Food & Drink

“I’m making things that I want to eat, food that’s fun for us to make — and not pretentious — and food that we’re proud to serve,” says Brett Shaheen, the executive chef of the Wooden Table, a new Italian restaurant that opens today at 2500 East Orchard Road in…

Jeremy Kittelson, the former executive chef of Restaurant Avondale at the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon (which, by the way, was recently sold to Richard Sandoval, who owns La Sandia, Tamayo and Zengo in Denver and Venga Venga in Snowmass Village), has come down the mountain to open…

This is part one of my interview with Brad Arguello, exec chef of the Über Sausage. Part two of my chat with Arguello will run in this space tomorrow. Brad Arguello The Über Sausage 2730 East Colfax Avenue 303-862-7894 www.theubersausage.com “My nickname in college was ‘baby bird,'” confesses Brad Arguello…

Denver restaurateurs are some of the most generous people in town, forever contributing food, labor and cash to worthy causes and charity events. Many are also very generous to their employees — but they like coming up with policies that work for their unique, often small businesses, not getting tied…

After a summer of travels, Laura Shunk revealed the five restaurant concepts she’d love to see in Denver, ranging from a Burmese restaurant to a Czech restaurant and beer hall. Which had commenters wondering: What about Sobo 151?…

Maybe it’s because I grew up in Denver rather than St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis or Texas, but I’ve always been vaguely amused by “best barbecue” claims that are staked to a particular regional style. After all, “barbecue” really just refers to the process of cooking meat over fire, which…

Miller Farms definitely puts the “ag” in agritourism. For a nominal admission fee, I got to spend a day at a working farm, hitched a ride on a huge trailer filled with hay bales, learned that root vegetables don’t always want to be unearthed, and took home seven large grocery…

After Rob Kukura, former manager of The Mediterranean, took over the old Magnolia and Sushi Mara spots in Lafayette in May, he started slowly slowly making the restaurants his own. First, he merged the two places into a single identity, and changed the name to 95a Bistro and Sushi in…

When you’re in the mood for comfort food, as I was the other day, there are few preparations more comforting than risotto. It’s easily personalized (I like mine thick, with mushrooms and heavy on the butter), fairly effortless to make and equally conducive to both communal and solitary dining –…

Since it first hit Denver in 2003, Thai Basil has grown into a mini fusion empire, expanding into a handful of locations around town and down into Colorado Springs. And there’s no sign of Thai Basil slowing down, either: After Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill shuttered a location by the University of…

Not long ago, I waxed rhapsodic about the tamales at Tamales Moreno, a canary yellow shack on Morrison Road that’s been hustling tamales for a half-dozen years. But the women who make the fleets of tamales in the above snap — they can be seen smearing masa on husks in…

We know we were just in Golden last week — but we couldn’t leave without first visiting Sherpa House, 1518 Washington Avenue, after perusing the restaurant’s menu online. The eatery-slash-cultural-center is decorated inside to resemble an authentic Himalayan home; one dining-room wall features a small stove, another an intricate curio…

Last night’s Broncos-Raiders game was a disaster, sure, but the tailgating and barbecue still went full-steam ahead in the parking lots surrounding Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Photographer Brandon Marshall brings us back these photos from the meats (and beers) of Monday night…

For the past several months, Phil Armstrong, Denver’s prince of pop-up restaurants and one of the first pioneers to bring underground dining to the Mile High City, has been reaching out to chefs, both here and nationally, to give them a platform in which to showcase their culinary prowess in…

Watch for Fluff Bar to open in early October at 1516 Wazee Street. Originally slated to be called Fluff Beauty Bar, the combo hair salon, cocktail lounge and champagne bar dropped “beauty” for reasons that should be obvious — if you’ve ever been to the fourteen-month-old Beauty Bar, at least…

The expanded City, O’ City has been open less than a week, but people have no shortage of opinions on the new, improved space — even if they have yet to see that space in person, and have only read about it here. The comments — both pro and con…