While the sign outside doesn’t state the joint’s actual name — and there’s a good story behind that — you’ll definitely find delicious drinks inside. And if you’re lucky, your cocktail will be created by Squeaky Bean owner Johnny Ballen. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Late last summer, every Front Range location of Fatburger — the California-based burger chain that has expanded nationwide since it first started slinging patties in the early 1950s — abruptly parted ways with the parent company, becoming Epic Grill…
Oh, the wild schemes that restaurants will hatch in order to get to us eat. Take Wild Eggs, for example: The Kentucky-based breakfast and lunch spot, which recently opened in Denver at 300 East Alameda, is inching toward cracking its three-millionth egg, which is enough to scramble anyone’s brain. On…
Recently, over a leisurely business lunch, I sampled a succession of mostly pedestrian dishes, but there was one standout, namely the goat curry, which I liked immensely. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts…
Ryan Leinonen Trillium 2134 Larimer Street 303-379-9759 www.trilliumdenver.com This is part two of my interview with Ryan Leinonen, exec chef/owner of Trillium. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Gotham Bar and Grill in New York. I really like Alfred Portale’s take on…
Last fall a load of pizza joints signed on to open in LoDo; now it looks like LoDo could soon be swimming in sushi. Blue Sushi Sake Grill, an Omaha-based chain, has signed on to take the space at 1616 16th Street that had once been half of Dixons. “We…
The comments keep coming about Gabor’s, the classic neighborhood bar whose closure was the biggest bombshell of the new year; the space is slated to become Marion Street Tavern this summer. In the meantime, regulars keep pouring out their opinions. Here’s the latest from Boz:…
Denver was slated to get a tiki bar, Mauka Tiki, in 2011, but when the ball dropped at the end of the year, the space at 218 South Broadway was still dark. Owners Jay Dedrick and Brett Kimball are moving ahead with their plans, says Matty Durgin, who’ll be the…
Hawaiian places are hard to come by in our landlocked state, and the sun set on a couple of them in 2011…
One of the most coveted locations in Cherry Creek, right next door to the “celebrity” Starbucks at Second and Filmore, will soon have a new tenant: The Einstein Bros Bagel store is shuttering at the end of the month, and by early April, a second Margs Taco Bistro will take…
Bacon! What? There’s nothing else to say…except …Can you guess where I’m eating? 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 every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver dining deck,…
Ryan Leinonen Trillium 2134 Larimer Street 303-379-9759 www.trilliumdenver.com Hey!” hollers Ryan Leinonen to one of his cooks. “How’s that cauliflower soup doing? Make sure you keep an eye on it.” And for the next two hours, Leinonen, the chef-owner of the month-old Trillium, watches from afar at the bar, taking…
There are no Dippin’ Dots vendors at the National Western Stock Show — the company that created the “ice cream of the future” filed for bankruptcy in November — and Biker Jim’s truck, one of several at the Stock Show this year, wasn’t manned until 4 p.m.yesterday afternoon. Still, we…
Since the Best of Denver 2011, we’ve been posting occasional lists of our runners-up in some popular categories — lists that are not only available here, but on our Best of Denver app. And, as always, certain categories provoke plenty of discussion — which started just seconds after Lori Midson…
Street Kitchen Asian Bistro opened in January 2011 — but it took me almost a year to find my way to a satisfying meal at this spot. A friend and I stopped in recently as the lunch rush was coming to a close, passing exiting groups of cubicle warriors as…
For five years, Anthony Davis has been a barista and manager at north Boulder’s Amante, where he learned to pour shots and style out lattes with art. But this spring, the coffee enthusiast is striking out on his own closer to his Highland neighborhood home, opening 2914 Coffee at 2914…
In a world where our food has become increasingly and frighteningly far removed from its purveyors, the timeless art of butchery represents a comforting connection to the way things used to be. There’s something incomparably refreshing about having a friendly chat with a trustworthy expert about your food, especially with…
Mecca Grill, 270 South Downing Street, won a Best of Denver award in 2010 for “Best Lamb That Mary Would Have Liked” — but lamb is far from all that’s on the menu at this mini-mall storefront. As that award noted, the music choice is a little bizarre (when we…
Chef Vue sounded like such a good idea: A Town Center of Aurora version of US Thai Cafe, Ma Vue’s six-year-old restaurant in Edgewater, which serves some of the best curry in the area. But Aurora eaters didn’t view Chef Vue the same way: It didn’t even last six months,…
There aren’t too many places where you can wrap your jaws around a $2 breakfast burrito, but here, at this weird little pit stop that has a drive-thru, two bucks and tax gets you a hefty gut bomb to satisfy your morning lust. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
After overcomng some zoning challenges, Slice Works, the pizza joint that occupies a brand-new building at 700 East Colfax Avenue, in the former Argonaut parking lot, officially opened on Sunday, January 8. It’s just the latest improvement along this stretch of Colfax…
Tooey’s Off Colfax has been one of our favorite watering holes since it opened its doors in 2009 — in part because it makes an excellent classic martini. Still, on nights when we’re bellied up to that bar, we always lament the fact that we have to wander down the…
