Restaurants

Denver will lose a familiar face this week when Club 404, a classic dive bar at 404 Broadway, changes hands after sixty years under owner Jerry Feld…

Wazee Wood-Fire Pizza, Charlie Palmer’s tribute to New York-style pies, opens today at 11 a.m. downtown at 1631 Wazee Street, directly next door to District Meats, which the New York-based star chef unleashed in October…

Temple Micah’s fourth annual Top Latke Cook-off Friday night featured budding young chefs serving up some seriously creative takes on potato pancakes. There were otherwise traditional latkes smothered in peanut butter and jelly; sweet potato latkes with marshmallow topping; Asian-spiced cakes topped with ginger; round latkes stuffed with cheese and…

​​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. If you think you can’t enjoy creamy, rich foods like risotto on a plant-based diet, this recipe will prove you wrong. The…

Cafe Society dished up three Guess where? contests last week, including a bowl of lackluster French onion soup, a trio of terrific pineapple-topped tacos from Vesta Dipping Grill, and a surprisingly good cheeseburger heaped with grilled onions. For identifying that plate as coming from Red Robin’s Burger Works, Chris B…

If you work downtown and are often in need of a quick lunchtime pho fix, help will soon be at hand. Pho 79, one of our favorite pho restaurants in the city, has signed a lease on the 16th Street Mall and will soon be slinging up big bowls of…

The Huffington Post has succumbed to the temptation of food trends lists. While the Huff-P does politics like everybody’s business, why are they now trying to convince the dining public that they’re eating more bugs, that pimento cheese is suddenly cool and that macarons are falling from the heavens? Maybe,…

The Whole Foods in Golden is now pouring Marley Coffee — the only store in the state to distribute the coffee promoted by Rohan Marley, Bob Marley’s son. “My father came from the farmland in Jamaica and frequently spoke about returning to the farm one day,” he says. “We created…

Once upon a time, the French onion soup at this convivial cafe was the best in the city, but the bowl that recently landed on the counter — disappointingly watery, insipid, thin and devoid of salt and pepper — left me scratching my head. Can you guess where I’m eating?…

Oh. My. God. It’s a freakin’ miracle! No, really, now you can have your daily bread with — holy crap — Jesus! All while chugging down your morning jolts of java with a side of Lucky Charms. This is not a gag gift, people. No, we’re talking about a genuine…

The RTD board won’t decide which of two competing partnerships will redevelop Union Station until next Tuesday, but the Union Station Neighborhood Co. upped the ante this week by revealing that the market/food hall it’s proposed to put in the historic space would be run by none other than the…

Surfing through Craigslist ads is always a fun time, and answering them can be pretty entertaining as well. It’s neat — and telling — to respond to an ad for a used convection oven and get a middle-aged married man looking for sex, respond to an ad for a part-time…

The area around Union Station has recently gained several high-profile restaurants, including Coohills and Charlie Palmer’s pair of spots, District Meats and Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza (opening next week), with The Kitchen and the Squeaky Bean coming next year. Now Union Station itself could gain some flashy new tenants. On Tuesday,…

“We, the citizens of Boulder County, in order to create a more perfect food system, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common need, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of a food system free from the influences of corporate power, and ensure public land free from…

Food scribe, nomad, caustic tongue wagger and self-proclaimed “bad boy” Anthony Bourdain is never — never — at a loss for words, but back in August, when he was a guest on Real Time will Bill Maher, Bourdain dropped an extra special zinger when Maher asked him which he preferred:…

Annabelle Forrestal Vine Street Pub, Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery and Southern Sun www.mountainsunpub.com This is part two of my interview with Annabelle Forrestal, exec chef of Vine Street Pub in Denver and Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery and Southern Sun in Boulder. Part one of my interview with Forrestal…

Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. If you’re one…

Denver chefs can be amazingly supportive of each other. Witness the comment that Matt Selby (Steuben’s, Vesta Dipping Grill) posted after the first installment of the Chef and Tell interview with Annabelle Forrestal, exec chef of Vine Street Pub, Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery and Southern Sun: Writes Selby: Chef…

For over sixty years, Club 404 has been a landmark on Broadway. But owner Jerry Feld — who bought the place before he was legally old enough to have a liquor license — has issued last call for the legendary dive, which I profiled here three years ago, when it…

Three weeks ago, on a Saturday, notable chef Justin Brunson sailed away from Wild Catch, the sustainable seafood restaurant he opened with Daniel Kuhlman in late August, after alleging that Kuhlman refused to reveal the restaurant’s financials. Brunson’s staff — both the front and back of the house — followed…

Jonesing for breakfast on 17th Avenue on a recent weekday, we stopped by WaterCourse Foods, hoping to score some breakfast tacos, a plate of French toast, even a vegan pastry. But sadly, our plans were foiled: The restaurant was dark, and new hours posted indicated that WaterCourse now opens at…

The Denver Police Department has arrested two men suspected of several robberies in the metro area who’d been dubbed the “Crummy Cookie Bandits.” Nineteen-year-old Rodney Mitchell and 33-year-old Dartanian Mitchell were taken into custody last night at the Blockbuster video parking lot on Colfax Avenue. Both are being held in…