No. 62: Manzo at Spuntino The star of this smoky dish at Spuntino, a diminutive neighborhood Italian eatery with big aspirations, is melt-in-your-mouth beef cheek, a cut of meat sadly not often seen on the average menu. Luckily for diners, chef and co-owner Cindhura Reddy knows its merit. “Although steak…
After a month-long hiatus, Denver gets its lone tiki bar back this weekend. Adrift will reopen Saturday with a revamped food and beverage program and updated decor. The group that owns Little Man Ice Cream bought Adrift, located at 218 South Broadway, earlier this summer. Partners Paul Tamburello and Loren…
The Good Son closed two weeks ago at 2250 East Colfax Avenue, but new owners Seth Murty and Mark Whistler turned the restaurant around quickly, renaming it the the Goods and retooling the menu with a vegetable-forward focus. The Goods opens to the public on Friday, September 16. Those who…
The term “burrito delivery drones” might sound like a euphemism for…something, but Chipotle isn’t kidding around: they’re bringing drone-delivery to the campus of Virginia Tech University. It’s just a test program, to see if it’s possible, and it’s also clearly a good PR stunt during a time when Chipotle has…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. And we’ll have a…
All signs of the former Gypsy House Cafe have disappeared. The Capitol Hill mainstay that suddenly shut down in March is slated to reopen as a sushi restaurant: Little Ginkgo Asian Cafe. Dena and Doniece Derani, twin sisters, had opened Gypsy House in 2004 with their mother, Nomie Derani, as a…
Last month I stopped by Garibaldi Mexican Bistro at 3298 South Broadway in a lead-up to Tacolandia, Westword’s celebration of Denver’s Mexican street food. I was on a mission at the time, and made a beeline for Garibaldi’s unique queka: a cross between a taco and a quesadilla on a thick, fried…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. One of those will…
When fifteen-year-old Rayme Rossello landed her first job — waiting tables in New York City — she just wanted to make a quick buck. “I wanted to be an actress for my whole growing up, so I thought that would be my main focus,” she says. But a few years…
Motomaki, an innovator in big, bold sushi rolls that come foil-wrapped like a burrito, opened in Boulder two years ago — launched by the same folks who started Hapa Sushi. Motomaki is now poised for an assault on Lakewood and will open its second store at 14650 West Colfax Avenue. The…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Many of Denver’s top…
With the recent spate of restaurant closings around Denver, including Patsy’s, Mark Antonation just paid a visit to Carl’s Pizza, which has been slinging red sauce in northwest Denver since 1953. But so many other old-school spots have left the table. Says David: There are so many restaurants that have…
Patsy’s, Pagliacci’s, Carbone’s, Longo’s Subway Tavern: They’re all gone. These were just a few of the Italian eateries that helped define — and feed — the quadrant of Denver known for over a century as northwest Denver, the Northside or simply north Denver. But the area bounded roughly by I-70,…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Interstate Kitchen came…
The news that Rooster & Moon will call it quits at the end of the month met with one universal response from readers: “Noooo!” But a few fans of the eight-year-old coffeehouse/pub in the Golden Triangle pulled themselves together enough to offer more specific comments. Says Tina: Now where am…
In 2013, Craig Jones and Eric Hyatt took over Angelo’s Pizza on East Sixth Avenue, giving the space and menu an overhaul and renaming it Angelo’s Taverna. Pizza and pasta stayed true to the original, which was opened by the Laveo family in 1974, but oysters and housemade limoncello were among…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Fire Restaurant inside…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Churn & Burn…
Earlier this week, we wrote about the closing of the Good Son on East Colfax Avenue, which will only leave a vacancy in its spot in the Lowenstein theater complex for a few weeks before new owners open a new concept to be called the Goods. That’s not the only anticipated…
A critic’s voice is always an important factor in a mature restaurant scene. And restaurant critics are a hungry bunch, so Gretchen Kurtz, who reviewed nearly 200 restaurants between September 2012 and December 2015, has returned to Westword after an eight-month sabbatical that she initially thought would be a permanent…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Returning for the…
When I put away my wigs (as if!) and pseudonyms at the end of 2015, I thought I was retiring as restaurant critic. I loved the job, but after nearly five years of reviewing, both at Westword and a previous publication, it was time for a break. My kids needed…
