And then there were three. In November of last year, Bill Freeman and Patxi Azpiroz opened the city’s first Patxi’s Pizza in Englewood, a pie palace that takes its inspiration from Chicago-style stuffed pizza: thick, heavy, deep-dish rounds with crusted bottoms festooned with toppings, cheese and a generous smear of…
It’s been a year since Gloria Nunez and her grandson, David Lopez, closed the original El Chingon, a tiny Mexican restaurant that resided in an Arvada strip mall. And months ago, they signed a lease to open a new El Chingon in the former My Sweet Bakery space on Tennyson…
“I opened this place,” says Dave Kilroy, “because I didn’t want to be that person sitting at a desk for the rest of my life, only to wake up one day and say to myself that I shoulda, woulda, coulda.” “This place” is the Kitchen Table Cafe, an unassuming, quick-casual,…
During an early weekend dinner at this restaurant, a man wobbled his way through the doorway, sat down at a table and asked for taquitos, presumably to soak up the beverages that caused him to bounce through the door in the first place. This isn’t a Mexican joint, however, and…
Despite the cobalt blue sky, it’s a cold, cold day, but this dish is red hot and the perfect remedy for chasing away the chill. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool…
Ian Clark BRU handbuilt ales & eats 5290 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 720-638-5193 bruboulder.com This is part two of my interview with Ian Clark, exec chef and head brewer of BRU Handbuilt ales & eats; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Your favorite smell in the kitchen: I have a…
If you’re going to open a restaurant, there’s likely no better place to do it than just steps away from a Trader Joe’s, which, as we all know, is unleashing four stores in Colorado next year, including one at Eighth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, currently slated to open on Valentine’s…
It’s clear from the troop of squirrels that vigorously demolished my gords and pumpkins this past week that they saw winter coming long before I did. But while they’re sleeping in this morning, their bellies plump with pumpkin flesh, bars and restaurants around Denver are still celebrating fall by pouring…
Ian Clark BRU handbuilt ales & eats 5290 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 720-638-5193 bruboulder.com This is part one of my interview with Ian Clark, exec chef and head brewer of BRU Handbuilt ales & eats; part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. More than a decade ago,…
“Are you open?” “When are you opening?” “I can’t wait until you open!” I lost count of how many eager people passed through the doors of Olive & Finch earlier this morning, their hopes high that Mary Nguyen’s new Uptown restaurant, a casual European-style cafe, was actually selling the muffins,…
After binging on turkey and all the fixings last week, I shoved the multiple pounds of leftovers in the refrigerator (thanks, Mom!) and headed out for something completely different: a spicy Thai green curry with pork. And judging from crush of bodies anxious to get a table — the wait…
Upper Larimer is experiencing a serious case of sugar shock now that Sugarmill, a new dessert bar and lounge from Noah French, pastry chef of TAG, is teasing everyone who walks through the door with extravagant display cases of cookies and cupcakes, French macarons and fat muffins, cakes and croissants,…
On Wednesday, after showing off the space to friends and family tonight and tomorrow night, chef and restaurateur Troy Guard, who owns TAG, TAG Raw Bar, Tag Burger Bar and Sugarmill, will open Los Chingones on Upper Larimer, directly next door to Sugarmill, a dessert bar. Los Chingones, a whimsical,…
Back in 2011, when Laura Shunk, Westword’s former restaurant critic, reviewed Mama Sannino’s, an old-school Italian restaurant tucked behind an Arvada strip mall, she wrote that although the joint had been open for just six years, the romp of regulars, all of whom seemed to know one another by name,…
Love it, or loathe it, green chile is a Denver table staple, and while we all have our undisputed favorite places to get our green fix (El Taco de Mexico is mine), the restaurant squad from Food & Wine magazine just unleashed their own picks for the “Best Chili in…
Cafe Society dished up three Guess Where contest posts last week, ranging from a kinky cocktail that goes by the name of the Rick James Sexual Chocolate Edible Tower of Desire (you can find that cocktail at Two Guns Distillery), to a platter of Cajun-spiced shrimp from Teller’s Taproom, to…
Amy Sayles Panzano 909 17th Street 303-296-3525 panzano-denver.com What do you enjoy most about your craft? I get to be imaginative by creating art with food, and I get to create new and exciting flavors for people who might have never thought to try X and Y together. This is…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Just under a year ago, Matt Selby, who had made a big name for himself as the chef at Vesta Dipping Grill, a stint he held for fifteen years, exited that kitchen to become the chef-partner of Corner House, a restaurant in the Jefferson Park neighborhood that’s owned by Scott…
Amy Sayles Panzano 909 17th Street 303-296-3525 panzano-denver.com This is part one of my interview with Amy Sayles, pastry chef of Panzano; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. “Baking is just part of my family’s culture,” declares Amy Sayles, a native of Orange County who spent her childhood…
Among the many missions of Pikkas Peruvian Cuisine & Pisco Bar, a new Peruvian restaurant that will open on Monday in Cherry Creek, in the former Abrusci’s space, is to house the largest pisco selection in the state of Colorado — and that’s just one of the major differences between…
A few glasses of barley wine and a platter of Cajun-spiced, peel-and-eat shrimp. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon — and worth a repeat. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into…
