There are very few Italian restaurants in Denver that make their ravioli in house, so I was nothing short of shocked when I walked into this pizza joint to grab a slice, only to glance at the menu and find that all of the pastas, including the ravioli, are made…
Mooyah, a national burger chain, has added a second local location, at the newly renovated Century 21 plaza at 1390 South Colorado Boulevard. See also: Hall Brewing opens its Parker taproom today…
Derek Dietz Bocadillo 4044 Tejon Street 720-242-6417 derekdietz.wix.com/bocadillo This is part one of my interview with Derek Dietz, chef-owner of Bocadillo; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. I’ve always had an eating problem,” jokes Derek Dietz. “When I was a kid, I was always the one who was…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard – south to north – within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Christmas is supposed to be a time of good cheer, but it’s really a time of very good eats. And this tradition holds up around the world. In Sweden, for example, a traditional Christmas Eve dinner includes a smorgasbord (aka Swedish buffet) with ham, pork, fish and plenty of sweets…
Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and Bobby Stuckey, founders of Frasca Food and Wine, know the rules of classic pizza-making as well as fine-dining. They’ve been to Italy several times; their team members went there before they launched the original Pizzeria Locale in Boulder 2011. But they broke one of the cardinal rules…
My Christmas wish list, not surprisingly, lends itself to all things culinary — including cookbooks, of which I already have hundreds. But there were a few cookbooks that I treated myself to early: Pok Pok, by Andy Ricker, which is one of the most detailed (some might say daunting) explorations…
In 2011, when former Westword restaurant critic Laura Shunk reviewed Ondo’s Spanish Tapas Bar, a subterranean space in Cherry Creek that never had the benefit of the foot traffic on busier blocks with higher profiles, she raved about the joint, pointing out that Ondo’s “stays true to its Spanish inspiration.”…
The fifth time could be a charm for the 9th Door, an offshoot of the LoDo tapas spot that just opened in a transformed space in the Beauvallon that’s already been home to four other restaurants. See also: A second 9th Door will open in the Beauvallon…
Dog Haus, a gourmet hot-dog chain based in Southern California, is getting ready to mark Denver’s turf next year. See also: Dunkin’ Donuts opens today, Voodoo Doughnut tomorrow…
When Rayme Rossello was first approached via e-mail by the developers of The Source, she declined their invitation to become part of the proposed project in RiNo. “I wrote back, ‘No thanks,'” recalls Rossello, because she had her hands full with the restaurant she’d opened a few weeks prior. That…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
You can order kung pao chicken from the menu at this Asian restaurant, which is exactly what my parents did, but the kitchen’s strengths reside in the more unfamiliar dishes like the Malaysian curry laksa, a flavor-bombed noodle-and-shrimp stew that benefits from the rich river of yolk that oozes from…
Yesterday Sean Kenyon shared 25 things you never knew about bartender Mikie Mazzotta, who works at the Squire. Kenyon’s been going to this bar for thirteen years — as long as he’s lived in Denver. “It reminds me of the dives that I haunted in Jersey City, so it definitely…
Mary Nguyen has been busy opening Olive & Finch, but she hasn’t ignored Parallel Seventeen, the pan-Asian restaurant she opened eight years ago. And tonight at 6 p.m., Parallel Seventeen will host a four-course, holiday-inspired dinner emphasizing local ingredients — pork belly dumplings and carrot-and-thyme tarts with herbed goat cheese…
At the end of October, Samir Mohammad quietly departed the kitchen at Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, a bustling open galley of pizza, pastas and Americanized Italian food that he’d spent the past year commanding. “I left because there was a difference in views between me and the owners –…
The former home of Colorado Lace has stood empty at 200 East Seventh Avenue for years, despite being in a prime restaurant neighborhood. Or is it empty because of that? With Racines just down the street at 650 Sherman Street and Mizuna, Vesper Lounge and Bones across Seventh Avenue, neighbors…
In case there was any doubt about how big the craft-brewing industry has become — or about its impact in Colorado — the industry’s trade group said today that small and independent craft brewers contributed $33.9 billion to the U.S. economy in 2012. Colorado’s craft brewers contributed $1.6 billion to…
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (Park Hill), there lived two craft-beer lovers who had to travel across town almost any time they wanted to try a new brewery. So the couple, Ryan and Christa Kilpatrick, decided to open their own brewing palace, Fiction Beer Company,…
It was my kid’s birthday over the weekend, and when you’re fourteen, spending time with your parents is about as much fun as taking final exams, so we shooed him and a friend off to their own table, while we — the embarrassing parents — squatted at the bar and…
As Westword’s Ask the Bartender columnist, I’ve talked with many bartenders for Cafe Society’s “Behind the Bar” series, posing numerous questions to Denver’s top bartenders…and often receiving the same answers: “I love chartreuse,” or “I’m really into smoked cocktails/barrel aging/bottled cocktails.” See also: A bartender by any other name…is still…
Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a better-than-expected bowl of hot and sour soup from Red Coral to a potent whiskey-based cocktail, aptly named the “drunken sailor,” from Ace to a breakfast burrito packaged in (gasp!) Styrofoam from a takeout Mexican joint…
