Last night, a platoon of Denver’s top female chefs (and a few of their male counterparts) gathered at Temple Emanuel for Women Cook! Dining for a Difference, a yearly benefit that supports Work Options for Women, a local nonprofit that battles homelessness and poverty by giving underserved women the skills…
Masterpiece Delicatessen hardly needs another reason to give crowds a reason to stop by: The breakfast and lunch eatery has been packing hordes of patrons into its tiny space and downtown-facing patio since it opened three years ago. But Steve Allee and Justin Brunson are about to make the neighborhood…
When Heather Haupman took over La Crema Cafeteria, a bare-bones coffee shop on 44th and Zuni, she was convinced the Sunnyside neighborhood needed a more upscale coffee and breakfast joint. So she remodeled the space, gave it a sunnier feel, and created Hash, which, in addition to Novo coffee and…
Pray to the weather gods that Denver is blessed with balmy breezes this weekend, because the food trucks competing in season two of The Great Food Truck Race, the primetime Food Network series hosted by star chef Tyler Florence, are motoring into town on Saturday and possibly Sunday (along with…
African restaurants are (very) few and far between in Denver, but they do exist, including this one, where plantains, goat meat and rice take center stage. 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 posts is…
Steve Ells, founder of the homegrown Chipotle chain, will have a starring role as the University of Colorado commencement speaker on Friday — just five days after he wrapped up his gig on America’s Next Great Restaurant. In the last episode of that series, Ells and his fellow judges chose…
I love Asian noodles: ramen, pho, Vietnamese bun bo Hue, Nepalese thupka, Taiwanese beef noodle soup. In the winter, I slurp bowl after bowl of hot broth, noodles and chunks of meat, ideally with some animal collagen to make the mix thick, velvety and rib-stickingly hearty. In spring, as the…
For the past few years, when the first whispers of warm weather stirred my annual craving for bibim naeng myun, I inevitably made a beeline straight for Silla, which served what I thought might be the best version of the cold buckwheat noodle dish in the area. But this spring…
The bad economy has been very good to the Friday Store, a business devoted to selling surplus groceries at discount prices. “We are in the unique position that the worse the economy gets, the better our business gets,” says Martin Palumbo. “It’s been a win-win situation all the way around…
You could hear the collective wails emanating from the cafeteria at the University of Denver when news came down that Trompeau Bakery, the petite French bake shop at 1729 East Evans Avenue, was shuttering after a decade — and relocating to a new space that wasn’t within walking distance of…
Amid making plans for ShopHouse, a new fast-casual Asian concept, and running the ever-expanding Denver-based Chipotle empire, Steve Ells has also been busy picking another restaurant concept in which to invest, working alongside Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia to grant a would-be restaurateur the opportunity to run America’s…
Ty Lam had frequented the small Yoisho Japanese Restaurant for over a decade, eating her way through the Japanese menu that’s dotted with Korean influence while getting to know the elderly couple that ran the place. And recently, she asked the owner, Kim Soon, if she could buy the space…
Nearly five years after native Laotian Ma Vue graced Edgewater residents with US Thai Cafe — which offers up some of the best curry in the city — he’s added a second restaurant in Denver: Chef Vue opened in the Town Center in Aurora two weeks ago…
Ron Bryant and Chris Casson, both of whom work in the enterprise business development department of Shamrock Foods, have spent the past year and a half bantering about the attributes of burgers — and how they could erect a burger treasury of their own that would stand buns apart from…
There’s only one restaurant in Denver where I’ve seen this golden Italian beer being poured — and I’d gladly go out of my way to track it down again. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
The metro area gained a cheesesteak spot and lost a cheesesteak spot, it gained a Larkburger and lost a Walk-In Burger (although that venture promises to relocate)…and Hart’s Corner made a comeback. Here’s the Restaurant roll call for April:…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the liver and onions at El Tejado to the green chile hash at Lola to a wet-your-whistle drink at a whistlestop on the edge of town. For correctly whistling up the Copper Rail in Brighton, Dawn wins…
The first party of the Food Truck Warriors was postponed from Saturday because of sorry weather forecasts, and this answer didn’t fit the contest criteria to win free food/drink at the Food Truck Warriors party in any case. Still, we were charmed by this reply from Todd, which shows just…
Of all the magical morning eats, few are more versatile than the breakfast sandwich. Meat, eggs and cheese between two halves of a roll — it’s the perfect morning take-out meal, an excellent way to cure a hangover and an also an ideal option for a lazy weekend when paired…
It’s supposed to snow tomorrow, but it’s a balmy 75 degrees today, and that makes us antsy to go out and socialize — and maybe score some digits to make a date. In Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date thanks to…
Here in Denver, 8 Rivers Cafe owner Wanda James is getting lambasted by Yelpers who don’t take kindly to her calling out Yelp for its questionable filter algorithm. And while she insists that she has no problem with the reviews — and, therefore, no beef with the Yelpers themselves –…
