Cafe Berlin just vacated its spot on 14th Street for the 16th Street Mall, saying it couldn’t move forward in a space so close to Civic Center. But another restaurant is ready to give that location a go: Belvedere Restaurant just landed its liquor license…
Six years ago, Cafe Berlin gave up its longstanding Seventeenth Avenue address to move downtown, picking up the lease on a vast, bright space on Tremont and Fourteenth Streets. But the spot served its last meal in those digs on April 23, in anticipation of a new move just a…
Tonight, chefs and restaurateurs from around the country will claim medals — shiny tokens that dub them the best in the country at their craft — at the James Beard Awards ceremony in New York City. In anticipation of the event, Andrew Knowlton, restaurant and drinks editor at Bon Appetit,…
We can think of few better ways to eat up an afternoon or evening than ordering a pitcher of beer, then soaking up the alcohol with a pile of chicken wings, slathered with spicy buffalo sauce and dunked in a little ranch or blue cheese. Our favorite wings are at…
Armed with a portable oven and mobile sous vide license, Kelly Whitaker has been putting the finishing touches on Mobile Basta, the traveling extension of Pizzeria Basta that’s capable of reproducing the entire menu of the Boulder restaurant on the street. He’ll debut the fruits of his labor today: Mobile…
Feeling a little woozy from celebrating Cinco de Mayo? Perhaps you’d like to continue your Mexican-themed festivities and cure your hangover in a traditional way: sucking down a michelada…
You can tell summer is approaching not just because the air is warmer, but menus around town are heating up, introducing lighter dishes that feature seasonal produce. Some of those board changes look particularly delicious. Here are five that caught our eye:…
After I ate at Silla for this week’s review — and before I discovered the bibim naeng myun at Sae Jong Kwan — I decided to try Grandma’s Korean BBQ, a popular spot that had relocated from Sixth Avenue to 11650 Montview Boulevard in Aurora after Song Park, the woman…
Jackie Cuyler, who’s been a server at Jax Fish House in Boulder for nine years, was at a park with her kids a few years ago when an ice cream truck stopped by. “It was all junk,” she remembers. Soon after, when she was in Brooklyn, she noticed an ice…
For this week’s review, I headed straight to Silla, a Korean barbecue joint in Aurora that serves one of the best versions of bibim naeng myun in the city. And after I fed my craving for those cold noodles, I ate my way through the rest of Silla’s menu, as…
There are several frozen-yogurt shops opening soon in Denver, but possibly none so ambitious as Golden Spoon, which will open its first Mile High City outpost — and fifth Colorado location — this weekend in Stapleton at 7505 East 35th Avenue. And Mike and Julie Haslar, the franchisees behind the…
When Holly Arnold Kinney, owner of The Fort, was in New York City last year promoting her cookbook, she met with some people from the James Beard Foundation. And that turned into an invitation for her chef, Geoffrey Groditski, to return and cook at the prestigious James Beard House. “I’m…
When the weather starts getting warmer, I develop an insatiable craving for bibim naeng myun, a tangy cold noodle dish imbued with the heat of chiles. So a few weeks ago, on one of the first really warm days of the year, I made my annual journey out to Silla,…
Masterpiece Delicatessen hardly needs another reason to give crowds a reason to stop by: The breakfast and lunch eatery has been packing hordes of patrons into its tiny space and downtown-facing patio since it opened three years ago. But Steve Allee and Justin Brunson are about to make the neighborhood…
When Heather Haupman took over La Crema Cafeteria, a bare-bones coffee shop on 44th and Zuni, she was convinced the Sunnyside neighborhood needed a more upscale coffee and breakfast joint. So she remodeled the space, gave it a sunnier feel, and created Hash, which, in addition to Novo coffee and…
For the past few years, when the first whispers of warm weather stirred my annual craving for bibim naeng myun, I inevitably made a beeline straight for Silla, which served what I thought might be the best version of the cold buckwheat noodle dish in the area. But this spring…
I love Asian noodles: ramen, pho, Vietnamese bun bo Hue, Nepalese thupka, Taiwanese beef noodle soup. In the winter, I slurp bowl after bowl of hot broth, noodles and chunks of meat, ideally with some animal collagen to make the mix thick, velvety and rib-stickingly hearty. In spring, as the…
Amid making plans for ShopHouse, a new fast-casual Asian concept, and running the ever-expanding Denver-based Chipotle empire, Steve Ells has also been busy picking another restaurant concept in which to invest, working alongside Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia to grant a would-be restaurateur the opportunity to run America’s…
Ty Lam had frequented the small Yoisho Japanese Restaurant for over a decade, eating her way through the Japanese menu that’s dotted with Korean influence while getting to know the elderly couple that ran the place. And recently, she asked the owner, Kim Soon, if she could buy the space…
Nearly five years after native Laotian Ma Vue graced Edgewater residents with US Thai Cafe — which offers up some of the best curry in the city — he’s added a second restaurant in Denver: Chef Vue opened in the Town Center in Aurora two weeks ago…
Of all the magical morning eats, few are more versatile than the breakfast sandwich. Meat, eggs and cheese between two halves of a roll — it’s the perfect morning take-out meal, an excellent way to cure a hangover and an also an ideal option for a lazy weekend when paired…
It’s supposed to snow tomorrow, but it’s a balmy 75 degrees today, and that makes us antsy to go out and socialize — and maybe score some digits to make a date. In Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date thanks to…
