The Kitchen [Next Door], the next eatery in the family of restaurants that started with The Kitchen seven years ago, had been slated to open its doors this Thursday. But there’s been a hitch — and now it won’t start serving until next week. “It’s a combination of things,” explains…
Six months after Que Bueno closed for renovations, every frequent flier’s favorite spot at Denver International Airport has finally reopened on Concourse B. The spot has expanded from 1,118 square feet to 1,490 square feet — and, more important, the liquor offerings have also expanded, with a full bar now…
My favorite meal of the week is brunch, especially when it involves the man of my dreams and something French — in this case, a near-transcendent croque madame crowned with a trembling egg spilling yolk the color of sunflowers. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Andrew Knowlton, the Bon Appetit food scribe, who, in the fall of last year, named Boulder the “foodiest town” in the United States, is now throwing around the culinary “F” word — fusion — in a story that trumpets the top six restaurants in the country to “Taste the New…
So McDonald’s is issuing a “surprising, embarrassing and uncharacteristic” apology to its Australian customers because McCafé coffee sucks. “We are the largest coffee chain in Australia, but we know we are not the most loved,” Helen Nash, McDonald’s Australian COO, told The Australian. “Customers have told us we can do…
With Civic Center Eats rolling into Civic Center today for a new summer season, and trucks tooling around other parts of town, Denverites will get to test some new mobile barbecue, including Bubby’s BBQ and N.Z’s Smokin’ Guns, which will hit Civic Center Park Thursday. Still, the responses to our…
I showed up at Gaia Bistro 45 minutes early. It was a Sunday morning during prime brunch hours, when the wait list can top an hour and a half (or even longer, if Gaia’s warm and well-meaning service is running slow, as it often is). Someone had to take one…
Last summer, Osei and Adwoa Ford-Wuo parked the van they’d used to hawk West African food and picked up a strip mall spot in Aurora, outfitting it with hut-themed decor and turning out a fantastic board of fufu, jollof rice, peanut butter soup and fried plantains. And now that they…
This old garage space looks shuttered now, but it’s the future home of a new restaurant: Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub. And while we’re guessing the opening is still a ways off — a deserted car lot flanks the front of the building and will require some serious cleanup…
This ad for a Bar Hostess popped up on Craigslist last week: Are you 21+, love a great environment and want to make $12.50/hr? If you are the type of girl that demands attention and turns heads, you might be perfect for Denver’s newest nightlife club; Northwoods Inn! The hot,…
The basement is a hot place to be right now. Last year, two of Denver’s top restaurateurs picked up underground spots in Larimer Square, opening unique concepts right at the edge of LoDo. The first was Green Russell, a faux speakeasy fronted with a pie shop that Frank Bonanno opened…
We’ve seen a succession of restaurant openings over the last several months, but Linger, the second restaurant from Justin Cucci, the owner/chef of Root Down, may very well be the most anticipated new arrival of the year. And after a remarkably good dinner there last week, at which Cucci, along…
It goes to reason that a bar justifiably admired for its beer roster would also serve a bang-up beer-based soup bolstered by crumbles of bacon and housemade pretzel nubs. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
If you hear it from the Food Channel, then it must be true. This crew’s latest list — of top-ten dessert trends — includes mass wedding cake genocide, tableside theatrics, Cinnamon Twists from Taco Bell, beer paired with doughnuts, two-fisting nuts (and yes, “two-fisting” is being used as a verb…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess where? contests during the short last week, ranging from molcajete stew at El Diablo to a massive slab of fried chicken on a biscuit from the Biscuit Bus to this order of chips and queso. For correctly identifying it as coming from Prohibition,…
Two restaurants are looking for new homes this month. On Friday afternoon, Lori Midson broke the news that Robert Thompson will be opening Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar in the current home of Baur’s Ristorante; owner Jimmy Lambatos will close Baur’s at the end of the month, and is…
The Justice league of Street Food — the fleet of food trucks that took our bellies by storm last summer — is back for a second season of gorging, beginning tomorrow, when ten trucks and carts post up at 3507 Ringsby Court, directly north of Fuel Cafe, in the paved…
Robert Thompson is on a roll. The proprietor of Argyll, a splendid gastropub in Cherry Creek, and the brainchild behind Punch Bowl, which will open in November in the Baker ‘hood, has just inked a deal, complete with a 25-year lease, to take over Baur’s Ristorante, Jimmy Lambatos’s elegant –…
There are plenty of arbitrary, food-related holidays, but one dedicated to doughnuts? Now, that something to get excited about. Not everyone is celebrating National Donuts Day — such local shops as Walton Donuts and Marty’s 47th Street Donuts, along with the chain Winchell’s Donut House, are staying out of the…
A week ago, we brought you a list of the five best spots for ice cream in Denver, including a couple of restaurants that happen to serve up great scoops. But while one of those — Frasca Food & Wine — makes its gelati and sorbeti in house, it’s worth…
The calls have been coming in fast and furious to Biker Jim’s cell phone, with befuddled callers wanting to know why the hell his hot dog cart isn’t parked curbside at its usual address on the corner of the 16th Street Mall and California Street. Here’s your answer: A film…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting people…
