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…
Bloom Restaurant, at 1 West Flatiron Circle in Broomfield, will shutter this Saturday after dinner service. The new American restaurant — which is owned by Fox Restaurant Concepts, headquartered in Scottsdale — has been something of a culinary oasis in FlatIron Crossing since the mall opened over a decade ago…
The new menu has moved far, far away from the decades-old menu of the past at this long-standing Italian restaurant, but you can still get the lasagna…for now. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Randy Balch Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th Street 303-623-9518 www.wazeesupperclub.com This is part one of my interview with Randy Balch, chef of Wazee Supper Club, which will reopen Friday following a remodel. Part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. Before waltzing through the door of the…
Next Wednesday night at Linger, local chefs Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca d’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones, Green Russell, Lou’s Food Bar and Russell’s Smokehouse), Eric Skokan (Black Cat Bistro and Bramble and Hare), Ann Cooper (the Renegade Lunch Lady), Daniel Asher, Samm Sherman and Justin Cucci (Root Down and Linger) will…
Pearl Street Harbor, as one chef deemed it when South Pearl Street, once a destination restaurant row, had lost Pearl Street Grill, OTOTO and India’s Pearl within days of each other, has a new dining den, and after having dinner there on Monday night, I’m inclined to move in…
The seventh annual Civic Center Eats — a moveable feast in the heart of Denver — kicked off yesterday, with an assortment of Denver dignitaries, a record number of trucks…and no urban campers in sight. “We know we’ve had some challenges in the park,” said Lauri Dannemiller, head of the…
Cherry Creek is getting a new/old restaurant: Opus, which was a terrific restaurant when it opened in Littleton a decade ago, is merging with Aria, its sibling. Michael Long, the opening chef at Opus, left that fine-dining restaurant in 2010 to head the kitchen at Aria, which went into 250…
My mom has only commanded a classroom since I was a teenager, but she’s always been a teacher at heart, and when I was a kid growing up in the southern suburbs of Denver, she’d devise elaborate lessons for my brother and me to carry out over summer break, packing…
A new program that will provide free meals for schoolchildren this summer starts this week, according to Mayor Michael Hancock. Hancock was at the Curtis Park pool yesterday to announce the Summer Food Service Program, and passed out free lunches to children in the area. “This collaborative program will help…
Larkburger, which got its start as a little stand-alone burger joint in Edwards in 2006, plans to open an eighth Colorado location — this one in downtown Denver…
The southern I-25 corridor has not been known for its proliferation of fantastic eateries — but as Laura Shunk noted earlier this year, things are looking up lately, and Shiraz is one of many good spots we’ve found in the Tech Center…
I’ve had some exquisite food at Opus, the Littleton restaurant that’s orchestrated by executive chef Sean McGaughey, who took over the burners after opening chef Michael Long departed the fine-dining restaurant to spearhead the kitchen at Aria, which opened in late 2010 in Cherry Creek. Long parted ways with Aria…
When you order breakfast or lunch at this cafe straight out of the Elvis era, your waitress will likely answer your request with “Okey-dokey, artichokey.” And when ask for a cup of coffee, it’ll arrive fresh and hot alongside a 45 rpm vinyl coaster. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
While devouring gluten-free Udi’s bagels yesterday, our office chewed over the news that Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods had been bought by Smart Balance for $125 million. That’s big money, but Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods — founded by Udi’s, the beloved breadmaker that offers fresh-baked goodness in grocery stores and at its own…
Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins has spent the past few weeks in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Elise is now back in Denver, putting the lessons she learned in Italy to use…
The streets of Denver are filled with bicyclists — some doing errands, some going to and from work, some out for recreation, and others seeking a drink. For that last group, Laura Shunk served up a weekend B-Cycle bar tour that was “seriously cheap and disgusting,” according to Bradman…
Many things in the food industry are not at all what they appear to be. Things like healthy green salads covered in cheese, bacon bits, croutons and ranch dressing; the servers at T.G.I. Friday’s who aren’t always thrilled beyond measure to see your asses plopped in their sections; and those…
The fact that Snarf’s, the Boulder-based sub shop that’s generated a cult following, has unveiled its eleventh location in Colorado isn’t exactly the most groundbreaking news on the culinary front, but then again, this Snarf’s, which just opened near the University of Denver at 1729 East Evans, in the former…
After closing her groundbreaking cupcake spot for a few days of renovation, Porche Lovely has resurrected Lovely Confections,1489 Steele Street, as the Church of Cupcakes — a religious-themed altar to the almighty cupcake. Here’s a peek at the redesigned space:…
Big personalities — and big sandwiches — are the calling cards of this Italian deli. 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 one lucky winner…
