Our list of the “Five Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver” had a couple of readers wondering about the absence of JJ’s. But which JJ’s? From thespot84: I’m excited to try all of these. For straight up chinese takeout/delivery downtown, however, JJ’s Bistro is truly hard to beat. And this from…
As if the food wasn’t reason enough to head over to Masterpiece Delicatessen, you now can get a proper drink to go with your artistically crafted sandwich. The popular three-year-old deli just got a full liquor license and is serving cocktails, beers from Oskar Blues and wine from Infinite Monkey…
It wasn’t nearly as bad as the walkout that Troy Guard, the owner/chef of TAG, experienced two weeks ago when a vocal majority of his staff hoofed it out the door after news that Guard and his soon-to-be-ex-wife had a parting of ways, but Andrew Casalini, the owner of Satchel’s…
Wazee Supper Club opened its doors back in 1974 under Angelo and Jim Karagas, five years after the same duo erected My Brother’s Bar just nine blocks away. Since then, the bar and restaurant, which has since been passed from the hands of the Karagas brothers to the Wynkoop Holdings…
The same company that’s pushing the all-natural tastes of XINGtea have teamed up with the Ball Corp. to introduce a canned water. The zero-calorie Just Pure Water, created by Colorado-based New Age Beverages, comes in berry, lemon lime and orange flavors. “What we wanted to do was come out with…
When Len & Bill’s went dark after fifty years, Denver lost one of its great dives. But now Mike’s Tavern has opened in the space at 2301 South Broadway. Bartender Nicole Keeney, whose father is Mike, says Len & Bill’s regulars have been coming in and telling her stories about…
When former TAG team (and married couple) Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan added Madison Street to their restaurant empire, they tapped a member of the TAG kitchen, Rob Michels, to serve as executive chef, where he worked alongside Troy to revamp the menu. Three months later, after the Guard and…
Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Andy Martinez, exec chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t travel as much I’d like…
The University Boulevard location of Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill has closed, but the homegrown Mediterranean fast-casual chain will continue to grow. “It wasn’t the best location for us,” explains marketing and PR manager Beth Hardy, who notes that the University of Denver location, unlike two over on South Colorado Boulevard, had…
Readers have been pouring out the jokes since Molson Coors announced that it will release Animee, a beer geared towards female non-beer drinkers, in the UK. From Claire: The Virginia Slims of the beer biz. From eCurmudgeon: Otherwise known as Zima with a new label…
No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas…
Lance Barto started behind the burners at Strings three years ago, working his way up to the executive chef role in 2009 after then-lead chef Aaron Whitcomb left for YiaYia’s Euro Bistro in Greenwood Village. Now, Barto’s heading over to the line at Wild Catch — the seafood restaurant that…
When Justin Brunson, the captain behind the magnificent Masterpiece Deli, opens Wild Catch, a sustainable seafood restaurant in Uptown, he’ll steer his kitchen along with a tag team of several other high-profile chefs — none of whom, by the way, are from TAG, Troy Guard’s Asian restaurant in Larimer Square…
We’ve always been pretty cranky about the lack of Colorado-centric food items at Denver International Airport — especially Colorado-centric food items that visitors can take back home as souvenirs from this state. But that will soon change: Provenzano Resources, which is in charge of adding fourteen kiosks and 24 RMUs…
We shunned the lamb kabobs, the lamb shank and the chicken shawarma (all of which I love here) to better our bodies with a platter of vegetarian dishes, which included — dare I say it — the best falafel I’ve had at a Lebanese/Middle Eastern restaurant in Denver. Can you…
Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part one of my interview with Andy Martinez, executive chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part two of my chat with Martinez will run in this space tomorrow. When Denver native Andy Martinez, the executive chef…
In an obvious but well-timed bid to compete with other chain restaurants’ efforts to provide more calorie-cutting offerings, Chick-fil-A, the prominent purveyors of fried chicken sammies to willing masses of mall-walkers, is now serving oatmeal. As of this past Monday, the current menu is lightly seasoned with less-bad-for-you items such…
The KIND truck will make its first non-East Coast stops in the Denver-Boulder area starting tomorrow and running through August 6, passing out samples of the all-natural KIND fruit and nut bars that retail for $1.99. The stops on Tuesday, August 2, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Union…
TAG, you’re it. The fallout from TAG continues to radiate across the restaurant scene, with the news yesterday that James Lee and Michael Pacovsky are going to Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Robert Thompson’s spot slated to open in the former home of Baur’s at 1512 Curtis Street late…
Chopsticks China Bistro held down the corner of Federal and Mississippi for four years, turning out stellar Chinese cuisine that spanned Szechuan specialties, Taiwanese soup dumplings and sandwiches. We loved the place, and we were sad to see it go when it ditched its digs on Federal to move to…
After experimenting with unique ice cream concoctions in a three-quart mixer in the kitchen of Crook’s Palace in Black Hawk, Matt and Mike Casarez set out to break the Guinness World Record for the highest number of ice cream flavors on display at one time. And they just got it:…
Deronn Turner is a cookbook author and soul-food warrior in this town; originally hailing from Oklahoma, Turner knows what down-home cooking should taste like. And she makes that evident during occasional private dinner parties thrown with friends, where she takes over the kitchen and cooks up a delectable all-you-can-eat spread…
