Frosted Flakes Gold Kellogg’s Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Amber flakes made of corn, rice and wheat and baked to an ultra-hard consistency. You could practically pick a lock with them. But a mystery remains: Where’s the frosting? I mean, they couldn’t call them Frosted Flakes if…
Today, Dazzle is introducing a new reason to eat at Denver’s great jazz club: prime rib. Not content with offering one of the town’s best happy hours, owner Donald Rossa reports that his chef will be slow-roasting prime rib throughout the day — which means “serious eating” tonight.Dazzle is located…
Denver Restaurant Week is over, but there are still plenty of good meals and deals out there. Jason Sheehan offers a rundown on the top seven spots to grab a bite to eat on Broadway in The List. A week after his win on Top Chef, Tyler Nemkov finally caught up…
Troy Guard was cooking again last night, and it felt good. The former Nine75/Zengo chef had joined Jamey Fader as a guest chef for a special dinner at Lola featuring dishes inspired by the flavors of Cabo and the Yucatan. It wasn’t much of a stretch for Guard, who was…
When I last talked to Radek Cerny, he told me that his new place, Full Belly, would open in February. Well, the chef/owner of L’Atelier was off by only about a week, since his Full Belly will open tomorrow, March 7, at 2779 Iris Avenue in Boulder.According to manager Sally…
Sweet Action, the ice cream shop headed by Samantha Kopicko and Chia Basinger that I wrote about last week in Get Some Sweet Action on Broadway, opens this afternoon at 52 Broadway, in the spot formerly occupied by Fahrenheit Books, where it shares space with Twisted Sol tattoos.While many eateries…
On the kind of unseasonably warm days we’ve been enjoying this week, it’s impossible not to start thinking about Denver’s best patios. Some, like the patio at Jax, are just slivers of sidewalk with great people-watching; others are vast expanses of deck that create this city’s best approximation of a…
When Cebiche closed its doors at 2257 West 32nd Avenue right after the first of the year, its voicemail message promised that it would have news of a new location within a week.But two months later, Cebiche is still looking for a new home. And in fact, owner Sergio Iraola…
When the Candy Girls heard there was a new bakery in town crafting only bundt cakes, the first question that came to mind was this: What was its punny name? Because it is impossible to have a niche foodstuffs place and not find an appropriate pun for its name. It’s…
March 7 is National Cereal Day, and in honor of this august holiday, the Red Trolley — already a delicious gelato and coffee shop — is adding a new cereal bar, with six homemade cereals and assorted toppings, all offered in a self-serve, bottomless-bowl fashion for $5. Carpenters, plumbers and electricians…
SAME Café, the subject of Westword’s February 26 cover story, is the beneficiary of the first annual SAME Café Ante-Up Charity Poker Tournament, which runs from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, March 6 at Cap City Tavern, 1247 Bannock Street. To sign up, call the café at 720-530-6853 or…
Chef Jessica Berry and her boyfriend, Zach Jones, marked the new year by opening a new restaurant, 9th Avenue Grill, in the space formerly occupied by Carmine’s Cucina.Jones grew up working at his dad’s restaurant, the Spitfire Grill; he met Berry while the two were both working for Lola. Together…
First there was Denver Restaurant Week–a brilliant idea that boosted both the profile and the bank balances of many fine Denver restaurants. Restaurant Week was such a good idea, in fact, that this year, when everyone is broke and every day is starting to look worse than the day before,…
Being a vegetarian sometimes means feeling like you’re always a bridesmaid and never the bride. Sure, that gnocchi entree is delicious, but meat eaters who go to to Italian restaurants get to order both primi pasta dishes and secondi meat dishes for a full three- or four-course meal. I’ve always…
The Denver Tech Center is full of movers and shakers who could probably use some sustenance to support them while they watch the market fall. Now they can find it, fast, at the Bombay Bowl. The fast-casual spot at 12023 East Arapahoe Road in Centennial opened on February 20. It’s…
For decades, Vella’s Italian Restaurant served up decent, family-style fare at 3000 South Federal Boulevard, in the heart of a somewhat restaurant-starved neighborhood.But Vella’s recently closed up shop, and a sign on the building indicates the space is available…
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Lab at Belmar kicks off the latest round of Taste Test, a series that “investigates the foods that we eat through a combination of history, science, anthropology and culinary arts,” according to the Lab’s Sarah Skeen. First up: “Taste Test: Chocolate,” William Poole, founder of…
This week’s review of Star Kitchen (2917 West Mississippi Avenue) ignores one very important part of the menu: namely, everything that isn’t dim sum. But the omission was deliberate because, given the choice between eating dim sum and eating almost anything else in the world, I’m going to go for…
For more photos of Star Kitchen’s dim sum, go to westword.com/slideshow I woke up to the sound of pigeons beating themselves against the porch eaves. It was sunny, ridiculously warm and clear, beautiful for Colorado in February. Global warming or whatever. The world was coming to an end, but in…
Just a few minutes from one of the best Chinese breakfasts in Denver (Star Kitchen, reviewed this week) is one of the best breakfast joints in America: Breakfast King. And for a change, it ain’t just me singing the praises of this perfect greasy spoon at Santa Fe and Mississippi,…
New Belgium Brewing, which began canning its signature Fat Tire amber ale last summer, will release a second aluminum-clad brew, Sunshine Wheat, in April or May. The move gives more credence to the growing popularity of canned craft beers – a trend that began in 2002 when the Oskar Blues…
In this week’s Westword, on newsstands and online a little later today, Jason Sheehan discovers the dim-sum deliciousness of Star Kitchen (2917 West Mississippi; 303-936-0089). See Mark Manger’s photos at westword.com/slideshow…
