After a head-on motorcycle accident derailed his career in finance, Blaine Baggao re-evaluated his professional path, ultimately launching Adobo in 2016 as a food truck that combines his New Mexican and Filipino roots. Its first brick-and-mortar is an expansive space that hosts live music and serves food into the late-night hours, with a menu of […]
Fusion in Denver
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Slotted Spoon Meatball Eatery, which opened in early 2013 in the University of Denver neighborhood, is a meatball-slinging version of Chipotle, the fast-casual chain that got its start just a few blocks away. And co-owners Alex Comisar, Johnny Coast and Jensen Cummings have come up with what looks like a winning concept with their colorful […]
Hapa Sushi is essentially a fusion restaurant, offering sliders, nachos and Fuji-apple-and-bleu-cheese salads on the one hand, poke don, kanpyo maki and a small spread of sashimi on the other. It caters quite deliberately to rookies, actually naming a section of the menu “Beginner Sushi Rolls,” which is followed by “Intermediate” and then flows right […]
Hapa Sushi is essentially a fusion restaurant, offering sliders, nachos and Fuji-apple-and-bleu-cheese salads on the one hand, poke don, kanpyo maki and a small spread of sashimi on the other. It caters quite deliberately to rookies, actually naming a section of the menu “Beginner Sushi Rolls,” which is followed by “Intermediate” and then flows right […]
After three decades of good work, Tante Louise finally faded from the Denver restaurant scene a few years ago. Enter uncle Ed Novak (from the Broker restaurants group), who renamed the place the Cork House after longtime owner Corky Douglass and turned the former classical Euro-French palace of haute into a comfortable, casual wine bar […]
Not only is Centro a beautiful restaurant, a casual restaurant and an undeniably cool restaurant with a bar that pours some stiff drinks, its food is good, smart, original and stubbornly uncompromising. It’s nominally a Mexican restaurant, with a menu listing bocaditas of chips and salsas and rellenos; simple carne asada and enchiladas and carnitas […]
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The Denver outpost in this small chain aims squarely at the middle range of foodies, relatively adventurous eaters who want something better than Happy Meals and cheeseburgers when the family eats out. And Ling & Louie’s delivers with a hip dining room and decent food that includes Americanized versions of Thai, Japanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese and […]
The surprising thing about the food at the very hip, very urban Parallel Seventeen is how traditional it is, how Frenchy-Asian, how rigorously grounded in generations of history. Mary Nguyen’s kitchen serves an authentic cuisine that’s little known outside of Hue or the dining rooms of Denver’s Vietnamese immigrants, offering it up to crowds of […]
After more than a decade as a Latin-Asian fusion spot, in the fall of 2016 Richard Sandoval’s Zengo converted to a pan-Asian restaurant, with sumptuous decor including suspended origami birds, a metallic-veined floor and a sushi bar; the menu now includes the likes of sushi and sashimi, poke, dim sum and stir-fried noodles. In fact, […]
In the afternoons, you might have Opal all to yourself — which means all the more offerings for you. The laundry list of specials includes two-for-one deals on nigiri and hand rolls, two-for-one hot sake, four-dollar martinis, three-dollar champagne, big Kirins for just $2.50 — and the incongruous dollar Coronas. Don’t ask why, just enjoy. […]
Longevity is an important word in any restaurateur’s lexicon. Every house wants to see its ten-year anniversary in the rearview; most never get there. But 240 Union — the New American outpost founded in 1989 by Michael Coughlin, Noel Cunningham and chef Matt Franklin — is still going strong, because this restaurant has never just […]
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Hapa Sushi is essentially a fusion restaurant, offering sliders, nachos and Fuji-apple-and-bleu-cheese salads on the one hand, poke don, kanpyo maki and a small spread of sashimi on the other. It caters quite deliberately to rookies, actually naming a section of the menu “Beginner Sushi Rolls,” which is followed by “Intermediate” and then flows right […]
Noel Cunningham, who founded Strings in 1986, passed away on December 1, 2011. He was more than a cook; he was Denver’s culinary conscience. For well over two decades, he made very good food at Strings, his new-American restaurant and a true community institution. But he also funneled much of his energy into good works […]
The seasonal menus at Restaurant Kevin Taylor are poetry without a single word wasted. Chef Kevin Taylor’s namesake has come into its own and is deserving of the beautiful room, the fawning press and the exorbitant prices.