The Bistro at Stapleton opened yesterday in a neighborhood hungry for dining options. Chef and GM Cristino Griego, who worked in Italy and France, hopes to recreate a European bistro with an emphasis on both local and international products in the dining room and attached market. The bar features eleven…
The above photo is from a Mexican restaurant that does a bang-up lunch business, but I can’t imagine it’s because of the carne adobada…or the queso…or the enchilada…or the chile relleno, because we tried all of those dishes, only to push them to the end of the table, pay our…
A presence on Denver’s food scene for more than 25 years, Kevin Taylor has been associated with polished dining since the days of Zenith American Grill, which he opened in 1987 to local and national acclaim. That restaurant closed years ago, and in the past two months, two more of…
Last September, when Miki Hashimoto, the owner of Japon (now John Holly’s Asian Bistro), closed his Japanese restaurant after eighteen years in Washington Park, he teased us with his future plans: “I have some great new ideas and concepts that I’m exploring that Denver hasn’t seen,” he said, adding that…
Daniel Bradley 5280 Burger Bar 500 16th Street Mall 303-825-1020 5280burgerbar.com This is part two of my interview with Daniel Bradley, exec chef of 5280 Burger Bar; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Your three favorite Denver/Boulder restaurants other than your own: I had dinner at Interstate the other…
Range opens today in the stunning former Colorado National Bank building, a circa 1915 structure that’s been transformed into the Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center Hotel. The restaurant, designed to mimic a modern-day whiskey saloon, features executive chef Paul Nagan’s “modern interpretation of Colorado cuisine built around live wood-fired cooking,…
Who knew? It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, and to mark the August occasion, Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe, a Colorado company, is giving a free chocolate chip cookie to anyone who visits one of the seven stores along the Front Range today. This is the third time Woody Creek…
Frasca didn’t have its usual Monday night wine dinner this week — but it’s making up for it with a special Thursday night beer dinner this evening. See also: Best Front of the House – Frasca Food and Wine…
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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Palettes at the Denver Art Museum is part of the Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group, a name synonymous with fine dining. And for the most part, the aesthetically pleasing dining room matches its art-filled surroundings. To find out if the kitchen has a steady hand, read this week’s review of Palettes,…
In the fifteen-month runup to the opening of Wonderland Brewing, owner Robert Lucero and his team visited lots of other local breweries and taprooms to look for ideas. “One thing I learned is that there are too many of these coming, too many little breweries,” says Lucero, who has worked…
It was a big upset — chains rarely win the editorial picks in our Best of Denver issue — but Native Foods Cafe, which added an outpost in Glendale’s CitySet last summer after already establishing a beachhead in Boulder , took Best Vegetarian Restaurant honors in the Best of Denver…
Back in January, Bones, Frank Bonanno’s noodle house in Capitol Hill, celebrated its fifth anniversary with a smashing seven-course dinner, and at least one of those dishes, namely the soy-braised pork belly ssam, a duo of pork belly and hoison-glossed duck mounted in a bamboo basket and served with glistening…
The ninth annual American Craft Beer Week, which runs through May 18, is in full swing right now as breweries, restaurants and craft-beer bars across Colorado and around the rest of the nation toast the craft-beer renaissance. “With more than 2,800 small and independent craft breweries and hundreds more popping…
I spent last weekend in Steamboat Springs, a mountain town with a soaring restaurant scene that made for very good eating. And one of the restaurants that made a lasting impression was this bustling breakfast joint, which turns out some of the best corned beef hash in the Rocky Mountains…
Daniel Bradley 5280 Burger Bar 500 16th Street Mall 303-825-1020 5280burgerbar.com This is part one of my interview with Daniel Bradley, exec chef of 5280 Burger Bar; tune in tomorrow for part two of our chat. When you grow up in Burlingame, California, where fields of fresh produce are within…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Pigs, like people, arrived in waves to the islands of Hawaii, tagging…
On Monday, we shared the sentiments of a reader who can’t find good Mexican food on South Broadway. Since then, other readers have been offering their own thoughts — not just on spots to try (or avoid), but also of attitudes toward Mexican food in general. See also: Are there…
Palettes 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway 303-534-1455 The roast pepper soup stared up at me, an edible riddle. Since it was from the special exhibition-themed menu at Palettes, the white-tablecloth restaurant inside the Denver Art Museum, I knew the dish must be related to the Modern Masters show, but how?…
Beer is great and all, but barrel-aged beer — now, that’s an entirely different story. And you can open a new chapter at Amato’s Ale House tonight. See also: Best Rooftop Patio in Denver 2014 — Amato’s…
Squire Lounge, a staple of the Denver dive-bar scene, turned 75 this past weekend and celebrated the way any good dive bar would — with a party. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to capture all the drinks, dancing and fun. Keep reading for a taste of the Squire’s very happy…
On Thursday, after several years lying dormant, Denver’s historic Colorado National Bank building, originally built in 1915 and still one of the most stunning architectural structures in the Mile High City, will reopen as the Renaissance Denver Hotel, a multi-storied masterpiece that features futuristic hotel rooms and a new restaurant…
