A lot of places do a smokin’ business during Denver Restaurant Week, but at Ototo Food and Wine Bar, the hot times started the day before DRW started, when the kitchen crew coming out of a duct. There was no fire, but the restaurant wound up closing for a week…
The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin’ soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout, hosted by star…
At 11 a.m., the Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will release its new beer, Skull & Crossbones Black Ale, inspired by Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship, the new exhibit that sets sail today at the Denver Museum of Nature &…
The building at 3014 East Colfax Avenue that once housed the long-in-the-tooth Longhorn Saloon has gone through several changes in the past few years. Back in the summer of 2007, it turned into Sengers on the Fax — much more of an upscale club, perhaps too upscale for the neighborhood,…
The roof you’re working under is about to cave in. What to do? Start thinking about what you’re going to eat for the rest of the week — while you can still afford to eat…
ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro is one of the more than 300 restaurants participating in Denver Restaurant Week. We’re collecting diners’ accounts of their DRW meals on this post; the best and/or worst stories will win EatDenver decks. In the meantime, ChoLon chef/owner Lon Symensma is dishing up stories of his…
Keystone kicks off its Winter Culinary Festival today; the resort-wide event runs through Sunday, March 6, and includes a grand tasting, wine events, classes and more. For a complete schedule, go to www.keystoneculinary.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings –…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime time…
“We had a great, great evening last night, and the best thing about it was that Z and A’ Côté were both really busy,” says Lynnde DePays of Z Cuisine’s first night back in business. Lynnde and Patrick, her husband and the Z Cuisine chef, had closed their French bistro…
There are people in this town that go loco for queso, and while dozens of restaurants do it, most of them don’t do it particularly well. The queso in the above snap falls somewhere in the middle, its most notable attribute, the pronounced jolt of hot chiles. Can you guess…
Michael Olsen, who ran the original Hush on Larimer Street, wants to put a new Hush in the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street that Tambien surrendered in September. But Olsen isn’t going in alone: He has the support of the Little Pub Company, which owns nineteen joints in the…
Can’t get enough locally-made craft beer? You’re in luck! Brian and Khara O’Connell plan to open Renegade Brewing this summer at 925 West Ninth Avenue, just off Santa Fe Drive. “We are really excited to be in the arts district and to be a part of First Fridays,” says Brian,…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Balmy weather aside,…
When Ozo expanded into downtown Boulder, opening a shop on the West End of Pearl Street, it also added a new feature for coffee lovers: a brew bar, which gives Ozo the capability of brewing to order three ways. To build the buzz around that — and also educate interested…
Lon Symensma ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro 1555 Blake Street 303-353-5223 www.cholon.com This is part two of my interview with Lon Symensma, executive chef of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro. In part one of that interview, Symensma rips on bird’s nests, extols the virtues of lop chong and admits that his favorite…
Old dog. New tricks. The Wazee Supper Club, which has been dishing up Denver-style pizza pies for almost forty years, is adding to, and revamping, its beer lineup to focus more on craft beer. “We used to have twenty taps. Now there are 32, and some of those original twenty…
The 1500 block of Blake Street is one of the most restaurant-centric spots in the city, and although one of those restaurants — Marrakesh, at 1530 Blake — just closed, it will soon be replaced by TD’s Dogs. Todd Regan calls his concept “all-American food,” which means TD’s Dogs will…
After a glitchy start of the month, our comments function is working again — and readers are putting it to good use, commenting on everything from Denver Restaurant Week (best and/or worst stories will win an EatDenver deck) to cranky carnivores. And then there’s Kyle Garratt’s latest In the Weeds…
Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria will present its cleverly named Cubed Dinner, with three courses (each one featuring a main ingredient prepared three ways) from 5 p.m. to midnight tonight. Admission is $27; call 303-861-9463 or visit www.lalaswinebar.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime time…
