Restaurants

While gourmet trucks and other mobile food outfits continued to roll out in August, a number of brick-and-mortar establishments opened their doors, too. Keep reading for our list:…

Gray’s Coors Tavern and the Sunset Inn go head to head — make that slopper to slopper — tonight on Food Wars on the Travel Channel. A slopper is a messy delicacy unique to Pueblo: an open-face cheeseburger served in a soup bowl, and covered with red or green chile…

The last time I spoke with Nhanh Tran, the co-owner of Pho-natic, he described his mother, Oi Nguyen, as the “most generous woman in the world.” She’s renowned for giving away food to friends and family, 500 egg rolls at a time, he told me…

When Larimer Associates envisioned Ernie’s Bar & Pizza, the new/old restaurant that opened last December at 2915 West 44th Avenue, they hoped it would become a neighborhood spot. And they did their best to ensure it, by designing the space in a way that would encourage patrons to use it…

A little help, please! A reader just made this fascinating request: “I’m organizing a night with my wife involving all things tiny. We are renting a Smart car and hopefully trying some of Denver’s smallest food and drink establishments. Unfortunately, a Google search has yielded very little information, so I…

Boulder-based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky is renowned for using viral tactics and edgy (and sometimes controversial) campaigns to turn around floundering companies and proliferate products or ideas that, prior to their input, had little airtime…

Another day, another street food truck. Denver chef and restaurant consultant Michel Wahaltere, who’s had his spoon in way too many soups to mention (short list: 9th Door, SportsBook, 5 Degrees, MiniBAR, Cucina Colore,), is officially taking his skills to the streets. Wahaltere, along with Mark Strazisar (Lucky Star, Sutra,…

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a homegrown chain founded by Alon Mor in 2007, will open its eleventh Front Range restaurant tomorrow at 2466 South Colorado Boulevard. And today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Garbanzo is partnering with the National Sports Center for the Disabled on a private, pre-opening fundraiser at the…

I’m batshit crazy for Ethiopian food, which may explain why three of my dinners this past week have consisted of floppy injera, minchet, sambusas, kitfo, kikil and lamb and beef tibs, some of which are heaped on a communal platter at the restaurant where the above pic was snapped. Can…

The vividly-hued building on the corner of 28th and Fairfax in North Park Hill is about to lose a tenant. The owners of the five-year-old Satchel’s Market, 5021 East 28th Avenue, are shuttering the market-cum-neighborhood-restaurant that we recently reviewed, citing issues with the landlord and lease…

Harvest Week is over, but the eating will continue for Tom Ward, who won an EatDenver deck for his mouth-watering description of a Harvest Week dinner at Panzano, which you can read here. Tom, send your address to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send you the deck, with $520 worth of discounts…

It was only a matter of time before urban street food went suburban, and first (that we know of, anyway) to bring the street food movement to suburban asphalt are bigwigs Chris Amato, Peter Kudla and Rob Kuck, the visionaries behind the Vallagio at Inverness, which will soon unmask several…

It takes balls! There’s a new testicle-related world record, and it was set right here in Colorado. This weekend, the Lady Luck Casino in Black Hawk hosted a Major League Eating-sanctioned competitive eating contest, charging competitors with the task of downing as many Rocky Mountain Oysters as they could in…

A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I’ve been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger, the contestants less interesting — and the food just a secondary player. In context,…

Last week, four Denver restaurants — Fruition, Root Down, Squeaky Bean and Colt & Gray — got some major love from New York Times scribe Jay Cheshes, who spotlighted the restaurants’ field-to-fork endeavors. But The Times wasn’t the only paper doling out love to Denver: USA Today, in its round-up…

On August 15, the Food Network unleashed the premier of The Great Food Truck Race, in which seven teams comprised of the country’s top food truck slingers hit the asphalt to wheel around the country, all in an effort to sell the most food in whichever challenge city they’re parked…

By partnering with established Denver chefs and restaurateurs, Larimer Associates, which owns Larimer Square, has been pushing new joints not just in the Square, but in neighborhoods around the city. Each of those restaurants is strategically designed to integrate seamlessly into its surroundings, drawing on the history of the building…

See that big-ass burger up top? That’s the small version. Torpedoed with a chile relleno and other requisite toppings, It’s the newest addition to a board that’s already submerged in burger culture — although these aren’t your everyday burgers. Clearly. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Although EatDenver’s Harvest Week — a cornucopia of special menus featuring Colorado’s produce and products at Denver’s independent restaurants — just ended, there’s still one last course to serve up: a DINR deck, which gives you $520 in discounts at members of Eat Denver (formerly known as Denver’s Independent Network…

Cafe Society served up just three Guess where contests this past week (our apologies for the hellish computer glitches that affected the comments functionality), ranging from this late summer salad to some still-unidentified carne asada fries to these barbecue sauces. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jabo’s, VB wins…

The building at 2479 South Broadway that briefly housed the Cabin on Broadway — and Old Tyme Dawgs & Drafts before that, and the Blue Walleye before that, and Mike’s Great Divide before that — is back on the block, locked up tight with a broker’s sign in the window…

The above salad, bright with Colorado heirloom tomatoes chromed golden, eggplant, garnet and watermelon and boosted by stretchy burrata oozing cream, was exactly the kind of summer dish I was looking for after a week of gorging myself like a heathen. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…