Denver Restaurant Week went so swimmingly at Oceanaire, the seafood restaurant at 1400 Arapahoe Street, that the deal’s been extended through Friday. For $52.80, you can still get a dinner for two that includes your choice of clam chowder, Caesar salad or a crab cake slider; Icelandic Arctic Char fillet,…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Ian Kleinman; to read part one, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: When my dad and I cooked Father’s Day brunch together at the James Beard House. We had a 22-hour prep day and cooked for seventy…
The Colorado Restaurant Association wanted to encourage a restaurateur to run for the District 1 seat on Denver City Council that Rick Garcia’s vacating, and so far it has two, sort of, and a third candidate who’s a leader in the urban farming movement. John Haney, a Denver police detective…
After Brian Haddad and David Weiss bought The Border, a University of Denver hangout for more than three decades, they didn’t waste any time. They closed the deal on a Friday in late January, brought in a lot of people to clean the joint over the weekend, and had all…
Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, knows Mexican food. And they’d like to educate the rest of us with events like tonight’s Oaxaca Dinner, a five-course meal paired with cocktails and tequilas. Then again, if you’ve been craving Italian lately, you might consider heading to Gaetano’s, 3760 Tejon Street, for a four-course…
A great big glass garage door, open for warm weather, facing Sixth Avenue; more booths and tables with stools; a back-patio-length green paint job, aluminum roof and industrial heater; high-def flat-screen televisions and Golden Tee and Silver Strike video games; touch-screen point-of-sale registers; clean bathrooms with space to stretch out,…
We’re seated at a long table in Arugula, a Boulder restaurant devoted — like most good restaurants these days — to local, fresh and seasonal food. This is a Slow Food Boulder event, and while I haven’t closely followed this branch’s activities, all the chatty, well-dressed, prosperous people in attendance…
Juliet Wittman writes this week about Slow Food Boulder. On the slideshow page, see photos by Mark Manger from a Slow Food event at Boulder’s Arugula restaurant…
You could practically taste the skepticism when Jason Sheehan wrote about the arrival of Daphne’s Greek Cafe (575 Lincoln Street) in 2007: Denver will get its first outpost of Daphne’s Greek Cafe, a California-based fast-casual chain, on March 19. Since most Greek restaurants are pretty quick and casual, how will…
The Star Bar, at 2137 Larimer Street, still hasn’t reopened after it was busted for serving underage drinkers; after getting popped for its fourth underage violation in as many years, the Border, a University of Denver institution at 2014 South University, shut down altogether last fall. (It reopened under new…
With 1,500 craft breweries across the country making tens of thousands of different beers every year, it’s getting hard to come up with new names. So Twisted Pine Brewing in Boulder is asking for help by running a contest on Twitter and Facebook soliciting the perfect moniker for a vanilla-oaked…
The Place: Delite 32 South Broadway; 303-722-1278. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 until 7 p.m. The Deal: Appetizers range from $2 to $4; all beer, well drinks and select red and white wines by the glass are half-price…
If you’re infatuated with flavor-bombed curries laced with heat and intensity, keep sniffing, but the chutneys, especially the spicy chutney redolent with mint, are perfect for dunking your peppery papadums. Question is, where was I dipping?…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
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. With Saint Patrick’s…
“Anything I can possibly dream up is now doable, because I’m able to really play around with food,” says Ian Kleinman, Denver’s answer to Alton Brown, the wacky culinary scientist (and only food personality worth watching) on the Food Network. Kleinman, too, is a culinary chemist — a molecular gastronomist…
After forty years, the Old Spaghetti Factory at 1215 18th Street has gotten a facelift. “Coming soon in Denver our new look!,” promises the website of the chain that got its start in 1969, and today numbers forty restaurants across this country. “We will be remodeling this location. Please excuse…
Spring is almost here, which means that thoughts will soon turn from warming plates of spaghetti to spaghetti straps. And ladies, here’s the best news yet for those of you who want to get rid of the winter wear around your midsection: Dr. Lu Wang, a preventive health expert at…
Verso Cellars is a Colorado treasure: a vineyard in East Orchard Mesa that grows six kinds of cabernet grapes, which are blended to create unique wine. Tonight you can visit Verso’s Denver outlet, 4640 Pecos Street, Unit G, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a happy hour and wine-tasting featuring…
If you tipped a microbrew in 2009, then you did your part for the craft brewing industry. If you tipped more than one – and you know who you are – then you helped contribute to a record year that saw both production and sales figures grow. Craft brewers sold…
There are a multitude of Chinese joints in Denver to satisfy your yearning for chicken feet, sea cucumber, preserved eggs and duck tongues, none of which has ever graced the menu of the Imperial, 431 South Broadway, which will mark its 25th anniversary of serving American-Chinese favorites with a month…
Last month, it was all about hamburgers. This month, it could be hot dogs. Bernie’s Hot Dog Co., at 1601 Mayberry (in the Highlands Ranch Town Center) in Highlands Ranch, introduced its new menu today, a “healthy” revision of the original, “modified based on customer feedback, market trends and a…
