Maybe it’s time to go back to school — cooking school, that is. Several friends have taken classes recently, and even the kitchen-savvy veterans who have been cooking for decades have come away with new recipes and refined techniques. And when I reviewed Il Posto this week, I learned that…
Occasionally while driving, I’ll take a break from scanning the strip malls for the next great undiscovered hole in the wall. To occupy my time in the car, I’ll tune the radio to sports talk to be amused by just how far past the end of the Broncos’ football season…
The Internet is on fire with photos, memes and commentary about yet another f*cked up note left on a receipt. This one is courtesy of a St. Louis pastor, Alois Bell, who was miffed at an automatic gratuity assessed her large group at Applebee’s, inspiring her to scrawl her now-infamous…
Duck, duck…meatballs — and just in time for Monday’s opening of the Slotted Spoon, but these duck orbs are not from Jensen Cumming’s new meatball hut. They were, however, the best dish I tried on a menu that’s now overseen by a new chef after the opening kitchen commander made…
Curtis Caldwell — beloved partner, brother, son, friend, chef, philanthropist, master hula-hooper, magician and one of the kindest souls the Denver restaurant community has ever known — passed away just under a week ago at Denver Health. And while we continue to try and cope with his loss, the Vesta…
Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend, which means everyone will be turning their attention to New Orleans, where the annual championship game will be played. If you weren’t able to make it to the Big Easy, it’s still easy to get your Cajun food fix right here in Denver at…
Holy tequila! What a difference a cool million makes. That’s the approximate coinage spent on remodeling Tamayo, Richard Sandoval’s modern Mexican restaurant in Larimer Square that was closed just under four weeks to significantly upgrade the two-tiered space, which now looks like a brand new restaurant that fits beautifully into…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beloved restaurant, brewery or shop in possession of a good reputation also has no shortage of negative Yelp reviews. Denver’s best (and worst) have been served with plenty of them, with Yelpers yapping about everything from bad service to bad salsa, bad…
If you’re one of those optimistic types who think that you can haul a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken to a Super Bowl shindig and generate a touchdown for your meager efforts, you might want to rethink your place on the playing field, because the people who created the ten…
In January, there’s often a shake-out in the dining scene. But while twenty new restaurants opened in metro Denver last month, including Corner House with chef Matt Selby at the helm, there were relatively few closings. And two longtime fixtures on the scene — Jax Fish House in LoDo and…
Under the Sun, the new, “slightly upscale” restaurant and taphouse created by the owners of the Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries group, is now open in the space underneath Southern Sun Pub & Brewery at 627 South Broadway in Boulder. The eatery features 21 in-house beers on tap, as well…
Buried beneath all that roughage is a hearty winter soup, a medley of black-eyed peas, diced ham and vegetables, that paired with a hefty sandwich, is the ideal dinner on a blustery day. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Paul Nagan Zink Kitchen + Bar 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-779-1559 www.zinkdtc.com This is part two of my interview with Paul Nagan, exec chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar; part one of our interview ran yesterday. Favorite dish on your menu: I like our housemade lamb sausage. We…
For the last several months, Duy Pham, who solidified his cooking prowess years ago at the long-departed, French-inspired Tante Louise, has been working on opening Epernay, a splashy new downtown restaurant and Champagne lounge near the Denver Center for the Performing Arts — a restaurant with a small kitchen, and…
Culver’s, home of the ButterBurger, was recently named the number-one fast-food chain for food and beverage on Chain Restaurant Consumer’s Choice Award list. And with nine Colorado locations for Culver’s, if you haven’t yet indulged yourself with one — or more– of its hand-spun frozen custard concretes or a sandwich…
Denver diners love their burgers — big or small, beefy or veggie, gourmet or greasy. Best Burger is always one of the most hotly contested categories in our Best of Denver Readers’ Poll (find the Best of Denver 2013 poll here), and we’ve got our buns on the run testing…
Are Brussels sprouts the new beets? For years, chefs delighted in turning the slippery red vegetable that nobody liked as a kid into one we couldn’t wait to eat, glass of white in hand, with dollops of goat cheese and a light douse of vinaigrette. Now chefs have taken on…
Subway may have run into trouble by shorting the measurements of its footlong sandwiches, but the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses has gotten nothing but kudos for the rule change it made late last summer, allowing “bona fide restaurants” within 500 feet of a school to apply for a…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard – south to north – within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Beloved Curtis Caldwell – my belief is that your radiant soul is making its journey to the next life and when you get there it will be the most vibrant place with more colors than you can ever imagine even exist. And of course, hundreds and hundreds of hoola hoops…
Paul Nagan Zink Kitchen + Bar 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-779-1559 www.zinkdtc.com This is part one of my interview with Paul Nagan, exec chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar; part two of our interview will run tomorrow. I was always interested in cooking,” says Paul Nagan. “My grandparents…
With the help of water that replicates the liquid assets coming from taps of New York City, Joshua Pollack is now creating what could be the best bagels west of the Hudson River with his and his Rosenberg’s Bagels at Gather, the full-service cafe that opened this month in Galvanize…
