I think I may have found my favorite new taqueria — at least when it comes to salsas (and street tacos and chicken mole enchiladas) — and just in case you’re wondering, it’s not on Federal. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalog more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
Parisi Italian Market & Deli reopened last Thursday after closing for two weeks to renovate its space at 4401 Tennyson Street. The new quarters, designed by Semple Brown, boast an additional 24 seats, beetle-kill pine lumber, putty-colored booths, and a new, rough-hewn bar, constructed from decades-old truss wood, that features…
With cold-and-flu season in full swing, it’s time to cook up a big batch of homemade soup with all of its immune-boosting qualities — especially if you’re making your own vegetable stock! This cream-of-broccoli recipe (adapted from VegNews columnist Allison Rivers Samson’s version) will serve up a hearty dose of…
Cafe Society dished out four Guess Where? contests last week, zigzagging from a spectacular seafood stew from Cafe Brazil, to a plate of duck meatballs from Cafe Bar, which now has a new chef, to a flight of potent beers that induced a long, long slumber…
Mainstream American diners are in love — or at least extreme lust — with homegrown Colorado chains. And two of them — Garbanzo and Snooze — just made the Nation’s Restaurant News list of top “breakout brands” for 2013. See also: -The falafel truth at Garbanzo -Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill: Hail…
Mark Antonation was in the car last week — perhaps cruising Federal Boulevard for the next installment of A Federal Case — when he heard former CU Buffs quarterback and current 104.3 FM morning sports guy Joel Klatt wholeheartedly endorse the food of New Orleans, site of the Super Bowl,…
Too busy to get to everything on Cafe Society’s plate this week? Here’s another helping of some of our entrees: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Il Posto, the authentic trattoria that Andrea Frizzi opened exactly six years ago. And although some things have changed over the years, they’ve only improved the restaurant…
Maybe it’s time to go back to school — cooking school, that is. Several friends have taken classes recently, and even the kitchen-savvy veterans who have been cooking for decades have come away with new recipes and refined techniques. And when I reviewed Il Posto this week, I learned that…
Occasionally while driving, I’ll take a break from scanning the strip malls for the next great undiscovered hole in the wall. To occupy my time in the car, I’ll tune the radio to sports talk to be amused by just how far past the end of the Broncos’ football season…
The Internet is on fire with photos, memes and commentary about yet another f*cked up note left on a receipt. This one is courtesy of a St. Louis pastor, Alois Bell, who was miffed at an automatic gratuity assessed her large group at Applebee’s, inspiring her to scrawl her now-infamous…
Duck, duck…meatballs — and just in time for Monday’s opening of the Slotted Spoon, but these duck orbs are not from Jensen Cumming’s new meatball hut. They were, however, the best dish I tried on a menu that’s now overseen by a new chef after the opening kitchen commander made…
Curtis Caldwell — beloved partner, brother, son, friend, chef, philanthropist, master hula-hooper, magician and one of the kindest souls the Denver restaurant community has ever known — passed away just under a week ago at Denver Health. And while we continue to try and cope with his loss, the Vesta…
Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend, which means everyone will be turning their attention to New Orleans, where the annual championship game will be played. If you weren’t able to make it to the Big Easy, it’s still easy to get your Cajun food fix right here in Denver at…
Holy tequila! What a difference a cool million makes. That’s the approximate coinage spent on remodeling Tamayo, Richard Sandoval’s modern Mexican restaurant in Larimer Square that was closed just under four weeks to significantly upgrade the two-tiered space, which now looks like a brand new restaurant that fits beautifully into…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beloved restaurant, brewery or shop in possession of a good reputation also has no shortage of negative Yelp reviews. Denver’s best (and worst) have been served with plenty of them, with Yelpers yapping about everything from bad service to bad salsa, bad…
If you’re one of those optimistic types who think that you can haul a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken to a Super Bowl shindig and generate a touchdown for your meager efforts, you might want to rethink your place on the playing field, because the people who created the ten…
In January, there’s often a shake-out in the dining scene. But while twenty new restaurants opened in metro Denver last month, including Corner House with chef Matt Selby at the helm, there were relatively few closings. And two longtime fixtures on the scene — Jax Fish House in LoDo and…
Under the Sun, the new, “slightly upscale” restaurant and taphouse created by the owners of the Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries group, is now open in the space underneath Southern Sun Pub & Brewery at 627 South Broadway in Boulder. The eatery features 21 in-house beers on tap, as well…
Buried beneath all that roughage is a hearty winter soup, a medley of black-eyed peas, diced ham and vegetables, that paired with a hefty sandwich, is the ideal dinner on a blustery day. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Paul Nagan Zink Kitchen + Bar 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-779-1559 www.zinkdtc.com This is part two of my interview with Paul Nagan, exec chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar; part one of our interview ran yesterday. Favorite dish on your menu: I like our housemade lamb sausage. We…
For the last several months, Duy Pham, who solidified his cooking prowess years ago at the long-departed, French-inspired Tante Louise, has been working on opening Epernay, a splashy new downtown restaurant and Champagne lounge near the Denver Center for the Performing Arts — a restaurant with a small kitchen, and…
