Food & Drink

We’ve lauded Thai Lotus more than once, and with good reason: The unassuming eatery, tucked next to Chianti and El Senor Sol, could use a little promotion. And it definitely deserves it. Because once you’ve stopped in Thai Lotus, you won’t make the mistake of overlooking it again…

The second of three new sushi joints just opened in LoDo. After a series of preview parties, Blue Sushi Sake Grill opened yesterday in the former home of Dixons on the 16th Street Mall (or at least some of it; the other portion is now Lucky Pie)…

Vance Johnson, once a key member of the Three Amigos, moved to the Western Slope years ago and is putting his second restaurant in Grand Junction, which he plans to call Vance’s Epicurious. But some people aren’t impressed by the former Bronco’s choice of locations…

Happy hour can absolutely be the happiest time of the day for three reasons: cheap booze, cheap food and free people-watching. Which makes the patio at Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks a place of unmitigated joy from 3 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, when happy-hour specials keep flowing out of…

It’s been nearly a decade since the farm-to-table Beehive had Denver diners buzzing. (It occupied the spot now filled by Table 6.) But chef/owner Janice Henning is now putting the final touches on a brand-new Beehive — this one right off Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall…

Molecular doughnuts: It’s what’s for breakfast — and the Inventing Room’s Ian Kleinman doled out 150 of them this morning, some specked with bacon-Nutella powder, others jumping with pop rocks, at Table 6, which is a pop-up shrine to Kleinman’s long Johns (and java from Two Rivers Coffee, in Arvada)…

Vance Johnson, one of the Three Amigos on the Denver Broncos in the late ’80s, is about to open his second restaurant on the Western Slope. He already has VJ’s Outlaw Ribs in Parachute, the town where he now lives. And soon he’ll open Vance’s Epicurious in Grand Junction. Vance’s…

This is the first in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. In rows and rows of old shipping containers in dark, dank buildings, fungi grow are growing in neatly stacked and sealed plastic bags. These modest mushrooms will soon be shipped out…

I ingested some horrible food this weekend, including a breakfast burrito that’s responsible for the fact that I didn’t sleep — at all — last night, but before that malicious attack, I feasted at another restaurant that turns out deep-fried Mexican onions marinated in fresh lime juice and specked with…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified breakfast burrito stuffed with smoked elk sausage to a heap of Cajun spice-slicked shrimp from the Crawling Crab to a duo of ballpark pretzels…

No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. This recipes blends two cuisine styles for the best of both worlds: We’re taking the English tradition of eating baked beans on…

For more than sixty years, Gaetano’s has been a northside institution — first as a joint owned by the Smaldones, Denver’s legendary mob family, and then by the Wynkoop group, which bought the place in 2005. Now the spot is closed until September for a major facelift, which has both…

Adam Watts, the chef de cuisine at Jax Fish House Boulder and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, admits that his biggest menu bomb was a crudo of spearfish with smoked soba noodles, huckleberry broth and pickled ramps, a dish, he says, that “sold for shit.” Luckily,…

Sweet! Buddy Valastro, the Cake Boss, is coming to the Paramount Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 13, as part of the Bakin’ with the Boss Tour. Valastro, who got his start at the family bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, says he’ll bring some Hoboken flavor to Colorado next week…

Ja, mon! Ziggy Marley stopped by Vitamin Cottage at Natural Grocers in Green Mountain today on his way to Copper Mountain for the Wanderlust Festival. The reason for the stop? To promote his new organic food line…

It sounds like a spoof, but the Caveman Cafeteria — Denver’s newest (and only) food truck specializing in paleo diet dishes — is no joke. Even though its owner, Will White, is a comedian…

From the outside, this joint looks sketch — way sketch — but appearances, as we all know, can be deceiving, and the inside, which I approached with caution, is actually kinda cute (and clean). Appearances aside, the breakfast burritos, of which there are endless possibilities, are worth a repeat visit,…

After getting the boot from the Village Cork three weeks ago, chef Samir Mohammad is back in the kitchen — a real kitchen with a hood! And a stove! And brick ovens! And, he says, a “supportive environment that encourages me to be active in the community,” a point of…