Guess where I’m eating by big piles of snow

The arrival of May brings mud season to the mountains — unless, of course, they’re still frozen solid. This restaurant just reopened last Saturday after a long winter’s nap — but thanks to plenty of shady days, there was no shortage of the white stuff outside. Can you guess where…

Reader: Two Prosts? This is nuts!

Can there ever be too much of a good thing? That’s the question in Highland, where Prost Brewing has been making and serving beer since 2012 — and now an outpost of a Frisco concept, Prost Fine Beer and Sausages, is slated to start serving beer and sausages this month…

Kevin Grossi back at Lola — now as head chef

Before he became the chef at Jax Glendale, which Gretchen Kurtz reviews this week, Duane Walker was the chef at Lola, another Big Red F restaurant that likes to keep things in the family. After Walker moved over to Glendale, Drew Hardin became the top toque at Lola – but…

Reader: Just call it what it is — Gringo de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo brought the crowds to Civic Center Park this past weekend, where they listened to music, looked at lowriders, and ate such American inventions as the Pueblo slopper — an open-faced hamburger smothered in green chile. Authentic Mexican food? No — but then, Cinco de Mayo is not…

Reader: I’m always disappointed when a BBQ joint closes

You could hear Jason Sheehan crying back in Philadelphia: The last outpost of Big Papa’s BBQ, the place that inspired his “I Believe” essay on barbecue that became a segment on NPR’s “This I Believe” series, has closed on East Evans Avenue. Back in 2005, in his review of that…

Reader: The review of Pantaleone’s brightened my day for the Fafalios family

Last summer Kitchen Nightmares came to metro Denver, and chef/host Gordon Ramsay gave makeovers to three long-time Colorado restaurants: The Old Neighborhood in Arvada, Mangia Mangia in Woodlawn Park and Pantaleone’s New York Pizza. Before she caught last month’s episode featuring Pantaleone’s, Gretchen Kurtz visited the Fafalios family’s almost-thirty-year-old pizzeria…

Denver decides against Washington Park beer ban

Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown’s newsletter will be a little late today. That’s because when the Mayor’s office learned that Brown was about to break the news that the city had decided against a temporary alcohol ban in Washington Park, located in Brown’s district, the city moved up a planned…

Guess where I’m eating a vegan cheese plate?

Man does not live by bread alone. There’s vegan cheese, for example, and raw crackers, all part of this cheese plate that was far from half-baked. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post — on the Cafe…

Golden Pita opening downtown next to Shag Lounge

The storefront space at 15th and Champa streets that once held Champa Street Liquors, next to Shag Lounge, for many months wore a sign promising that it would become a second location of Beirut Grill. But that restaurant never materialized. And now, two years later, the spot has a brand-new…