The Egg Shell, Cherry Creek North’s venerable breakfast spot, moved from its original home on Josephine Street to the former Mel’s Bar & Grill space in 2009. The neighborhood seemed to be in decline as a restaurant destination throughout the early part of this decade, but a flurry of new…
Over the past several years the bar at 1050 West Evans Avenue has changed hands numerous times: It has been the OT Lounge, Ike’s America’s, Greta’s Alibi and, most recently, Cecil’s Cantina, owned by Jody Johnson, who ran the Sedalia Grill for 22 years before coming back to Denver. Cecil’s…
Fermented foods and beverages have become more popular in recent years because of their much-touted health benefits and also interest in old-world food-preservation techniques. Kombucha is one such traditional beverage being buoyed by consumers’ desires to up their intake of probiotics, micronutrients and other funky stuff. But because alcohol is…
The phrase “street tacos” doesn’t leave much wiggle room for interpretation: It signifies tacos served on the street from carts, trucks, kiosks, market stalls or trailers. But even inside Denver’s top taquerias, which put a wall or a window between you and the frost-fractured sidewalks and the roar of traffic,…
The restaurant space at 4900 West Colfax Avenue has seen as many ups and downs as the street itself. For decades, Tante Louise was Denver’s nonpareil French restaurant before closing in 2005. The place was purchased by Ed Novak and Jerry Friztler, of the Broker fame, and named the Cork…
Ben Parsons, founder of the Infinite Monkey Theorem winery in River North, just hosted a James Beard dinner on Friday night, but the event felt more like a celebration of the wineries recent achievements than a staid and stuffy formal dinner. Parsons has been busy expanding IMT into new markets…
Five years ago, when the food-truck movement was just gathering speed in Denver and some of the city’s top talents (Kevin Morrison of Pinche Tacos, for example) were launching mobile kitchens as a way to market a concept before making it concrete, then-Westword-restaurant critic Laura Shunk looked toward an older…
Barbecue joints have been springing up around town nearly as often as apartment owners have raised their rents. With so many new choices and so many good pit masters moving to Colorado from the South’s prime barbecue regions, it’s no surprise that our barbecue choices have never been better. While…
Businesses, like movies, should get creative when it comes to naming sequels. The photo above shows the latest Platte Street branch of Galvanize, which got its start as a techy, entrepreneurial and educational something-or-other (hey, I write about food) in the Golden Triangle just a few years ago and has…
Owners of Telluride restaurant La Marmotte, Mairen Reagan and chef Mark Reggiannini, opened Cafe Marmotte at 290 South Downing Street last night after a a quick turnaround from previous tenant Spicy Ginger. The new cafe will stick close to the original mountain restaurant’s menu of French classics with modern touches and…
Ototo, the “little brother” in the Sushi Den and Isakaya Den family from Toshi and Yasu Kizaki, closed on the first day of 2012, but reopened this week with an updated look and menu. The Kizaki brothers are doing a three-week, reservations-only test run before rolling out the full menu…
No. 16: Deep-fried Cornbread at Sons of Scullery Food at live music venues is usually just an afterthought: overpriced fast food for a captive audience. But at Casselman’s Bar & Venue in LoHi, the thumping music floating over Walnut Street has of late become mingled with wafts of wood smoke and…
Occidental Bar, which opened over the weekend in LoHi, is in many ways the polar opposite of its older sibling Williams & Graham right next door. Owners Sean Kenyon and Todd Colehour have gained international recognition for their exclusive speakeasy, recently earning best cocktail bar in America at this year’s Spirited…
A sign on the door at Moontower Tacos reads simply “Closed. Thanks for 2.5 good years.” Owner Brent Thrash and his crew gave a valiant effort in their attempt to bring Austin-style tacos to the corner of Sixth Avenue and Grant Street, but now we’ll have to look elsewhere for our…
Land of Sushi in Centennial and its younger Westminster sibling, Hana Matsuri, have become time-tested favorites in the metro area, with the former pushing fifteen years and the latter going on six. And now the Liu family is planning for a third in their series of Japanese eateries known for…
The menu at the pop-culture-riddled Carbon Beverage Cafe, which just opened in the former home of Paris on the Platte, reads either like the weed-addled daydreams of a couple of sofa-bound stoners or like the offbeat but brilliant creations of some clever cooks. While pot references abound (side sauces are…
Concept Restaurants has been busy over the past few months. Since opening Stout Street Social last winter, they’ve also opened a second Ignite in Arvada and have updated the menu at Humboldt, where chef Will Tuggle took the reins this summer. That doesn’t mean the restaurant group is ousting former…
Will and Coral Frischkorn opened Cured in 2011 with two ideas in mind for their business. The first was that “we wanted a place with what we eat for dinner six nights a week,” says Will. The second was simply this: “Passion.” Four years later, those two ideas have produced…
South Parker Road, especially the stretch in east Denver before it crosses into Aurora, isn’t exactly one of the city’s focal points for Mexican eateries. If you want to find the kind of restaurant density it takes to do a proper taqueria crawl (you know what I mean: at least…
Earlier today, Patricia Calhoun broke the news that Cafe Options, the downtown breakfast and lunch spot operated by Work Options for Women as a training ground for women at risk of living in poverty, will be closing in mid-September. It’s the second charity-based restaurant to pull the plug recently; Pizza…
Twelve years on Colfax Avenue, where restaurants measure age in decades, isn’t a long time, but Mezcal was beginning to feel like an old favorite after a relatively short time. But certain parts of Mezcal, namely the kitchen, were starting to feel just plain old to owners Chris Swank and…
The area at East 13th Avenue and Pearl Street in Capitol Hill is witnessing a bar and restaurant mini-revival. Beatrice & Woodsley owner John Skogstad is bringing his whimsical vision to 1310 Pearl Street with Mighty Sparrow & the Sea Captain, while the team behind Beauty Bar will soon re-open…
