Karma Asian is small, tucked into the middle of a block on a busy stretch of Broadway, but the menu encompasses a pan-Asian theme with options from Vietnam, China, Japan and Thailand. And almost everything on Karma’s menu is already vegetarian/vegan or can be made with tofu and veggies, so…
Joe Vostrejs and his Larimer Associates partners traversed across the country to check out America’s beer gardens before they came back to Denver to build their own — and what they found, admits Vostrejs, was surprising…
As we anticipate the arrival of Colorado’s first Trader Joe’s, the California-based grocer with a cult-like following that’s allegedly building its first Colorado store somewhere in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street (three more Trader Joe’s stores are rumored for Denver, including one at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard), we thought we’d give…
“We’ve been playing around quite a bit with our cocktail program — and definitely improving it,” says the bartender who poured me the rye and Fernet mix in the above snap, a delicious, potent cocktail that could have easily multiplied into more. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus:…
This month started with major action on South Pearl Street — including a very involved deal that calls for the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group that had owned Pearl Street Grill to swap that space at 1477 South Pearl with Izakaya Den, at 1518 South Pearl, one of three restaurants in the eating…
Mmm, meat! Lori Midson’s presentation of six dazzling Super Bowl meat stadiums inspired shock and awe around the country. Notes GFTW: Great post for Meatless Monday!!…
In the final hours before the Christmas-gift exchange, while family members made one last trip to the liquor store and put the finishing bows on their packages, I was at my computer, listlessly clicking through Open Table. I’d done most of my shopping but still had one pair left to…
We’re just four weeks away from the city’s biggest food bonanza: Denver Restaurant Week, which is really a two-week feast of grubbing at nearly 300 restaurants in the Mile High City, all of which will offer multi-course meals for the fixed price of $52.80 for two, or $26.40 if you’re…
No. 43: Sobrebarriga from La Cocina de Paula…
What do women want from beer? That’s a question Ginger Johnson, owner of Women Enjoying Beer, has been pursuing for three years as she researches and educates consumers and producers around the country. “I was invited to speak at the Craft Brewers Conference in 2009, and that’s what really launched…
David Parry — a native of Syracuse, New York — opened his first restaurant in Parker almost six years ago with a mission to bring Denver the New York-style pizza he loved and missed. That shop, a counter service joint, gave way to a second location in Castle Rock two…
Everyone has their guilty food pleasure. Mine is a loaded baked potato, which I’ll eat just about anywhere, but here, the baked spuds, speckled with salt, are a cut above. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
Some of the biggest and boldest national names in food criticism descended on Denver over the weekend to check our city’s culinary scene. Why, you ask? Let’s just say that they were doing research for the James Beard Foundation Awards. Several of those critics tweeted about their experiences at Fruition,…
Holy Super Bowl! Someone in the football universe obviously takes his deli platter damn seriously, as evidenced by this snap, a dazzling stadium display of cold cuts, crudites, chips and cheese squares. The origin of the platter, seemingly large enough to feed every tailgater in Indianapolis, is unknown, but whoever…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Seitan is a protein-rich compound made from wheat; it’s easily found in most grocery stores, but making your own is simple and…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a still unidentified bucket of beer at a biker bar to a plate of worthy flour tortillas and salsa at Margs Taco Bistro to a chili dog at a long-standing wiener joint. For correctly identifying that dog as…
Only one more day to submit your tip for surviving Denver Restaurant Week, which runs February 25 through March 9. Tomorrow we’ll pick the best tip left on our original DRW contest post by a diner, as well as the best tip offered by a restaurant employee, and award the…
No. 44: Chimayo-chile flank steak and posole at Village Cork…
When I heard about this bar, I couldn’t wait to see it — and I thought I would love it. But the truth is, I was hoping that the interior and cocktail menu would feel more in tune with its name. Alas, it seems like a mirror of yet another…
I’m not much of a fan of flour tortillas — I’ll order corn 99 percent of the time — but the flour tortillas here, at this joint that makes and presses their own, have given me pause for thought. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Two years ago, Anthony Bourdain dropped in on Denver, where he waxed rhapsodic about the blood sausage at Mizuna and wrapped his jaws around wieners at Biker Jim’s, the footage of which was nicely packaged in an episode of No Reservations. And if the sightings of Bourdain’s film production crew,…
Frank Bonanno is one of the most successful chefs and restaurateurs in Denver, presiding over a commonwealth of food temples (and one speakeasy) that, for the most part, generate positive reviews and comments from professional restaurant critics and amateur key strokers alike. But even the best restaurants make mistakes, and…
