No. 41: Shredded Bison at Tocabe American Indian Eatery Part of the fun of fast-casual dining is that the setup often allows customers to mix and match ingredients to customized meals to their liking. Tocabe’s menu offers a variety of proteins that can be heaped onto light and fluffy fry…
Casa Bonita celebrated its fortieth birthday last year, and the Pepto Bismol pink palace will collect an even bigger honor this morning: The Lakewood Historical Society is presenting a bronze marker to Casa Bonita’s general manager, honoring the restaurant’s new status as a Lakewood Historical Society Landmark. Yes, Casa Bonita is…
Frasca owners Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson introduced a novel, house-ground wheat flour program at Pizzeria Locale when they opened the second branch of their fast-casual pizza concept last fall in West Highland. Custom-made Austrian flour mills were installed at that location as well as at the store on Broadway,…
The Denver dining scene has changed a lot since Table 6 was the new kid on the block eleven years ago. The young upstart earned fast notice in Esquire, but in the intervening decade many more much-lauded restaurants have opened in the city. For her current review, Gretchen Kurtz returned…
When Randall James Borne learned that he had to close his five-year-old restaurant and bar, Randall’s at Pierre’s, to make way for a new townhouse development, he immediately sought out a new space. He wanted to reopen as soon as possible, but soon discovered that the space he’d found in…
The Ale House at Amato’s, part of the the Breckenridge Brewery family, epitomizes the LoHi scene with its brand of upscale pub food, extensive outdoor seating and dizzying array of local suds. With a mantra of “good food, good drink and good cheer,” it’s the perfect place to watch your…
The Best of Denver 2015 is just a week away, and voting in our Best of Denver Readers’ Poll ends tonight. We’re down to the five finalists in almost two hundred categories, and busy counting all the votes. It’s enough to drive you to drink….but at what brewery? Says Justin: The…
Biju’s Little Curry Shop opened in December in a spot overlooking an alley and a short patch of 26th Street barely visible from the trendy stretches of Walnut and Larimer streets heading into RiNo from Ballpark. While opening a restaurant in an obscure location during the holiday season doesn’t seem…
It had been years since I’d had a full meal at Table 6. I’d met family there for appetizers, had even popped in for a glass of wine and tater tots on my way home from work, using the low-key communal bar to ease the transition from a solitary day…
Ben Jacobs and Matt Chandra opened their second outpost of Tocabe American Indian Eatery in Greenwood Village last week, offering office workers and neighbors a taste of American Indian cooking, including fry bread, slow-cooked beans and three different bison preparations. The two opened the lunch and dinner fast-casual operation quietly, allowing…
The Wall Tavern opened at 11th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in the summer of 2013 after an interior upgrade from the previous tenant, Scwherver’s Bar. But now the Wall signage has been removed and replaced by hand-painted lettering that reads the Monkey Bar. Establishments with “monkey” in the name…
“We’re pretty excited,” says chef Matt Selby of Central Bistro & Bar’s new look and new menu. “It’s coming down to the wires, as always.” The restaurant at the edge of LoHi, where Selby landed a year ago after leaving Corner House, has been popular since Isiah Salazar opened the…
Chef Ian Kleinman has been keeping his skills sharp over the past several years by catering special events, throwing pop-up dinners and teaching kids about the fun and science behind cooking through his Inventing Room brand. Those who have eaten his playful and madcap fare — think exploding whipped cream…
With Wurstküche coming to town last month from California, joining such local favorites as Biker Jim’s, Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs and Mustard’s Last Stand, this city is rolling in sausages — which inspired our list of the Ten Best Places for Sausage in Denver. And after all the expected jokes (“my…
When I told Amy to meet me at Seventh and Grant for dinner, she asked why I was abandoning our plan to go somewhere for Middle Eastern cuisine. I wasn’t so much abandoning it, I explained, as I was modifying the plan. Vesper Lounge did, in fact ,include Middle Eastern…
No. 42: Pho at Wonderbowl Vietnamese Restaurant 925 S. Federal Blvd. 303-936-0333 The best pho combines complex and mysterious flavors with simplicity and comfort. Pho may have its origins in the street markets of Vietnam, but it’s still nothing more or less than beef and noodle soup. Whether eaten in…
The Stapleton neighborhood has been making news this month. While the upcoming transformation of the Stapleton Airport traffic control tower into a second Denver location for Punch Bowl Social has inspired plenty of discussion, the area just welcomed Four Friends Kitchen, a new breakfast/lunch spot built from the ground up by…
This week saw an explosion of restaurants looking for all manner of new ways to get people in the door in attempts to appeal to guests with different spending habits, tastes and ideas of what constitutes a good time. Happy hours fill seats at times that are customarily slow, so…
March is a busy month for chef Lon Symensma of ChoLon: not only is he putting the finishing touches on Cho77, the new noodle house expected to open at the end of this month, but he’s also added his signature to a new evening menu at the Cooper Lounge inside…
Is there a word or a phrase to describe the experience when you dig into a sandwich, an omelet or, in my case, a vegetarian burrito from Bonfire Burritos in Golden, and somehow you have no recollection of anything after the first bite, until you suddenly emerge with one bite…
Many of Denver’s fine-dining establishments have off-the-menu dishes they’ll make for regulars. But even more lowbrow spots have on-request deals. If you ask — nicely — for ” The Cure Burger” at a Red Robin in metro Denver, for example, your server will deliver a fire-grilled patty topped with chili,…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the Village Cork, which has evolved a great deal from when it first opened on Old South Pearl fourteen years ago. Last summer Lisa Lapp closed her place in order to do a major renovation, one that expanded the kitchen and added a chef’s counter,…
