Rise and shine! The seventh Modmarket opens today in downtown Denver, at 900 16th Street. The fast-casual, farm-to-table concept opened its first restaurant in Boulder in 2009, and the homegrown chain is anticipating doubling in size this year. See also: 100 Favorite Dishes — curried split pea soup from Modmarket…
We have one more $50 gift certificate to give out for Denver Restaurant Week — and it’s to Boone’s Tavern, winner of our Best Green Chile award in the Best of Denver 2013! The restaurant has been remodeled and has a new menu, but the green chile is still on…
In Cafe Society this week, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, which she found full of compassion but not so full of flavor. (Read the review here.) For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with corporate chef Andrew Selvaggio about working at Smashburger and Tom’s Urban, as well as helping…
“Thought this would be a good place to get chinese to nurse a killer hangover. It’s dingy inside and the kind of place you think your missing cat would end up at…Do yourself a favor…and keep on walkin’.” That sums up the sentiment of one Denver Yelper, who reviewed China…
Two22 Brew wasn’t supposed to open on 2/22: “It was kind of funny. When we started building, people were telling us that we could open on February 22, and I said, ‘No way! We’ll be open way before that, probably in early January,” says Paige Schuster, who owns the new…
Bruxie (pronounced Brucks-ee) Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches, a fast-casual joint that got its start in Southern California, namely Olde Town Orange, is invading Denver, opening its first store outside of California in March at 1000 South Colorado Boulevard, in the same strip mall that houses Tokyo Joe’s, Pinkberry, Modmarket and, until…
The chef sitting next to me at the bar where I ate this burger was on his day off from the line at Mizuna, and he admitted that he’d been here twice in the last week just to wrap his jaws around the pork burger stacked with wild mushrooms and…
Clear your calendar and unbuckle your belt: The tenth annual Denver Restaurant Week starts tomorrow. And unlike past years, when it sprawled well into March, this time DRW is really a week long: From February 22 through February 28. (For the first time this year, there will also be a…
Yesterday we posted Veggie Girl Amber Taufen’s list of the Five Best Vegetarian Restaurants in Denver, and the result has been a red-blooded, very meaty food fight over the benefits/drawbacks of several restaurants on the list — particularly City, O’ City and Native Foods. See also: Five best vegetarian restaurants…
With Denver Restaurant Week starting tomorrow, there’s plenty of activity on the culinary scene. Over 300 restaurants are participating in the tenth annual edition, and reservations are becoming scarce. But even if you can’t get into your favorite eatery, there are still other appetizing options around town. Keep reading for…
At exceptional restaurants around town I can close my eyes, point to anything on the menu, and eat well. Often, however, getting a good meal takes a lot more thought – what is the chef’s background? what is the kitchen known for? – not to mention a little luck, since…
Get ready for more Rumpkin, more Uncle Jacob’s and, yes, Tweak. Beginning this year, Avery Brewing will dramatically increase the size and scope of its acclaimed barrel-aging program so that it can share its rarest beers with more people — not just in Colorado, but in some of the 27…
I usually cook breakfast at home on the weekends, but the springlike weather demanded an outdoor stroll, which led us to one of our neighborhood cafes, whose kitchen is turning out a brilliant board of breakfast dishes, including bananas Foster French toast. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Andrew Selvaggio Live Basil Pizza, Tom’s Urban and Smashburger smashburger.com, livebasilpizza.com, tomsurban24.com This is part two of my interview with Andrew Selvaggio, chef of Smashburger, Live Basil and Tom’s Urban; part one of my chat with Selvaggio ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: It was in 1983, at…
Denver’s vegetarian food scene is getting stronger all the time. All but the most vehemently meat-centric establishments in town have something besides salad to offer veggie-lovers, and ambitious, exclusively vegetarian eateries are opening all the time — including Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, which we review this week. When you want to…
The last All-V’s has closed. Long before Subway, Quizno’s, Snarf’s or Heidi’s were doing it, All-V’s was dishing up hearty hoagies to the work-day crowd in its diner-like environment. At one point, there were several shops in metro Denver; the location on East Eighth Avenue was the last one left,…
Beast + Bottle is saying hello to a Beatles-inspired menu tonight. The popular Uptown restaurant is serving up a fab four-course meal with dishes inspired by the band’s music, including the Octopus Garden: cctopus confit, tonnato, pickled shallot and smoked potato. See also: The Beatles’ “Please Please Me” turns fifty…
Given the demands of life in a professional kitchen, I’m always curious as to why people choose this career. I’ve asked this question of hundreds of cooks, and more often than not, they trace their love of food to a grandmother or mother who gave them their first whisk to…
Earlier today, we announced that several local chefs and restaurants were nominated for a James Beard Foundation award — and that coveted roster includes Jeff Osaka, chef-owner of twelve, who recently just celebrated the Ballpark restaurant’s fifth anniversary. And now, Ryan Leinonen, chef-owner of Trillium, which is just a few…
Kannah Creek Brewing in Grand Junction has just released a new beer in bottles called Crossed Irons Irish Ale that it will use to help raise money for the Colorado chapter of the Terry Farrell Firefighter Fund, which helps injured or sick firefighters or the families to those were killed…
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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Teenagers are so damn picky, at least the second one of the two that I had to cart around last night on a where-to-have-dinner romp. Mexican? No. Thai? He’d never had it — and didn’t want to. Chinese? No, thanks. Cheesesteaks? Bingo, but only if the cheesesteak joint had chicken…
