A meal at Kachina, which opened in the Westin Westminster in the fall of 2012, is supposed to be “a magical trip through the Southwest,” according to its menu. The dining room is separated from the exhibition kitchen by a partition of pueblo-style niches; the space is lovely, if overdone. The menu needs some editing, […]
New American in Denver
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You know you’ve become an American icon when you make regular appearances in Larry the Cable Guy’s standup routine, and by that standard, Waffle House is the Elvis Presley of Interstate dining. With more than 1,400 franchises in 25 states (including Denver / Boulder), this Georgia-based breakfast joint, founded in 1955, is among a handful […]
Owner Johnny Ballen unleashed The Squeaky Bean in Highland in May 2009, and it generated quite the following before shuttering two years later. The current iteration of the Bean, which opened in June 2012 in the historic Saddlery building in LoDo, is everything (and more) that Ballen envisioned, with the same convivial vibrancy, irreverent accents […]
With Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two, which opened in late summer 2012, owners Dave Chmura, Rob Young and Scott Bergin brought the low country to Denver — specifically, to a Victorian home in Platt Park that underwent drastic renovation, gaining a roof deck and two small dining rooms while retaining its family-style charm. Some of the recipes […]
The name seems odd, but you won’t get burned when you eat at Charcoal. The restaurant, which Gary Sumihiro opened in September 2011, takes its moniker from the charcoal-powered, custom-designed bincho grill, an Asian innovation that creates intense heat. And chef Patrik Landberg, a native of Sweden, uses that grill to good effect in many […]
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The Woodcellar Bar & Grill is a cozy neighborhood spot near Bergen Park. The bar features a decent list of brews and spirits, and the restaurant serves a nice selection of sandwiches, salads and entrees like salmon, steak, pasta, burgers, fish and chips. The Woodcellar is one of the few places in Evergreen to offer […]
David Schneider opened Row 14 in the Spire, a hip condominium high-rise, in March 2011, creating a New American concept well-suited to the upscale theater-district neighborhood. The deep, high-ceilinged dining room isn’t ostentatious, but it’s richly appointed and luxurious, with dark-wood tables, a massive bar beneath dark-gray walls, and gold curtains that divide more intimate […]
Sketch is an exercise in simplicity. There is no kitchen here, no real menu. But there is a sleek, comfortable dining room; a nice wine, liquor and beer selection (with bartenders who actually know a little something about the booze they’re pushing); a good downtown vibe; and a short, tight menu of cured meats, cheese […]
Jeff Osaka’s twelve derives its name from its focus on monthly menus that highlight seasonality as far more fluid than just spring, summer, fall and winter. Seasonality wasn’t all that hot when Osaka opened twelve in late 2008; neither was the Ballpark neighborhood, where he turned an old storefront into a spare, elegant dining room […]
There are times when Colterra seems to be less a restaurant with its own gardens attached than a garden center that happens to have its own excellent restaurant. Chef Bradford Heap opened Colterra with the understanding that it would be a place where at least some of the promises of the burgeoning green movement might […]
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It may be located inside the luxurious building that houses the St Julien Hotel + Spa, but Jill’s Restaurant does much more than cater to business travelers on expense accounts and vacationers with cash to blow. The cozy bar and dining room attract plenty of locals at lunch and dinner, and Jill’s is particularly popular […]
The problem with a neighborhood bar? It has to appeal to the whole neighborhood – the grumpy old man on the corner who sweeps the sidewalk, the empty-nesters two doors down, and that no-good kid who drives around too fast with his bass thumping loudly. Occasionally, though, the formula comes together, as in the case […]
When Palettes opened, in 1997, heads turned. Not as much as they did years later to take in the Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum, with its shiny triangular facade and vertiginous stairs, but they turned all the same. Until then, dining was an afterthought to art, and hungry museum-goers in Denver were faced […]
Wine cubbies line the back wall of the high-ceilinged sliver of Larimer Square space occupied by Cru: A Wine Bar. The richly appointed room fills with an after-work crowd in the late afternoon, as business types wind down over a glass of wine and a snack during happy hour while others rev up for a […]
After 28 years (and three expansions) at 7699 West 88th Avenue, Hoffbrau Colorado moved to a new 15,000-square-foot space at 9110 Wadsworth Parkway in early 2014. That’s about twice as big as the old location, and the new place features an expanded stage and a more ambitious concert calendar, to boot. And while the old […]
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Timing, company and appetite make all the difference when dining at Black Pearl. But mostly, it’s appetite. Because the cuisine is rigorously New American, you have to be in the mood for deconstructed clam chowder, for a menu that mixes classical French (such as Black Pearl’s moules et frites in Pernod broth) with mac-and-cheese, but […]
Steele Platt knows what Denver likes. Although the restaurateur, who had several places in the Tivoli in the ’80s, left Colorado decades ago, the Yard House chain that he founded in California in 1996 is also ideally suited for Colorado. For starters, beers are big at the Yard House – the restaurant has over a […]
A block west of I-25, near the 15th Street bridge, Forest Room 5 is just hip enough to be cool without seeming trendy. With its dim lighting and intimate tables, this eclectic spot attracts a youthful crowd most days of the week, especially on the weekends. While the place is spacious and houses a few […]
Pricey? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely. Chef Michael Long and company have taken fine dining up a notch in Littleton with their ever-changing menu and artistic presentations. And while the space itself seems strangely stilted and overly pretentious, you can easily forget all that when the food starts arriving. Brilliantly conceptualized dishes share the menu with […]