Food truckery exploded in Denver in 2010; every week it seemed like there was a new mobile kitchen rolling through town. That’s why we added Best Food Truck to our readers’ poll for this year’s Best of Denver awards, along with Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date and Best Cupcake…
While comments continue to fly over Rush Limbaugh’s response to Michelle Obama’s visit to Vail and Amber Taufen’s open letter to militant vegans (148 comments and counting), some readers are fed up with controversy. If you can’t stand the heat, get back in the kitchen. That’s what Scubasteve did, getting…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
It’s full speed ahead for Leonard Cordova and Bubba Chinos. The restaurateur has four or five more locations in the pipeline for spring, and two new stores just opened today. One is at 88th and York in Thornton. The other is in the University Hill food court in Boulder, a…
In 2000, brothers Abe and Pierre Dagher closed Cedars, a Lebanese joint on Federal Boulevard they’d owned for fourteen years, and went their separate ways, exiting the restaurant industry for other trades. But now they’re back together — and back in the business: In mid-January, they opened Shawarma Mediterranean Grill…
With three outposts in the metro area (555 Broadway, 2390 South Colorado Boulevard and 5535 Wadsworth Boulevard in Arvada), it’s no surprise that Kokoro has become a go-to lunch and dinner destination for people craving a quick Japanese-style meal. (The South Colorado Boulevard and Arvada locations even have drive-thru facilities.)…
There’s a new suburban sushi pit stop in town that’s all of a month old, but judging from the full house over the weekend, it’s already generated a loyal following of revelers starving for sustenance that doesn’t end in “burger” or “Grill.” Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Toby Keith’s favorite thing on the menu of the chain of restaurants named after his hit song? The fried baloney sandwich. While in town yesterday for the official grand opening of Northfield Stapleton’s Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, the ninth and largest of the locations that actually…
Former Denver Nuggets superstar Carmelo Anthony touched down in the Big Apple on Monday night as the newest bright light of the New York Knicks, part of a three-team trade that will reward the latest Knick forward, who plays his first game tonight at Madison Square Garden, with a whopping…
Geoffrey Groditski The Fort 19192 Highway 8, Morrison 303-697-4771 www.thefort.com This is part one of my interview with Geoffrey Groditski, executive chef of The Fort. Part two of my interview with Groditski will run in this space tomorrow. Less than 24 hours before the Valentine’s Day stampede, the kitchen at…
It’s been a big week for Kelly Liken of Vail’s Restaurant Kelly Liken, who was named a James Beard semi-finalist for Best Chef: Southwest (for the third time) — and then fed Michelle Obama and three friends over the weekend. Liken recently competed on Top Chef, and Michelle Obama heard…
Should Rush Limbaugh have commented at all on Michelle Obama’s visit to Vail — much less suggest that the First Lady, who has made childhood obesity her major cause, had no business eating short ribs? And did Cafe Society have any business getting into this political food fight? The answer…
I played a lot of hooky in high school. Especially during sixth period, an unpalatable world geography lesson that started, somewhat inconveniently, right around noon. So I frequently used this 47-minute time slot for an entirely different kind of geographical education: exploring the culinary landscape of the Denver Tech Center…
Sauce is a condiment. In my opinion, it’s optional.” So says Don Hines, who owns Yazoo Barbeque Company, located in a strip mall across Arapahoe Road from the barbecue joint where Jabo Lawson makes 125 varieties of sauce. Though the two restaurants are just yards from each other, they’re on…
I used to frequent Jabo’s Bar-Be-Q back when it was a three-day-a-week cart operation, feeding hordes of Tech Center lunchers and hooky-playing high-schoolers in a vacant lot off I-25. And I loved the joint, both for the food coming off the mobile smoker and for Jabo Lawson, the jovial man…
No. 67: Frico caldo from Frasca Food & Wine Colorado’s pope of Friulian cooking, Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson is a madman on the stove, a genius who bats around a menu that’s full of wonderous dishes, and one of the few chefs we know who wears a toque — and wears it…
Ask a Jew about his or her main dream in life. Some look for spiritual enlightenment, others just crave happiness. Most mothers want their children to finish their law or doctoral degrees. But a few of us Chosen have set our sights on the Jimmy’s Favorite sandwich at Jimmy &…
A smashing burger, a great bar with friendly tenders and awesome beers. You’ll get all of those and more at this neighborhood watering hole that’s one of our favorite new hangs for camaraderie, drunken debauchery and making sue that we waddle off with a full belly. Can you guess where…
Hundreds of foodniks with big hearts made the trek to the downtown Sheraton hotel last night for one of the year’s most heartwarming events: Soup for the Soul, a benefit that provides bowlfuls of comfort to patients of Porter Hospice and St. Anthony Hospice, both of which provide hospice care…
Michelle Obama spent her Presidents’ Weekend without the president and with her daughters in Vail, where she skied, dined and managed to get the conservative media so riled up they called her fat. We know that the First Lady has made battling childhood obesity her personal cause — but we…
The news this past weekend was shocking: The owners of the Rocky Mountain Diner, a fixture in downtown Denver for two decades, had been unable to come to a lease agreement with the space’s owner, attorney Frances Konciljia, and on Friday had gotten an eviction notice: The restaurant had to…
Mark Dym isn’t a big proponent of hoopla or fanfare, and today’s opening of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria at Vallagio at Inverness, Peter Kudla’s “Midtown” retail, resident and restaurant development just off Dry Creek and I-25, was soft and quiet. By 2:30 p.m., fifty people, several of them families, had wandered…
