Q: With the weather turning colder, I keep thinking about French onion soup. Where can I get the best in town? A: Homemade French onion soup is hard to come by, since so few places make beef stock from scratch. But Le Central (112 East Eighth Avenue, 303-863-8094) and Le…
When it comes to kosher food, I’m the goy next door. I live in the largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in town, within walking distance of four temples and the only King Soopers in Colorado that regularly offers kosher baked goods. My neighbors’ biggest complaint with Denver’s dining scene is the…
One of the reasons this town doesn’t have more kosher eateries like East Side Kosher Deli is that maintaining a commercial kosher kitchen is a big pain in the tuches. Just ask Jeff Auerbach, who’s had lots of trouble keeping his kosher Jeff’s Diner (731 Quebec Street) up and running…
This time around, Panzano is the real deal. When I first reviewed the snazzy spot on the ground floor of the then-new Hotel Monaco (“Bread Alert,” July 1, 1999), the lacquered focaccia in the window was a good indication of just how authentic and interesting the Italian fare inside would…
Q: Where can we go to get a good meal on Thanksgiving? A: Restaurants seem to be catching on to the fact that a lot of folks can’t or don’t want to make their own turkeys on T-Day. So there are a number of places open on November 22, but…
We felt like we’d stumbled into the pages of Charlotte’s Web. In one pen, a donkey slowly and thoughtfully chewed his hay. In another, a pig scratched his butt against the fence, stopping only to take a whiz. Goats fell all over each other trying to get at the food…
Some of the best days of my childhood started with pancakes. If I stumbled out of bed to the clang and clatter of Mom mixing batter in the kitchen, I knew she had a rare day off. I knew she’d be spending time at home, with me. And I knew…
As far as I can tell, the major draw of White Fence Farm — and perhaps its only draw (see review, previous page) — is that the eatery is kid-friendly. In fact, in the restaurant’s own words, “We are pleased to serve young children, but remind parents that the pleasant…
Q: I’m new to Denver and would like to pop the question in a downtown restaurant that overlooks the city. Is there a fine-dining place with a great view? A: For all the great views Denver offers, a good one of its own downtown from an equally good restaurant is…
Forget Cipro. Right now, a shortage of mashed potatoes has far more potential to do Denver in. Not that we should start petitioning the government to remove the patent on Yukon golds just yet. But at the rate that we’re consuming comfort foods, Betty Crocker needs to watch her back…
While the restaurant business is down across the country, eateries have reported that sales are up for two things: comfort foods and alcohol. “We’ve just been selling the heck out of mashed potatoes,” says a server at the Buckhorn Exchange (1000 Osage Street), one of my many stops during Dine…
Q: We just got back from Europe and had the most incredible experience at an Indonesian restaurant. Do we have any in Denver? A: While no local restaurant bills itself as strictly Indonesian, the few-months-old Singapore Grill (7923 South Broadway, Littleton, 303-347-1477) offers the cuisines of Malaysia and Singapore, both…
I discovered Cuban food on the streets of Miami a dozen or so years ago when I lived in Naples, two hours’ drive across Alligator Alley. The first time I wandered through Little Havana, I felt as though I’d been transported to another country: English as a second language, sidewalk…
Technically, El Azteca Grill & Cantina (1780 South Buckley Road in Aurora) qualified as the metro area’s first Cuban restaurant — but initially only on Thursdays. An offshoot of the El Azteca that sprang up several years earlier at 3960 South Federal Boulevard, when this spot opened three years ago,…
Q: Where’s the best place to have five beers and a good meal and watch Monday Night Football? A: My favorite Monday-night spot is the Lazy Dog Sports Bar and Grill (4100 East Mexico Avenue, 303-300-6666), which has all the crucial ingredients for a satisfying sports meal: a big beer…
Restaurants that don’t change with the times — and tastes — can find themselves washed up. After seven years, Coos Bay Bistro is long overdue for a course correction. Brett Davy opened the restaurant in 1994, taking over a small space that had been home to a neighborhood Italian joint…
Big night: There wasn’t an empty table at any of the dozen restaurants I visited on Thursday, October 11, during the Dine Out to Help Out fundraiser — and it sounds like that was the case at many of the several hundred participating eateries around Colorado. In fact, the state…
Q: I’m very excited that my 93-year-old great aunt may visit. I’d like to find a special “old-lady” kind of place to take her. Since her hearing and eyesight aren’t what they used to be, it can’t be too dark or loud ‹ but it has to be nice. A:…
Our order read like the trailer for a porn video. Some foreplay, please, and 69 would be great. We definitely wanted a multiple orgasm (who wouldn’t?), and the rock ‘n’ roll and magic mushrooms, too. And could we finish that off with a climax? If your average porn flick doesn’t…
Laurence Iwamoto isn’t offended by Hapa’s hot, sexually charged atmosphere (see review, above). What he finds offensive is the restaurant’s name. Not long after the sushi bar opened in Cherry Creek, Iwamoto, a Japanese native and Denver resident, wrote the owners to complain that the term hapa — which Iwamoto…
Q: I want to find a fancy, old-school, elegant place where between ten and twenty folks in their late twenties/early thirties can go for a fancy, dress-up holiday dinner. But we don’t want it to be too stuffy, and we don’t want to spend thousands of dollars. Any ideas? A:…
Sucking the meat out of a shrimp’s head may be as close to exotic adventure as we’re going to get in the near future. So there’s no time like the present to visit Singapore Grill — and be transported to Malaysia. Malaysian cuisine is a variation on the foods of…
