Restaurants

This hardly needs a review, does it?…

Yet another fast-casual spot has popped up in the metro area, this time from a franchise originating in Texas. The location at 4086 South Parker Road in Aurora is the first outside of that state for the Salad Bowl, a place dishing out, well, bowls of salad. Like a reverse…

It would be impossible to repeat all the nice things that egullet’s Steven Shaw had to say about Ian Kleinman and his molecular gastronomy menu at O’s Steak and Seafood at the Westin Westminster, which Shaw experienced when he was in town for the International Association of Culinary Professionals convention…

Melissa Harrison, a contender on last season’s Top Chef, didn’t win the big prize — that went to Hosea Rosenberg, a fellow Big Red F chef — but now you can win an eight-course dinner that Harrison will cook at your house.A Harrison-cooked meal is one of the auction items…

The Tianjin people have Zan Zhao’s customers handed down from the past, the diet culture also receive Yan the Zhao customs handed down from the past the influence, the style by the thick line primarily, has “eight large bowls” “in a big way, four digs up” and so on, use…

The first time I tried Ethiopian food, I was visiting my friend, Mat, in Montreal. We’d met the previous summer on a train headed to Berlin, and since we were both backpacking solo around Europe and trying to get to Prague, which had just suffered a flood, we found ourselves…

The Candy Girls were systematically working our way around the chocolate shops, bakeries and specialty candy makers of Denver when we stumbled upon Big Fat Cupcake, 129 Adams Street. While the uniquely flavored, award-winning cupcakes drew us in, it was shop-owner Kathleen Nevin’s mission to donate 10 percent of her…

No, Via’s not coming back (although AOL sure made it look that way the other day, when it LoDo restaurant — defunct for many months — on its home page). But we hear the Momo family, which didn’t find the commercial success with Via, even with famed chef James Mazzio…

See more photos of Tocabe at westword.com/slideshow. Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and mother sauces and threesomes from the French, fry bread is the Native American people’s proud contribution to our mutt and multicultural present, one…

When I first heard that Chipotle was changing its menu — running out the first new board the operation has seen since setting down roots in Denver some fifteen years ago — I refused to take it seriously. The second time, I laughed at the person who insisted that Chipotle…

Long after my review of Tocabe was safely in the can, I was still dreaming about fry bread.  I was also eating fry bread — having made at least three post-review visits to Tocabe’s home at 44th and Lowell just to “check my facts.” One that almost slipped by me?…

The sandwich: Boccaccio Crostone What’s on it: Fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers, pesto and tomato on grill-pressed bread Where to get it: Parisi (4401 Tennyson Street, 303-561-0234) How much: $7.99 I’m a horrible American cliché when it comes to all things Italian. I love the food, the wine, the history, the…

Steven Shaw, founder of egullet and a serious food-world heavyweight, was in town this month for the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, and he somehow found time to take a spin up to Westminster to check out Ian Kleinman’s molecular gastronomy menu at O’s Steak and Seafood. I’ve been…

We may be seeing a trend in the competitive small-batch, independently owned ice cream sector of our economy. Two Spoons, an ice cream shop at 1021 Pearl Street in Boulder, just introduced a breakfast-cereal bar — a concept that mirrors an idea introduced last month at the Red Trolley in…

Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and mother sauces and threesomes from the French, fry bread is the Native American people’s proud contribution to our mutt and multicultural present, one of the most awe-inspiring culinary innovations of…

Do you have any idea how much time I’ve wasted over the past six months cruising along Ogden Street, specifically to the corner of Ogden and 11th, where I’ve been stalking the parking lot, harassing the construction workers and repeatedly asking the already stressed staff, “Dude, where’s my sandwich?” At…

Like 50 is the new 30, Twitter is the new talking. And here’s yet another story about how one tweet put something into motion, so that a former venture capitalist is now spending his afternoon working the fryer at Spud Bros., located at 2010 10th Street in Boulder:Brad Feld is…

Common Grounds, the popular LoDo coffeehouse that’s a sibling of the original in northwest Denver, barely missed a beat when it moved last week from 1601 17th Street across the street to 1550 17th, in the old Sugarbeat Café space (the entrance is on Wazee Street). But somewhere along the…

When we first visited Sketch, the new wine bar tucked into the old 1st Avenue Hotel at 101 Broadway, we took note of its location facing Big Lots and its bar manager, Charlie Master, who’d injected much-needed humor into Cherry Creek with his white-trash specials at Brix, and immediately suggested…

Last week, I got a phone call from Amanda, a lovely woman doing research for the Guy Fieri Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. The company that produces the show was giving Denver a serious look-see — trying to assemble a list of restaurants for Guy to hit –…

Zone in on your zen (and blow off tax day) on Wednesday, April 15, when Parallel Seventeen, the modern Vietnamese restaurant at 1600 East 17th Avenue, rolls out a special a la carte menu to celebrate the birthday of Oh, Ye Great Buddhist, Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, who…

Now, this is what I’d been waiting for…for months. Hordes of people talking about the proper time to snip lettuce, kids helping their parents put onions into their (always reusable!) bags, militant environmentalists scolding those not like them…ah, the Boulder Farmers’ Market. At about 11 a.m. on this past, overcast…