What will Steve Ells invest in next? Soul Daddy

Amid making plans for ShopHouse, a new fast-casual Asian concept, and running the ever-expanding Denver-based Chipotle empire, Steve Ells has also been busy picking another restaurant concept in which to invest, working alongside Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia to grant a would-be restaurateur the opportunity to run America’s…

Now open: Chef Vue

Nearly five years after native Laotian Ma Vue graced Edgewater residents with US Thai Cafe — which offers up some of the best curry in the city — he’s added a second restaurant in Denver: Chef Vue opened in the Town Center in Aurora two weeks ago…

Guess where I’m drinking?

There’s only one restaurant in Denver where I’ve seen this golden Italian beer being poured — and I’d gladly go out of my way to track it down again. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…

Restaurant roll call for April

The metro area gained a cheesesteak spot and lost a cheesesteak spot, it gained a Larkburger and lost a Walk-In Burger (although that venture promises to relocate)…and Hart’s Corner made a comeback. Here’s the Restaurant roll call for April:…

Reader: The trucks stopped here

The first party of the Food Truck Warriors was postponed from Saturday because of sorry weather forecasts, and this answer didn’t fit the contest criteria to win free food/drink at the Food Truck Warriors party in any case. Still, we were charmed by this reply from Todd, which shows just…

Denver’s five best breakfast sandwiches

Of all the magical morning eats, few are more versatile than the breakfast sandwich. Meat, eggs and cheese between two halves of a roll — it’s the perfect morning take-out meal, an excellent way to cure a hangover and an also an ideal option for a lazy weekend when paired…

Happy Friday: Here’s a good place to find a date

It’s supposed to snow tomorrow, but it’s a balmy 75 degrees today, and that makes us antsy to go out and socialize — and maybe score some digits to make a date. In Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date thanks to…

More Yelp tiffs: The Yelp Elite takes on the Yelp elite

Here in Denver, 8 Rivers Cafe owner Wanda James is getting lambasted by Yelpers who don’t take kindly to her calling out Yelp for its questionable filter algorithm. And while she insists that she has no problem with the reviews — and, therefore, no beef with the Yelpers themselves –…

Food Truck Warriors party is postponed! And snow it goes….

Snow’s in the forecast for the last day of April, and because that’s the worst kind of weather for an outdoor bash devoted to street food and booze, the Food Truck Warriors — a group that includes Street Eats, the Crock Spot, Biscuit Bus, Steuben’s, Max Lunch, Brava Pizzeria, Stick…

Yelp fight! 8 Rivers Cafe owner takes on the filter system

Suspicious that Yelp was filtering reviews of 8 Rivers Cafe just because she and her husband, Scott Durrah, didn’t advertise, Wanda James took her grievances to the Yelp discussion board. That’s where she started a thread called “Yelp is fake and is destroying businesses that don’t advertise with them.” In…

The light stuff: SB 60 passes a House committee vote

Turn that frown upside down! Yesterday, a bill that would remove restaurants and bars from the archaic, post-Prohibition laws regulating the sales of low-alcohol beers in convenience and grocery stores made it out of the House Economic and Business Development Committee — 13 to 0. Senate Bill 60 has already…

Caminito Tango Restaurant will go in where Viejo Domingo went out

Vicente Domingo closed the doors on his young restaurant, Viejo Domingo, in March, saying he was taking a break and that he’d be back in May. And indeed, there’s activity in that location again — but we’re not entirely sure Domingo is behind it. Caminito Tango Restaurant is taking over…

Round two with dish’s Jenna Johansen

Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part two of my interview with Jenna Johansen. Part one of this interview ran yesterday. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Opening my restaurant. I’ve done a lot of work to get to where I am, and I’ve planned…