Mark Tarbell didn’t get the doors of his new place, Mark & Isabella, open by the end of December, as he’d predicted to Jason Sheehan, but he came close. Driving through Belmar this weekend, we saw that his new Italian restaurant is up and running in the former home of…
Venue opened just a few months ago in the former home of 8 Rivers. But already on February 3, it’s offering its first wine dinner, pairing up with Fran Kysela, who was named one of the top selectors of wine by Wine Advocate. And the pairing has proved such an…
We Candy Girls do love us a good gummy candy, so the Starburst GummiBursts seemed like a promising choice. Starburst as a brand has proven to have a strong-enough flavor that it transfers itself with some success to other types of candy; the Starburst jellybeans, for example, are favorites for…
There’s nothing better than discovering a new favorite restaurant, and given the abundance of vegetarian-friendly offerings on this year’s Denver Restaurant Week menus, I think I might have a few new favorites soon. Restaurant Week runs from February 21-27 this year (some restaurants will extend it another week or so),…
The last time I was in Pulcinella, the downtown Denver outpost of a homegrown chain of Italian eateries, it was to try the special holiday cocktail — a concoction just as sweet as the restaurant’s cozy little bar area. But when I popped by last night, at prime dinner time,…
The Recovery Room, a longtime hole-in-the-wall bar at 819 Colorado Boulevard serving the east Congress Park neighborhood as well as the good doctors, nurses and health-care professionals from nearby hospitals and medical centers, has flatlined. The door is boarded up and a posted Colorado Department of Revenue sign reads: “Warning…
Yesterday, I noted that Aix’s website had gone dark — as its dining room was last Saturday night. But because 17th Avenue is such a solid restaurant neighborhood, I don’t think anyone out there thought the space would stay empty for long. I just got off the phone with Keith…
What is it about brunch that makes it the perfect meal? Sure, it’s a blending of two meals, so that means it should be twice as good as just breakfast or lunch — but that can’t completely explain brunch’s appeal. Maybe it’s the fact that brunch makes drinking before…
Marczyk Fine Foods, an acclaimed gourmet food store, offers a list of ten meals under $10 in this week’s e-mail from the market.Why is this important? Because most of the stuff at Marczyk’s is really, really, really good. And some of it is also cheap. Keeping these tough economic times in…
The harvest season for Texas Rio Star Grapefruit — a particularly red, juicy variety — is January and February, and to mark it, TexaSweet Citrus Marketing, Inc. and Taste of the South Magazine have created a grapefruit recipe challenge. As described on the contest website, you can enter in three…
Okay, I’m not saying that the place is dead for sure, but, once again, things are looking bad for Pizzeria Mundo at 1312 17th Street. I got a tip from yet another neighborhood cruiser that the space — which has been absolutely fucked by a web of construction scaffolding that…
Tosh’s Cantina has encountered some delays moving into Marina Square — but that’s nothing compared to the problems encountered by the occupants of 3090 Downing Street, the original home of Tosh’s.Blackberries Bar & Grill, an offshoot of the successful coffee shop a few blocks down on Welton Street, lasted only…
By last year, the vacant restaurant space at 410 East Seventh Avenue was beginning to take on an odor, an invisible miasma of failure that was blamed on everything from the economy to the parking situation to the weird little jog that Seventh Avenue takes coming off Broadway — but…
I don’t know what it is with me, but lately I’ve just been loving everything. Even places that I probably shouldn’t. Even joints that have nothing whatsoever going for them except that they were there when I was hungry and/or thirsty and/or badly in need of a little whiskey and…
There is almost nothing I can say about this that wouldn’t get me picketed. Direct from the PETA website at www.peta.org: People don’t seem to like fish. They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads–which is weird, to say the least. Plus,…
Just got word from a sharp-eyed tipster in the 17th Avenue neighborhood that something appears to be going on at Aix. Or, more to the point, nothing seems to be going on at Aix. I hit this place, which won our Best Taste of Provence in 2007, a few weeks back…
Happy anniversary to Blue Ocean Asian Cafe! The restaurant, located at 8101 East Belleview Avenue in Greenwood Village, was purchased by current owner Guodong Hong in January 2008, but has managed to keep the same chef, Ji Gang Li, and the menu is relatively unchanged since Jason Sheehan’s review…
The sandwich: Lucky’s Pizza Sub What’s on it: Ham, pepperoni, provolone and parmesan, marinara, green peppers, black olives on a toasted roll Where to get it: Mr. Lucky’s Sandwiches (711 East Sixth Avenue, 303-861-5825) How much: $6.95 A pizza sub is a rare find, and I have been looking online…
Boulder-based Eco-Products, a company specializing in sustainable and environmentally friendly food-service ware, has unveiled its newest product: a biodegradable cup lid! Incredibly, it’s the first of its kind in North America, now making it possible to compost your entire coffee cup. Steve Kurowski, marketing manager of Eco-Products, has this to say about…
Bhakti Chai, a micro-brewed, fresh-pressed ginger masala chai tea company, has released a limited edition version of its chai: BARACKTI Chai, in honor of a certain someone who was just inaugurated. Brook Eddy, founder and owner of the Boulder-based company, simply added a shot of AA+ Kenyan coffee to the…
When a good friend returned from her semester abroad in Australia our junior year of college, she brought with her something that would forever change our lives: Arnott’s Tim Tam biscuits. They seemed simple enough in concept–a chocolate sandwich cookie, filled with chocolate cream, and enrobed in more chocolate–but there was something about…
Looks like the new year has claimed another casualty. There’s no answer when you call Maxwell’s — an American Brasserie, an ambitious, upscale eatery that occupied a stand-alone space at 7340 South Clinton Street in Englewood. If and when Maxwell’s reopens, the owners might want to do some fast proofreading…
