Yes, you read that headline correctly: Olivéa, the sensational Mediterranean restaurant in Uptown whose kitchen is overseen by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo of exec chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, is offering a free three-course dinner for two on New Year’s Eve. The gift is for the early…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
At the risk of riling up those readers who like to tell me I drink too much, I plan on ringing in 2011 the same way I welcomed 2009 and 2010: with plenty of bubbly followed by a cocktail or five. And I’m sure there are at least a few…
Laura Shunk’s recent review of Barolo Grill prompted dozens of responses — some agreeing that Blair Taylor’s iconic restaurant needed to try harder, but many more incensed with Shunk’s criticism. After reading both the review and the comments, Ashley Hausman served up this:…
National brand Restaurants America dropped Primebar into its massive space at 1515 Arapahoe Street back in May of 2009, using the former Palomino digs to turn out New American fare in lodge-inspired decor, animal heads and all. A year and a half later, the place has called it quits…
No. 87: Roasted cauliflower salad from Euclid Hall Nobody loves cauliflower. It’s pathetically ugly, resembling, even on its best days, a human brain, and when it’s cooked — specifically overcooked — the florets pollute the air with the stink of sulfur. It’s a favored Shylock of institutions and the pokey,…
The most bizarre restaurants in the country include Casa Bonita — and another Colorado joint. Forbes just published a list of the most bizarre restaurants in America, giving credence to gimmicky places that lure diners with everything from ninjas and spy themes to goats. And of the eleven restaurants featured,…
Anyone with special food needs or requests knows how frustrating it can be to open up a menu and see only a scant handful of plates that you can or would actually eat. There are a few restaurants in the metro area where vegetarians can pick and choose from across…
What does 2011 hold for the culinary world? We asked several local chefs to consult their crystal orbs, talk to the (whole) beast, bend their ears to the farmland and unearth a few trends that will shape the way we eat next year. Here are the predictions of some of…
Christmas Day at my house is completely uneventful, unlike Christmas Eve, which is a day-long marathon of gluttony and wine- and champagne-filled debauchery. We wake up late on Christmas morning and pad around in our sloppy pajamas, eventually surrendering to our hangovers late in the afternoon when our gurgling bellies…
This list of coitus-inspiring culinary offerings is for the gentlemen. Ladies, if you wanna score on New Year’s Eve — or any other night — you have to do just one thing: show up. Guys, the tacitly approved social mores of our fantastic American culture dictate that you have to…
When I was invited to a special dinner with winemaker Peter Franus at Elway’s Downtown, I was a tad skeptical as to how, exactly, they would cater that meal to my palate. As a vegetarian, I usually turn down invites like this — I’ve worked in the restaurant industry for…
Laura Shunk’s lament for the loss of the professional host inspired a few comments agreeing with her, as well as this from I Get It Now: OOOOHHHHH I get it now… see …. Shrunk is all about the Front of House staff… not the food y’all. She likes the host…
We’re just about to say goodbye to 2010, but we’re betting that this year’s top trend, the new-school food trucks that hit the pavement in Denver, will be holding on through 2011. Before those trucks were even a twinkle in their owners’ eyes, though, there was another fleet of mobile…
Since Noodles & Company opened its very first location in Cherry Creek in 1995, it’s expanded into a fast casual chain with 250 locations in eighteen states, offering noodle bowls that run the gamut from Wisconsin macaroni and cheese to an Indonesia peanut saute. And now, after fifteen years, the…
Tapas de Espana, the Basque-region-inspired eatery located in the back room of El Senor Sol, opened today for its first run serving lunch and dinner…
No. 88: Döner kabob from Shondiz Years ago, when I was a college student in London, I’d spend the majority of my mornings, noons and nights at a local pub knocking back cloudy pints of Scrumpy before staggering off in search of the nearest curry house or 24-hour kabob shop…
Frank Bush, the man who oversees the worst passing defense in the NFL — that of the Houston Texans — saw his squad defeated by Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos on Sunday, and a writer at our sister paper in Houston is taking Bush, and his boss Frank Gary…
While teetering on my stool at this pub, whose food is is no slouch, the jovial tender suggested mixing a cider from the Wynkoop with New Belgium’s La Folie Sour Brown Ale, the result of which was one of the best drink marriages I’ve had all year. There’s nothing better…
I hate sandwiches. The only way I’ll stomach one is if it’s on grilled bread and filled with a plethora of fancy ingredients that make me feel like I’m not eating a sandwich. I led cross-country tours over the summer and ate a picnic lunch at a rest stop just…
Full disclosure: My account of the best meal I ate all year makes me sound like the biggest food snob on earth. No matter how well I defend myself, it’s bound to come across as pinkie-out boasting and just plain holier-than-thou. But don’t judge me until you hop on a…
Even as a few restaurants try to squeak in under the wire to open before December 31, others are preparing to make their debut in early 2011. Among the contenders: 5th Sun, which is taking over an old lighting store on Speer Boulevard just off Federal and has a liquor…
