Interstate Kitchen & Bar made its debut on Thursday, September 10, at 901 West Tenth Avenue (the former Santa Fe Tequila Company space). It’s a kitschy urban roadhouse bedecked with utilitarian shelving — a la Home Depot — and a psychedelic robin’s egg blue paint palette. In the back, by…
David Hannes, president of the Writer Square Condominium Association, has had his hands full dealing with the ongoing renovations at Writer’s Square, which have turned the downtown oasis into a concrete desert. He lives above the restaurant that had been Zaidy’s Downtown Deli, and he’s also kept a close eye…
Zaidy’s Deli, a mainstay at 121 Adams Street in Cherry Creek for decades, opened a downtown outpost several years ago in Writer Square. It did a decent breakfast and lunch business there, but the crowds flocking to LoDo and Larimer Square in the evening — and walking right past Zaidy’s…
The three-day Denver Food & Wine Classic wrapped up on Saturday, September 12 with a Grand Tasting on the wet and sloppy grounds (thanks, rain) of Metro State College. To see a slideshow of all the fun, including some action snaps of Denver Five chefs Jamey Fader, Matt Selby, Troy…
Lucy at the Landmark, the mezzanine-level restaurant inside Comedy Works South, at 5345 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village, had closed in early July and just reopened on Thursday, September 10 after what sales manager Heidi McMillen calls a “menu redo.” It’s now a “great family-oriented, economically-friendly restaurant with American food…
Independent restaurants across town are offering specials right now to celebrate Harvest Week. This order of albondigas is one of those specials; guess where we found it?…
As we reported here last month, the space at 1320 15th Street that had been occupied by Alto, Greg Goldfogel’s Italian restaurant, has been picked up by Paul Piciocchi, who runs Tryst and Sutra Dance Bar & Lounge. And now we know what Piciocchi plans to put into that spot…
Leapin Lemurs EnviroKidz Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Here’s a partial list of ingredients in Leapin’ Lemurs: “organic corn meal,” “organic whole grain corn meal,” “organic evaported cane juice,” “organic peanut butter,” “organic molasses,” “organic cocoa,” “organic soy oil” — as opposed to “soy oil assembled in…
What you might have missed this week while eating peaches and honey with a steak knife…Anika Zappe, bartender at Root Down, told us about her favorite drinks and least favorite customers.Cheers! We learned a second Toast location will open next month in Cherry Creek.Chef Mark Dym of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza…
Okay, so the general definition of “slider” is a person or thing that slides. Easy enough. But it’s also a popular bar food that, in the case of the slider in the above pic, certainly slid when I ate it. Topped with Kobe beef, caramelized onions and Gouda, it was…
Mark Dym, owner-chef of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza, 2129 Larimer Street, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, is one of the participants in Harvest Week, which means that he’ll have a special menu that’ll pay homage to local ingredients, including Palisade peaches, homegrown tomatoes and goat cheese,…
Tony Bourdain, culinary superhero, book author, brazen, beer drinking badass, global wanderer, Food Network bully and host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations, is lecturing his way across America, regaling sold-out audiences with stories of how he once ate the rectum of a warthog. Presumably you can encourage Bourdain to…
Cheba Hut raised a toasty toast this week when a Weld County District Court judge overturned a ruling that had denied a liquor license to the sub shop’s Greeley location. In April, Robert Frick, who rules on Greeley liquor licenses, turned down the company’s request, citing Cheba Hut’s pot-related marketing…
Beginning tomorrow and continuing through Friday, September 18, members of the Denver Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR), are participating in Harvest Week, a seven-day tribute that’s all about supporting local independent restaurants while celebrating the ingredients that grow in our back yard. “Eating locally not only helps keep the cost…
Cross your fingers for Eder Yanez-Mota, the owner of Chili Verde, the spot at 3700 Teon Street that’s been cooking up southern Mexican cuisine for a few months now. He opened the restaurant without a liquor license, but all that could change after tomorrow morning’s hearing with the Denver Department…
“At long last,” proclaims the Coalition of Immokalee Workers website, “a grower steps forward.” And let’s not forget a restaurant company, Chipotle, which, as spokesman Chris Arnold had told us three weeks ago, was negotiating with that grower to get around a stalemate that had prevented the Denver-based outfit from…
Not the best chilaquiles I’ve ever had, but not the worst either. There’s way too much lettuce and an overabundance of sour cream swirls and squiggles on the plate. But the green chile, tart with tomatillos, was requisitely spicy; the corn tortilla chips, scratch-made and flimsy; the eggs softly scrambled;…
During last year’s introduction of Hershey’s autumn-themed candies, we tested the Candy Corn Kisses and found them tastier than expected, though tooth-achingly sweet. This year, the Pumpkin Spice Kisses lured us into buying them off an early Halloween rack being prepared at Target. From the picture on the front of…
There’s a promising sign posted at 1555 Blake Street, the future home of H Burger Lounge. Peter Pflum, the restaurateur (he’s the former operations manager for Dave Query’s Big Red F Restaurant Group and most recently the VP of operations for Quizno’s) who came up with the idea of putting…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Mark Dym, the owner-executive chef of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza. You can read the first part of Midson’s interview with Dym here. Culinary inspirations: No question, Roberto Caporuscio, a fantastic pizzaiolo from Campania who’s been living in the states for ten years…
Bones, Frank Bonanno’s fantastic ramen noodle bar at 701 Grant Street, has just rolled out a daily happy hour, which the crew is calling “Five for Five at Five.” That’s because the five happy-hour dishes — shishito peppers, crab wontons, a duo of egg rolls, escargot pot stickers and black…
Chile cannot kill you. I have been assured of that. No matter how much your dumb, careless, looking-in-the-other-direction ass might’ve accidentally ingested, it can not do you any severe or lasting harm. Oh, it can make you want to die — from embarrassment first, as you dance around the living…
