Tequila, says Richard Sandoval,”flows through my blood.” And the Mexico born, New York-based chef and restaurateur, who owns dozens of restaurants around the world — and several in Denver, including Zengo, Tamayo and La Sandia — now trumpets Denver’s first tequila library: La Biblioteca, the original location of which is…

Tonight, at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center (650 15th Street), nearly forty restaurants will come together under one roof to celebrate A Taste for Life, an annual benefit for Project Angel Heart, a Denver nonprofit that provides nutritious meals — no cost attached — to people within…

I’ve been to Brittany, the homeland of crêpes; I’ve been to Paris and Provence, where there are crêpe carts on every corner. Hell, I’ve even eaten crêpes in Mexico City. But these crêpes, sheeted with something that’s billed a creamed spinach sauce, ballooned with crappy ingredients and plated with dry…

Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contest posts last week, ranging from a morbidly named — but immorally good — “Suicide” taco from Moontower Tacos, to a cast-iron vessel filled with griddled kale from Session Kitchen, to a squadron of beers from a craft brewery that has a house…

Eighteen TVS — eighteen! — hang from the walls and rafters at the Dancing Crab, a newly opened Louisiana-style seafood restaurant and sports bar in Aurora that occupies the former Shin Sa Dong space, which abruptly closed earlier this summer. The cavernous, 8,000-square-foot restaurant, now bedecked with nautical accents; wooden…

The taco in the above snap isn’t actually called a “death” taco, but its real name is synonymous with death — death by bacon, chorizo, eggs, potatoes, avocado and cheese. Isn’t this what everyone wants before they take their last breath? Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…

I’ll eat kale no matter the method of preparation, and when the greens, griddled and served with cubes of pancetta, are this good, I could eat the nutrient-bursting leaves morning, noon and night. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…

In February of this year, the GrowHaus, a nonprofit urban farm and education center that supplies food at affordable prices to the underserved Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, launched a program called Mercado de al lado — it means “your market next door” — that supplies residents with a “basic” food box, or…

Ben Davison Bistro Vendôme 1420 Larimer Street 303-825-3232 bistrovendome.com This is part two of my interview with Ben Davison, chef de cuisine at Bistro Vendôme; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Most noteworthy meal you’ve ever eaten: Schwa, in Chicago, was an amazing experience. Chef Michael Carlson had just…

Forget the onion rings and french fries, both of which are of the generic, big-brand, straight-out-of-the-bag variety, but the burger, griddled on a flattop (and, yes, I like my burger swatted with American cheese), personifies why roadside diners are still very much a part of our yearning for simple nostalgia…

In 2011, when Laura Shunk, Westword’s former restaurant critic, reviewed Spanky’s Roadhouse, a long-standing fixture in the DU neighborhood, she described it as dark, even during daylight, and, she continued, the “shadows masked the bar-room grit that seems to be etched into every surface at Spanky’s.” It took a few…

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…

Ben Davison Bistro Vendôme 1420 Larimer Street 303-825-3232 bistrovendome.com This is part one of my interview with Ben Davison, chef de cuisine at Bistro Vendôme; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. It’s good — really good — to be back home again,” says Ben Davison, pausing after a…

“Can I see your ID?” asked Ramon Garcia. “What, you mean my driver’s license?” I responded. “Yes, your driver’s license. Someone was in here last week asking questions and wasting my time,” he shot back. I flipped open my wallet, showed him my Colorado driver’s license and then had to…

The Frito pie at this Mexican joint decked out in Denver Bronco memorabilia was worthy of a field goal, but the guacamole tostada, paved with the fake stuff that tastes like nothing you ever want to put in your mouth, was an absolutely inexcusable fumble. Can you guess where I’m…

I headed out of town over the weekend to get away from the rat race, but on my way to a cabin on the creek, I took a detour to this tap room, which was anything but quiet — and it’s easy to see why: The beers, all brewed on-site,…

Last week, Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contest posts, including a smoked salmon-and-latke plate from Latke Love, a restaurant that knows its way around a proper potato pancake. We also served up a wonderful bowl of seafood soup from Land of Sushi and a meat-and-shrimp alambre from a…

In February, brothers Hanzel and Eder Yáñez shuttered Chili Verde, their Mexican restaurant in LoHi that celebrated the cuisine of Puebla. The weather-beaten building, with its chipped white paint, had also suffered a fire, rendering the restaurant inhabitable for weeks. But on Saturday, the brothers, along with manager Custo Avalos,…

Back in 2011, when Robert Thompson shuttered Argyll in Cherry Creek, the plan, he told me, was to reopen the gastropub in Baker. Instead, Thompson, a prolific restaurateur and the founder of Seasoned Development, a restaurant group that designs, develops and manages restaurant concepts, graced the ubranized ‘hood with Punch…

On October 15, the world lost Hans Riegel, the German baron and confectioner whose name is synonymous with the rainbow-hued, teddy bear-shaped, chewable-soft candies known as gummi bears, which were first introduced to the United States in 1982. Reigel, who died from heart failure, was ninety, and to honor his…

It’s always difficult to pull myself away from the sushi at this sublime shrine to raw fish, but the rest of the menu, including the cooked dishes, is a treat, too, especially the spicy udon soup heaped with an ocean of seafood. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…