Late last year, chef/restaurateur Lon Symensma, the mastermind behind Cholon Modern Asian Bistro and Cho77, announced plans to open a new restaurant in the Eastbridge Stapleton development that’s currently under construction. He has already tapped a chef, Luke Bergman, who he met while the two were students at Culinary Institute of…

Southern food is becoming a growing trend in the Denver restaurant scene, with Bread-N-Butter opening last week in Uptown and fried chicken, biscuits, barbecue and Low Country cuisine hitting menus across town. A couple of weeks ago, a Facebook page simply named Julep appeared in my feed, so I fired off…

The Tavern Hospitality Group launched the latest in its string of bar-and-grill-style eateries yesterday when the Tavern Platt Park opened on Old South Pearl Street. The newest Tavern joins Izakaya Den next door and Fourteen Seventy-Two across the street to make the block one of the city’s prime indoor-outdoor destinations, since each…

The intersection of South Federal Boulevard and West Evans Avenue is only a few blocks from my house, so I drive past Cowbobas Steakhouse and Boba Smoothies nearly every day — often wondering how much longer everyone’s favorite Vietnamese steakhouse can survive. So last night when I saw a cherry…

A big, loud, flamboyant and insanely popular taco shop landed in the Golden Triangle last month. The dazzling sign of Torchy’s Tacos lights up the night like a marquee looming over that other Broadway (the one in New York City), and a line of curious taco-philes stretches from the order…

In 2008, pig was big — everyone was makin’ bacon. That was the year Cochon 555 kicked of its national parade of pork, not to get more folks eating “the other white meat,” but to prove that there’s more to pork than pallid cuts of flavorless tenderloin. The multi-city tour…

Last summer, the Richards family began work on the sixth outpost of their popular breakfast and lunch kitchen, Lucile’s Creole Cafe, which got its start in Boulder more than 35 years ago. The new Lucile’s is now open at 999 East Evans Avenue, with the same great menu of New…

Weekends are generally a busy time on Federal Boulevard, with parking lots packed at every Vietnamese and Mexican joint on the strip — even the ones with empty dining rooms during the week. But as the sun set on Federal on Sunday night, the lights didn’t come on at Playa…

There’s a new chef at Zengo, and he’s giving the upscale fusion eatery a more Asian bent. Gretchen Kurtz chatted with chef Robert Juan about growing up in Hawaii and cooking Filipino cuisine. Zengo may be moving away from some of its original Mexican flavors, but Mark Antonation moved in…

Bronx native Joseph Gerace has been running East Coast Joe’s food truck with Alli Evans for the past three years, serving lobster rolls, crab cakes and other culinary favorites from the Atlantic seaboard. But when the couple decided to open a second food truck, they took their inspiration from another…

No 91: The Signature Bowl from the Churn & Burn Food Truck So you love barbecue and everything that comes with it: cornbread, some tangy slaw, a drizzle of sauce —and don’t forget the scoop of creamy mac and cheese. But when you’re at a food-truck rally, craft brewery or festival, finding…

Fillmore Street between Second and Third avenues in Cherry Creek will soon undergo a major change, as demolition on a row of retail shops on the east side of the street begins. The replacement will be an eight-story office and retail complex being developed by Schnitzer West. Of course, that…

Neighborhood Peruvian eatery Limón closed at the end of 2015, but owner Alex Gurevich didn’t give up the space. Instead, he and managing partner Larry Lane converted it into a Southern eatery and whiskey bar called Bread-N-Butter, which opened on Tuesday night in Uptown. The biggest changes to the interior are…

Ian Clark opened BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats in Boulder in the summer of 2013, bringing his career as a chef and his passion for small-batch brewing together under one roof.  But Clark has another passion that has threaded its way through his life in the kitchen, a passion that’s…

The original Palm Restaurant was opened in New York City in 1926 by Pio Bozzi and John Ganzi, who lacked the money to decorate the place — so they gave steak dinners to artists in exchange for caricatures and portraits drawn directly onto the walls. Fast forward seventy years to…

When it comes to the Mexican sandwiches known as tortas, I’m a serial monogamist. I’ll find a torteria — you know, the one with the best tortas ever — and faithfully stick with it, at least until my devotion is diverted by the promise of something even better. In my…

In all the meat frenzy that resulted from last year’s string of barbecue openings (we counted ten), one of our favorites got lost in the shuffle. Brewshine BBQ & Tap House had opened in late 2014 at 3109 Federal Boulevard with an outdoor barbecue pit that provided smoky depth to its…

The Slotted Spoon Meatball Eatery opened in the University Hills shopping center three years ago this month, bringing a new fast-casual concept to Denver: meatballs, and lots of them — meatballs on bread, meatballs on pasta, even meatballs on salads. But in a neighborhood where Beau Jo’s Pizza has remained…

One of our favorite food finds last summer was the South African specialties of Jozi’s Shebeen & Kitchen, which sold boerewors, bobotie and bunny chow from a weekend food shack at the BigWonderful. This year, Angus Hicks and his crew are back — and they’ve gone mobile — with a…