We’re three days from through Denver Restaurant Week. Kitchen staffs are napping, diners are moving their belts over a notch — and there are still eight more nights of great eating, with 340 restaurants across town offering special $52.80 dinners for two. (See the full list of Denver Restaurant Week…
Denver Tofu has been providing this city’s restaurateurs and consumers with a local source of tofu for forty years. But as we reported last week, Haruhisa Yamamoto, who has owned the company since the 1970s, is closing his factory and leaving the business. “The plant is under eminent domain by…
On March 29, when our Best of Denver® 2012 issue hits the pavement, we’ll announce which Denver joint has the best breakfast burritos. You have until midnight on March 22 to vote for your favorite, along with everything else food-and-drink-related, but in the meantime, this breakfast burrito may — or…
Outposts of Bubbachinos — the burrito-and-green-chile chain owned by Leonard Cordova, a grandson of the original Chubby’s owner, Stella Cordova — have expanded so quickly in this town over the last few years, we can barely keep up…
No. 34: Alfajores from Maria Empanada…
Any restaurant that presumes to go by the name Falafel King had better serve excellent falafel. Fortunately, not only does the Falafel King at 825 Colorado Boulevard serve great falafel, but the people serving it were charming and happy to point out the vegetarian- and vegan-friendly dishes on the roster…
The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver’s onetime kitchen and an erstwhile mobile vegan experience, is known for a lot of things — dick jokes and anarchist sentiments included — but gentility is not one of them. This explains why, in the group’s new series of cooking videos, the time lapse between pressing…
Rumors have been flying across Denver chef circles that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, was ditching his gig behind the line to open a new restaurant — a rumor that’s only half true. See also: – Contest: Guess the location of the Slotted…
Applebee’s just hired hot Boulder-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky — the same creative outfit that Arby’s recently signed — to give the ubiquitous American meat-starch-veg spot an image boost of some kind. But here’s the rub: Unlike Arby’s, Applebee’s doesn’t really need a facelift…
On Friday, Lori Midson broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the exec chef at Ambria (and a partner in the four-month-old restaurant) had been fired in the middle of Denver Restaurant Week. “I was relieved of my position — told, simply, that it wasn’t working out — and I’m really…
What’s your favorite shrimp dish?” my friend asked our waiter. He’d been standing beside our cramped booth, shoulders slumped, holding a small notepad in one hand and studiously avoiding our eyes while we studied the huge menu and sucked down the sugary, freshly made lemonades he’d slid across the table…
Last week, I broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the opening chef of Ambria, had been fired during the height of Denver Restaurant week — one of the busiest weeks of the year and an incredibly risky (some would say incredibly stupid) time to boot your executive chef off the…
A McAlister’s Deli opens today at 13950 East Mississippi Avenue in Aurora — in a space formerly occupied by a Bennigan’s and one of the doomed BenchWarmers. There’s already a McAlister’s Deli at 3471 Salida Street, also in Aurora…
Bill Yalch may be a Pittsburgh native, but it took just a few trips to the southwest for him to become utterly obsessed with New Mexican food — namely, green chile. “If you live in Pittsburgh, you have no idea what good huevos rancheros are,” he admits, adding that he…
Last March, Food & Wine magazine introduced a “People’s Best New Chef” competition to go along with its own yearly listage of the top ten best new chefs in the country, all of whom are introduced at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic in June. Max MacKissock, chef of the…
Fried chicken, pan-fried pork chops, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and sweet tea equals a soulful Saturday lunch — and a crane to carry your weighted gut and butt out the door. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
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. Split peas are a kind of superfood, an excellent source of protein for vegetarians and vegans. Homemade split-pea soup is much, much…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a caddy of salsas from Machete to a beer poured in the deserted bar at the Stanley hotel to a fruity caipirinha from Fogo de Chao that went down easy to a plate of stunningly fresh clams from…
On Friday we posted our Restaurant roll call for February, a compendium of that month’s openings and closings. The big surprise was the closing of The Crushery; on February 28, owner John Davidson signed a deal to sell the spot to Kayvan Khalatbari, who’ll turn the space at 1579 South…
Michael Pollan — journalist, advocate and patron saint of sustainability in our food system — was in Denver this week to speak to a crowd at the Paramount about the importance of understanding where our food comes from. After his talk, he headed to Fuel Cafe, where he had a…
No. 35: Savory waffle from City, O’ City…
Gary Lee Bomar first inked the deal on an abandoned garage on South Broadway last year, and since then, he’s been working hard to overcome a series of liquor license fights that have derailed the opening of Gary Lee’s Motor Club & Grub. There was light at the end of…
