Some new restaurants open with big publicity campaigns and wind up delivering little but disappointment. Not Torta Grill. Opened by Steve Clifton and his wife, Ardeni, in the former Pineapple Grill space at 1818 East Colfax Avenue on June 1, Torta Grill is tiny — but delivers big. And it’s…
Amanda Cohen, the chef-owner of Dirt Candy, a vegetarian restaurant in New York that’s generated national accolades, will be in Denver Wednesday night as part of the Celebrity Chef Tour, a moveable feast that traverses venues all over America to pay homage to the late James Beard, the “father of…
For more than forty years, the Mexican City Lounge has held down its particular patch of Larimer Street, serving up hot, hot green chile and great greasy steak tacos to generations of faithful fans. Back in the early ’70s, when the Garcia family opened this neighborhood joint, it was in…
Tacos y Salsas has been a hit since the original opened on Federal Boulevard six years ago — and since then, this homegrown chain has spread out across the metro area, with more than a half-dozen locations in the metro area now open. Not, however, the Aurora location at 2284…
I love these bright-hued Japanese ice cream orbs with their soft mochi exterior, and after a wonderful dinner of sushi, sashimi and udon noodles, it’s the perfect sugar finale. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts…
Ian Kleinman isn’t interested in opening his own restaurant. He’s having way too much playing around in everyone else’s. Last month, Kleinman, the mad scientist behind the Inventing Room, a roving stage of entertainment that revolves around molecular gastronomy, orchestrated a series of fantastic (and fantastical) pop-up dinners at Studio…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. This is one of the easiest soup recipes you’ll ever make, and it’s also very nutritious. The one-pot recipe makes enough for…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a salad with sheets of salty pig at Lowry Beer Garden, to an unsalted burger from Five Star Burgers, to an Italian grinder from Cinque Soldi Sulumeria. We also served up a plate of lasagna from Gaetano’s, whose…
Lori Midson eats out hundreds of times a year, which gives her ample opportunity to observe servers and diners alike. And lately, she’s noticed a lot of guests displaying obnoxious theatrics, which inspired her list of the “Ten rudest things customers do to make servers wish you’d never come to…
After having lunch recently at Masalaa, the excellent vegetarian Indian restaurant in Aurora, which has recently undergone a spiffy facelift, I spotted a sign around the corner of the strip mall that simply reads “Mexican Empanadas: Coming Soon.” The space, located at 3140 South Parker Road, is undergoing construction, and…
I ate out nearly 500 times last year, and when you eat out as often as I do, you’re bound to witness truly bad behavior, both on the side of the server and on the side of the guest. But recently, I’ve seen far more diners than servers exhibit the…
I’d rather have a burger (or a sausage) with my brew, but a salad with swine will suffice. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select…
Starting July 1, California will enforce a ban on foie gras — delicious, delicious, fatty goose/duck liver — and while PETA is thrilled, chefs are pissed. Why the ban on these tasty liver-lobes? Gavage, or forced tube-feeding off the animals, is seen as cruel and inhumane. But neither side in…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company was founded in 1988, just three years after Bess Dougherty was born. And this week, Dougherty became the brewpub’s first female brewer. “It’s intimidating for a lady to try to go into this because it’s a boys’ club, a super boys’ club,” says Dougherty. “It’s a…
Next Monday night, Samir Mohammad, the exec chef of the Village Cork, is cooking a five-course French-inspired feast as part of the ongoing dinner series hosted by FIVE — a ring of five chefs, two mixologists and a coffee roaster. And last week, we put up a contest, giving Cafe…
You’re back!” booms Steve Clifton, diverting his eyes away from the flattop just long enough to greet a customer who’s on his third day straight of tortas. “It’s been like that ever since we opened,” says Clifton, who, along with his wife, Ardeni, took over the former Pineapple Grill at…
Bones, named Best Hip Noodle Bar in the Best of Denver 2012, has become even hipper: It’s now serving weekday happy hour items on a newly covered patio…
Cake batter fried in oil, then smeared with sugar icing. Sometimes I wonder how the human race managed to survive the advent of doughnuts, and then the materialization of chains like Krispy Kreme. Krispy’s has been very, very successful at tapping into the fat-and-sugar lust that people inherited from their…
Why is it so difficult for restaurants, especially restaurants that ballyhoo their burgers, to properly season their beef? The burger in the above snap, which had never been introduced to salt or pepper, is a perfect example of my gripe, plus it was way overcooked: Can you guess where I’m…
Randy Balch Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th Street 303-623-9518 www.wazeesupperclub.com This is part two of my interview with Randy Balch, chef of Wazee Supper Club. Read part one of my chef and tell interview with Balch. Favorite dish on your menu: The meat-over pizza, with Canadian bacon, pepperoni, Italian sausage…
The news that Tavern Hospitality Group will start work on a spot on South Pearl Street this summer — Tavern Platt Park is going in the former home of India’s Pearl — and has also bought a building in Highland for a future Tavern LoHi brought howls of dismay from…
The Tavern could be coming to a neighborhood near you. Tavern Hospitality Group, the Colorado-born and -bred company headed by Frank Schultz and his mother and stepfather, Terry and Al Papay, has enough projects on its plate to stay busy well into 2014. And that’s the very earliest that construction…
