Young man, you’re very tall. Would you mind switching on the air-conditioning for me?” My boyfriend and I had been standing in Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli for a couple of minutes, and we’d already scanned the grubby shelves packed with food imports from Italy, including cannoli shells, canned San Marzano…
For my review in this week’s Westword, I stopped by an old northwest Denver Italian institution, eating excellent take-away sandwiches at Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli. The shop doubles as a market, selling all kinds of Italian imports in addition to housemade sausages, which patrons can buy by the foot. And…
A new restaurant, Ghost Plate & Tap, featuring 23 beers on tap and specialties from both the Wynkoop and Breckenridge brewpubs will fill the space where the Rocky Mountain Diner closed in February. The Diner, at 800 18th Street, had been a downtown institution for two decades before a lease…
If you were hoping America’s Next Great Restaurant winner, Soul Daddy, would eventually start hawking its healthy soul food in Denver, don’t hold your breath. Despite the credentials of the panel of investors — Steve Ells, Chipotle’s founder and CEO, Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia — who selected…
Any vegetarian with a hankering for pho will be very familiar with the fact that most pho restaurants serve their noodles swimming in beef broth, which is the traditional preparation for pho. Thankfully, there are a handful of pho restaurants in the metro area that offer a vegetable broth, too,…
Saturday, June 18, was supposed to be the day of the second annual Burning Can festival, an all-canned beer bonanza featuring craft beers from around Colorado and the rest of the country. Sadly, it was not to be. Oskar Blues, which created and hosts the event, canceled it, saying logistical…
Several weeks ago, Esquire Food scribe (and restaurant critic) John Mariani sank his teeth into the Colorado food climate, noshing his way through Denver, Boulder and the mountains to get a taste of what’s cooking in Colorado. And he clearly has a sweet tooth, because he just compiled a roster…
I’ve worked my way through just about everything on the menu at this buzzy food temple that’s turning out first-rate dishes, including the mussels in the above pic. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating…
Firestone Walker, the vaunted California craft brewer that was planning to enter the Colorado market next week with celebratory events in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Fort Collins, has suffered another setback that will delay its plans — at least for a while. “The licensing paperwork is not in place and…
Jared Brant Satchel’s on 6th 1710 East Sixth Avenue 303-399-2560 www.satchelson6th.com This is part one of my interview with Jared Brant, executive chef of Satchel’s on 6th. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. If you’ve eaten at Satchel’s on 6th and loved the food, you…
It was 25 years ago today that Pat McGaughran and twin brothers Andre and Stephen Mouton opened their first Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant in Fort Collins. Since then, the chain has grown to six stores along the Front Range, all serving those killer margaritas whose recipe is still a secret…
While East Washington Park is in a tizzy over the Brown Dog Pizza liquor-license application (the very long, very big hearing was Tuesday night; the city has not yet made its decision), West Washington Park is debating what Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub might do to that bucolic stretch…
The two Elway’s locations are offering very different food-centric events today. First up: The original Elway’s, 2500 East First Avenue, is hosting the annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, when sixteen of Denver’s top chefs will join in a heated competition to make the best…
Northwest Denver may be turning over, swallowing up the old Italian institutions that once held down just about every corner of the ‘hood, but there are still a few old places where you can find a taste of what this particular part of our city once held. One is Carbone’s…
Ototo Food and Wine Bar, the not-so-Japanese sibling of Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, is now serving Sunday brunch. The menu features such standard brunch fare as bagels with lox and steak and eggs, as well as more innovative offerings, including duck confit. And whenever possible, every dish features ingredients…
At 11 a.m. today, after months of redesign and a last-minute delay due to construction, the Kitchen [Next Door] opened its doors, and welcomed a line of Boulder residents eager to try the pub-inspired addition to a Pearl Street family of eateries…
“Opening Cuba Cuba as a 23-year-old punk and creating something that, even after ten years, people still enjoy, is my biggest accomplishment,” said Enrique Socarras, the executive chef of Cuba Cuba, when I interviewed him earlier this year. Socarras and his sister, Kristy, opened Cuba Cuba in 2001, and while…
Have you ever gotten the impression that Colorado wines kinda suck? If you’re really, really honest with yourself, you probably answered yes – and you’re not the only person who feels that way. A glance at the wine list of many of Denver’s top-rated dining destinations routinely reveals fewer Colorado-based…
No. 61: Chili gobi from Jai Ho…
There are some people who have a mad crush on corned beef hash straight from the can. I can’t stand the stench of the stuff, much less stomach it, which is why I’m always on the hunt for scratch-made hash. I found one at the restaurant where the above snap…
Vietnam Grill has been slinging pho and spring rolls from its Federal Boulevard strip mall spot for a few years, but now the eatery is hoping to add alcoholic pairings to the menu. The restaurant just applied for its liquor license, and if all goes according to plan, it’ll add…
Gary Lee Bomar has been active in the Denver restaurant industry for 27 years, starting as a busboy and then working his way through most of the jobs in the businesses, putting in ten years at the Skylark and four years behind the bar at the Horseshoe Lounge. But he’s…
