Yes, it looks pretty, but food, as we know, isn’t just about appearances. Flavor counts — a lot — and in the case of this paella, there wasn’t much flavor, if any, to be found, making me wonder if the kitchen was completely bereft of saffron, paprika, garlic, onions, salt…
On Sunday, September 22,DISH will dish out food and drinks from dozens of Cafe Society’s favorite restaurants and trucks, including Pink Tank, in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Pink Tank’s offering? Its award-winning Finger Lickin’ Waffles & Chicken dish — hold the chicken. See also: Best Food…
At this time of year many people start thinking about putting their gardens to bed. But chef Pat Perry has put the entire Highland’s Garden Cafe to bed. At the end of service on Saturday, August 31, the restaurant — two linked Victorian houses surrounded by lush gardens — closed…
Growing up, I loved visiting my grandmother’s house because of everything she cooked. Now grown up, I still think she made the best American country cuisine I’ve ever tasted. One of the dishes she always had in her fridge was homemade applesauce. Much like homemade vegetable broth, applesauce made from…
There can never be too much pho, yo? Just a few weeks ago, Pho Real opened in Littleton, and now, Pho 007, another Vietnamese noodle parlor, has unlocked its doors at 389 West Littleton Boulevard, in the former space of Jade Dragon. The menu, which includes several starters, twelve variations…
On Sunday, September 22, DISH will dish out delicious food and drinks from dozens of Cafe Society’s favorite restaurants and food trucks in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. To whet your appetite for what’s ahead, in the coming days we’ll be serving a look at the…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from an Italian beef sandwich from Mustard’s Last Stand — a sandwich that was shredded to pieces by commenters — to a plate of burrata and beets from Locanda del Borgo that had commenters salivating. We also featured a…
Josh Schwab’s doughnuts may be glazed, but he’s not confused about where his business is going. After nearly a year of selling doughnuts at farmers’ markets and a few cafes, the owner of Glazed and Confuzed Doughnuts is ready to open the doors of a new brick-and-mortar shop this fall…
Tamayo, the modern Mex restaurant that Richard Sandoval opened on the edge of Larimer Square a dozen years ago, wasn’t looking so modern last winter. That’s when the internationally renowned restaurateur put a million bucks into an update of the space. In her current review, Gretchen Kurtz suggests that Tamayo’s…
This week Gretchen Kurtz visits the remodeled Tamayo — the second Mexican eatery in Richard Sandoval’s global chain of restaurants, which he first opened a dozen years ago in Larimer Square — for her review, while Carrie Shores of Table 6 spoke with Lori Midson about how she’s always found…
What defines an essential restaurant? Several opinionated friends and I were recently discussing that topic during dinner at a trendy newcomer that’s amassed a flurry of flattery since opening its doors. It’s a restaurant-of-the-moment, but will it still be relevant in six months? Will the crowds continue to jam the…
More than a dozen new restaurants opened this month — some, like Comida in the Source, new spots in ancient, converted spaces, and other old favorites reborn in the same places, including Angelo’s Taverna, in the forty-year-old home of Angelo’s. The scene also lost some mainstays, with Cafe Berlin closing…
“This heirloom tomato salad represents me as a chef, pure and simple,” says Carrie Shores, exec chef of Table 6 and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview. The salad, a dish on the restaurant’s current menu “is how I eat every day, and now is the perfect…
Aside from the misplaced green peppers (Why do they always taste like dirt?), this joint’s version of an Italian beef sandwich isn’t bad (more gravy, please) — but it definitely doesn’t outshine the wieners, for which the place is renowned. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Fast-food workers struck around the globe yesterday, including at two Denver-area McDonald’s locations, demanding an increase in the minimum wage — to $15 an hour in this country. Do fast-food workers deserve $15 an hour? With Labor Day looming, more than a hundred readers weighed in on that question yesterday…
Angelo’s is back — under a slightly new name, with new owners — but back. Almost forty years after it first opened on East Sixth Avenue, Angelo’s closed at the end of May for three months of renovations, and reopened as Angelo’s Taverna last week. While much of the place…
For years, The Thin Man has attracted an eclectic crowd of patrons to a space that’s just as eclectic. Inside, you’ll find red mood lighting and walls crowded with Jesus figurines, crosses and saint portraits; outside, you’ll find both a welcoming front patio and, in back, a glorified parking-lot-turned-relaxation-haven. See…
Trying to find a memorable fresh clam linguine in this city is a lot like panning for gold coins in Clear Creek (good luck with that), but as luck would have it, I struck culinary gold at this Italian restaurant, whose chef must have read my mind. Can you guess…
Justin Cucci, perhaps more than any chef-restaurateur in this city, is full of surprises. Who would have thought, for example, that the New York native whose prominent rise to fame in Denver was the result of two citified restaurants in the hip Highland ‘hood, would ever consider opening a restaurant…
I loved the mole at Tamayo, the restaurant I review this week, and it got me thinking about another mole I’ve loved over the years. Not coincidentally, it was made by a Tamayo veteran, Sean Yontz, who learned the secrets of this complex sauce from a woman in Oaxaca who…
Carrie Shores Table 6 609 Corona Street 303-831-8800 table6denver.com This is part two of my interview with Carrie Shores, chef of Table 6; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most noteworthy meal you’ve ever eaten: I don’t remember the name of the place, but it was this small hole-in-the-wall…
After months…and months…and months of hungry impatience on the part of Denverites yearning for a year-round culinary showroom, The Source, a promising — and pioneering — new project from urban developers Mickey and Kyle Zeppelin, the progressive trailblazers behind the TAXI development in River North, unveils its first tenant today:…
