My assessment of the food at this Japanese restaurant can be summed up in a litany of adjectives that, as a chef or restaurateur, you hope will never be applied to your own: Bland. Flat. One dimensional. Insipid. Characterless. Wearisome. Vapid. And the service completely sucks, too. Can you guess…
Golden’s restaurant scene may be fairly diverse, but until recently, there was a gaping hole: no pho. Now, though, instead of traveling to Federal Boulevard to get a fix of brothy noodles, denizens of this western enclave can hit Pho Golden, Golden’s first pho restaurant, which opened in a strip…
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. “So, let’s just…
This is part two of my interview with Brad Arguello, exec chef of the Uber Sausage. Part one of my chat with Arguello ran in this space yesterday. Brad Arguello The Uber Sausage 2730 East Colfax Avenue 303-862-7894 www.theubersausage.com What you’d like to see more of in Denver/Boulder from a…
After almost fifteen years, Dixons Downtown Grill shut its doors at 1610 16th Street on Labor Day, leaving a 9,200 square-foot gap on the 16th Street Mall. But it also left behind some good memories: of employees dancing on the bar at closing on that last Saturday night (“and no…
Tom Colicchio — or a reasonable facsimile — will guest star on The Simpsons later this month, which inspired our look back at some of the great Simpsons food scenes. Wonders Wratha: How could you not include any scenes from the episode where Homer is a food critic? The “low…
Westword is looking for students for its fall photo intern program, which focuses on food and restaurant photography. And by “student,” we do not mean “a student of life.” There’s no cash offered with this gig, only college credits. Don’t bother applying if this doesn’t apply to you. Still interested?…
My kid has a thing for breakfast, especially when it’s lunch or dinnertime, and if there are flapjacks on the menu, that’s what he’s ordering (and reluctantly sharing with me). Can you guess where we’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
At the Denver Zoo today, five gorillas chomped on lettuce and squash. Slightly more delicately, students from Steele Elementary ate pears, apples and wraps. And none of the ingredients in today’s meals came from outside of Colorado. As part of Colorado Proud School Meal Day, participating schools across the state…
All around the Denver area today, students will be enjoying lunches made exclusively with Colorado products as part of Colorado Proud School Meal Day, which educates students about locally sourced food. One thing that won’t (we hope) be on the menu? Listeria. In light of a recent Listeria outbreak, melon…
“I’m making things that I want to eat, food that’s fun for us to make — and not pretentious — and food that we’re proud to serve,” says Brett Shaheen, the executive chef of the Wooden Table, a new Italian restaurant that opens today at 2500 East Orchard Road in…
Jeremy Kittelson, the former executive chef of Restaurant Avondale at the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon (which, by the way, was recently sold to Richard Sandoval, who owns La Sandia, Tamayo and Zengo in Denver and Venga Venga in Snowmass Village), has come down the mountain to open…
This is part one of my interview with Brad Arguello, exec chef of the Über Sausage. Part two of my chat with Arguello will run in this space tomorrow. Brad Arguello The Über Sausage 2730 East Colfax Avenue 303-862-7894 www.theubersausage.com “My nickname in college was ‘baby bird,'” confesses Brad Arguello…
Denver restaurateurs are some of the most generous people in town, forever contributing food, labor and cash to worthy causes and charity events. Many are also very generous to their employees — but they like coming up with policies that work for their unique, often small businesses, not getting tied…
After a summer of travels, Laura Shunk revealed the five restaurant concepts she’d love to see in Denver, ranging from a Burmese restaurant to a Czech restaurant and beer hall. Which had commenters wondering: What about Sobo 151?…
Maybe it’s because I grew up in Denver rather than St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis or Texas, but I’ve always been vaguely amused by “best barbecue” claims that are staked to a particular regional style. After all, “barbecue” really just refers to the process of cooking meat over fire, which…
Miller Farms definitely puts the “ag” in agritourism. For a nominal admission fee, I got to spend a day at a working farm, hitched a ride on a huge trailer filled with hay bales, learned that root vegetables don’t always want to be unearthed, and took home seven large grocery…
After Rob Kukura, former manager of The Mediterranean, took over the old Magnolia and Sushi Mara spots in Lafayette in May, he started slowly slowly making the restaurants his own. First, he merged the two places into a single identity, and changed the name to 95a Bistro and Sushi in…
When you’re in the mood for comfort food, as I was the other day, there are few preparations more comforting than risotto. It’s easily personalized (I like mine thick, with mushrooms and heavy on the butter), fairly effortless to make and equally conducive to both communal and solitary dining –…
Since it first hit Denver in 2003, Thai Basil has grown into a mini fusion empire, expanding into a handful of locations around town and down into Colorado Springs. And there’s no sign of Thai Basil slowing down, either: After Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill shuttered a location by the University of…
Not long ago, I waxed rhapsodic about the tamales at Tamales Moreno, a canary yellow shack on Morrison Road that’s been hustling tamales for a half-dozen years. But the women who make the fleets of tamales in the above snap — they can be seen smearing masa on husks in…
We know we were just in Golden last week — but we couldn’t leave without first visiting Sherpa House, 1518 Washington Avenue, after perusing the restaurant’s menu online. The eatery-slash-cultural-center is decorated inside to resemble an authentic Himalayan home; one dining-room wall features a small stove, another an intricate curio…
