For two years, Holly Hartnett worked the floor as a manager at Table 6 (609 Corona Street) and dreamed of a place of her own. She’d inspected space after space after space, but there were problems with all of them. Actually, there was the same problem with all of them:…
For just a moment, I was stunned. It seemed so simple, so harmless: a lumpy mound of milk-white grits on a white plate. Grits — the ultimate comfort food. So poverty-simple and, like Britney Spears, so trash-gone-superstar. The American polenta, the best thing to happen to high-end food costs since…
I never thought that my mother, of all people, would be at the epicenter of the area’s newest hot spot, but since she moved into the Landmark development, I’ve been much more willing to jump on I-25 and head outside of my usual north of Hampden/south of I-70 drinking territory…
It was really no surprise when chef Scott Durrah moved 8 Rivers out of its Highland space (now occupied by Venue, reviewed this week) for bigger and better digs down in LoDo. Why? Because he’d already done it before. The Highland 8 Rivers was actually his second Colorado location, following…
Ted’s Montana Grill, the chain started by media-man Ted Turner seven years, is expanding the “Real Deal” it introduced last November to new lunch and dinner menus. “At Ted’s, we’re about real food for real people. During these challenging times, we want to give our guests a break as well…
Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn’t made the cut. After all, he’s a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a…
The Sandwich: BBQ Pork and Special Combo What’s on it: Pork and other meats, cilantro, cucumber, carrots, peppers Where to get it: Ba Le Sandwich, 1044 South Federal Boulevard, 303-922-2129 How much: $2.75 each Back away from the pastrami, sir. And step off the turkey and Swiss. It’s time to…
If you subscribe to Cafe Bites, our weekly restaurant newsletter, you already know the news that follows. If you don’t, keep reading (and then e-mail cafe@westword.com to subscribe). Head to the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, at 5 p.m. today to get a taste of Brabant, first…
Colorado gets its 24th Panera Bread outlet today: in the new Cornerstone shopping center at 6770 South Cornerstart Way in Aurora. And to celebrate, this store — and this store only — is rolling out the dough.On Friday, the first 250 customers who make a purchase will get free baguettes…
And we’re not talking Jon Caldara.FoxNews contributor Michelle Malkin is now an unlikely resident of Colorado Springs — not exactly the state’s hot spot for barbecue. So where did she get the whole roasted pig (and rolls) that she brought to the State Capitol yesterday for Caldara and company’s “no…
While employed in my last-ever cooking gig before coming here, I got to know grits pretty well, because I worked the night-shift at an Albuquerque Waffle House and one of my many responsibilities (along with tossing the drunks and cooking the hash browns and cleaning the grease traps) was fixing…
After meeting in France (where they both attended culinary school), Noah Stephens and Emily Welch came back to Denver, where they just opened their own sandwich shop, Vert Kitchen. It’s only open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and closed on Monday), has no liquor license — due to the…
Since Kevin Taylor’s Prima in Boulder closed in late 2007, its spot at One Boulder Plaza has housed only a “For Lease” sign. But now Tracy Webb, chef/owner of The Rib House, at 1920 South Coffman Street in Longmont, will turn this location into his second Rib House.Webb is from Kansas City…
So, a few weeks ago, I wrote this little piece titled “How to Create a Great Irish Bar.” It wasn’t something I put a lot of thought into. It wasn’t something that groaned under the weight of background research (unless drinking counts as research). Really, it was just a way to…
One of the first big restaurant deals of the new year was the purchase of Aix — by a new partnership comprised of of Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (owners of Duo), and John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (chef and pastry chef of Duo, respectively). When the quartet took on…
I feel like Michael Flatley is riverdancing on my head. When 30,000 college kids move back onto campus after winter break, the inevitable respiratory illnesses spread across campus faster than your everyday STD. (Please keep that movie running while reading this–it is the perfect soundtrack.) A nice, throbbing head cold gave me…
Denver Restaurant Week doesn’t start until February 21, but it already looks like a hit, with more than 224 restaurants signed up to participate and over a hundred chefs slated to attend the scheduled February 17 press conference to hype the event.But once Barack Obama’s noon visit to Denver that…
I finally got a chance to try Merle’s, the new American restaurant made out of that most American of businesses, an old shock-alignment place. Merle’s managers pimped their vinegar-based Carolina barbecue when I first talked to them, so I felt obligated to try the pork sandwich, topped with a traditional creamy…
Cocoa Pebbles Post Rating: Three spoons out of four Cereal description: Rice cereal that doesn’t look anything like rice. Instead of retaining a kernel-like shape, as does the stuff that snaps, crackles and pops, Cocoa Pebbles features grain that seems to have been imploded — a process that transforms it…
A couple days after the Second Helping I wrote for Parisi went up — the one in which I reported how I’d accidentally tried to order spaghetti at a real estate office and proved, once again, what a boob I truly am — I got a note from Christine Parisi…
Yesterday’s picture in the Denver Post real estate section of the new Curt Fentress architecture firm headquarters/Watermark sales office, in the historic Chittenden Mansion on West Fourth Avenue just off Broadway, brought back memories of a much earlier attempt to label the Baker neighborhood as one of Denver’s hippest.Close to…
Since I discovered DJ’s Berkeley Cafe (right), I’ve had breakfast on my mind. Here’s a list of the best places in town to get your morning fix.Breakfast King, 300 West Mississippi Avenue. Still the king, always the king. And it’s just been tagged by Esquire magazine as one of the…
