Over the weekend we heard that Shazz was dark, so we stopped by the new American restaurant that Benny Kaplan opened almost three years ago in northwest Denver to get more details. The restaurant was certainly quiet, and the lack of activity will continue for at least a few more…
There’s nothing quite like a plate of artisan cheese and a chilled (but not too cold) glass of beer to make you feel like you’re living the good life. And to keep it simple. Beer and cheese. They are gifts from nature that satisfy the soul. While Colorado doesn’t have…
Steuben’s does it; Jensen Cummings, the executive chef at Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar has plans to do it; and Keegan Gerhard, the chef/pastry king at D Bar Desserts has been quietly doing it for months. What, exactly, is it that we’re talking about?…
No. 57: Hama Hama herbed oyster from Jax Fish House-Denver…
For 25 years, Jorge Alonso was a partner in Grupo Anderson’s, the Mexican restaurant conglomerate that owns Señor Frog’s, which, if you didn’t know already, is where tourists who trot off to the resort towns in Mexico go to get drunk, hook up and pass out — usually in that…
If it walks like a chicken, and clucks like a chicken, it probably is a chicken — even if it doesn’t taste like chicken. Our server enthusiastically described the Chinese chicken dish in the above photo as “zesty.” At least, she said, that’s how customers have described it. They’re wrong:…
“Denver residents who have been to one of the six restaurants and bars run by Frank Bonnano would most likely agree that the experience means good food and service to match. With Lou’s Food Bar, which opened late last year, the 43-year-old chef has broadened his repertory with an American…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a bananas foster waffle to a devilish plate of shrimp diablo to this monkfish liver. For correctly identifying the ankimo as coming from Uoki, Jon S wins an EatDenver deck…
Restaurants whose websites have too little information. Restaurants whose websites have too much information. Restaurants whose websites don’t exist. Readers have plenty of their own gripes to add to our “Fifteen most annoying restaurant website mistakes.” And Cafe Society isn’t flaw-free, either. GFTW offers this: Good Lord. First of all,…
We ventured on to a local restaurant website recently, only to hear what had to be a MIDI file — yes, the synthy, cheeseball music from the Internet of 1998 — loudly playing in the background. Then we tried to click over the menu — but first we had to…
Michel Escoffier, great-grandson of the high priest of French cooking, Auguste Escoffier, arrived in Boulder this week to meet students at the newly renamed Culinary School of the Rockies. Auguste Escoffier, the former chef at the Savoy and Carlton hotels in London, has been called “the king of chefs and…
Much as I like the real thing, I am in no way above the white trash margarita. In fact, a slushified version of the drink is among my top guilty pleasures, especially when I’m sucking them down on a patio paired with bottomless rounds of chips and salsa. So when…
In late June, while cruising down Sheridan Boulevard, we eyed a liquor-license sign announcing that a restaurant named Nobu was taking over the former Walk-in Burgers space at 2255 Sheridan Boulevard. And we nearly cracked our head on the sidewalk, since Nobu, of course, is one of the most vaulted…
Earlier this year, Julia Buonanno and Dana Derichsweiler, the owners of Boulder’s Walnut Cafe and South Side Walnut Cafe, put the brakes on the food truck they ran with Ashlie Beckham, but that didn’t stop them from moving full speed ahead on a project they have going in Lafayette: The…
Trios Enoteca, the cavernous wine bar and live jazz venue that’s held a brick-fronted piece of real estate on Wynkoop for nearly fifteen years, has dried up, shuttering last week after a series of closing parties…
The day I interviewed Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine, for this week’s Chef and Tell powwow, the kitchen crew had just been graced with a bounty of fresh beets, plucked straight from farm earth. The beets, in all their glorious, kaleidoscopic hues, are the platform…
The steak was simply a sidekick, the vegetables a throwaway. It was the baked potato (it’s a phase) that called out to me. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a…
Where do you take a toddler in Denver? Not to the Village at Edgewater, not anymore, not since the “soft play-cafe” closed this summer, after a noble attempt to provide a family-friendly environment. So where do you take a toddler in town? You stay home, suggests Dan5280:…
The first time I ate at Jai Ho for this week’s cafe review, I spent several minutes staring at the menu. It was unlike any I’d ever seen: incredibly amusing yet borderline useless, with descriptions that made me laugh out loud and gave little help in determining what I’d be…
Jon Forget, the general manager of the British Bulldog, and Mark Berzins, owner of the Little Pub Company, which comprises nineteen joints in and around Denver, including the Bulldog, just opened Three Lions in the former Bank Bar & Grill at 2239 East Colfax Avenue. Three Lions is billing itself…
Just under four weeks ago, the old Graystone Castle overlooking I-25 reopened as a Doubletree Hotel by Hilton. And besides giving the place a makeover and a name change, the new owners also brought in a new restaurant: Radius Bar and Grill opened on the same day as the hotel…
“Nine years ago,” says Liz Thorpe, “when no one cared about cheese, we started selling cheese at Murray’s, a small cheese shop in New York, and thanks to some amazing people with a genuine love and passion for cheese, we’ve become one of the best cheese shops in the country.”…
