As the sun rises in the humid sky, a woman draped in a shawl turns over spiky magenta dragonfruit, finally purchases one, peels away the skin and buries her teeth in its gray, kiwi-like flesh. Nearby, a short man in a red cap clutches the feet of two live chickens,…
Of all the food sold on the streets and at the markets in Vietnam, banh mi may be the most universal, peddled by wandering vendors hauling baskets of baguettes on their backs and at tiny slivers of shops wedged into the never-ending rows of storefronts. But in Denver, there are…
Just 24 hours after I returned from Asia, I was craving the cuisine I’d left behind — and I was particularly hungry for the food stalls of the markets. So I headed straight for ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, where Lon Symensma channeled Cholon, the Chinatown market in Saigon, when he…
There’s still plenty of construction going on in the old Bart’s CD Cellar space at 1015 Pearl Street in Boulder, but after nearly six months, Ozo Coffee Co. is close to finishing its new shop — which means it will soon start pouring drinks in downtown Boulder…
Several Denver restaurants make seasonal changes to their menus, but none with the clockwork regularity of twelve, which rolls out a new board on the first of every month. And Jeff Osaka, chef-owner of the place, isn’t simply recycling items from a dozen different menus. “We’ve been through three Februaries…
Next week, on February 11, the owner of David’s Kebab House, a tiny Mid-East feast joint tucked into an east Denver small-mall surrounded by international markets, is set to show up at the Wellington Webb Building on 1:30 p.m to attend a hearing that’ll determine whether the four-month-old kebab den,…
We just published the Restaurant roll call for January, a compendium of new places that opened last month, as well as old places that closed. A few familiar names both closed and opened, after taking time in late December or early January for vacation or remodeling, or both. Among the…
Just got off the horn with Mark Anthony, the owner of Brickyard BBQ, who shuttered his northwest Denver bastion of Kansas City-style Q on January 1, sending residents in the Berkeley ‘hood scurrying to his Littleton outpost at 311 County Line Road to satiate their obsession for burnt ends –…
There’s not much happening on that plate in the above snap — nothing more, in fact, than fanned slices of hanger steak and a mound of under-seasoned butternut squash. But the hanger steak, a perfect ruddy mid-rare rimmed with a slight char, satisfied my primal craving. Can you guess where…
Biker Jim, Denver’s favorite wiener wrangler, was one of 64 hot dog vendors across the United States whose dogs are on a roll to win America’s Best Hot contest, a March Madness-style bracketed battle co-conspired by Every Day With Rachael Ray and a few frankfurter freaks from Seriouseats.com, who claim…
January saw several high-profile openings, including Ocean Prime in Larimer Square, which opened right on schedule, and a few stragglers that didn’t quite hit their target dates in 2010. And you can say so long to the beloved Red Trolley, which has been transformed into Spuntino. Our Restaurant roll call…
The Culinary Institute of America’s Cream of the Crop scholarship has been awarded to only about ten young chefs a year for the past twelve years. So the chance of someone who’d just started cooking and baking in the past year making the cut would seem slim — but Alyson…
Our “Ten beers to stop drinking by 30” project flowed from a thirsty, beer-thirty, Friday afternoon discussion in the office. The post has inspired numerous recommendations and comments, including several wondering why PBR, which became so hip a decade ago, did not make the list. To which Nate 5280 responded:…
At the end of business on Saturday, January 22, Rodney Utz shuttered his Rodney’s in Tamarac Square, ending a nineteen-year run. The closure came even though Utz still had six years left on the lease — but it would have been a lonely six years, since the rest of the…
Yesterday was the last Sunday to see the Henry Moore sculptures in the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street — but the people in the Around the World With Tea class were (wisely) holed up inside, where it was warm, sipping on seven different tea varietals, occasionally paired with a…
No. 75: Tom yum goong from Thai Flavor When it comes to Thai cuisine in Denver, US Thai gets all the accolades, and while they’re well-deserved, the beloved Thai temple in Edgewater has formidable — and fierce — competition, namely from Thai Flavor, a florescent-lit, brightly hued storefront anchored in…
Yes, those are fast-food fries. And, no, they’re not from McDonald’s. These are of the hand-cut, shoestring variety, and when they’re pulled fresh from the fryer and dusted with salt, they’re some of the best fries in town. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
The Coney Island Boardwalk diner, a weinie-shaped culinary adventure that began operations on West Colfax in the 1960s and later moved to Aspen Park and then Bailey, could soon be on the move again. The building (but not the land) is listed online for sale at $499,000 — and relocation…
More than a dozen Colorado chefs, including Elise Wiggins (Panzano), Michael Long (Aria), Austin Cueto (Restaurant Kevin Taylor), Frankie Semsem (Strings) and Paul Nagan (Zink Kitchen & Bar), are trotting off to the Renaissance Denver Hotel this afternoon to prep for tonight’s piggy extravaganza, part of the Colorado Pork Producers…
People get tattoos for plenty of reasons: a love of art, wanting to look awesome, insecurity, hoping to pick up super-hot chicks — but overall, it’s because they want to say something about themselves that will remain permanent. Evidently, as owner Lance Talon from Boulder Ink now knows, I really…
For almost a year, we’ve been hearing that Brittany Hill would rise again, this time as the Brittany Hill Event Center. New tenants John and JoeAnn Falco said they planned to do extensive renovations to the historic place, putting in a sports bar and fine dining restaurant and revamping the…
Tomorrow we’ll post our monthly Restaurant Roll Call, chronicling the spots that opened and closed in January. Eleven months from now, we’ll compile all those Roll Calls into a comprehensive look at the past year, just as we did with our 2010 Restaurant Roll Call. To create these lists, we…
