into the snow, the words tumbling out of her mouth faster than a Ferrari flying down a stretch of straight asphalt. She was from San Francisco, a tourist, the perfect display of a catwalk model — faultless makeup, Pilates calves and a…

Snarf’s first location was a shack in Boulder, but it’s quickly moving on to bigger and better things. The sandwich chain expanded to Denver in 2009, and in December it opened a Westminster store at 120th and Tejon. “We have six locations total that are open now and we have…

Though I grew up south of Hampden (or, as we now refer to it, SoHam), I rarely go to SoHam other than for work or to see my mother at the Landmark. But this new restaurant may change that, because while I liked my pear mojito (pictured above), I’d also…

As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…