No. 90: Albóndigas meatballs from Solera Solera chef Goose Sorensen, who’s been turning out beautifully composed plates around Denver for years, can pretty much nail any dish, plunging mussels into a sea of fragrant green curry, slicking his calamari with a Thai red chile glaze, using truffle oil judiciously (which…
Taking flash photos in bars will often piss people off — and the drunk guy next to me definitely lost his patience as I tried to take the perfect shot of this bar. Which, in fact, made it the perfect shot. Needless to say, when you’re drinking here, you’re in…
Mediterranean coast native Alon Mor’s Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill first brought hummus and shwarma to Denver’s fast-casual dining scene in 2007. Since then, a dozen more Garbanzo outposts have popped up in Denver and Colorado Springs. And while there are plans to take the homegrown chain national, it’s tapping into another…
Jeffrey Musat, the former general manager of Black Pearl, who vacated that position a few months ago to join the mini empire run by Leigh Jones, who owns Jonesy’s EatBar, The Horseshoe Lounge and Bar Car, showcases some awesome conversation piece tatts on his buff bod, but one inky blot,…
Pizza: It’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner if you’re a kid, and these three kids, all of whom had gathered for a birthday party at a relatively new Italian joint, didn’t waste any time shoving slices down their pieholes. Can you guess where they’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
In her Barolo Grill review, Laura Shunk said that she could think of three dozen places in the area where she’d rather drop $200 on dinner for two. And then she put her mouth where her money was, and offered a list of those restaurants. There’s been plenty of discussion…
Cafe Society served up six Guess Where contests last week, with entries ranging from the exemplary fries at Cheeky Monk to a festive drink garnished with a rosemary tree at Edge Restaurant & Bar, to this peanut butter mousse truffle whose mint garnish inspired a number of comments. For correctly…
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…
In the film Dinner Rush — a terrific indie that everyone should see — the trendy young chef prepares a dish for an influential critic, played by Sandra Bernhard. We see him in the kitchen frantically throwing elements together, and the result is two angry red lobsters, feelers waving ferociously,…
Matt Robinette was out in Tahoe, California, in 2001, training to work for the Hard Rock Cafe when he noticed a gaping hole in local culinary options: No one was selling green chile. “My wife — fiancee then — makes insane Pueblo-style green chile,” Robinette says. “We thought about selling…
I’m a sucker for skinny, salt-licked fries, and these hand-cut tubers, fresh and hot and sidekicked with a choice of dipping sauces — in this case, curried — are worth their weight in Idaho potato fields. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Yes, that Barolo Grill — the same restaurant I reviewed this week, tacking on an addendum of 36 restaurants where I’d rather drop $200 instead. Some of you call that classless. I’d rather call it putting my money where my mouth is. Still, the restaurant has its charms, especially if…
No. 91: Hummus from Shish Kabob Grill For more than six years, Shish Kabob Grill, an East Colfax corner cafe, across the street from the Colorado State Capitol building and a million miles from Lebanon, has been a popular Mideast feast house for falafel and fattouch, baba ghanouj and beef…
There is still time for a last-minute purge of food trends that need to take a permanent nap where the turnips grow. Like that 47-year-old guy in the club who needs to scrub the Axe spray off his hairy torso and go home, these trends have stuck around too long…
That colorful stretch of 13th Avenue in Capitol Hill is getting a new polish, with the upcoming opening of Jelly and other developments outlined today in a Denver Post story about “the punk-rock block.” But before these businesses came along, there was the Gypsy House. And after our recent report…
No. 92: Breakfast burrito from the Taco Wagon in Lafayette Way back in April, I was summoned to Lafayette on unofficial business, when, what to my wondering eyes should appear but a taco wagon pimping all the foods that add bulk to my rear…
Let’s be honest. Boobs sell coffee. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be a couple dozen drive-thru coffee shops in the Portland and Seattle areas featuring baristas dressed in bikinis, lingerie and less. The controversial concept came to Colorado this year when similar stores opened in Aurora (it has since closed)…
The space left vacant by Nohana Sushi at 2301 East Colfax Avenue has been under construction for almost six months. Tomorrow, though, the dust will finally clear, and Japanese restaurant Okinawa will open for business…
We’re heading toward the shortest day of the year, and the light hitting this Bloody Mary is the sun coming up over Denver just after 7 a.m. — when the bar that poured it opens. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
In this week’s review of Barolo Grill, I wrote about my regret at dropping $200 on dinner for two there — when there were three dozen restaurants in the area where I’d rather spend that kind of cash. And then I decided to put my mouth where my money was,…
For those of you who will wake up with a colossal-size hangover on the first day of 2011, having damaged your brain and battered your belly the night before with too many vodka and soda pours, flutes of champagne, or worse, shots of vile Jägermeister, there will be a new…
Jorge de la Torre Johnson & Wales University www.jwu.edu This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jorge de la Torre, dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: The Shed in Santa Fe…
