Author: Kate Jonuska

The weather may be mercurial, but Pikes Peak Restaurant Week is heating up dining in the region — or rather Pikes Peak Restaurant Fortnight, but who’s counting? Running March 5 to 18, The Gazette-sponsored event drew three times the number of restaurants as it did in 2011, its first year. And they are offering some…

Small and round as a dot, our table was covered in white linen and sat before the lit fireplace, which cast both warmth and flickering shadows. It was a table meant for holding hands above or twining feet beneath, small enough to even share a strand of spaghetti a la Disney should you want to…

Editor’s note: GO! begins a new feature this week called Insider Eats. Every other week our dining staff will round up a handful of restaurants or dishes around a theme — because one recommendation per week just won’t cut all mustard (nor the salsa, pasta, crepes, breakfasts, cocktails or pastries) — the area has to…

Forget any preconceived notions you might have about strip-mall take-out joints. You’ll walk out of Thai Satay feeling downright pampered. Sure, the phone rings and customers wait, but excellent service and fresh, vibrant food make Thai Satay more than a quick, easy fix for evenings when you don’t want to cook. Instead, this small, passionately…

Often conservative and predictable, chain restaurants aren’t the most thrilling dining destinations. Their well-oiled kitchens, however, are also usually reliable and consistent. Therefore I was surprised — shocked, really — when visiting My Big Fat Greek Restaurant for my Oct. 14 dining review to be served a pizza (the El Greco, $10) that not only wasn’t tasty, but was…

I didn’t live through the 1950s. Not by a long shot. Still, I recognize all of the hot rod-driving, poodle skirt-wearing, jukeboxed and ponytailed stereotypes about the era when I see them. Rosie’s Diner conjures that classic “American Graffiti” feel, with enough ’50s flair to outfit an episode of “Happy Days.” Many folks probably remember…

We all have guilty pleasures, things we think are perhaps beneath us that we can’t help loving anyway. The Peak Grill, at Garden of the Gods Road and Centennial Boulevard, is becoming one of mine. This diner makes me feel as if I’m in my grandmother’s kitchen, where she stands ready with a carton of…