Cafe Society writers are hard at work on the Best of Denver 2011, which will include more than a hundred food and drink categories, many of which are included on the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll. Paper ballots are due at the office by Friday — but you can vote…
Denver’s veggie food scene is decent, but nowhere except the People’s Republic of Boulder would you find a restaurant quite like VG Burgers. Its all-organic, all-vegan menu is an anomaly in the quick-casual industry — as is the fact that the facility is entirely wind-powered, and there isn’t a wastebasket,…
The pudgy, misshapen flying saucers in the above snap, draped with a potent tahini sauce and sided with rods of blushing turnip pickles, are some of Denver’s best falafel — scratch-made, herby and greaseless. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Part of the Pearl Street Mall has been evacuated after fire broke out this morning at Oak at Fourteenth, the recently opened restaurant owned by bartender Bryan Dayton, chef Steve Redzikowski and general manager Annie Polk. Flames burst out in the attic, a space between the ceiling of the restaurant…
The Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries officially sealed the deal on their joint venture and celebrated their future on Tuesday by tapping kegs of each other’s beers at their respective breweries. And later this month — possibly as early as March 28 — Breck will open its newest location, Ale House…
We’ve been eating our share of prix fixe menus over the last week, partaking in our share of Denver Restaurant Week (or Denver Restaurant Half Month, as TAG chef de cuisine Jensen Cummings calls it). And while some of what we’ve eaten has been entirely underwhelming — and has made…
Mark “sausage czar” DeNittis, owner of Il Mondo Vecchio, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute of Meat, and one of the newest members of FIVE, has just signed on with Cook Street School of Culinary Arts to launch a state-accredited butchery certification program — the only one in Colorado. The…
Will Cisa The Corner Office 1401 Curtis Street 303-825-6500 www.thecornerofficedenver.com/food/dinner This is part one of my interview with Will Cisa, executive chef of the Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. It’s day three of Denver Restaurant Week, and Will…
The Breckenridge and Wynkoop brewing companies have finally sealed the deal on their joint venture, which we first reported in December. Under the agreement, the two companies will keep their identities and their individuality, but they will share their brewing and restaurant resources. The Wynkoop’s restaurants include the flagship Wynkoop…
Readers are still pouring out stories about Denver Restaurant Week, as well as their opinions on wine-server etiquette and the ATM at the Vine Street Pub. But the biggest, fattest discussion yesterday focused on the dine-and-dashers captured on video at Virgilio’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar. RevBAFrederick weighed in with this:…
Rack & Rye Gastropub is the site of this month’s Denver Happy Hour networking event, which features free appetizers, complimentary specials and more. The free party runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., for more info, go to www.rackandrye.com or call 303-620-4920. For information on dozens of culinary events around town,…
Toshi and Yasu Kizaki have been serving Pearl Street for two decades, first with Sushi Den, which they opened in its current home twenty years ago, and then again with Izakaya Den, which first started serving dinner in 2007. Both of those spots pack crowds into cavernous spaces every day…
Denver Restaurant Week kicked off nearly two weeks ago, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to snag a seat at one of the nearly 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and Friday, when it all comes to an end. Tonight is no exception…
Four of us went out last night for Denver Restaurant Week, although only one of us ordered the DRW menu, which didn’t include the foie gras sandwich and accompanying duck egg, beautifully graced with caviar and petals of black truffles, that set us back $52.80. Yes, you read that correctly:…
Don’t misunderstand: Lee Hayward enjoys a night out as much as the next guy — maybe more, since he and his wife, Kathy, wrote the book Drinking and Driving in Colorado, recently re-released as the more tastefully named Tapping Colorado Craft Beer: A Guide to Centennial State Brewpubs. But looking…
Vine Street Pub is getting ready to raise the roof on its new brewery. But first it had to lower the floor. “We dropped the whole thing about three feet,” says Brian Hutchinson, head brewer for Vine Street. The goal is to make room for a twelve-barrel brewing system and…
Earlier today, Swirl Girl Kendra Anderson lamented common wine-service flubs in Denver restaurants, berating spots that propagate listless lists and serve poorly temped juice. And while each one of her points rings true with us, we’ve got another bone to pick: the etiquette of the tasting pour…
Jensen Cummings, the chef de cuisine at TAG, jokingly calls Denver Restaurant Week “Denver Restaurant Half Month,” a phrase he’s coined to remind diners (and the service industry) that DRW is definitely longer than the one week its name implies. But if DRW was, in fact, one week long, then…
What the hell is up with the wine service at certain Denver restaurants lately? A slew of recent visits to a number of reputable spots around town resulted in being treated to some pretty egregious wine service faux pas. None of these restaurants were places where you’d know better than…
Craft beer has been the star of a recent documentary, a television series and a couple of YouTube videos over the past year. Now another feature-length documentary is scheduled to be released this summer. Most of these efforts have been serious, noble — sometimes overly so. Leave it to the…
Sputnik, the hipper-than-thou Baker ‘hood bar, renowned for its hangover weekend brunch, live music acts and globetrotting menu catering (mostly) to vegetarians and vegans, has gone dark, at least until tomorrow, when the tatted ‘tenders can begin pouring booze again. Seems as though the groovy watering hole got itself into…
With just four more days to go before Denver Restaurant Week ends on March 11, many diners are still scrambling for reservations. But some are sitting back, unbuttoning their pants, and digesting everything that’s gone before. Hotdog, for example, is taking a much-deserved break. But first, he offered this comment…
