Hoss Orwat had hoped to get Big Hoss reopened a few days after a kitchen fire in late June, then hoped for anytime in July. But now it looks like it will be August 14 before Big Hoss, his barbecue joint at 3961 Tennyson Street, finally is back in business…
Sitting in the bar, I knew I needed a burger. A couple of them, maybe. Big, fat burgers, mid-rare and bleeding juice over the sides of the buns. I needed the kind of burgers they show in commercials — straight-up porn-star burgers, all greasy and fat and bad for me…
Park Burger, which I review this week, has almost a Sideways feel — what with its wine list and stocked bar, its air of excess and guilty luxury. The toppings even include brie, one of those old-school, upscale benchmarks. But there ain’t no brie on the menu at Old School…
After many unanticipated delays, Mary Jane’s Pizza, the first outpost of a joint that got its start in Tulsa back in 2002 , will open tonight at 2013 West 32nd Avenue. And open late, since the hours here will be from 11 p.m. to 4:20 a.m. (get it?), take-out and…
Right this minute, the future of ten of America’s great food cities is being decided. By readers of the Huffington Post. No, seriously. This isn’t a joke. As you are reading this, the highest-rated, single-most popular story at HuffPo is a poll for the ten best food cities. Denver is on…
Took the kid out for dinner last night to his first Vietnamese restaurant. Originally, we were hot on the trail of sushi, until Elliott (the kid) reminded me (his mother) that he would not eat rice, and since his weekly allowance is way less than two pieces of sashimi, we…
After twenty years slinging naan against the blazing tandoor at his Tamarac Square location at 3333 South Tamarac Drive, Krishan Kapoor, the owner of India’s, is moving a couple of blocks south to 7400 East Hampden Avenue. That’s the Tiffany Plaza space that most recently held Kermen Mongolian BBQ Restaurant,…
The sandwich: Meatball What’s on it: Meatballs, provolone, mozzarella Where to get it: Luciano’s Pizza and Wings (1043 Broadway, 303-446-2424) How much: $5.65 There’s something almost magical about a sandwich charred in a pizza oven. Maybe the extreme heat transforms the molecules of the bread and the meat, the sauce…
Somewhere between breakfast and a cup of coffee lays this middle ground of stupid — food that isn’t really food, but still seems appropriate to consume for the (allegedly) most important meal of the day. Jon Stewart and The Daily Show exposed the ridiculousness of the pancake-wrapped sausage years ago,…
Tonight, Z Cuisine À Côté, the utterly charming bistro and bar at 2239 West 30th Avenue, is hosting a French wine-tasting tour from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The sip fest, priced at $20 per person, includes twelve wines from the Provence and Méditerranée regions of France and appetizers from Z…
Sitting in the bar, I knew I needed a burger. A couple of them, maybe. Big, fat burgers, mid-rare and bleeding juice over the sides of the buns. I needed the kind of burgers they show in commercials — straight-up porn-star burgers, all greasy and fat and bad for me…
The menus were still at the printer when I dropped by Samba Brazil, a new Brazilian restaurant that started serving pastels, empanadas and coxinha, or Brazilian sandwiches, yesterday at 5075 Leetsdale Drive. “The printer promised me the menus would be here by 6 p.m.,” sighed co-owner Christiane Barros, who, along…
The space at 975 Lincoln Street is dark now. The doors are locked, the lights are out. Yesterday, George Eder and some of his guys from Jet Entertainment Group gutted the place, taking out everything they could — food and dry-stock, the art from the walls. All that’s left are…
It’s always been a bit of a mystery: Where, exactly, does the produce at Denver farmers’ markets come from? While some of it does come from local farms, as you might expect, a good portion hails from distant operations in California and Mexico. As of next year, however, folks will…
Why am I here? I’m squeezed into a booth, my eyes reduced to bloodshot slits staring into the middle of nowhere. I can’t be here for the food or the atmosphere. I have no real connection with the place and don’t especially care about its history, so I’m not here…
Nick Wrona is no stranger to the spatula. He grills cheesesteaks out of a truck these days, but he was the original executive chef at the Berkshire in Stapleton, then experimented with a crepe cart before settling on cheesesteaks six months ago. “I like this. I want to stick with…
It would be really easy to simply divert you to the Youtube video above and leave it at that, but the constant bleeping of the F-bomb gets annoying — fast — and the dude in the video doesn’t actually have the fax facts. I do. And here they are: Tonight,…
It looks as though Seven Eurobar (which had, at some point in its brief history, become just “Seven” or, occasionally, “Seven on Pearl”) has gone dark at 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder. No one is picking up the phone (even though the voicemail still encourages callers to leave reservation requests)…
I did a reading last week at the Tattered Cover and it was nice — drew a good crowd, met some nice people, signed a lot of copies of Cooking Dirty. During the event, I paused briefly in my witty, stream-of-consciousness banter about kitchens and cooks and all the dirty…
Well, that sucks. Just called Johnie’s Bar-B-Cue, the new, late-night smokehouse at 5280 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater, only to get a voicemail greeting announcing the following: Thank you for calling Johnie’s Bar-B-cue. At this time we are sad to announce the closing of Johnie’s Bar-B-Que due to issues with…
Last night I witnessed the Greatest Caesar Salad competition, an annual battle of the romaine hosted by the Colorado Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food, that pitted seven local restaurants — Squeaky Bean, Root Down, Campo de Fiori, Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza, Opus, Black Pearl and Izakaya Den…
Nation’s Restaurant News, the bible of the food-industry world, has just named Smashburger, a homegrown burger joint that rated our Best Local Chain in the Best of Denver 2008, a 2009 Hot Concept. “We are both honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award from Nation’s Restaurant News,” Tom Ryan,…
