Back in March, I christened Lon Symensma one of the sexiest chefs on the culinary planet, a pronouncement by which I still stand, especially since unearthing a Youtube video of the hot shot kitchen magician foraging for food around Vietnam — research for his new restaurant, ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro,…
“I still hate dining alone. That’s probably the hardest part. Figuring out how to sit comfortably in a restaurant without a date by your side. Some restaurants are good for it, others are terrible. You adjust, I guess. But I avoid it if I can.” I’m sipping a Campari on…
There may be a few lonely faces in the crowd at Rodney’s restaurant in Cherry Creek, but Rodney’s second outpost, in the Tamarac Square shopping center, is about to become a very lonely business. As Developers Diversified — the owners of both the center and the land under it —…
Same concept, different location — and by different location, we mean barely. Longtime Cherry Creek lunch spot Pasta Pasta Pasta vacated its original space at 278 Fillmore Street and moved just two blocks away, to 2800 East Second Avenue, on Fillmore Plaza. Why the hopscotch jump? Owner Lisa Miller explains…
Elway’s Downtown might not be the first restaurant that comes to mind when you start thinking of veggie-friendly options. First of all, the Elway’s brand has always been more about steak and seafood than tofu and Bibb lettuce — but I was pleasantly surprised when I sat down for lunch…
Bourbon with your gyro? Gin with your green chili? The dream can now be reality with Swift’s Steak House’s recent acquisition of a full liquor license. Approval from the city transpired so recently that owner Ismini Giakouminakis didn’t even know about it when we talked to her. The decades-old Greek-centric…
The Golden City Brewery, 920 Twelfth Street, has long seen crowds packed into its beer garden on Fridays and Saturdays, but now that it’s also maxed out its brewing capacity, it’s looking to move. Owners Charlie and Janine Sturdavant are pretty adamant about finding a unique property, though. “Charlie and…
Just so you don’t waste your time rattling off every joint in Denver that slings Philly cheese steaks, here’s your first clue: The Philly in the above snap wasn’t consumed at any of the usual suspects. Which begs the question, can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
While SmartCo continues its march towards domination in southeastern metro Denver (with yet another store, SmartCo’s fifth, opening today in Littleton), northwest Denver is finally getting a new grocery store: Colorado Ranch Market, with a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. today at 4860 Pecos Street. That’s right in the heart of…
Brendon Doyle Jonesy’s EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 When Brendon Doyle got his first cooking gig, it had nothing to do with his love for food or the line. “My first kitchen job was at Woody’s Wings N Things, and I only took it because all my friends worked…
Although other Tamarac Square tenants have been told to get out of the mall this month, Rodney’s plans to hang on until the end of the year — when owner Rodney Utz says the developer will have to buy him out of the rest of his lease, which goes another…
Bernie’s Hot Dog Co., at 1601 Mayberry Drive in Highlands Ranch, is named after the pet beagle of owner Joe Zemla. But Bernie himself is on the lam. “This past Friday night, Bernie went missing and he has not come home as I write this e-mail,” Zemla says. “Our family,…
You know you’ve got an exploding trend when the lowest-common-denominator, late-night guilty pleasure, drive-thru chain decides to jump on board…
Cafe 180, which opened last Friday at 3315 South Broadway, is now serving pizza, soup and salad five days a week at pay-what-you-can prices. The restaurant joins the ranks of SAME Cafe and Comfort Cafe with its commitment to make wholesome, nutritious foods available regardless of a diner’s ability to…
Essentially, anything made with Stranahan’s Colorado whiskey is bound to go down easy, and the cocktail in the above snap, part of the excellent mixology program at a new restaurant, is no exception. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
I love my job, and when I talk to chefs and restaurateurs — people like Mary Nguyen, for example — I love my job even more. Nguyen, the chef/owner of Parallel Seventeen, the cosmopolitan French-Vietnamese restaurant at 1600 East Seventeenth Avenue, is opening Street Kitchen Asian Bistro in October, a…
Over the weekend, New York Times writer Mark Bittman posed a question to readers on his personal blog: Should he out the name of the restaurant that served him shards of plastic in his soup?…
It’s likely to be the Academy Awards of pickelers, salumieres, cheese-makers, chocolatiers, brewmasters, jam makers and coffee roasters at the Good Food Awards, a new national competition for those who rule — or think they rule — the world of hand-crafted foods and suds…
A longtime Pueblo restaurateur is packing his bags and relocating to Denver to open a new Mexican bar and restaurant early next month. Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina, which will occupy a space on the basement level of the Champa Square building at 1600 Champa Street, will feature familiar Mexican…
Yesterday, Cafe Society posted its roll call for restaurants that had opened (and closed) in July. But the big news so far this summer is the vibrant gourmet mobile vending scene that’s rolled into town — and doesn’t have a real address. So many chefs/restaurateurs are announcing plans to hit…
A water park in Dale City, Virginia, got some unwanted pool accessories over the weekend: a heap of fast food and furniture. The vandals started flinging food, trash and furniture into the pool sometime after the last lifeguard left late Friday night — trespassing, and also violating the Waterworks rule…
When the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street, opens its doors for guests this fall, it will also give Denver a new place to eat: EDGE Restaurant & Bar. Defined by the Four Seasons as a “contemporary steakhouse,” the eatery will also feature wild game and a tapas menu, as…
