After six months in business, Oak at Fourteenth was really building momentum this past spring, nabbing accolades from around the country that culminated in its listing in the March Food & Wine as one of the country’s best new bars. That honor arrived the same week that a fire erupted…
My best friend just turned fifty, and every year for her birthday, it’s tradition to celebrate at the restaurant where the above shot was snapped — a restaurant that’s definitely not known for its tacos. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
Annabelle Forrestal Vine Street Pub, Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery and Southern Sun www.mountainsunpub.com If you want to pick a perfect melon, Annabelle Forrestal suggests that you pick her brain. Growing up in St. Louis, Forrestal, now the executive chef of Vine Street Pub in Denver and Southern Sun and…
Many chefs are sour on baking, but enough sour beer convinced Patrick Langlois to come up with a gingerbread cookie recipe that worked perfectly with Crooked Stave Wild Wild Brett Orange. That no-baking chef business gets a rise out of Mantonat:…
A handwritten sign in the front alcove at Mama Sanninos asks diners to wait to be seated, and since just two servers were tending to a large, lingering lunch crowd, wait I did. While I waited, I studied my surroundings — and there was a lot to look at. Family…
Ryan Leinonen isn’t shy about his goals: “I want to have one of the top five restaurants in Denver,” he says while hunched over a plate of steelhead trout, one of the Scandinavian-inspired dishes on his menu at Trilllium, which opens tonight in the Ballpark neighborhood. “There’s no reason why…
After it got rolling in the summer of 2010, the mobile food movement really picked up speed, with new trucks hitting the pavement just about every week. Last spring Comida, a big, pink, Boulder-based taco truck (wo)manned by Rayme Rossello, a longtime member of the Boulder restaurant scene and one…
Last Wednesday, there was a lot more cooking in Chili Verde’s kitchen than the traditional Pueblan fare. Thanks to a fryer that caught flames, the entire kitchen almost ended up well done. Luckily, the fire didn’t spread, and Eder Yanez-Mota, who owns the restaurant at 3700 Tejon Street with his…
Sure, it’s freezing outside today, but tomorrow, it’s supposed to be back to a more mellow thirty-some degrees, which means it’s a good time to head to Fifth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, where the Vegan Van — along with a handful of other food trucks — parks for a…
I’ve never been interested in baking, mainly because it’s such a regimented process — and that doesn’t appeal to my nature (beer bread is an exception to this rule, not surprisingly). Unlike the carefree cooking method of chopping, tossing together and seasoning various combinations of whatever you’re in the mood…
‘Tis the most wonderful time of the year, Denver. During the stretch of days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, it’s totally socially appropriate to stay out too late on a school night, drink too much and show up to work griping about your subsequent hangover. Okay, maybe not totally socially…
Mara Soutiere ignored the arched eyebrows and eye rolls that ensued when she and her husband, Peter, inked a lease on a small space on Pearl Street that would feed meaty, prime grade and Wagyu flesh to the People’s Republic of Boulder. A steakhouse, asked the incredulous? In Boulder?…
When it comes to burgers, I’m a white trash purist — American cheese and, on occasion, grilled onions. Nothing more. And the burgers at this new beef shack, which range from simple to all gussied up, are far better than I had anticipated. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Visions of sugarplums danced in their heads, while cakes…and sticky toffee pudding…and croissants drizzled with chocolate made eyes wide at yesterday’s opening of Crave Dessert Bar & Lounge, a sultry sugar house that’s now swelling bellies with sweets in the Spire. The dessert bar, the lovechild of Allen Milham and…
Those clever Swedes just keep finding ways to get people in their store, and reasonably-priced, all-you-can-eat buffets of dishes dusted with dill and sweet marzipan cakes will have eager Denverites over a herring barrel, stuffed to the gills. IKEA Centennial is holding a holiday smorgasbord or “julbord” party at 5…
Love it or hate it, there’s no shortage of opinions about the Squeaky Bean. And yesterday, when the announcement came down that the restaurant had found a new home in LoDo — in a renovated warehouse (above) where owner Johnny Ballen can put an actual kitchen for chef Max MacKissock…
No sooner had we posted the Restaurant roll call for November, recapping the restaurants that had opened (many of them) and closed (very few) last month, than we got news of another spot that had closed its doors. The web site for Generous Servings says simply, “After four wonderful years,…
Wazee Wood Fire Pizza, Charlie Palmer’s new piehole emporium, opens Monday, December 12, directly next door to District Meats, Palmer’s shrine to off-cuts that he opened November 21 in the former Big Game space at 1631 Wazee Street…
‘Tis the season to eat, dink, make merry and give generously, and tonight, at Steuben’s, you have the opportunity to kill four turtle doves with one toy…
Our prayers to the gods and goddesses of things that squeak have been been fulfilled: After shuttering in June, following a break-down in lease negotiations between Squeaky Bean head bean counter Johnny Ballen and his landlord, the owners of Rosa Linda’s, the Bean is re-sprouting. “We’re puttin’ the Bean back…
Denver Bicycle Cafe, which rolled onto the scene on November 22, is the town’s first bikecentric coffeeshop, combining food, drink and a little bike grease. “Business has been steady,” says Jessica Caouette, one of the owners. “We’re still just getting to know the neighborhood. It’s been nice and slow, so…
UPDATE: We have the full scoop on the new Squeaky Bean — including its location — right here. They’re baacckkk! Johnny Ballen, owner of the Squeaky Bean, which closed several months ago when lease negotiations broke down between him and his landlord, has finally (thank God) signed a least on…
