Another day, another street food truck. Denver chef and restaurant consultant Michel Wahaltere, who’s had his spoon in way too many soups to mention (short list: 9th Door, SportsBook, 5 Degrees, MiniBAR, Cucina Colore,), is officially taking his skills to the streets. Wahaltere, along with Mark Strazisar (Lucky Star, Sutra,…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a homegrown chain founded by Alon Mor in 2007, will open its eleventh Front Range restaurant tomorrow at 2466 South Colorado Boulevard. And today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Garbanzo is partnering with the National Sports Center for the Disabled on a private, pre-opening fundraiser at the…
I’m batshit crazy for Ethiopian food, which may explain why three of my dinners this past week have consisted of floppy injera, minchet, sambusas, kitfo, kikil and lamb and beef tibs, some of which are heaped on a communal platter at the restaurant where the above pic was snapped. Can…
The vividly-hued building on the corner of 28th and Fairfax in North Park Hill is about to lose a tenant. The owners of the five-year-old Satchel’s Market, 5021 East 28th Avenue, are shuttering the market-cum-neighborhood-restaurant that we recently reviewed, citing issues with the landlord and lease…
Harvest Week is over, but the eating will continue for Tom Ward, who won an EatDenver deck for his mouth-watering description of a Harvest Week dinner at Panzano, which you can read here. Tom, send your address to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send you the deck, with $520 worth of discounts…
It was only a matter of time before urban street food went suburban, and first (that we know of, anyway) to bring the street food movement to suburban asphalt are bigwigs Chris Amato, Peter Kudla and Rob Kuck, the visionaries behind the Vallagio at Inverness, which will soon unmask several…
It takes balls! There’s a new testicle-related world record, and it was set right here in Colorado. This weekend, the Lady Luck Casino in Black Hawk hosted a Major League Eating-sanctioned competitive eating contest, charging competitors with the task of downing as many Rocky Mountain Oysters as they could in…
A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I’ve been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger, the contestants less interesting — and the food just a secondary player. In context,…
Last week, four Denver restaurants — Fruition, Root Down, Squeaky Bean and Colt & Gray — got some major love from New York Times scribe Jay Cheshes, who spotlighted the restaurants’ field-to-fork endeavors. But The Times wasn’t the only paper doling out love to Denver: USA Today, in its round-up…
On August 15, the Food Network unleashed the premier of The Great Food Truck Race, in which seven teams comprised of the country’s top food truck slingers hit the asphalt to wheel around the country, all in an effort to sell the most food in whichever challenge city they’re parked…
By partnering with established Denver chefs and restaurateurs, Larimer Associates, which owns Larimer Square, has been pushing new joints not just in the Square, but in neighborhoods around the city. Each of those restaurants is strategically designed to integrate seamlessly into its surroundings, drawing on the history of the building…
See that big-ass burger up top? That’s the small version. Torpedoed with a chile relleno and other requisite toppings, It’s the newest addition to a board that’s already submerged in burger culture — although these aren’t your everyday burgers. Clearly. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Although EatDenver’s Harvest Week — a cornucopia of special menus featuring Colorado’s produce and products at Denver’s independent restaurants — just ended, there’s still one last course to serve up: a DINR deck, which gives you $520 in discounts at members of Eat Denver (formerly known as Denver’s Independent Network…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess where contests this past week (our apologies for the hellish computer glitches that affected the comments functionality), ranging from this late summer salad to some still-unidentified carne asada fries to these barbecue sauces. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jabo’s, VB wins…
The building at 2479 South Broadway that briefly housed the Cabin on Broadway — and Old Tyme Dawgs & Drafts before that, and the Blue Walleye before that, and Mike’s Great Divide before that — is back on the block, locked up tight with a broker’s sign in the window…
The above salad, bright with Colorado heirloom tomatoes chromed golden, eggplant, garnet and watermelon and boosted by stretchy burrata oozing cream, was exactly the kind of summer dish I was looking for after a week of gorging myself like a heathen. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, ends tonight, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the restaurants celebrating Harvest Week?…
When Penzeys Spices, a Wisconsin-based gourmet spice company with shops in cities around the country, announced it would open on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, it caused a flurry of controversy. That was because the new location is just around the corner from an outpost of Savory Spice Shop,…
The owners of Mona’s Restaurant and Mo’ Taco (RIP) will be launching a new restaurant downtown in coming weeks. Mona’s Cafe, located in the former 212 Cafe spot at 1710 Sherman Street, is slated to open its doors the week of September 20, with a grand opening planned for September…
Time and time again, in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, we read about local kitchen commanders lamenting the dearth of Denver restaurant exposure on a national level. In fact, Jeff Bolton, exec chef of Second Home Kitchen & Bar, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell Q&A,…
A monthly family pizza night has long been a tradition for brothers Eric, Joel and Reid Bakken. In fact, Eric even took it upon himself to build a pizza oven in his backyard a couple of years ago. But when Eric saw a mobile pizza oven atop a trailer in…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Jeff Bolton, the exec chef of Second Home Kitchen + Bar in the JW Marriott, reveals that he and his staff have a fetish for Burger King’s Whopper Jrs. But that’s not the only food obsession of Bolton and his crew. Bolton is…
