Restaurants

Two lobsters — fried, steamed, slicked with sauce or stomped with jalapenos, spring onions and garlic — for $19.99. A damn good two-for-one deal if you can find it…XO, Lori…

Never say die: The space at 250 Steele Street that swallowed French 250 (and numerous restaurants before that) is now moving around the Mediterranean. According to the banner now hanging at that address, Ondo’s, a tapas spot, will attempt to make a go of this spot come fall…

Lucy, the tony restaurant that takes up the second floor of Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Place, is shuttered for what the website calls “maintenance.” Well, sort of. I just got off the phone with Susan Collyar, marketing manager for Comedy Works, who told me that the restaurant is being…

The main thing that weirds people out about Chick-O-Stick is the name.  It seems the inclusion of “chick” in there, coupled with the image of a chicken that appears on the original packaging, makes people assume the candy is some sort of unholy chicken mash-up, similar to Chickin in a…

After stopping by the Tabor Center to stare at what had been the third-floor food court, I headed down the 16th Street Mall to visit the last surviving food court: Republic Plaza. “At last,” I thought, when I saw the neon and smelled the grease as I neared Court Pl…

The dog days of summer are here, and barking all about that is dogmatches.com, a Boulder-based website that’s currently holding a Best Doggone Restaurant Competition to determine which restaurants, bars and java joints in Denver and Boulder are Fido-friendly. You can cast your vote on things like: Which restaurant has…

Mark Huebner didn’t get the girl — he was eliminated from The Bachelorette two weeks ago — but he got a pizza joint instead. His Denver Pizza Company, at 309 West 11th Avenue, opens tomorrow at 11 a.m.; it will be selling medium pies for $5 (one topping) and large…

From 5 – 10 p.m., Friday, July 3, the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery, 931 West Fifth Avenue, is participating in the Golden Triangle’s First Friday Art Walk by hosting “Art Under the Influence,” a grape stomp in the courtyard that includes wines by the glass, great grub from Masterpiece…

Almost everyone at Sketch Food and Wine knows me. The above-the-line guys for certain, some of the bartenders. I have acted well and poorly in their establishment, used it for celebrations and decompressions numerous times since it opened in March. And I have experienced the all-too-classic result of blown critical…

On the one hand, you have Sketch, which is trying to make a restaurant out of nothing more than a salumi bar and the best intentions. On the other, you have D Bar — Keegan Gerhard’s attempt to take some people’s favorite part of dinner (dessert) and build a restaurant…

We’re at Katie Mullen’s for the official release of Jason Sheehan’s book, Cooking Dirty, and get this: There are actual people here! And they have his book! And they want him to sign it! And someone just took a picture of him! Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising, but it’s always…

Squeaky Bean, the Highland restaurant at 3301 Tejon Street that’s been serving breakfast and lunch since the second week of May, will open for dinner Wednesday, July  8, but you can get a sneak preview of the night-time menu during a test run on Friday, July 3, when exec chef…

There’s no shortage of places to get food along the 16th Street Mall. But if you’re after a grab bag of mediocre grub served from metal basins behind glass barriers — a food court, in other words — things are grim and getting grimmer. Last Friday’s closing of Panda Express…

Because I’m feeling especially generous today, here’s a hint list to help you nail this one:1.  Urban2.  Max3.  Bag4.  Not Brazil5.  Jump6.  Counter7.  Germination8.  Hill9.  Jack10.PorkThis should be easy…

RESTAURANTS OPENING IN JUNE Giovanni’s Italian Cafe, 3355 South Yarrow, Lakewood Pho-Yo, 2179 South Parker Road, Aurora Simm’s Steakhouse, 11911 West Sixth Avenue, Lakewood Johnie’s Bar-B-Que, 5280 West 25th Avenue, Edgewater Choppers Custom Salad Works, 5302 DTC Boulevard, Greenwood Village Einstein Bros. Bagels, 200 Quebec Street 3 Sons, 14805 West…

So…if you haven’t already heard about Jason Sheehan’s new memoir, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then your reading catalog clearly consists of titles that you should keep between yourself and your therapist. Oh, please. Shameless Sheehan has pimped his book here, here…

Parisi, 4401 Tennyson Street, marks the real start of summer tonight by introducing a four-course, hot weather menu at Firenze A Tavola: panzanella salad; tagliatelle pasta with asparagus, wild mushrooms and truffles; Milanese breaded pork chop with lemon aioli; wilted arugula with grilled fennel, pickled onion, carrots, artichokes and peppers;…

I was several whiskeys to the good on a recent school night when I found myself propped up against Sketch’s salumi bar, canting sharply like a ship taking on water.  I asked for the menu, gave it a cursory glance, then pushed it back across the dark, polished wood, slapped…

I didn’t eat today until 3:15 p.m., and while it was certainly late enough in the afternoon to forgo real food in lieu of something like, I dunno, chicken fingers, french fries and lots of liquor, which was yesterday’s lunch, I was desperate for breakfast, except I didn’t want a…

When Fogo de Chao opens at 1513 Wynkoop Street in mid-July, the Brazilian steakhouse chain will occupy — wait for it — 14,000 square feet, enough footage to house nearly 600 cows, at least by my mathematical calculations, where are based, more or less, on an average cow size of…

Colorado has plenty of homegrown fast-food and fast-casual chains to keep locals happy. There’s Chipotle, Qdoba, Smashburger, Einstein Bagels and Quiznos just to name a few. But Coloradoans also love their California fast food, and we’ve made some gains in the past few years, including a couple of new Del…

I’ve been checking out backyard chicken coops and downtown veggie gardens for months as part of my summer-long Urbavore’s Dilemma web series, and this week’s entry sent me to an unobtrusive Park Hill home in search of the origins of a pack of bacon I recently enjoyed — some of…