Food & Drink

When Stan Geels opened Stella’s Coffeehaus in the front room of a Pearl Street bungalow in 1991, some of his neighbors told him that the place wouldn’t last six months. “It was a boom-and-bust street,” Geels remembers. “But I liked the neighborhood, so I didn’t hesitate. When we opened, I…

On the night of Saturday, March 5, a man who clearly likes to eat and the two children accompanying him, waddled through the doors of Virgilio’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar, shoved a feast down their greedy gullets, and ditched the bill — and Virgilio Urbano, who owns the restaurant, caught…

Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on Saturday, 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 March 11. Tonight is no exception. As of 5:30 p.m., there were prime-time spots…

For the past 28 years, Juanita’s has been a Pearl Street mainstay, holding on to its sliver of storefront space that led to a well-worn front dining room and back lounge, even as other establishments turned over for newer, trendier concepts on either side of it. But on March 1,…

2011 promises to be a big year for hometown restaurateur Steve Ells. While his Denver-based Chipotle keeps expanding, Ells also has a new fast-casual Asian concept (possibly called ShopHouse) in the works, which is opening somewhere in the states — most likely in Washington, D.C. And come May 1, he’ll…

No. 65: Luther burger from Crave The scene at Crave, especially on weekends, can be complete pandemonium, with bodies crushed to the walls, standing in wait to wrap their jaws around what may very well be the most off-the-wall burger inventions this city has ever seen. Head burger boss Micah…

A year and a half after Francine Gindi opened the Gindi Cafe in the Peloton in Boulder, it was time to make some changes. “Things were a little scattered. We wanted to hone in on what was working well and make it better,” explains Jayson Debellis, former coffee roaster and…

This is, bar none, my favorite watering hole in Denver. It’s a convivial joint with awesome, conversational tenders, a kick-ass beer selection, including Left Hand Brewing Milk Stout, a jukebox that deserves its own mention, irreverent artwork and an eclectic trove of regulars who will gladly extend a hand when…

MJ Sadeth has spent over twenty years in the restaurant business; she once owned House of Kabob, Shiraz and the now-defunct Saffron, restaurants she sold four years ago. So when she started building Eggs and More in Greenwood Village, she drew on what she’d learned over the course of two…

If you hear it from the Food Channel, then it must be true. Every week, the network serves up another list, hoping that bloggers and other publications will bite. Which we did last week — right before we gagged over the Food Channel’s top ten breakfast trends. As Food Channel…

Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a breakfast sandwich at the Wooden Spoon to the Best of Denver award-winning nachos at Racines to this serving of queso and chips. For correctly identifying it as coming from Patzcuaro’s, Tdjacks wins an EatDenver deck…

As Denver Restaurant Week entered its second week this past weekend (yes, the official “week” is two weeks long, with the promotion running through March 11 — and longer, at some spots), it sounds like some servers are getting tired….and tired of bad behavior. Downtown and Disgruntled, for example, who…

Charlie Sheen, our favorite “total friggin’ rock star from Mars,” has done lost his mind and is hitting the talk-show circuit harder than a bottle and a line of coke right now. His tirades are amusing, to be sure, because when was the last time you actually heard of a…

Tim Connors, co-owner of Mezcal, the rollicking cantina on East Colfax Avenue whose kitchen is overseen by Roberto Diaz, wants people to know that he’s absolutely, unequivocally not trying to pull a fast one on Denver Restaurant Week, the two-week eating orgy in which nearly 300 Front Range fooderies are…

There are very few egg-ceptional breakfast sandwiches in this city, but this one? This one rises above the sun, eternally restoring my faith in rise and shine. 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 posts…

When The Kitchen opened in Boulder seven years ago, it was a concept based on the idea of community feeding community, sourcing from local and sustainable producers and acknowledging their work while turning out bistro fare in a true neighborhood restaurant. In short, it was farm-to-table before farm-to-table was a…