A month ago, we reported that James and Lily Kwon, owners of Aurora’s Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street, were set to open a new Korean restaurant in Northglenn, Q Table BBQ, 311 West 104th Street, in October. That spot held its grand opening last Friday and is now open…
In Season Local Market, the brainchild of owners Shannon McLaughlin and Todd Stevenson, opened at 3210 Wyandot Street earlier this year with the mantra “If it’s not from here, it’s not in here,” and on Saturday, McLaughlin and Stevenson are unveiling a second location, at 924 Main Street in downtown…
Scott Parker Table 6 601 Corona Street 303-831-8800 www.table6denver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Scott Parker. Read the second half of that interview. Update: Read our favorite comments by Yelpers about this interview. I’m hungry,” says Scott Parker. Not just now, not just today, but ever…
Fuhgidabowdit Pizzeria, a takeout pie parlor at 2041 South University Boulevard, shuttered on Saturday, but the address won’t be vacant for long. Pete Kallas, the owner of Steakhouse 10, the Athenian, Undici Ristorante and Greeks Gone Wild, which just happens to reside next door to the pizzeria, purchased the space…
No sooner had we published our restaurant roll call for October, a roster of the places that had opened and closed that month, than updates started rolling in. For example, Colorado lost its only Claim Jumper, a link in a chain that got its start back in 1977, when the…
The McRib is back, available at the 200 McDonald’s restaurants across the state until November 22. The elusive sandwich, billed as “a boneless pork patty dressed with fresh-slivered onions, dill pickle slices, tangy barbeque sauce and served on a toasted, golden-brown home-style bun,” was first introduced almost three decades ago,…
One bite of an empanada — the crisp exterior wall of the bready pastry giving way to a cascade of rich, savory flavor — and I realized that this plump little semi-circle is an almost perfect food. I ate a steady diet of empanadas during my tenure in South America…
When I left South America, I brought boxes of frozen empanadas with me, terrified that I’d run out of the food I’d eaten at least three or four times a week for months. Fortunately, the owners of a handful of spots along the Front Range serve fairly authentic versions of…
When I returned to the United States after a stint in South America, I feared I’d be unable to find empanadas, that nearly perfect food that stuffs pastry pockets with savory filling. My quest eventually took me to Empanada Express Grill, at 2600 East Street in Golden, where owner Isabel…
Proving that retro is back in vogue, the restaurant where the above snap was flashed has just added TV dinners to its menu, one of which is vegetarian while the other lionizes offal. The only thing missing? The tin foil. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
For the past six years, Bayleaf has inhabited a small storefront on the west end of Pearl Street, peddling Parisian linens and candles, handcrafted tables and imported spices to Boulderites. After visiting a number of markets, including New York’s Eataly, though, owner Michael Burgermeister decided to relocate and expand so…
What’s more fun than food? Cheesy song parodies that focus on food. When I couldn’t sleep last night, I stumbled on this Kieto’s Family Fun Center and Kitchen Club website that features ten hilarious songs — “Come Fry With Me” to the tune of “Come Fly With Me”; “Anchovies” to…
Nineteen meat cutters from Texas Roadhouse outposts throughout the country will show off their butchering prowess today at the South Suburban Ice Arena, 6580 South Vine Street, as part of the second round of the steakhouse chain’s National Meat Competition. The competitors, including Vicente Heredia and Jose Lozano, both from…
Unless you count the tented stand at the Boulder farmers’ market from which a couple of employees proffer tin cans of coffee beans and steaming-hot cups of joe, Mark and Mel Glenn’s Boulder-based Conscious Coffees doesn’t have a retail outlet. The coffee, though, is everywhere, the beans of choice for…
Diners who’ve lived in Denver for more than a decade all have tales of some meal they had at the Wellshire Inn, the elegant restaurant that Leo Goto ran out an old Tudor-style building on the park/golf course owned by the City and County of Denver, at 3333 South Colorado…
Mitch Harbor, who already owns Johnny Rockets on the 16th Street Mall, Good Times (also on the 16th Street Mall), Taco John’s at 5810 Logan Street and Steak Escape franchises at DIA and Park Meadows, isn’t remotely worried about building an upscale Japanese and sushi restaurant at a Ballpark neighborhood…
Since its inception in 1987, the Colorado-based chain of Egg & I restaurants has expanded across six states, proffering a menu of breakfast and lunch items to customers who get their egg on in the casual digs. Today, it opened its 41st restaurant at 7830 West Alameda in Lakewood…
After years of managing restaurants, Scott Skiba wanted one of his own, but building a brick-and-mortar isn’t cheap, so Skiba, a former manager of Waterloo, a bar/restaurant in Louisville, went the way that several other chefs and restaurateurs have gone: mobile…
For the past six months, Kim and Jake Rosenbarger have been wooing Boulderites with baked goods from Kim & Jakes Cakes, their namesake storefront at 641 South Broadway, where they bake cakes, cupcakes and pies, in addition to cake terrines, moon pies and other sugar-filled experiments. And now they’ve landed…
This photo was just sent to us by a reader — a reader who allegedly made good on the weed portion of the tip jar request and was offered a complimentary beer by the staff, which he drank before going on his way. What makes this tip-jar sign work is…
When Lynda Campbell received her one million mile frequent flyer gift from Delta Airlines, she decided to land. The former senior VP director of Pacific Sunwear, a national clothing chain that hustles popular teen labels, gave up her life in Manhattan and sojourns around the world to move to Denver…
At about 9 p.m. on Saturday night, we spotted the big yellow trailer that houses Mikes 2 Kitchen (pronounced Mikes Squared Kitchen) setting up for a long night in LoDo. It was the mobile vendor’s first night on the street — and one of the craziest party nights of the…
