When former TAG team (and married couple) Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan added Madison Street to their restaurant empire, they tapped a member of the TAG kitchen, Rob Michels, to serve as executive chef, where he worked alongside Troy to revamp the menu. Three months later, after the Guard and…
Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Andy Martinez, exec chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t travel as much I’d like…
The University Boulevard location of Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill has closed, but the homegrown Mediterranean fast-casual chain will continue to grow. “It wasn’t the best location for us,” explains marketing and PR manager Beth Hardy, who notes that the University of Denver location, unlike two over on South Colorado Boulevard, had…
Readers have been pouring out the jokes since Molson Coors announced that it will release Animee, a beer geared towards female non-beer drinkers, in the UK. From Claire: The Virginia Slims of the beer biz. From eCurmudgeon: Otherwise known as Zima with a new label…
You can have a beery good time in Denver tonight. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Avenue in Boulder, will offer the Asher Beer Dinner, which pairs six different beers with seasonal tapas. For more info, call 303-993-8131. Encore, 2550 East Colfax Avenue, will host the Uinta Beer vs. IMT Wine dinner,…
No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas…
For this week’s review, I headed out to Tao Tao Noodle Bar in Aurora, where David Lee and May Sung have resurrected many of the dishes they had on the menu at the original Chopsticks China Bistro on Federal and Mississippi. Not only did I like everything I ordered, I…
Lance Barto started behind the burners at Strings three years ago, working his way up to the executive chef role in 2009 after then-lead chef Aaron Whitcomb left for YiaYia’s Euro Bistro in Greenwood Village. Now, Barto’s heading over to the line at Wild Catch — the seafood restaurant that…
When Justin Brunson, the captain behind the magnificent Masterpiece Deli, opens Wild Catch, a sustainable seafood restaurant in Uptown, he’ll steer his kitchen along with a tag team of several other high-profile chefs — none of whom, by the way, are from TAG, Troy Guard’s Asian restaurant in Larimer Square…
We’ve always been pretty cranky about the lack of Colorado-centric food items at Denver International Airport — especially Colorado-centric food items that visitors can take back home as souvenirs from this state. But that will soon change: Provenzano Resources, which is in charge of adding fourteen kiosks and 24 RMUs…
Construction continues at Vine Street Pub, where a new brewery operated by the Mountain Sun group should be ready by mid-September — ready, but not operational. That’s because it will take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for the company to work out its permitting issues from…
We almost choked as we typed the words “tired of rosé” just now. While there’s simply no other wine we’d rather drink on a sultry summer evening, we’re willing to concede that not everyone is as equally enamored as we are. More optimistically, we prefer to consider alternative scenarios to…
We shunned the lamb kabobs, the lamb shank and the chicken shawarma (all of which I love here) to better our bodies with a platter of vegetarian dishes, which included — dare I say it — the best falafel I’ve had at a Lebanese/Middle Eastern restaurant in Denver. Can you…
Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part one of my interview with Andy Martinez, executive chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part two of my chat with Martinez will run in this space tomorrow. When Denver native Andy Martinez, the executive chef…
In an obvious but well-timed bid to compete with other chain restaurants’ efforts to provide more calorie-cutting offerings, Chick-fil-A, the prominent purveyors of fried chicken sammies to willing masses of mall-walkers, is now serving oatmeal. As of this past Monday, the current menu is lightly seasoned with less-bad-for-you items such…
The KIND truck will make its first non-East Coast stops in the Denver-Boulder area starting tomorrow and running through August 6, passing out samples of the all-natural KIND fruit and nut bars that retail for $1.99. The stops on Tuesday, August 2, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Union…
TAG, you’re it. The fallout from TAG continues to radiate across the restaurant scene, with the news yesterday that James Lee and Michael Pacovsky are going to Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Robert Thompson’s spot slated to open in the former home of Baur’s at 1512 Curtis Street late…
Let the good times roll! Izakaya Den will present Sliced!, a sushi-making class featuring chefs from Sushi Den, Izakaya Den and Ototo tonight. And after class, attendees will be able to enjoy a sushi dinner. For more information, call 303-777-0691 or visit www.izakayaden.net. For information on dozens of culinary events…
Chopsticks China Bistro held down the corner of Federal and Mississippi for four years, turning out stellar Chinese cuisine that spanned Szechuan specialties, Taiwanese soup dumplings and sandwiches. We loved the place, and we were sad to see it go when it ditched its digs on Federal to move to…
After years of cutting dangerous and jagged holes in beer cans then awkwardly cranking our heads sideways in order to drink a beer in 4.2 seconds, our long national struggle is over: Fluid N Motion has invented the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie that keeps beer cold and allows people to…
Robert Thompson, who owns Argyll, which just closed in Cherry Creek (but will reopen in 2012 in the Baker ‘hood) and the soon-to-be-open Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, which has taken over the former Baur’s space downtown and Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, slated to open in…
After experimenting with unique ice cream concoctions in a three-quart mixer in the kitchen of Crook’s Palace in Black Hawk, Matt and Mike Casarez set out to break the Guinness World Record for the highest number of ice cream flavors on display at one time. And they just got it:…
