I love a hearty Mid East feast, and I wanted to love the restaurant where the above sampler platter was snapped, but aside from the tabbouleh and beef shawarma, both of which were fine — not stellar, but fine — nothing here made me want to come rushing back, least…
February saw a handful of high-profile openings, including a second Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria in the upscale Vallagio project. But Denver also lost a couple of longtime restaurants, including the Rocky Mountain Diner and Deli Tech. Our Restaurant roll call for February:…
While you’ll find many of the meatier comments on our ongoing Denver Restaurant Week post (best DRW story wins an EatDenver deck), people are still talking about the beef (or lack thereof) at Taco Bell, which now has an ad with employees touting the 88 cent Crunchwrap Supreme. “The only…
By the time our entrees arrived at Carmine’s on Penn, I had a nearly irrepressible urge to turn to the next table — a gaggle of beefy men who’d just sat down — and explain that we three relatively normal-sized women had not come in to eat like pigs. We’d…
While I nursed a glass of cheap house red at the Gaetano’s bar, I watched neighbors cycle in to pick up their to-go orders. First came a couple in running gear, talking with a little too much enthusiasm about how great their workout was. They were replaced by a young…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:45 p.m., there were prime time…
The growing Park Burger empire has now expanded into Highland. Jean-Phillipe Failyau, owner of Park & Co. and the original Park Burger at 1890 South Pearl Street, opened a new location at 2643 West 32nd Avenue on February 20. “We’ve had a good response from the neighborhood,” says Failyau. “It’s…
After being sued for false advertising on the grounds that its taco filling didn’t contain enough beef to be called “beef,” Taco Bell filed a countersuit, gave away ten million free tacos to Facebook fans and took out full page ads all over the country to explain that the beef…
On Friday night, Biker Jim hosted a little party inside his new brick-and-mortar at 2148 Larimer Street, inviting a few friends and a trio of motorcycle stunt riders to christen the concrete floor with the lashings of burnt rubber, the decibel levels of which made it unofficially the loudest party…
The legal side of the business is not the romantic part of running a restaurant, but it’s also unavoidable. And because Messner& Reeves LLC deals with those issues on a daily basis, the Denver-based law firm is now dishing up its insight on Restaurant Law Blog, helping Colorado restaurateurs (and…
As you’ve no doubt heard, the debauchery that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and the Tavern Hospitality Group — they who own Tavern Uptown, Tavern Downtown, Tavern Lowry, Tavern Tech Center and Tavern Wash Park — are giving you the opportunity to stumble around Sin City for free. But…
Ever beer at this bar is poured from cans, and on Friday night, Oskar Blues took control of the taps, while a kick-ass country band commanded the dance floor. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Local eateries have learned to expect the unexpected during Denver Restaurant Week — but the surprise hit Ototo Food and Wine Bar Friday night, even before DRW got under way: The kitchen crew noticed smoke coming from a duct. The fire department was called, and eventually, they traced the source…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the new cold bar at Lola to a still-unidentified new suburban sushi bar to a can of Strongbow at a local watering hole. For correctly identifying the bar as the Kentucky Inn, Jeff wins an EatDenver deck…
After Amber Taufen penned her “open letter to cranky carnivores”, the flip side of her “open letter to militant vegans,” Steve put things in perspective: If you think being Vegan is hard, try having kids allergic to peanuts, tree nuts and sesame and also trying to give them healthy non-animal…
After I penned my open letter to militant vegans, several people asked why I was focusing on militant vegans and letting meat-eaters off the hook. They had a point. Although I take issue with the comments that suggested militant vegans are an urban legend — I’ve met more of them…
For more than fifty years, Davies Chuck Wagon Diner has stood like a stallion on a strip of West Colfax, feeding greasy-spoon grub, like chicken-fried steak, to old-timers and curiosity-seekers who want a glimpse of the Davies Diner horse that hovers above the front door. Four years ago, owner Dwayne…
Get ready, Denver, because a blizzard of frozen yogurt places are about to hit the market. According to Jen West at Foothill Commercial Builders, her company alone is currently building more than a dozen. Two of those are slated to become outposts of Nella’s Frozen Yogurt, a brand-new, Colorado-based brand…
In exactly 37 days, the third US Tour of Cochon 555, a nationwide traveling pork orgy that spotlights five local chefs, five heritage breed piggies and five winemakers, will hoof it to Denver, taking over a yet-to-be-determined parcel of pig-appropriate landscape, wherein the chefs will go tongue-to-trotter in an epic…
Need a quick pick-me-up? Skip the Red Bull; how about a shot of stallion semen instead?…
After an obnoxiously mediocre dinner last night, there was only one thing to do: hit up the corner bar and drown my sorrows in a can of Strongbow poured by a jokester tender who pretended to be camera shy. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Saul Sierra was a nineteen-year-old high-school drop-out and dishwasher when he opened the first Mi Cocina in northwest Denver. Three years later, he sold that location and opened Mi Cocina Mexican Restaurant in Littleton; he added Mi Cocina Express in 2007. And last March, 25 years after Sierra registered Mi…
