Over the weekend, during brunch at the Ballpark Snooze, 2262 Larimer Street, we endured the joint’s inevitable hour-long waits for a pancake flight and eggs Benny by soaking up the Colorado sunshine on the patio. Despite the fact that the morning temps were in the fifties — a welcome relief…
Every year, in the July issue, the editors of Food & Wine magazine announce who they believe are the top ten best new chefs in the country — chefs like Fruition’s Alex Seidel, for example, who was named a 2010 Best New Chef and strutted his culinary prowess at the…
The city has just issued its revised Food Truck Guide — a new document that pulls together all the old rules that still regulate the operation of mobile food vendors in this city. Yes, some seem contradictory, others very outdated, as councilmembers acknowledged at a committee meeting three weeks ago,…
Some people thought this refashioned green chile looked delicious. Others, like WFK, did not: I can’t believe i am the first one to say that.. this is the absolute worst and unappealing looking dishes i have ever seen. Is this Willy Wonka’s take on a 5th grade birthday party? Please…
On a Friday night, the vibrant yellow building on Federal Boulevard that houses the original Bubba Chinos is packed. A tented stand in front of the place displays a maze of T-shirts; inside, a woman is hawking pirated DVDs. The adults socializing in the equally yellow, cement-floored lobby and dining…
Stella Cordova had ten children and dozens of grandchildren — and Leonard Cordova isn’t the only one to build a business on her legacy. Three years ago, Leonard’s cousin Alex Cordova exported Chubby’s to Hawaii, doling out that same jalapeño gravy to islanders while learning to surf. But after Stella…
No. 69: Mais pizza from Pizzeria Locale “This is the oven that nearly bankrupted us,” says Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, peering into the behemoth Stefano Ferrara oven, a floor-to-ceiling labor of love, shipped direct from Italy, that’s constructed from volcanic rock culled from Mt. Vesuvius. It’s a stunning piece of craftsmanship that,…
It’s 11:30 a.m. on Valentine’s Day, and I am the only patron at Hooters, that mammary mecca on Parker Road. With a big beer in front of me and a server with cleavage to match, I inquire about today’s special. It’s all about the wings: buy ten boneless or traditional…
Mile High Pizza Pie, the downtown pizzeria currently hustling a 7.5-pound calzone that, should you successfully stuff it down your piehole, will likely cause your heart to stop, is offering a gentler, kinder Valentine’s Day pizza to make your heart beat faster. For the remainder of the day, the pie…
Weird. Just weird. That was the overriding observation last night at Skew, the globalized food-on-a-stick restaurant that Ton Phairatphibon opened at 2070 South University Boulevard exactly one month ago. A small crowd, assembled on the patio, puffed on smokes, shook their heads in unison and talked quietly among themselves, looking…
While my New Year’s resolution to try out the “Top five foods to get you laid on New Year’s Eve” proved less than fruitful, all my research did help me come up with the “Top five foods that will not get you laid.” Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here…
It’s hard to find a bona fide bouillabaisse in this town, and while the bath of seafood in the above pic didn’t bowl me over, it was a valiant attempt — if not exactly ooh-la-la. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
If you’ve ever sat on the 11,000 square-foot patio at the Tavern Downtown before a spring Rockies game, you know that it’s not a bad place to be, and according to Nightclub & Bar, a national bar management publication, it’s the best place for a sports fan to be in…
With Valentine’s Day upon us once again, love is in the air. Birds are tweeting, butterflies are floating on the gentle breeze, and Internet connections are blinking away as the lovelorn hit up their hard-working little modems and wireless routers to locate a date. Finding that date can be as…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a big buffalo burger at Walk-In Burgers, to the refashioned green chile from Squeaky Bean that one reader compared to a Willy Wonka birthday party plate, to a delicious piece of pie. For correctly identifying…
While restaurants across town are touting last-second Valentine’s Day specials, some readers made their plans long ago: to stay home. Mmmmgood explains why in this response to Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds rant: I love me some restaurants and get out to as many as I can as…
Last October, Opas Sinprasong — a Thai national who once owned Siamese Plate, Siamese Plate on the Go and Sumida’s in Boulder and Louisville — pleaded guilty to harboring illegal aliens and failure to pay taxes. Yesterday he was sentenced: The restaurateur will do time, pay a hefty sum and…
No. 70: Curried split pea soup from Modmarket Laptop geeks? Everywhere. Colorado-centric surfaces, most of them reclaimed, recycled or re-purposed? Definitely. A futuristic, fashion-forward restaurant design? Yes, that, too. Bubbling brick-oven pizzas, housemade sparkling waters, organic iced teas and leafy salads mixed with good-looking, mostly organic ingredients? Check. A vegan,…
For the past few years, Pho So 1 has hawked pho and beef noodle soup from its free-standing spot at 1195 South Federal Boulevard. But at the beginning of this year, it was sold to a new owner — and became Pho Le. And that new owner, whose name is…
Things have gone, uh, smashingly for Denver-based Smashburger since it first opened on Colorado Boulevard back in 2007, serving American classics that have won over many burger-hungry diners. The chain has readily expanded since then, opening close to one hundred additional outposts from sea to shining sea. It’s about to…
On the last night of 2010 — New Year’s Eve — Charles MacDonald, the former chef de cuisine of Z Cuisine, the superb (and proper) French bistro in Highland pioneered by chef/owner Patrick DuPays and his wife, Lynnde, cooked his last dinner on the line. MacDonald had just accepted a…
Ever time I blow through the door at this, one of our favorite Denver restaurants, I fall completely head over heels for the menu, easily one of the most playful and provocative in the city, in part, thanks to the chef, who continues to push the culinary envelope, dropping bombshells…
