Food & Drink

There was a time in my life when I ate ramen once a week, and I’m not talking about that cheap brick of noodles that came with a sodium-loaded packet of flavoring. I’m talking rich broth, thick with animal fat and laden with noodles, pork belly, seaweed, scallions and a…

Say so long to Pho Havana: The Vietnamese restaurant that took over the space at 10400 East Sixth Avenue, which had been home for more than a decade to Chef’s Noodle House, was only open for six months. The phone there is now disconnected; no word yet on what will…

Larkburger, the gourmet burger barn that started in the high country — specifically, Edwards — and spawned siblings in Greenwood Village, Boulder and Fort Collins, is bringing its Black Angus beef to West Washington Park, taking over part of the behemoth square footage that belonged to Blockbuster Video at 340…

I’m a sucker for good salsas, and the caddy of four (plus the house salsa) that graces your table at this bustling taqueria is filled with plastic squats of freshly made, intense concoctions that dance across your tongue like ballerinas on a stage. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…

Boulder, insists Phil Armstrong, the founder of HUSH, and, for a nanosecond, the general manager of Radex Bistro, which closed last October, needs more breakfast joints. Alec Schuler, owner/executive chef of Arugula, a farm-to-table restaurant in Boulder, shares the same sentiment, and when two restaurant minds think alike, things happen…

The sommelier title hasn’t always been a glamorous one. In fact, according to Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay’s new book, Secrets of the Sommeliers, it was once a title relegated to restaurant workers who proved themselves unworthy of the kitchen, a lowly crew banished to the wine cellar for life…

Cozy Cottage has grown into a House: On Sunday, the breakfast-and-lunch spot opened in its new location at 4363 Tennyson Street, formerly occupied by House (and Gemelli’s before that). The old Cozy Cottage location, at 2423 South Downing Street, closed at the end of November, but owner Michael Mueller has…

Last week Govinda’s Buffet, a vegetarian mainstay, announced that it would be open Tuesdays through Thursdays for lunch, in addition to regular dinner hours on Friday and Saturday. But as it turns out, Govinda’s had more good news cooking: The restaurant will be open for lunch on Friday and Saturday…

In 2011, Denver should resolve to get better ethnic restaurants. That’s the word from Xarchy, who just found our post about Travel & Leisure slapping this city for its poor selection of ethnic eateries. The mag’s survey was conducted more than a year ago, but the situation hasn’t changed, according…

I checked the clock nervously, willing the car in front of me to step on the gas. “GO!” I yelled, six inches from the guy’s bumper. Mercifully, there was a break in the traffic and I zipped around the old white sedan, resisting the urge to cut it off entirely…

There are three sushi restaurants within a three-block radius in downtown Boulder — and each of them is almost always full. One caters to college kids who come for fusion rolls and cheap drink specials, another attracts crowds with sake bombs and a wide selection of nigiri. And then there’s…

Bittersweet, Olav Peterson’s new garden-to-table restaurant at 500 East Alameda Avenue opened on New Year’s Eve, after a series of unexpected construction delays that turned the dining room into an igloo, thanks to gale-force winds whipping through a light socket…

No. 86: Beef cheek enchiladas from El Diablo Sean Yontz is, arguably, the face of Mexican food in Denver, and when El Diablo, the restaurant that he co-owns with Jesse Morreale, opened last August, it did so with an ambitious menu that stretched far and above the conventional Mexican fray…

We’ve got high hopes for The Pinyon, 1710 Pearl Street in Boulder, which wowed us so much with its fried chicken just two days after it opened, it earned a coveted spot on our 100 Favorite Dishes roster. The Pinyon has been open since mid-December for dinner, but chef/owner Theo…

On the evening of January 1, we were traipsing around the ghost town that LoDo becomes in the aftermath of one of the biggest party nights of the year, and noticed that one restaurant missed the festivities entirely. D’Corazon Mexican Restaurant, 1530 Blake Street, has been on break since December…

Every year, on January 1, a bunch of us usher in the New Year at a popular Chinese restaurant that graciously puts up with our lingering hangovers and hungered stomachs. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…

While many restaurants closed in 2010, many more restaurants opened — including such hot spots as ChoLon, Euclid Hall, Green Russell, Lou’s Food Bar and, on the very last day of the year, Bittersweet. Here’s the restaurant roll call for 2010, our compendium of all the spots that opened and…