In late June, while cruising down Sheridan Boulevard, we eyed a liquor-license sign announcing that a restaurant named Nobu was taking over the former Walk-in Burgers space at 2255 Sheridan Boulevard. And we nearly cracked our head on the sidewalk, since Nobu, of course, is one of the most vaulted…
Earlier this year, Julia Buonanno and Dana Derichsweiler, the owners of Boulder’s Walnut Cafe and South Side Walnut Cafe, put the brakes on the food truck they ran with Ashlie Beckham, but that didn’t stop them from moving full speed ahead on a project they have going in Lafayette: The…
Trios Enoteca, the cavernous wine bar and live jazz venue that’s held a brick-fronted piece of real estate on Wynkoop for nearly fifteen years, has dried up, shuttering last week after a series of closing parties…
The day I interviewed Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine, for this week’s Chef and Tell powwow, the kitchen crew had just been graced with a bounty of fresh beets, plucked straight from farm earth. The beets, in all their glorious, kaleidoscopic hues, are the platform…
The steak was simply a sidekick, the vegetables a throwaway. It was the baked potato (it’s a phase) that called out to me. 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…
Where do you take a toddler in Denver? Not to the Village at Edgewater, not anymore, not since the “soft play-cafe” closed this summer, after a noble attempt to provide a family-friendly environment. So where do you take a toddler in town? You stay home, suggests Dan5280:…
The first time I ate at Jai Ho for this week’s cafe review, I spent several minutes staring at the menu. It was unlike any I’d ever seen: incredibly amusing yet borderline useless, with descriptions that made me laugh out loud and gave little help in determining what I’d be…
Jon Forget, the general manager of the British Bulldog, and Mark Berzins, owner of the Little Pub Company, which comprises nineteen joints in and around Denver, including the Bulldog, just opened Three Lions in the former Bank Bar & Grill at 2239 East Colfax Avenue. Three Lions is billing itself…
Just under four weeks ago, the old Graystone Castle overlooking I-25 reopened as a Doubletree Hotel by Hilton. And besides giving the place a makeover and a name change, the new owners also brought in a new restaurant: Radius Bar and Grill opened on the same day as the hotel…
“Nine years ago,” says Liz Thorpe, “when no one cared about cheese, we started selling cheese at Murray’s, a small cheese shop in New York, and thanks to some amazing people with a genuine love and passion for cheese, we’ve become one of the best cheese shops in the country.”…
Fatty and luxurious, ankimo — or monkfish liver — is the foie gras of the fish world, and if you’re curious to know what I’d like my last meal on earth to be, monkfish liver would be at the top of my list, right along with foie gras. Can you…
Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part two of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part one of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterson ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Mozza in Los…
For five years, SAME Cafe has been doing good. And now its good works have been rewarded, again: The Restaurant Facility Management Association has made it the recipient of the RFMA Gives Program for 2012. Founded by Brad and Libby Birky in October 2006, SAME was the first restaurant in…
Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough? Ellen’s suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast: For Ellen’s sake, instead of calling Boulderites the “Granola Set,” just call them “Humorless Assholes.”…
No. 58: Gazpacho verde from Zolo Grill…
At this uneggceptional breakfast joint that trumpets one of the most garish signs in the city, the best thing on the board is the bananas foster waffle crowned with a scoop of ice cream, although given the amount of sugar, it could also double as dessert. Can you guess where…
Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part one of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part two of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterson will run in this space tomorrow. Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson has some advice for…
Enamored of the daily trips they made to small-town markets while living in Europe, Will Frischkorn and Coral Ferguson, who are engaged, decided to bring an element of that shopping experience home with them to Boulder. So earlier this year, the couple picked up a space on the east end…
One reader welcomed the news that Tiffin’s has opened in Boulder — but didn’t appreciate this start to Lori Midson’s piece on the all-vegetarian Indian joint: Seems that the Boulder granola set may be finally tiring of tofu. At least that’s what Justin Patel, co-owner of Tiffin’s, an all-vegetarian Indian…
Meat: It’s not all that’s for dinner — at least not on Monday nights at Duo and Olivéa, both of which are the first restaurants in Denver to join the campaign to go meatless on Mondays, a nationwide initiative (some would call it a movement without the “moo”) to persuade…
The convenience of a workday lunchtime meal delivery is something taken for granted by many meat eaters; there are dozens of eateries all over the city willing to deliver anything on the menu right to your doorstep. But vegetarians and vegans who’d like a simple sandwich delivered for lunch often…
Jamawn Woods isn’t the only one blaming Denver-based Chipotle for the spectacular failure of his three Soul Daddy restaurants, which closed just weeks after the Detroit resident landed the grand prize on reality-TV show America’s Next Great Restaurant. Steve Ells’s fellow panelist and investor, Bobby Flay, is also pointing the…
