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1801 Wynkoop St. Denver, CO 80202

303-991-2242

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Best Starter -- Cold
Award Winner 2004

Cuisine(s): French

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2004 | Best Starter -- Cold

Chef John Broening loves charcuterie. He left his last executive-chef gig because that menu was too dainty, too precious. And now he's at Brasserie Rouge, LoDo's hot new French bistro, where he turns out big, lusty flavors night after night. The biggest can be found on the assiettes de charcuterie platter, the town's best way to start off a meal without firing up the oven. Each platter includes fragrant, cold lamb sausage spiced with fennel on rounds of baguette spread with spicy Dijon... More »
2004 | Best Dinner After 10 p.m.

Americans now live in a 24-hour world. There's no more 9-to-5, no more forty-hour weeks, and the dinner hour has become a fluid concept as people try to balance B-shifts and night shifts and all the responsibilities of days over-full of everything. But some good has come out of all this hurry and stress: Restaurant hours keep extending later and later into the evening. For a very delicious example, Brasserie Rouge now offers a full dinner menu until 11 p.m. on weekdays and until midnight on... More »
2004 | Best French Restaurant

This has been a weird year for the French-restaurant community. It began with all that Freedom Fries nonsense, followed by a wildly unsuccessful attempted boycott of all things French by a bunch of jingoistic ideologues. And then, in the midst of that, Denver and Boulder saw a sudden, inexplicable resurgence in French dining with several bistros, cafes and brasseries opening one right after another. Best among them -- best among both old and new -- is Brasserie Rouge, whose owners went to... More »
2004 | Best New Restaurant

When an American christens a place Brasserie Anything, the temptation is always to crank up the Continental ostentation, but Brasserie Rouge -- opened last August in a long-vacant space in the Ice House by not one, but two Americans, Robert and Leigh Thompson, with a kitchen overseen by a third, John Broening -- avoided this pitfall. Wisely, these three skipped over the glitz, the luxe, the fifty-dollar dinner plates, and instead created a place that has the vibe of a comfortable... More »

Art of the Kill

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, May 11, 2006

One thing about restaurant people: They never sit still for long. Just last month, Kevin Taylor -- who clearly didn't learn his lesson about the difficulties of multi-unit ownership during his last round of closures in '03 and '04 -- announced ... More »
Bite Me

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, February 10, 2005

I feel like I just got rid of the weight I packed on during last year's Best of Denver exertions, and here we are again. The credit card is warmed up, I have my gastronomic Baker Street Irregulars on speed-dial, and I'm wearing my heavy-duty fat p... More »
Bite Me

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, October 28, 2004

Sometimes when I have a bad day, I console myself by thinking about sandwiches. Not about eating them -- although I do dearly love a good sammich -- but making them. It's an obsession, something just short of a religion. I think of sandwich-as-spi... More »
Bite Me

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, October 14, 2004

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said that, and I believe it. What a person eats says volumes about his personality; his choice in food speaks with a clear voice straight from the heart and gut. ... More »
Bite Me

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, February 19, 2004

A dinner with Glen (see review) always unfolds with the same potential for highly public disaster as a live TV broadcast without the comfort of a five-second delay. He is an awful, vile creature, a man born without that essential internal volume c... More »
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Brasserie Rouge - CLOSED

1801 Wynkoop St. Denver, CO 80202

303-991-2242

Description

2004 | Best Starter -- Cold

2004 | Best Dinner After 10 p.m.

2004 | Best French Restaurant

2004 | Best New Restaurant

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, May 11, 2006

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, February 10, 2005

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By Jason Sheehan | Thu, October 14, 2004

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, February 19, 2004