November is off to a fast start, with Quaker Steak & Lube opening its first store in Colorado, the homegrown Egg & I chain opening its 41st restaurant and the owners of Seoul BBQ opening Q Table BBQ. And on Monday, after two weeks of practice, The Village at Edgewater…
Open Tap Bar & Grill has turned off the tap. The space at 1446 South Broadway that once held Cafe Cero has gone dark, again; several restaurant groups are eying the spot, which has a great outdoor patio and a challenging, if charming, interior. Once a high-end Italian restaurant, Cafe…
I really like this batch of contestants on Top Chef Just Desserts — well, perhaps not “I focus on me” Morgan, who does seem to be a bully in the kitchen — and also the general dynamic among them. Several are clearly fond of each other, and almost everyone is…
Quaker Steak & Lube, a revved-up chain that has close to forty locations across the country and specializes in wings (with 22 sauces!) opened its first Colorado spot yesterday, at 10392 Reed Street in Westminster. We sent photo intern Johnny Molfetta to snap some shots for your viewing pleasure…
When Steve Ells opened the very first Chipotle Mexican Grill at 1644 East Evans Avenue seventeen years ago, he didn’t anticipate it growing into a massive burrito-hawking chain, one that would infiltrate every city in the country and woo fans with sustainably-raised food that happens to taste damn good. No,…
While cruising down a certain street in Denver yesterday, I braked for a shiny candy apple-red Camero, which belongs to a certain celebrity who’s been seen all over town this week. Who is it?…
kaTcH Fish House, which opened early this summer at 1300 Pennsylvania Street, apparently didn’t catch on with neighbors in the Capitol Hill ‘hood, because the space, barely five months old, sunk at the end of October. “It’s very simple,” says former co-owner Chris Deutschman. “There wasn’t enough business.” Chris, who,…
Sushi is by no means the biggest draw at this see-and-be-seen dining emporium, whose handsome bar is always sea-deep with well-heeled socialites and business types with fat expense accounts, but the sushi chef, who did time in several of Denver’s top Japanese kitchens, knows how to dice and slice with…
Scott Parker Table 6 601 Corona Street 303-831-8800 www.table6denver.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Table 6 exec chef Scott Parker. In case you missed it, part one of Parker’s interview ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I have two kids, so we haven’t been out to…
Pranom Kiatreungwattana, who goes by “P.K.”, and her father had been looking for a spot for a Boulder restaurant for two years when Opas Sinprasong, who’d been charged with human trafficking, left his Siamese Plate/Siamese Plate on the Go spot at 1575 Folsom Street up for grabs. And grab it…
Look for Den Deli, the sibling of Sushi Den and Izakaya Den that opened last fall at 1501 South Pearl Street, then closed last month for a remodel, to unveil its new look within the next few weeks. “Remodeling has been going well, and we expect to reopen by mid-November,”…
Last Saturday night, Habesha Ethiopian, at 5707 East Colfax Avenue, was nearly deserted, with just one five-top in the dining room and a bar full of men watching a baseball game. Still, the orange walls painted to evoke the African plains and adorned with travel posters created a welcoming atmosphere…
On nights and weekends, it’s almost impossible to maneuver the Whole Foods at 2905 Pearl Street, as Boulder shoppers pack the narrow aisles and socialize over produce. And for that reason, the store’s undergoing a major expansion, nearly doubling in size by taking over the former Barnes & Noble space…
Chile pepper season is coming to an end in Denver, and the vendors who sell the smoky-hot goodness from New Mexico and southern Colorado will soon be packing up their roasters, bushel baskets and awnings for the winter — if they haven’t already. But the city’s new zoning code –…
A month ago, we reported that James and Lily Kwon, owners of Aurora’s Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street, were set to open a new Korean restaurant in Northglenn, Q Table BBQ, 311 West 104th Street, in October. That spot held its grand opening last Friday and is now open…
In Season Local Market, the brainchild of owners Shannon McLaughlin and Todd Stevenson, opened at 3210 Wyandot Street earlier this year with the mantra “If it’s not from here, it’s not in here,” and on Saturday, McLaughlin and Stevenson are unveiling a second location, at 924 Main Street in downtown…
Scott Parker Table 6 601 Corona Street 303-831-8800 www.table6denver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Scott Parker. Read the second half of that interview. Update: Read our favorite comments by Yelpers about this interview. I’m hungry,” says Scott Parker. Not just now, not just today, but ever…
Fuhgidabowdit Pizzeria, a takeout pie parlor at 2041 South University Boulevard, shuttered on Saturday, but the address won’t be vacant for long. Pete Kallas, the owner of Steakhouse 10, the Athenian, Undici Ristorante and Greeks Gone Wild, which just happens to reside next door to the pizzeria, purchased the space…
No sooner had we published our restaurant roll call for October, a roster of the places that had opened and closed that month, than updates started rolling in. For example, Colorado lost its only Claim Jumper, a link in a chain that got its start back in 1977, when the…
The McRib is back, available at the 200 McDonald’s restaurants across the state until November 22. The elusive sandwich, billed as “a boneless pork patty dressed with fresh-slivered onions, dill pickle slices, tangy barbeque sauce and served on a toasted, golden-brown home-style bun,” was first introduced almost three decades ago,…
One bite of an empanada — the crisp exterior wall of the bready pastry giving way to a cascade of rich, savory flavor — and I realized that this plump little semi-circle is an almost perfect food. I ate a steady diet of empanadas during my tenure in South America…
When I left South America, I brought boxes of frozen empanadas with me, terrified that I’d run out of the food I’d eaten at least three or four times a week for months. Fortunately, the owners of a handful of spots along the Front Range serve fairly authentic versions of…
