Vesta Dipping Grill turns fifteen this month, and owner Josh Wolkon and crew have invited former Vesta chefs Tyler Skrivanek of Duo, James Rugile of Mizuna, Wade Kirwan of Adrift, Dillon Maddox of Solera, Drew Hardin of Lola and Brandon Biederman of Steuben’s to cook at a six-course feast and…
If you spilled tears at the news that Gaetano’s, one of Denver’s only remaining red sauce joints, was temporarily shuttered for an extensive facelift (and a new menu to boot that’s definitely not old-school Italian), grab a bucket and a box of Kleenex, because after 66 years of serving spaghetti…
Happy hour will not be very happy today at El Diablo and Sketch tonight. The restaurants remain closed, after the city slapped the building in which they’re housed, the First Avenue Hotel, with a notice to vacate very early on Tuesday, July 10. According to the city, the structure is…
Sean Kenyon isn’t the kind of guy to shy away from the spotlight — or the liquor cabinet. The Denver-based cocktail kingpin (or bartender, as he prefers) has been slinging drinks for 26 years, and he’s incredibly good at it, racking up contest titles and accolades around the world, sitting…
After eleven years, Lime is closing its location in Larimer Square this weekend — but customers will have two days of fun in the meantime, filled with signature tacos and mighty margaritas…
Rocky Ford cantaloupe took a big hit last year, unfairlyfingered by the FDA in the early days of the listeria outbreak in a September 14, 2011 release that warned consumers not to eat Rocky Ford cantaloupes. And never mind that the real culprit, Jensen farms, was more than a hundred…
The United Artists mega-movie house and Dave & Buster’s, both anchor tenants at Colorado Center, the sprawling development at I-25 and South Colorado Boulevard, are getting a neighboring waterhole and restaurant…
Happy Place: The Kitchen, 1530 16th Street, 303-623-3127 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $1.25 oysters; $3-$7 appetizer specials; $4 select beers; $5 wines by the glass and specialty cocktails. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
After several days of eying everything on my plate with suspicion (food poisoning has a way of making you cynical), I finally got my appetite back, celebrating the return of a hungry belly with a roast beef sandwich…followed by a scoop of ice cream, both of which you can find…
For me, going to the suburbs for anything is like taking a spaceship to a distant planet populated by strange aliens and strip malls. Still, on occasion I’ll haul my shorts out to an outlying town. In this case, it was Thornton, because I’d heard that Cinebarre has movies, booze…
There’s lots of action on the Denver restaurant scene — the ongoing controversy over Frank Bonanno’s fight with the health department, the upcoming Tavern Platt Park…and today, the opening of a new Bubba Chinos downtown, just steps away from City Hall, which will be serving up free chile cheese fries…
Friday night is Burger Night at both Marczyk Fine Foods locations — 770 East 17th Avenue and 5100 East Colfax Avenue. The stores serve up beef from Niman Ranch on brioche buns from City Bakery, with all the fixings, for $6.99. And tonight’s grill-out will help raise funds for Red…
Former local boy Steele Platt has made very, very good: Darden Restaurants — an Orlando-based company that operates Olive Garden and Red Lobster, among other chains — announced today that it has agreed to buy Yard House USA Inc. for $585 million — cash, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. There…
Until this afternoon, southeast Denver had an abundance of restaurants named Pho Saigon — but that was before Pho Saigon Le at 8101 East Belleview Avenue caught fire. According to Channel 7, a blaze burned through the roof of the restaurant, and neighboring businesses in the strip mall were evacuated…
Green chile, meet cheeseburger. Downtown Denver, meet Bubba Chinos. The latest location in the chain started by Leonard Cordova, grandson of the late Stella Cordova of the original Chubby’s, will open tomorrow at 1361 Court Place, just steps from City Hall. And first-day customers will receive free chile cheese fries…
New patios are popping up all over town this summer. Star Bar introduced its outdoor “Bar Port” last month, complete with a draft system and a tiki theme. A half-dozen blocks and a world away, Edge at the Four Seazons unveiled its renovated patio in late June. Elway’s Downtown plans…
You could spend a small fortune keeping up with every Colorado beer release over the course of a year — believe me, I know. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t at least try a couple of them. In the old days — like, three years ago — beer releases were…
All systems are go for Tavern Platt Park, which will transform the former home of India’s Pearl (and Lola, Micole and Greens before that) at 1475 South Pearl Street. Tavern Hospitality Group, which bought the building, had a hearing with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses on July 2…
I’m not sure which is more blistering: the pavement or this panang curry, which packs more heat than a desert sky in July. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool –…
Beau Simmons Jonesy’s EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 www.jeatbar.com Part one of my interview with Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy’s EatBar, ran yesterday; below is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Longman & Eagle in Chicago, whose motto is “Eat, Sleep, Whiskey.” They use local…
It never fails: Just when I become emotionally — and occasionally physically — attached to a certain fast-food item, the corporate overlords snatch it away like fiendish villains in a Joss Whedon movie (or one of his TV shows that hasn’t been cancelled prematurely). Okay, so some items don’t sell…
Two prominent restaurateurs are involved in very public spats with the city. Frank Bonanno, owner of Osteria Marco, among other restaurants, admits he can be a “dick.” Especially when fighting the Denver Department of Environmental Health: posting missives on his blog aimed at Danica Lee, the department’s food program manager…
