Restaurants

In honor of the recent Hug a Vegetarian Day, Cafe Society served up the “Thirteen hottest vegetarians.” But several commenters took issue with our choices:…

When Todd Regan took over the old Marrakesh space on Blake Street earlier this year, he optimistically planned to open a new restaurant in the space as baseball season got under way. But thanks to “the government,” he says, which “wanted to make sure I knew who was in charge,”…

Next week, EatDenver, a ring of local, independent restaurants, is hosting Harvest Week, a series of themed, multi-course pop-up dinners (and one brunch) that will take place between October 9 and 13 at the GrowHaus, an urban farm located at 4751 York Street. Last week, we announced a contest, in…

Every year, my neighbor goes antelope hunting, and much to my satisfaction, shares the fruit of his labors. While the morality of meat is questionable, depending on your point of view, wild game is the most ideal form of it in my opinion. Not to be preachy, but with regard…

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. Ah, fall, the…

The staff at the joint where I sunk my jaws into a Philly cheesesteak — with everything, please — is nothing short of hilarious, and the cheesesteaks nothing short of stupid-good. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…

Thanawat Bates Palace Arms at the Brown Palace 321 17th Street 303-297-3111 www.brownpalace.com/dining This is part one of my interview with Thanawat Bates, exec chef of the Palace Arms at the Brown Palace. Part two of my interview with Bates will run tomorrow. The definition of culture shock? Spending your…

Producing alcoholic beverages is a time-honored enterprise, and creating tasty homemade hooch on the cheap makes good financial sense right now. For a measly $10, you can buy a “Spike Your Juice” kit, containing everything you need for six batches — except the necessary juice and the crumpled brown paper…

When Cafebar started serving last week at 295 South Pennsylvania Street, residents welcomed it to the neighborhood — but what neighborhood is that, exactly? In her post on Cafebar’s opening, Lori Midson referred to it as West Washington Park — which is one of three neighborhoods that the City and…

No. 55: Samosas from the British Bulldog…

Beware the killer cantaloupes! It sounds like a horror-flick spoof, but for Jensen Farms in Holly, it’s all too real. In September, the Colorado farm recalled all of its potential globes of death, approximately 300,000 cases. Nonetheless, the case of the listeria-carrying melons already ranks as the second-most-deadly food-borne outbreak…

First Wolfe’s closed, then OiNKs! bit the dust, leaving very little besides Moe’s in terms of barbecue options for non-meat-eaters in the metro area. But there is another chain option — a locally grown chain, of course — that serves up a decent barbecued tofu: Brothers BBQ…

While the Justice League of Street Food, Denver’s original coalition of food trucks, held its last bash of the year (and possibly ever) last weekend, and Civic Center Eats, the city’s summer gathering of food trucks at Civic Center Park, has gone dormant until next year, another gang of food…

In the very same Aurora strip mall where we found Korean barbecue restaurant Sae Jong Kwan dark yesterday, we also spotted a new development…

Craving a little bibim naeng myun, a Korean cold buckwheat noodle dish, we headed out to Sae Jong Kwan yesterday, which makes one of the best (and spiciest) versions in the city. But, sadly, we didn’t find any noodles…

If you thought the lines during the mid-day lunch crush were bad at Biker Jim’s cart, you should see the lines at this joint. And, frankly, I just don’t get it. Waiting a good thirty minutes for an elk-jalapeno-cheddar dog smothered with pedestrian chili and nacho cheese seems like a…

It’s certainly not the traditional career path: Tracee Campbell traded computers and office politics for hot dogs, sausage and sunshine. A computer programmer and teacher for ten years in Orlando, Florida, Campbell now owns the Karma Chameleon hot dog stand at the corner of 10th Avenue and Broadway…

“I hate you.” My brother whispered that sweet sentiment with utter sincerity as we stood in line at Tres Jolie. To our right, a chalkboard listed the available sandwiches and salads, tea-service options and champagne cocktails, all written in curlicued script in pastel colors. At the bar beyond the pastry…

At Tres Jolie, shopping while eating is a delightfully indulgent experience; you can sip a champagne cocktail while picking up throw pillows or snack on a cookie while custom-mixing lotion. But this is not the only place in town where you can spend the afternoon consuming both food and goods…

Happy, Dave Query’s Asian noodle joint in Boulder, shuttered yesterday, leaving in its wake the Bitter Bar, a craft cocktail lounge — and the other half of Happy. And if that sounds confusing, Query, who spearheads Big Red F, the restaurant group that includes Happy/Bitter Bar, along with the West…

Santiago’s is a Denver institution, selling one of this city’s most iconic versions of green chile as well as rightly famous breakfast burritos. But one of the city’s nearly two dozen locations has just been locked up for good…

“It was just time for a change,” insists Eric Rivera, the executive chef of Cafébar, a new modern American restaurant, owned by Dane Huguley, that unlocked its doors last week in Washington Park at 295 South Pennsylvania Street. Rivera, who was the opening chef of Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…