Food & Drink

Residents of the Ballpark neighborhood finally have a place to go on a grocery run. Dean’s Urban Market, a grocery store in the heart of the Ballpark neighborhood, opened last week, and it’s certainly a welcome addition to the hood. Owner James Dean owns another location in Fairplay, and says…

Mike and Matt Casarez have been running a restaurant in the historic Crook’s Palace since 2008, where they’ve attracted a following with their house-cured bacon, house-baked bread and house-churned ice cream. Over 1,000 flavors of ice cream, in fact, which just landed them in the Guinness Book of World Records…

Quick, what are the hottest restaurants that have opened in Denver since the last time Eater did a heat map of our fair city, chronicling where to eat right this very second?…

Downtown Denver has its share of cute, modern eateries dishing up sandwiches and salads, but the Corner Office still stands out in the crowd. Its so-hip-it-hurts yet still playful decor provides the perfect backdrop for beautiful people sipping martinis and nibbling on the food offerings. Except if you’re eating the…

Thai Wraps @ Tuk Tuk, one of four family-owned operations in metro Denver, has been sold and will change its name to Thai Mango Noodle Bar. The new owner is still a family member, however, and will keep a good part of the fast-casual menu, which focuses on fresh, American-style…

Four months ago, in April, French-born, Los Angeles-based chef Ludo Lefebvre took a road trip to eastern Colorado, where he shot, skinned and butchered a bison. To show his respect for the beast, he then dropped to his knees and took a bite of its heart, still warm and oozing…

MSNBC’s Douglas A. McIntyre recently wrote that the double-dip recession has arrived, a pronouncement that has its share of skeptics (and others who wonder if we ever recovered from the first recession), but double-dip recession or not, there’s nothing wrong with pinching pennies, which is what I did yesterday, ordering…

After ten years as executive chef at the McCormick & Schmick’s in the Denver Tech Center, Jeff Mahony left his post in May and flew over to The Perfect Landing, the destination restaurant located on the second floor of the Denver Jet Center at Centennial Airport. The move was prompted…

Andy Martinez, the exec chef of Citron New World Bistro, isn’t a fan of the Bitchin’ Kitchen. In fact, for his recent Chef and Tell interview, he offered this in answer to the question of which celebrity chef should shut up: The chick on the Cooking Channel’s Bitchin’ Kitchen. She…

The steakhouse’s business card proclaims that Westerkamps is closed Sundays to honor God. It was also closed on a recent Saturday so that the entire staff could head up to Loveland for Heavenfest, a massive gathering featuring workshops, speakers and a lot of God rock. I know this because I…

Growing up, I spent summer vacations with a pack of cousins, running around a small town in North Dakota, and while the walleye was plentiful, as were the pan-baked dessert bars, the area was not known for its culinary treats. Meals, whether served in a restaurant or the basement of…

The sign haphazardly taped to the door of Leobardo’s Taco Shop, a 24/7 street-taco shack at 825 South Federal that’s one of our frequent pit stops for a fast lunch (or late-night feast) of tacos al vapor, has been in place since last Thursday (at least), which begs the question:…

I woke up slightly hungover the other morning — though not terribly so: These days, I prefer to maintain a buzz rather than chase one down. Still, I happened to have maintained that buzz a bit too long the night before and didn’t feel like doing much for the duration…

When Curt and Deicy Steinbecker opened Ondo’s Spanish Tapas Bar in late 2009, they wanted to give Denver a true Spanish experience, channeling the country where they’d met and learned to cook. And in that spirit, they’re importing another of their favorite Iberian traditions: the Basque pintxos happy hour…

Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen is celebrating its first anniversary tomorrow night with a pig-centric party, which exec chef Jorel Pierce promises will be “a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout.” We imagine it’ll be all that and more — and one really, really lucky Cafe Society reader, who entered our free-ticket…

After garnering a legion of fans at the original Mona’s Restaurant on 15th Street, which features a pair of high-heeled legs dangling above the door, Linda and Garen Austin opened a second location on South Broadway, followed by a third Mona’s Cafe on 17th Avenue and Sherman Street, which began…

The woman who runs the Thai street cart on the 16th Mall? You know — the one that commands queues that sometimes stretch beyond an hour during the lunch rush? The same Thai street cart that we heaped praise on in this year’s Best of Denver? That cart? Yeah, well,…

So many coffee shops… so few actually doing coffee and espresso drinks right. And even fewer that are owned or operated by people who really know their beans. Eric Yochim knows his beans…

If you haven’t been to this roadside institution that’s been slinging breakfasts for more than eighty years (the chef, by the way, is a Culinary Institute of America grad), then you’re really missing out: The eggs, with their marigold yolks, are plucked fresh off the farm, and the ham, bacon…