The space at 1434 Blake Street has gone through many incarnations since its days as CitySpirit. But its latest transformation could be its most interesting yet: It’s now a Ukrainian restaurant, Kraine Station. “This came about from the inspiration of my mother,” explains Papi Sorrelis. “I’ve been looking for an…
Late last year, Tilman J. Fertitta, the restaurant mogul who owns Landry’s — and acquired McCormick and Schmick’s in a hostile takeover last month — announced his plans to pick up the national chain of Morton’s steakhouses, noting that the restaurants comprise “one of the most recognizable and successful high-end…
See that jolt of java up there? What I would give to have one of those right this very minute. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…
Two years ago, when I did a Chef and Tell interview with Jeff Osaka, the owner/chef of twelve, I asked him what he’d like to see more of in Denver from a culinary standpoint. His answer was poignant, straightforward and inclusive: I want more chefs working to build camaraderie. Sure,…
Tom Coohill Coohills 1400 Wewatta Street 303-623-5700 coohills.com This is part one of my interview with Tom Coohill, exec chef/owner of Coohills. Part two of my chat with Coohill will appear in this space tomorrow. “This,” confides Tom Coohill, “is too good to be on the menu. It’s like buttah.”…
The new year got off to a fast start, with Pearl Street claiming another casualty: Ototo. And that was just the start of the closings. But while Mo’s is no more on Broadway, Moe’s now has one more store in Boulder. And several new pizza joints sliced off a piece…
The news that Joe Vostrejs and Larimer Associates plan to put the Lowry Beer Garden — a nearly 8,000-square-foot bar, authentic beer garden and pavilion — into the Hangar 2 project (which will also have a dozen restaurants in its dining district) had beer fans raising their steins in thanks…
This brick building near the intersection of Speer and Federal boulevards was most recently home to Veronica’s Bases Loaded. But that dive closed long ago. Now it looks like the address could get new life…
I’m sad to report that I recently tried the pizza at a local popular purveyor of it and was quite disappointed. I won’t share the name of the place, seeing as how we’re all especially fervent about our favorite pizza joints, and I’d prefer not to step on anyone’s dough…
Moe’s Original Bar-B-Que first fired up the pit more than ten years ago, when three Alabama natives — Mike Fernandez, Ben Gilbert and Jeff Kennedy — made their way to Vail and set up a restaurant to hawk the food they grew up eating. Since then, Moe’s has proliferated, and…
Karma Asian is small, tucked into the middle of a block on a busy stretch of Broadway, but the menu encompasses a pan-Asian theme with options from Vietnam, China, Japan and Thailand. And almost everything on Karma’s menu is already vegetarian/vegan or can be made with tofu and veggies, so…
Joe Vostrejs and his Larimer Associates partners traversed across the country to check out America’s beer gardens before they came back to Denver to build their own — and what they found, admits Vostrejs, was surprising…
As we anticipate the arrival of Colorado’s first Trader Joe’s, the California-based grocer with a cult-like following that’s allegedly building its first Colorado store somewhere in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street (three more Trader Joe’s stores are rumored for Denver, including one at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard), we thought we’d give…
“We’ve been playing around quite a bit with our cocktail program — and definitely improving it,” says the bartender who poured me the rye and Fernet mix in the above snap, a delicious, potent cocktail that could have easily multiplied into more. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus:…
This month started with major action on South Pearl Street — including a very involved deal that calls for the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group that had owned Pearl Street Grill to swap that space at 1477 South Pearl with Izakaya Den, at 1518 South Pearl, one of three restaurants in the eating…
Mmm, meat! Lori Midson’s presentation of six dazzling Super Bowl meat stadiums inspired shock and awe around the country. Notes GFTW: Great post for Meatless Monday!!…
In the final hours before the Christmas-gift exchange, while family members made one last trip to the liquor store and put the finishing bows on their packages, I was at my computer, listlessly clicking through Open Table. I’d done most of my shopping but still had one pair left to…
We’re just four weeks away from the city’s biggest food bonanza: Denver Restaurant Week, which is really a two-week feast of grubbing at nearly 300 restaurants in the Mile High City, all of which will offer multi-course meals for the fixed price of $52.80 for two, or $26.40 if you’re…
No. 43: Sobrebarriga from La Cocina de Paula…
What do women want from beer? That’s a question Ginger Johnson, owner of Women Enjoying Beer, has been pursuing for three years as she researches and educates consumers and producers around the country. “I was invited to speak at the Craft Brewers Conference in 2009, and that’s what really launched…
David Parry — a native of Syracuse, New York — opened his first restaurant in Parker almost six years ago with a mission to bring Denver the New York-style pizza he loved and missed. That shop, a counter service joint, gave way to a second location in Castle Rock two…
Everyone has their guilty food pleasure. Mine is a loaded baked potato, which I’ll eat just about anywhere, but here, the baked spuds, speckled with salt, are a cut above. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
