The Hotel Boulderado has built up plenty of character over the last 100 years or so of continuous operation, but even proud edifices with tradition and history behind them can stand an occasional sprucing up. So this summer the hotel revamped its restaurant — operating in the same space since…

Sometimes life puts obstacles in front of us that seem almost insurmountable: a Super Bowl loss from our beloved Broncos, another soul-sucking day at corporate headquarters, an open-faced sandwich of such daunting proportions that we should have been training for it all summer. But we persevere — conquer, even –…

There’s something special about New York City water that gives bagels, breads and cured meats a texture and flavor that New Yorkers know and love, agree Al and Tory Belsky, owners of New York Deli News. And as big as the city is, there may be even more New Yorkers…

In a record-setting summer of Denver bar and restaurant openings, there was bound to be some fallout. But usually the shakeout starts six to twelve months down the road, when guests start to dwindle or bad business plans become exposed. Unfortunately for the management and staff at Provisions Chophaus and…

Sometimes food doesn’t take much thought — most of the time, in fact. Sometimes you just know what you want and you go and get it, and it’s good. Barbecue should be that way. There should be no long lines where jockeying with out-of-towners, food bloggers and aficionados is part…

Dorchester Social Eatery opens tomorrow in a prime slice of real estate at 15th and Market streets, on a block where the young and chic often club away the night with champagne, house music and expensive outfits. While offering a full dinner menu of continent-hopping entrees as well as smaller…

After thirty years, the T-Wa Inn — billed as Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant, a claim no one has disputed — finally closed in June. But Federal Boulevard is nothing if not efficient in reclaiming, renovating and moving on. After a few early signs of a new tenant (the faux-stone trim…

A glistening white disk of raw scallop rests against a slice of lemon, with only a small grid of sear marks interrupting its slick surface. Green, saw-edged shiso leaves, so perfect they invite a touch to prove they aren’t plastic, add contrast to the plate and the barest hint of…

The Nickel opened last week in Hotel Teatro, in the space that was once Kevin Taylor’s Prima, and hungry theater-goers and other downtowners are now following their noses to the new restaurant. What will they find there? The smell of wood smoke emanating from the building as you round the…

I could tell by the smell in the air that we were getting close, even if I hadn’t seen the signs yet. The GPS had given up and was merely directing the car in a circle, around parking lots and identical rows of (mostly vacant) shops, down roads that curve…

This morning, P.F. Chang’s CEO Rick Federico released a statement indicating that the U.S. Secret Service had alerted the company to a credit card security breach on June 10 involving data theft from as many as 33 of its North American locations, but that the company was safely processing cards…

Pop-up restaurants aren’t new to Denver; they hit their peak of popularity in the dark days of the Great Recession, when one-night private-supper clubs in unusual locations were a feasible way for out-of-work chefs to bring in a few dollars while providing high-end cuisine to cash-strapped food lovers. While cash…

I’ve been making the rounds at Civic Center Eats the past couple of weeks, prowling for something a tad bizarre, a bit more unusual than Korean tacos or gyros in a cone — maybe for a food substance that might have been created a thousand years ago if the migration…

The story is a familiar one in the restaurant business: a corporate employee from outside the food world — maybe a sales rep or a project manager or a VP of operations — is forced by circumstances to make a life-changing decision and determines to follow a dream. The usual…

After Restaurant Kevin Taylor and Prima closed in the Hotel Teatro earlier this year, the hotel spent a pretty penny on renovating the space (which encompassed more than just the restaurant footprint). In May, the hotel announced that a new restaurant, called the Nickel, would open featuring rustic charm and…

The bunker-like space on the ground floor of a condo building on Tennyson Street wasn’t very lucky for former tenants. Tastes Wine Bar lasted five years in the spot, but fizzled along with then-owner Daniel Kuhlman’s short-lived Wild Catch on East 17th Avenue, while the art bar that took its…

So far in a month of eating Greek, I’ve come across some filling and wolfable short-order sandwiches at Yianni’s, a fresher and lighter version of similar food at Melita’s, and an old favorite in a newish location — Yanni’s in Greenwood Village — that’s putting out plates of what’s as…

Row 14 Bistro and Wine Bar showed early promise when it opened in the glitzy new Spire Building in 2011. Arik Marcus, the restaurant’s opening chef, was getting press and praise almost before he’d made his first knife cut; a few months later, our restaurant critic at the time, Laura…

Fans of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro will be happy to learn that executive chef and accomplished interpreter of Asian cuisine, Lon Symensma (along with managing partners Joe Vostrejs and Pat McHenry), is planning to open Cho77, a noodle house in the Baker neighborhood’s already hot stretch of South Broadway. The…

Comfortable Food, a truck I caught up with at Civic Center Eats today, serves food under the motto “Zero pretension, 100% deliciousness.” My lunch, though, was definitely operating with pretensions, even delusions of grandeur. Not content to be a simple grilled cheese sandwich, this one had evidently seen the world…