Howie Drummond, an Alice 105.9 personality, was one of fifteen contestants to start off season seven of The Next Food Network Star last Sunday. Drummond, who lives in Highlands Ranch, had experience in professional kitchens, had owned his own now-closed tapas place, and had plenty of experience in front of…
If you’ve got a full calendar tomorrow, clear it. Motoring on the heels of Civic Center Eats, the Justice League of Street Food bash, which kicked off its summer season last Saturday, and before that, the Food Truck Renegades grub fest that took center stage when nearly a dozen food…
The former Boulder Draft House space sat empty for months, until restaurateur George Hanna decided to pick up the lease and open Los Oasis Latin Grill & Cerveceria, an upscale spot with a menu inspired by southern Mexican — particularly Oaxacan — cooking, and a name that resurrects memories of…
Before Olav Peterson and his wife, Melissa, opened Bittersweet in an old remodeled gas station at the very end of December, they flanked the patios with massive planters. The plan was to grow their own produce and herbs. And now that summer — and prime growing season — is here,…
At last night’s Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation gastronomic romp, thirty restaurants fed hundreds of bellies at Mile High Station as part of the non-profit’s effort to end childhood hunger in Colorado. Along with sensational foodstuffs, the soiree also pimped some of the city’s best star-tenders, who battled…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting people…
Always on the hunt for al pastor tacos, I found what I was looking for (and a whole lot more) at an off-the-beaten-path taqueria far from Federal Boulevard. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse, the self-described “goof” talks about his biggest cooking disaster (he made a bride spill tears — but not on purpose); the culinary wizardry of Troy Guard; his addiction to acid; and the trials and tribulations…
Back in April, a street sweeper almost wiped out the Famous Dave’s in Stapleton when it crashed into the front of the building. Although the dining room reopened the next day, the bar area had suffered more damage and has been shuttered since April 18. But today the bar will…
If you can’t make it to Paris, this sweet little wine bar will do in a pinch. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
Okay, I admit it: I’ve never heard of the The Vaccines, a British punk rock band that Rolling Stone magazine calls “Hopped-Up Romantics Ruling the U.K. Charts,” which is rather strange, since the music mag compares the group of four to Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain, both…
Restaurants go dark all the time — even the best ones — but nonetheless, when I read the e-mail yesterday from Virgilio Urbano, announcing that he’d abruptly closed the original Virgilio’s in Lakewood, across the street from Belmar, I was stupefied. Frankly, I was beyond stupefied. The pizzeria is one…
Eight years ago, thanks to the money she was able to scrape together from refinancing her car, Annie Vick opened the first Pinocchios, a restaurant in Longmont that serves Italian classics like chicken marsala, spaghetti and meatballs, and manicotti. Since then, she’s been franchising, expanding into four privately owned locations…
A one-time Westword Best of Denver winner for its burger, this iconic restaurant and bar still draws a posse of politicos, power brokers and influential media types, but the majority of the wheeling and dealing takes place at lunch, while the dining room sits eerily barren during dinner. Can you…
Pam Read has owned Goddess Catering, a local catering business, for a few years — and when Satchel’s Market vacated its digs in Park Hill (the owners relocated to a spot next to Oliver’s market, where they created Satchel’s on 6th) — she jumped at the chance to expand into…
Chris Cina Hideaway Steakhouse 2345 West 112th Avenue, Westminster 303-404-9939 www.hideawaysteakhouse.com This is part two of my interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Zuni Cafe in San Francisco. I worked with Sean Kelly…
Dunkin’ Donuts is being sued again. Danielle Jordan, 47, a diabetic, alleges that the cup of coffee she ordered from her local DDs was laced with sugar instead of the artificial sweetener she’d asked for, and is seeking “unspecified damages” (code for a shload of coinage) after allegedly experiencing physical…
It was bun while it lasted: Eco-Burger has closed in Cherry Creek. David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, who also owned the now-defunct Q Worldly Barbecue, opened the burger spot exactly a year ago in the former home of Soleil Mediterranean Grill, which they’d closed three months earlier…
The news that Brian Laird, who lasted a decade at Barolo, is out after just a few months at at Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern , the restaurant that Peter Kudla put in his Vallagio project, has generated lots of response, including this from Tico: Know the feeling, I once ran…
In Greek mythology, Kaos is the universe and Gaia the earth — and the two are lovers, intertwined counterparts that create the existing world. Kaos Pizzeria, which opened two years ago, is the counterpart of Gaia Bistro, the five-year-old restaurant on South Pearl Street owned by Patrick Mangold-White and Jon…
No one goes hungry at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation — and that’s the whole premise behind tomorrow night’s gastronomic blowout that showcases the mad skills of more than thirty Denver kitchens and their virtuosos, all of whom congregate under one roof to feed fervent foodniks in an…
Daniel Klein’s resume includes some of the best restaurants in the world, restaurants including The Fat Duck and St. John in England, Thomas Keller’s Bouchon and Tom Colicchio’s Craft. Now he’s producing The Perennial Plate, a weekly web series about sustainable eating. While the first season focused on the kitchen,…
