No. 89: Lemon-ricotta doughnuts from Olivéa They were an afterthought, those doughnuts. After desecrating the headcheese, swelling my jowls with pork cheeks, emptying a plate of tortellini bobbing in a pancetta-scented broth and reducing the guilt with a crock of cauliflower, the doughnuts just sort of appeared…
Boulder might be a college town, but we’re still a little surprised at the influx of pizzerias there over the last year, especially because these aren’t greasy slice joints — they offer gourmet pies, pulled straight from the depths of a wood-fired oven. Pizzeria Basta, 3601 Arapahoe Avenue, opened last…
The long-awaited Yard House opened this past weekend in the Sheraton hotel, bringing the well-recognized beer emporium into downtown Denver. It is the 29th location for the Long Beach, California-based chain founded by former Denverite Steele Platt…
For years, Gaia Bistro has been a serene breakfast and lunch spot, serving crepes, salads and sandwiches to diners packed into the charming dining room or sunning themselves at tables on the large patio. There was just one drawback: Gaia never had a liquor license. Which is part of the…
We’re into any social activity that involves eating and drinking, but something about the cozy traditional vibe of the holiday season makes us want to put on a fancy dress and head out to a high tea, where we can eat delicate cookies and drink English breakfast with our pinkies…
With only a few days to go until Christmas, it’s time to ‘fess up: Have you been naughty or nice? For your sake, here’s hoping you’ve been good enough throughout the year to merit yourself worthy to partake of some seriously good juice between now and the new year. Read…
The sign dangling from the door of Wolfe’s Barbecue plainly says “closed,” but at 3:15 p.m., fifteen minutes after barbecue nobleman Louis Wolfe has closed for lunch to prepare for the impending dinner rush, in walks an optimistic latecomer who orders two pork dinners. “We’re out of pork,” laments Wolfe,…
Food deserts — that’s what areas without grocery stores are called. And Commerce City is ready to provide some irrigation for the desert area around Reunion, a planned community whose plan has so far lacked a supermarket. The result? About 16,000 people in the northern range of Commerce City are…
Just weeks after Maui Brewing began shipping its beer to Colorado, another brewer that packages exclusively in cans will enter the market. But Tallgrass Brewing out of Manhattan, Kansas, doesn’t have as far to go. “It’s just a little eight-hour drive,” says brewery owner Jeff Gill. Tallgrass, which was founded…
Cook Street School of Fine Cooking hosted a holiday feast class last night that had almost all the qualities of a good action movie: cut-the-crap dialogue, a flesh wound, fire, and an ending where everyone ate juicy slabs of prime rib. Almost all the qualities, since there was no nudity…
After thirteen years in the restaurant business, Kyle Garratt knows what it means to be in the weeds. Still, he’s really feeling the heat after posting the first of what will be a series of weekly waiter’s rants under the “In the Weeds” title. Among the readers fueling the fire…
Every third Tuesday of the month, Lobby American Grille, 2191 Arapahoe Street, hosts Wine Happy Hour, where you can taste three to four wines paired with small plate appetizers. The fun starts at 6 p.m. tonight and costs $15; call 303-997-9911 or go to www.thelobbydenver.com. For information on dozens of…
Our family led a pretty modest existence when I was a child, but weekend mornings were sheer luxury. My brother and I would plod down the stairs and be greeted by a pile of misshapen chocolate chip- or banana-studded pancakes, steam still rising from the freshly griddled ones on top…
It’s late on a weekday morning — too early for lunch, but well past the breakfast hour, and the Egg Shell is still half full. A woman giggles to herself, text-messaging as she finishes her coffee at the marble-topped bar. A silver-haired man in the corner leans back in his…
I’ll drink alone all night as long as I have a seat at the bar — as long as I can bullshit with the bartender and other patrons, practically reach my next drink before it’s even poured. But put me at a table or booth removed from the alcohol IV…
Considering the woes of the past week, Olav Peterson is in a much better mood than you might expect. The chef/owner of Bittersweet, which, after a series of soft openings, was originally slated to open Saturday night (it didn’t), and again tomorrow night (it won’t), is frustrated by the delays,…
Whether you don’t celebrate Christmas or you’d simply rather abstain from holiday cooking, eating options constrict significantly when you’re choosing a place to dine on December 25. Thanks to hotel restaurants that cater to winter vacationers, there are definitely choices beyond moo shu pork and egg rolls, but those places…
The New Belgium Hub on Concourse B is one of our favorite places for a meal and a beer at DIA, but thanks to its location — buried in the distant express gates all the way at the end of a hallway — we often run a very real risk…
No. 90: Albóndigas meatballs from Solera Solera chef Goose Sorensen, who’s been turning out beautifully composed plates around Denver for years, can pretty much nail any dish, plunging mussels into a sea of fragrant green curry, slicking his calamari with a Thai red chile glaze, using truffle oil judiciously (which…
Taking flash photos in bars will often piss people off — and the drunk guy next to me definitely lost his patience as I tried to take the perfect shot of this bar. Which, in fact, made it the perfect shot. Needless to say, when you’re drinking here, you’re in…
Mediterranean coast native Alon Mor’s Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill first brought hummus and shwarma to Denver’s fast-casual dining scene in 2007. Since then, a dozen more Garbanzo outposts have popped up in Denver and Colorado Springs. And while there are plans to take the homegrown chain national, it’s tapping into another…
Jeffrey Musat, the former general manager of Black Pearl, who vacated that position a few months ago to join the mini empire run by Leigh Jones, who owns Jonesy’s EatBar, The Horseshoe Lounge and Bar Car, showcases some awesome conversation piece tatts on his buff bod, but one inky blot,…
