While restaurants across town are touting last-second Valentine’s Day specials, some readers made their plans long ago: to stay home. Mmmmgood explains why in this response to Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds rant: I love me some restaurants and get out to as many as I can as…
There are many sweet deals in Denver today. To whet your appetite for romance, for example, Lola’s Sugar Rush, the candy/gift store at 2490 West Main Street in Littleton, will be donating 10 percent of all sales today to the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center. That’s just the start of the…
Last October, Opas Sinprasong — a Thai national who once owned Siamese Plate, Siamese Plate on the Go and Sumida’s in Boulder and Louisville — pleaded guilty to harboring illegal aliens and failure to pay taxes. Yesterday he was sentenced: The restaurateur will do time, pay a hefty sum and…
No. 70: Curried split pea soup from Modmarket Laptop geeks? Everywhere. Colorado-centric surfaces, most of them reclaimed, recycled or re-purposed? Definitely. A futuristic, fashion-forward restaurant design? Yes, that, too. Bubbling brick-oven pizzas, housemade sparkling waters, organic iced teas and leafy salads mixed with good-looking, mostly organic ingredients? Check. A vegan,…
For the past few years, Pho So 1 has hawked pho and beef noodle soup from its free-standing spot at 1195 South Federal Boulevard. But at the beginning of this year, it was sold to a new owner — and became Pho Le. And that new owner, whose name is…
Happy Place: Tastes Wine Bar and Bistro, 1033 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-459-2311 The Hours: Daily from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $5-7 wines by the glass; $3-7 beers; $5-7 specialty cocktails; $3 small plates; $7 shrimp cocktail. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Things have gone, uh, smashingly for Denver-based Smashburger since it first opened on Colorado Boulevard back in 2007, serving American classics that have won over many burger-hungry diners. The chain has readily expanded since then, opening close to one hundred additional outposts from sea to shining sea. It’s about to…
On the last night of 2010 — New Year’s Eve — Charles MacDonald, the former chef de cuisine of Z Cuisine, the superb (and proper) French bistro in Highland pioneered by chef/owner Patrick DuPays and his wife, Lynnde, cooked his last dinner on the line. MacDonald had just accepted a…
Ever time I blow through the door at this, one of our favorite Denver restaurants, I fall completely head over heels for the menu, easily one of the most playful and provocative in the city, in part, thanks to the chef, who continues to push the culinary envelope, dropping bombshells…
This, we think, could be a golden opportunity to plant a wet, sloppy kiss on the hot guy (or girl) standing behind you in line, with whom you then make messy burrito love. All metro area Qdoba Mexican Grill locations (with the exception of the Vail store, which opens Monday)…
That special day is coming right up. The day when your significant other — whether it’s on credit or true love — will ask what you’re going to make for dinner. If it’s not reservations, you need to plan your Valentine’s Day evening very, very carefully. Here’s what not to…
Defenders of dill rose up yesterday to defend the noble herb (not to mention the blue cheese dressing at Steuben’s), which Laura Shunk had listed as one of the five things she’d like to see more often on menus. But we’ll give the last word — for now — to…
How sweet it is! Starting today and continuing through Monday, February 14 — yes, Valentine’s Day — the Hyatt Regency Denver , 650 15th Street, will feature the aptly named Chocolate Lovers’ Lounge in the Peaks Lounge…
Hey, fellas: Need a date for Valentine’s Day? Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut Street in Boulder, has you covered: At 7 p.m. tonight, it will host a Bachelorette Auction, with seven lovely women on the auction block for a date. Proceeds will benefit Kickstart My Heart; for more info,…
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…
Mark Monette laughed when I asked him how he managed to stay motivated to keep his restaurant in top form after a long run in the kitchen, but I’m still not done marveling at the fact that Flagstaff House, 1138 Flagstaff Road, Boulder, has been around for four decades under…
No. 71: Celery and lime popsicle from Spuntino Cupcakes? Done (unless you’re Chris Romer or one of his minions). Pies? Yes, I adore them, especially when they’re plumped with fresh fruit. But, as of about noon yesterday, I’m hot, like California boys on California “Gurls,” for popsicles. But not –…
Ototo Food and Wine Bar, the recently redesigned and reopened sibling restaurant of Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, wants to buy a Facebook fan (and a friend) a five-course dinner, paired with five wines. And, people, it’s all free. High five!…
The best thing about yesterday? The pies that flanked the tables during an early morning meeting that revolved — around what else? — food. The two slices in the above snap — banana cream and apple drizzled with caramel — made for a sweet breakfast this morning for a kid…
The Quickfire Challenge for the Top Chef All Stars last night was to make fondue — and the contestants would judge each others’ offerings. Who’d have thought that old ’70s party and ski-lodge favorite could have been so cunningly reimagined? Antonia used smoked salmon and fromage blanc. Richard added chili…
It was negative six degrees in Boulder two nights ago, but that didn’t stop anyone from heading over to Oak at Fourteenth for the Fabrizio Iuli wine dinner, a five-course tasting event paired with all-organic wines from Piedmont. The place was packed when we bellied up to the bar, and…
Barbecue is a Southern and warm-weather food. So how is Big Papa’s BBQ seeing an increase in sales in the middle of a Colorado winter? In much the same way other businesses are driving revenue, it’s utilizing social media. In mid-November, Big Papa’s set out to see if it could…
