During my many trips to Tamales Moreno, I couldn’t help but wonder about all the crowds packing into Tamale Kitchen right across the street. What was I missing? One day last week, I decided to find out. It was lunchtime, and the boxy building was, as usual, packed with people:…
For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary celebration of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year’s Dish, slated for Friday, September 9, at Ninth Avenue Historic Park, promises to be bigger and better than…
“Wanting more time to work out the kinks,” Cebiche Authentic Peruvian Dining will be sticking to its abbreviated menu for a little longer than expected, says Colleen Hutt, manager and wife of owner Sergio Iraola. Initially, this Cebiche — which is not to be confused with the Cebiche on West…
I needed a reason to get out of the house the other day, so I decided to drive to Boulder to check out the farmers’ market. I knew that I might be wasting my time in leaving so late since the good stuff gets bought up fairly quickly. But it…
For decades, Gregg Pike has served breakfast, lunch and dinner to diners, drinkers and pool players at his joint on East Colfax in Aurora: Wolf’s Restaurant & Lounge. But now he’s calling it quits. Pike lost his lease on the building, and yesterday was Wolf’s last day. When the restaurant…
Nothing on the regular menu of the Kitchen [Next Door] climbs above $10. But if you want to eat and drink for really cheap at this new, pub-like Boulder spot, the best time to stop by is during the newly introduced Community Hour, when a special menu of snacks and…
The University of Colorado’s football team is in a new conference this year, meaning the Buffs will be hanging with (and losing to) the likes of USC, UCLA, Oregon, Cal, Arizona, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington. And while that means Boulder will get some high-profile visitors, it also means the…
When chef/owner Justin Cucci decided to follow the success of Root Down with a makeover of the old Olinger mortuary, the result was a breathtaking restaurant space, with decor in both the dining room and the second-floor bar that’s both gorgeous and amusing, full of subtle (and not-so-subtle) references to…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a sad, gray tampiquena steak to a decorative cappucino to this rare sour ale. For correctly identifying it as coming from the Bull & Bush, Rev_Ed wins an EatDenver deck…
Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, the latest effort by Robert Thompson (Argyll, Brasserie Rouge), opens today in the former home of Baur’s. Lori Midson was there last week for a sneak peak of executive chef Sergio Romero’s menu, which Thompson calls “everyday French comfort food,” and her photos had…
When I walked into Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, all I could say was “wow.” It seemed like mankind’s greatest invention: Titular entertainment at a “breasteraunt” supplemented by table games. But somehow, Hooters fell flat. The casino is now in a Silicon valley-sized hole, in debt to the tune…
Eden is the latest revamp of the capacious space at 3090 Downing Street that previously held Swallows, Blackberries Bar and Tosh’s Hacienda, among others. Opened by the folks behind Tracks, who now own the building, Eden is designed as a lesbian bar. “We appreciate the spectrum, of course,” says general…
That’s not just any beer: That’s a sour ale — a rare sour ale that I got the last of earlier this week at a bar whose beer roster gets better by the day. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
After exploring the reinvented hamburgers at both Crave and Highland Tap and Burger for this week’s reviews, I decided to belly up to the bar at the Keg in LoDo before a concert…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Kevin Taylor, who now runs six restaurants in Colorado, including his namesake temple of gastronomy in the Hotel Teatro, reveals that his last meal on earth would be “foie gras, roast chicken and chocolate while looking out over the view of Paris.” I’m…
Denver could certainly use a few more good barbecue options, and we may get one more soon: One Republic’s Ryan Tedder has just become a franchisee of New York-based Southern Hospitality BBQ, which dishes up Memphis-style ‘cue. And Denver, where the singer is based, is on his list of cities…
For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary blowout of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year, Dish will be bigger and better than ever — and at a new venue: Ninth Avenue Historic Park…
“It’s all about the rotisserie,” claims Bob Van Diest, a broker associate married to a Peruvian woman who, along with their sons, Ryan and Jason, will soon open La Polleria, a Peruvian-style chicken shop at 7422 South University, in Centennial…
Just over a year ago, when I interviewed Mike Delmonico about his new beer and doughnut house on Tennyson Street, I asked him if he was concerned about what he’d named the joint: He was calling it The Hole, which, frankly, struck me as the worst name ever for a…
Jesse Morreale’s plans to emphasize burgers and the Broncos at Rockbar, with longtime Borolo Grill chef Brian Laird in that huge hotel kitchen behind and below the dive bar, got a major grilling from readers. Wrote ByeByeBirdie: I met my wife at Rockbar. It was a blind date, so to…
Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant that opened last Saturday at 7000 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, does not have the same ownership as the Peruvian restaurant also named Cebiche that reopened on West 32nd Avenue a few months ago. Sergio Iraola, the chef/owner of the West 38th Avenue Cebiche, once…
Late yesterday afternoon, the opening crew of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Robert Thompson’s new French restaurant at 1512 Curtis Street, assembled in the kitchen to get a taste of executive chef Sergio Romero’s menu, which Thompson calls “everyday French comfort food.” Le Grand, he says, “is not trying…
