Japanese cuisine is centered on seafood — but you can get plenty of ocean action without dipping into raw fish. Japon is one of many eateries around town that serves up a spread of vegetarian sushi options along with tuna and salmon and calamari, and its lunches are fast but…
The last place I expected to find a Low Country-style seafood boil is here, at this usually dependable neighborhood watering hole that’s steeped in burgers, sandwiches and steaks. And perhaps it should stick to what it does best, because the seafood, especially the shriveled mussels, would make Southerners cringe. But…
Sriracha — or cock sauce, as it’s commonly called — is that fiery red chile sauce that comes in the squeezy bottle with the green tip and the white picture of a rooster. It’s also popular as hell right now, gracing the big-box grocery-chain aisles and the tables of fast-casual…
Big Smoke Burger opened yesterday in Glendale’s City Set project, the first U.S. location of a Canada-based firm. Founder Cameron Tune sees lots of promise in Denver’s “immature” burger market. But is there room on the grill? See also: – Reader: Big Smoke Burger, more choices at lower price s–…
Illegal Pete’s opened the doors to its fourth and newest location in Denver — at 270 South Broadway — on Saturday, June 29. A grand opening celebration July 13-14 will feature live music, tequila, games and an opportunity to win a New Belgium bike. Find more information on the Illegal…
The crew at Coohills is taking the week off to soak up the summer sun — the restaurant will reopen on Monday, July 8 — and given that chef-owner Tom Coohill has spent the last few weeks digging in dirt and expanding his patio, he deserves it. “We’ve all been…
Chilaquiles may be Mexico’s answer to breakfast, but it absolutely satisfies as a late lunch, too, and after a long day scouring the produce markets in Brighton and Commerce City, a plate of chilaquiles, coupled with a michelada, was a perfect afternoon pause. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Cafe Society dished out six Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from flaming volcano cocktail from Ming’s Dynasty, to a bison and corn sausage pizza from Live Basil, to a platter of oysters that, on Tuesday nights, go for just a dollar a slurp…
More than two dozen restaurants opened in the metro area in June, with more to come in these hot summer months. The Whittier neighborhood gained the new Whittier Pub (in the longtime home of M&D’s), but lost Frank’s Kitchen. Boulder lost H Burger, but gained Drakes Haus. And Glendale is…
Just what Denver needs — another burger joint, right? Cameron Tune, who’s opening Big Smoke Burger in Glendale on Monday, in the same City Set project that already houses Jax and World of Beer, certainly believes so. In fact, Tune even called Denver’s burger scene “immature” — at least when…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed The Universal, where the Southern-inspired biscuits are nearly three inches tall, with as “many layers as shale, each one telling a story of the hands that folded it.” Mark Antonation continued his trip up Federal Boulevard, with a nostalgic visit to the Crawling Crab. And…
Latke Love, which started two years ago as a mobile food vendor, has opened a brick-and-mortar location in north Park Hill serving traditional potato pancakes smothered with all kinds of non-traditional toppings. “We had a food truck before. It’s a lot of work getting out there in the world and…
The Boulder location of H Burger Co.,1710 Pearl Street, has shuttered, and the LoDo location of the local burger chain will soon follow suit. The leases for both spots have been sold — the Boulder one to a new, yet-to-be-announced restaurant, and the downtown location at 1555 Blake Street to…
You won’t find any bison roaming anywhere near this pizza joint, but you will find its meat on the pizzas. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
That Red Robin commercial hawking veggie burgers really got some vegetarians’ carrots in a boil. The ad starts with a mention of the meatless burger, followed by an actress saying, “We even have a garden burger just in case your teenage daughter is going through a phase.” This was probably…
It won’t be Pizzeria Basta, insists Kelly Whitaker, but “I can promise you that it’ll be epic.” Whitaker is describing the new restaurant that he, along with Andrew Birkholz, president of distributorship at Ciao Vino Selections, and Whitaker’s partners at Id Est Hospitality Group, the company that he founded when…
“You better cut that pizza into four pieces, cause I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” So said Yogi Berra, but Coloradans always seem hungry for more pizza options. And the Atlanta-based Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers is now taking a third slice of the metro market: It will open a…
Tamayo started the year with a million-dollar remodel of the space at the edge of Larimer Square that opened a decade ago; the menu got an update, too. Arnold Rubio has been in the kitchen since Richard Sandoval first opened Tamayo, his “modern Mexican” restaurant; today Rubio is the executive…
On my way home from the office today, I stopped at a convenience store to grab a bottled water, and when I walked inside, the clerk blurted out, to no one in particular, “It’s so motherfucking hot that I’d run around the block buck-naked if we could have just one…
I didn’t think much about dessert at The Universal, which I review this week, until I’d finished my tempeh banh mi. “Will that do it for you?” the server asked as she came to clear our plates. When we inquired about sweets, she said they didn’t have any. I knew…
Historians Ale House is about ready to make some history of its own: The new watering hole at 24 Broadway will open at 11 a.m. tomorrow, June 28. “Colorado is a majestic state with the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Our sports teams are heroic champions, the skiing is epic and the…
On Tuesday night Lower Downtown was filled with hundreds of revelers, who needed no urging to follow the suggestion of LoDo Bites that they “sip, sample and stroll” their way through one of Denver’s hottest restaurant neighborhoods. The restaurants that put out samples for this annual event: Bistro Vendome, Backcountry…
