Festooned with random flags and boasting a food menu that includes such culinary delights as “Poppers,” the “T-REX” hoagie and “West Side Story” sandwich (which we’re guessing is delivered by a campy, gyrating food-runner), Zanzibar Billiards Club recently decided it was in need of a makeover. Luckily for the struggling…
Del Norte Brewing, which quietly closed up shop sometime in November after five years, posted a goodbye note over the weekend on its reactivated Facebook page, thanking fans for drinking its beers. But the brewery, which made award-winning Mexican-style craft lagers, didn’t offer an explanation as to why it ceased…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified mezcal margarita from a divey Mexican joint, to a sphere of peppered burrata from Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, to a bottle of rare Avery Odio Equum that’s a sour beer drinker’s nirvana. See also: -…
Last week I did something I’d never done before: I had lunch at Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar. It wasn’t that I’d never been to an Applebee’s before. I had, dozens of times, the visits usually consisting of me getting off work at a neighboring chain restaurant; ordering the biggest,…
“Where do you get your protein?” is one of the questions most often asked vegetarians and vegans. Beans, nuts, seeds and other such foods is the answer, and quinoa is one of our favorites. This grain-like food is a complete protein, making it a fantastic meat replacement. Try it with…
Just in time for cold weather, the Original Pancake House is offering free hot chocolate for the holidays at all of its locations. The chain has two in Colorado: at 8000 East Belleview Avenue in Englewood, and at 5900 South University Boulevard in Littleton. The deal runs through Friday, December…
Action sports enthusiasts and culinary entrepreneurs Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson just kicked their business model into high gear. Eighteen months after opening Cheapskates Action Sports Bar in Arvada, Galbraith and Stinson now have a second Cheapskates location in Aurora. Curious to see what an action sports bar looks like,…
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. When it comes…
It took a year to find the ideal space, but after an exhaustive search, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, the nationally-renowned owners of Boulder-based Frasca Food and Wine, Pizzeria Locale and Caffe, have inked a deal to open a second Pizzeria Locale in Denver. See also: – Best Pizza 2012…
The space at 1434 Blake Street has been home to many concepts over the past fifteen years. Originally the legendary hipster hang-out City Spirit, which closed in 1997, it then became Andrew’s Pub, followed by Bender’s Sausage Haus, The Lure, SportsBook, PreGame Sports Bar & Grill, the Blake, Kraine Station…
Pies used to be seen as the either the coup de grace on Thanksgiving or snarky protesters’ tool of choice. (Remember when Ann Coulter, Ralph Nader and Jeff Skilling, former president of Enron, were all pied?) Then in 2011 the lattice-topped treat hit the big time, and Nation’s Restaurant News…
Those of you who insisted that Frank Bonanno would turn the former Lancer Lounge into an “over-hyped concept” — which is what at least one person claimed when we broke the news that Bonanno would be taking over the evicted bar wedged between two of his restaurants — will likely…
Johnny Carino’s very first location was in Colorado Springs, and Chris Peitersen, the chain’s executive chef who’s also vice president of Culinary Development, was born in Denver (he still holds season tickets to the Denver Broncos). So it’s fitting that Johnny Carino’s is rolling out its new menu items –…
We must eat to live — but sometimes what we eat and drink also kills us. The oddest things can cook our goose. This past year saw many food-assisted expirations and accidents that were peculiar, creepy — and very, very unappetizing. Here’s our list of the five weirdest food deaths…
Would legendary New York Times critic Craig Claiborne have approved of Gretchen Kurtz reviewing So Perfect Eats? “If the granddaddy of restaurant criticism didn’t think restaurants had to have tablecloths, a maître d’ and a mixologist to be considered fair game,” she writes, “then neither do I.” Still, she’s come…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual concept, will open its eighteenth location — the sixteenth in Colorado — today at 14740 West Colfax Avenue, in the new Denver West project. To celebrate, the restaurant will be giving away prizes and menu items all month long — check the Facebook page…
The town already has three Tom’s (Tom’s Home Cooking, Tom’s Urban 24 and Tom’s Diner), as well as three Hideaways — Hideaway Steakhouse in Westminster, Hideaway Kitchen & Bar, and Hideaway Tavern in Commerce City (there’s also Herman’s Hideaway). And next week, it will have both a Corner Office and…
Mike Lucas opened Luke’s — A Steak Place more than twenty years ago, and it has been an established steakhouse ever since. But this year Lucas decided to retire, leaving the restaurant in the hands of new owner Robert Meyer. Over six weeks this fall Meyer completely renovated the interior…
Big things come in small packages, and that goes double for craft brewers, who package many of their potent products in twelve- sixteen- or twenty-ounce cans and bottles. But those big things can also come with a big price. While a six-pack of craft beer usually runs from $8.99 to…
Back when Fuqua Development was still touting Walmart as the major tenant in the project planned for the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Jeff Fuqua promised that there would be a “chef-driven” restaurant on the site — inspiring some critics to ask…
When I asked the bartender if he had mezcal, his eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. “You want mezcal!? he exclaimed. “Oh, man, a gringo girl who likes mezcal. Wow.” Not only did he pour me a potent margarita but he brought out the mezcal bottle, too, egging me…
On last night’s season five episode of Top Chef Seattle, Tyler Wiard (nickname T-bone), the culinary director of Elway’s — and the exec chef of Elway’s Cherry Creek — is sent packing, along with fellow chef Chris “CJ” Jacobsen, the two of whom were bludgeoned by judges Gail Simmons, Padma…
