My childhood memories of Southglenn are laced with meals from cheap chain restaurants, eaten in a mall that fell into disrepair after Park Meadows moved in down the street, attracting bigger crowds and better shops. Finally, the old Southglenn mall was razed — and a new Southglenn rose from the…
The historic, romantic Victorian at 1225 Logan Street has sat dormant for the past year, its last occupant, Maison de Fleur, a florist and event center that benefited from the wild rose bushes, skyscraping trees, ornate moldings and white wedding trappings that flow through the spacious, high-ceilinged rooms strewn throughout…
Red Robin may have been pegged by Zagat as one of the country’s best full-service chains, but the Greenwood Village-based restaurant company slipped in second-quarter earnings, and the major investors sacked the CEO, Dennis Mullen. Taking the reins of the bottomless fry-hawking joint is Stephen Carley, formerly CEO of another…
Terry Nichols has lost his drawn-out plea for more wholesome prison fare. Last Thursday, Colorado U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello dismissed the convicted Oklahoma City bomber conspirator’s claims that he needs a diet of “100% whole grain foods, bran products, unpeeled and uncooked fruits and vegetables, and legumes” in…
Mike Hayter and his business partner, Mike Refling, are getting ready to open their new sports bar, Hayter’s, in the former Lizard’s Bar & Grill space at 1920 Blake Street. And they moved here from Bozeman, Montana, to do it. “First of all, getting a license down here is so…
Il Mondo Vecchio salumi emperor Mark DeNittis, and the subject of last week’s Chef and Tell interview, spends the majority of his time pimping dry-cured meats, but the chef has other passions, too, including four-wheeling and camp cooking. His cookbook, My Jeep Grille Adventures, which he released last year, is…
Two gritty mussels, one forlorn shrimp and a scant toss of rubbery calamari lobbed into a thick swamp of unseasoned tomatoes is hardly my idea of cioppino, which is a bummer, because the majority of the menu is smooth sailing. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
After two months of pouring drinks, Wash Park Underground, a new bar and restaurant literally underground at 266-B South Downing Street, in the alley behind Mecca Grill , is now serving burgers, sandwiches, sliders and a small assortment of other items from its subterranean kitchen…
Everyone loves to hate on fast-food chains — but even restaurant ratings experts like Zagat recognize their utility in a rundown now and then. The restaurant rating aggregator just released its third annual survey of fast-food faves:…
This Sunday, August 22, chefs Jeff Osaka (twelve), Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms), Scott and Deanna Parker (Table 6) and Justin Brunson (Masterpiece Deli and Lechon) will host a summer seafood feast at Infinite Monkey Theorem, the urban winery at 931 West Fifth Avenue, owned by grape guru Ben…
Se7en, the Beauvallon’s newest tenant at 925 Lincoln Street, has only been open for five days, but owner Jax Wang promises to deliver food that this scene has never before seen nor tasted…
Baltimore’s Andrew Palmer is one cunning con, who had a slick scam going to grab some free grub. Palmer had been hitting the nicer restaurants in town as a solo diner, and when the bill was dropped on his table, he suddenly claimed he was having a seizure — think…
Ozo Coffee Co., located at 5340 Arapahoe Avenue, in Boulder, has been caffeinating crowds even from its semi-distant digs out on 53rd and Arapahoe since it opened in 2007, so it stands to reason that when the shop opens its second location, on a busy block of the west end…
Two months ago, Chris Cina exited his gig at Timberline Grill, a steak house at the Ameristar Casino in Black Hawk, to set sail for Jax-Denver, where he was tapped as the seafooder’s new chef de cuisine. His first day on the Jax line was June 16; his last day…
Jesse Morreale takes me by the hand and leads me down a narrow passageway, past the rustic wooden tequila lockers and kaleidoscopic altar littered with white candles, and into the lantern-lit dining room of El Diablo, the new Mexican restaurant at First and Broadway that he and executive chef Sean…
A great martini is a joy, and this one, which comes from a new restaurant in town, more than lived up to my expectations. Poured at the table, perfectly chilled and generous in size, it had the added bonus of a red olive as part of the olive garnish, which…
This Saturday, August 21, the Justice League of Street Food will gather for its inaugural party, the first in a series of bashes that will bring diners together in the true spirit of fun that surrounds the mobile vending scene. And we want to add to the fun, giving one…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from pork buns at Pho on 6th to a cocktail at Bistro One (a restaurant in the middle of some major changes) to a soothing watermelon salad at Interstate Kitchen + Bar. For identifying that first, Nic wins…
Sometimes when you try the favorite cocktail of your server, you find a hidden treasure. And sometimes you encounter a regional taste that isn’t really something you’d want to try again. The cocktail in the above photo belongs in the latter category, but I’m not sorry I tried it, because…
Starting tomorrow, a Washington Park neighborhood bakery that had been baking its cakes, pies and cookies only by special order, will start opening a couple of hours every Saturday morning in the very small space it shares with a Basil Doc’s pizzeria…
If you’ve been keeping tabs on the Justice League of Street Food on Facebook, you may have noticed the daily trivia questions — and the new logo…
We reported last Friday that Hoffbrau Bar & Grill, 1301 Santa Fe, was set to reopen under new ownership sometime this week after a quiet closure earlier this year. And indeed, today it opened its doors — under the name 1301 Santa Fe Tavern & Grill — and welcomed lunch…
