East Moon Asian Bistro opens its doors tomorrow at 10431 Town Center in Westminster. It’s a new restaurant, but its owners are veterans in the business — they also have East Moon locations in Fort Collins and Longmont (and two related East Moons back East). And depending on who you…
I was too hungry to take a picture. Denver Ted’s 1308 Pearl Street 303-830-9089 Regular cheesesteak: steak, American cheese, onions, bread $6 for a nine-inch sandwich It’s not fair to expound on the merits of a sandwich I’ve eaten after letting myself become so ravenously hungry that I can barely…
“It’s made from corn. It doesn’t have artificial ingredients. Like sugar, it’s fine in moderation.” This from a new TV ad campaign extolling the virtues and relative safety of high-fructose corn syrup. One can only presume that members of the Lard Council must be licking their fatty chops in anticipation…
With Sheila Lucero in the kitchen, a meal at Jax goes swimmingly. Once again, I find myself wishing I were a big fat man, one of those renowned, infamous gastronomes of old. I wish I were James Beard, who could put away a dozen oysters, a pound of Gulf shrimp,…
When The Real World: Denver production crew took over the former home of B-52 Billiards, at 1920 Blake Street, they turned it into some pretty swank digs. And in November 2006, before the MTV show had even finished its run, Shane Alexander and Josh Hawkinson bought the building and remodeled…
When Brix opened at 3000 East Third Avenue a few years ago, it gave Cherry Creek an unexpected, hip hot spot. But then the partners behind Brix split (read more about it in this week’s Bite Me), and earlier this year the space became Barron’s Bar & Bistro. But Barron’s…
The variety of dining options near the hip Highland intersection of 32nd and Lowell recently got a little more diverse. Ben Ke opened Highlands Asian Grill about three months ago, at 3940 West 32nd Avenue. In addition to a stellar-looking variety of Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese options, the menu…
The First Avenue Hotel in 1917. Denver restaurateur Jesse Morreale (Mezcal, Tambien, La Rumba, Rockbar) recently announced he was taking the next step in building the nascent hotel empire that started with the All-Inn at 3015 East Colfax Avenue by purchasing the historic/empty/decrepit 1st Avenue Hotel building at 101 Broadway…
High School Musical cereal Kellogg’s Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Round-cornered corn-and-oat stars evenly split between a robust yellowish-brown and a ripe red — and all of them are speckled with white sugar pustules seemingly ready to erupt with sweetness. It’s a look that raises expectations soon…
Chef Frank Bonanno. I think we all knew that it was only a matter of time before Sparrow Market Café (701 Grant Street) tanked, since Sparrow restaurant had already flown the coop. And guess who’s picked up the space? Frank Bonanno, who already owns the restaurants on either side of…
Morreale is feeling confident after his makeover of RockBar at the All-Inn. Remember a couple years back when Jesse Morreale, out for one of his morning constitutionals, just up and decided he was going to buy the aging transient hotel at 3105 East Colfax, so he walked into the All-Inn…
There’s a new Asian spot in Aurora, and it’s dishing up a wide variety of Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese cuisines with a menu that includes an extensive array of sushi, bento boxes and teppanyaki. Purple Orchid Asian Bistro, the vision of owner Rui Shang, opened about two weeks ago at…
Now, I’m a huge fan of caramel candy. Something about the rich, deep sweetness of good cooked sugar is pure candy heaven to me. On a recent trek to Big Lots to find strange and unusual candy, I spotted two filled caramel options that looked intriguing. Goetze’s “Original” Caramel Creams…
Construction — or, rather destruction — began this week on Sean Yontz’s old Chama space in the Belmar development, which is scheduled to become Phoenix chef Mark Tarbell’s second Colorado restaurant, following the success of his first, The Oven, in that same Lakewood project. One complication: Tarbell doesn’t yet have…
“No more root beer for me, bartender. I’m driving.” Happy Hour: It’s no longer just for alcohol. That’s the idea behind the Red Trolley ice cream shop’s root beer float happy hour. The phrase alone inspires giddy excitement; saying it aloud will certainly leave a childish grin on your face…
Goodnight, Mel’s. I got word last night from Charlie Master that the last location of the Master family restaurant empire is finally closing. Mel’s Bistro, at 1120 East Sixth Avenue, has been on the block for some time now, and while many of Denver’s big names were rumored to have…
Either it’s the best kept secret in town, or other Denver-ites just don’t appreciate the restorative qualities of a good soyrizo-and-egg burrito and an icy cold Chelada after a night of too many indulgences as much as my husband and I do. When we first stumbled upon the abundance of…
After just a couple of years as Leenah’s Deli, the long-standing Greek market at 1035 Lincoln Street has changed ownership and is now called Melit’as Greek Cafe & Market. New owner Maria Gibson took over the deli about six weeks ago from Nader Wadhen, and while the menu does have…
I took my first cooking job in 1988. Fifteen years old, I walked into a neighborhood pizza shop knowing precisely nothin’ about nothin’ and proceeded to prove it at every opportunity. That I wasn’t fired after my first night was odd. That I survived my first week, near miraculous. It…
While Lo Coastal Fusion presents itself — perhaps unwittingly — as a champion of all things ’80s, particularly the dreaded fusion, Avenue Grill has actually been around since the 1980s (and has the documentary evidence to prove it, hung all over the walls behind and beside the bar) and has…
Rumors are swirling that French 250 , which Jason Sheehan raved about this spring, is bidding Denver adieu. A sign on the door notes that the restaurant is no longer open on Mondays and Tuesdays — which could explain why no one was answering the phone yesterday. (The web site…
A few weeks back, we asked readers where we should take Gustavo Arellano of Ask a Mexican fame during his visit to Denver, so that he could try a real Colorado Mexican eatery. One suggestion was for a spot we’d never heard of: Las Tortas, a torta joint at 5307…
