After more than a three-year run, Andrew’s on Lincoln, 1111 Lincoln Street, appears to have closed over the weekend. There’s no word yet on what will happen to the space. Last September, Andrew’s was remodeled and essentially divided into two spaces: one a bar/restaurant and the other dubbed the “Stage,”…
Each month, Z Cuisine’s À Côté Bar a Absinthe, 2245 West 30th Avenue, hosts a last Wednesday wine-tasting, indulging a dining room full of people with tastes of ten to fifteen wines and a miniature, three-course meal of bite-sized pairings, all for just $25…
The Place: Bistro One, 1294 South Broadway, 720-974-0602 The Hours: Daily from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: Draft beers are between $3 and $4; house wines are $4; specialty cocktails go for $6; appetizers range from $3 to $5…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. “There’s always something…
Smoked beers are something you either love or hate. They taste – as one beerdrinker recently put it to me – “like drinking a barbecue pit.” I love them. I don’t know why, but there is something about the way that smoky, barbecue pit flavor meshes with the beer that…
Icehouse Tavern 1801 Wynkoop Street 303-292-3775 www.icehouselodo.com…
Last week, we reported that Denver’s groundbreaking pay-what-you-want SAME Cafe inspired national bakery and cafe chain Panera Bread to get into the non-profit biz itself. Built on the model used by SAME and other community kitchens like Salt Lake City’s One World Everybody Eats, Panera opened a pay-what-you-can cafe outside…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, which is owned and operated by Denver based Alon Mor, has signed a deal with Doherty Enterprises to expand its dining concept to the East Coast…
Pete Ryan Cook Street School of Culinary Arts 1937 Market Street 303-308-9300 www.cookstreet.com After a fifteen-month pan-pounding stint at Z Cuisine, in March Pete Ryan became the executive chef/instructor at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, a move that brought him back to the institution where he’d been a student…
The blots of yellow that you see on the pizza in the above pic are not yellow cheese, but canals of yolk from a just-cracked egg that wind through the valley of mushrooms, bacon and tender pea shoots. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
Be careful when you search for Sugar House. If you want the restaurant at 1395 West Alameda Avenue, which touts its big burgers — and calls itself the “sweet spot” for lunch and happy hour — you want the Sugar House Grill.. If you want the nightclub in the same…
Desert Moon Vineyards, 12656 East Jamison Place, Unit #12 in Englewood, hosts a Learning to Taste seminar from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, when you can learn how to taste wines like the pros. Admission is $20; call 303-990-9463 or visit www.desertmoonvineyards.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around…
You’re in luck: A number of area Asian restaurants are offering prix fixe menus at a great price in honor of Asian Restaurant Month. It’s sorta like Denver Restaurant Week, but just for Asian restaurants. Whereas Denver’s restaurant week features two-person meals for $52.80, restaurants participating in Asian Restaurant Month…
David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, concede that Denver has nearly as many burger barns as Colorado has cattle, but Eco-Burger, their new Cherry Creek North burger joint taking up residence in the former Soleil Mediterranean Grill space (which the couple owned and closed in March) at 2817…
No tater tots or fruit cocktail were harmed in the upbringing of Congressman Jared Polis. No Cheetos or Little Debbie snack cakes either for that matter. In fact, Colorado’s second district congressman says he brought his lunch to school every day when he was growing up. What was packed? Usually…
Cafe Coloré 1512 Larimer Street 303-534-6844 www.cafecoloredenver.com…
The Bitter Bar may not have needed much more momentum to rise to the top of the Colorado cocktail scene, but it was set to take another great leap forward when it locked in mixologist Bryan Dayton, the president of the Colorado chapter of the US Bartender’s Guild, to craft…
At last night’s Denver FIVE dinner at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, Jamey Fader, culinary director of Big Red F Restaurant Group, the empire that oversees Lola, had this to say about his partners in cooking: “There are great things going on in Denver right now because of the incredibly talented…
The wine world has been buzzing all month over the latest issue of Wine Spectator magazine, which has finally acknowledged that not only are screw tops (aka Stelvin closures) perfectly acceptable for wine, they actually fared better than traditional and synthetic cork in terms of keeping wine fresh and ultimately…
Big plates of fries and big burgers crowned with just about every conceivable topping — in this case, arugula, caramelized onions and roasted poblano peppers bolstered with a side of “secret” sauce jolted with cayenne. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
Brothers Bar & Grill — a link in a Wisconsin-based chain — is slated to open May 27 in the former home of The Real World: Denver at 1920 Market Street. And there’s enough drama around this project to rate a reality show. When Theorie, the building’s most recent occupant,…
The clown at the center of the controversy had nothing on the clowns outside the annual McDonald’s investor meeting in Chicago last week. Ronald McDonald has been under fire recently as a provider of both bad meals and bad lessons to the nation’s chunky, un-educated toddlers, and with Michelle Obama…
