Euclid Hall

Euclid Hall dishes up vegetarian options for Best of Denver reader

While some people puzzle over the readers' pick for Best Fried Chicken, Leah wants to know the specific dish readers voted for when they awarded Euclid Hall the prize for Best Vegetarian Dish in a Non-Vegetarian Restaurant. "They have pretty much nothing vegetarian on their menu," she writes, "so if ... More >>

Jennifer Jasinski a James Beard finalist for Best Chef Southwest

The James Beard Foundation just released the finalists for this year's food and restaurant awards, and the list of locals has been whittled considerably since the semifinalists were announced back in February. Then five Denver chefs made the list; now only chef Jennifer Jasinski, co-owner of Rioja, ... More >>

Reader: Entertainment or excellence -- an easy choice at Euclid Hall

On Monday night, Euclid Hall was featured on Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods. But the food there isn't all that bizarre: Yesterday, Euclid Hall learned that executive chef Jorel Pierce has been named a semi-finalist for James Beard Rising Star Chef. And while Pierce didn't last past the first episod ... More >>

Euclid Hall: The bull's balls in their court

Euclid Hall is on a roll. Today the restaurant learned that Jorel Pierce, the executive chef, has been named a James Beard semifinalist in the Rising Star Chef category. And last night, the restaurant's Rocky Mountain oysters got a rave review from Andrew Zimmern on Bizarre Foods. One segment of th ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, featuring burritos, bugs and bulls' balls from local restaurants, will air Monday

Last fall, in early September, Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, jetted to Denver, his film crew on his heels, to film footage of an upcoming episode of his wildly popular television show, in which Zimmern stuffs his gullet with foodstuffs that some people would find peculi ... More >>

Avery tap takeover at Euclid Hall tonight

Beer Month continues to flow at Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, today with a tapping from Avery Brewing's famed Demons of Ale Series. See also: -Beer calendar: Avery salutes the dictators; Denver Beer Co debuts its new barrel room -Best Place to Pair Beer and Food 2012 -Best Pig Parts 2012

Culinary calendar: beer month at Euclid Hall, wine month at Rioja

Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, is already well known for its craft beer selection, but the beer hall is beefing up its efforts this month with a weekly "Backwall Tap Takeover," featuring rare beers from around the country. See also: - Euclid Hall: Best Place to Pair Beer and Food 2012 - Chef and Te ... More >>

Thursday at the Great American Beer Fest: five sneaky-cool things to check out

The Great American Beer Festival, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday, is a river of beer -- and a river of people -- but there are some things that don't always meet the eye: secret fishing holes, swirling eddies, rapids. Here are a couple of things to do that may not be on your radar, b ... More >>

Twelve beers to track down in Denver outside the Great American Beer Festival

There will be thousands of beers to sample inside the Colorado Convention Center during the Great American Beer Festival, which starts on October 11, but there will also be some very special beers served at bars, breweries and restaurants during the week before GABF. Some of these were brewed espec ... More >>

The Road to GABF at Euclid Hall: Avery Brewing Company

The Great American Beer Festival is still weeks away, but Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, has already kicked off its "Road to GABF" -- a series of intimate beer dinners.The second installment takes place tonight and will feature five beers from Avery Brewing Co. matched with creative fare from Euclid ... More >>

Tonight: take a bite out of LoDo, one restaurant at a time

LoDo Bites -- a culinary walking tour of lower downtown restaurants-- takes place from 5 to 9 p.m. this evening. While you're sample small bites from dozens of downtown restaurants and enjoying drink specials and desserts at select locations, don't forget to take a few minutes to enjoy the incredibl ... More >>

Round two with Jeremy Kittelson, exec chef of Ambria

Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part two of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I really like going to Euclid Hall. ... More >>

Five meaty ways to satisfy carnivorous cravings in Denver

Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of fasting, giving up ... More >>

Euclid Hall brings back its Tuesday Brew Bites program pairing beer and food

The beer and food experts at Euclid Hall had so much fun pairing small bites with rare and unusual beers in January during the restaurant's Beer Month, that they've decided to continue the Brew Bites program through at least March. Each Tuesday (except for the two during Restaurant Week on February ... More >>

Beer calendar: Upslope Foreign Stout at Euclid Hall; Leopold Bros rye-aged porter at Yak & Yeti

Breckenridge Brewing has joined fellow Colorado breweries Odell, Great Divide and Oskar Blues in offering four-packs of some of its limited-release beers. The brewery will start with 471 IPA and 72 Imperial, a double chocolate cream stout made with chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; it ... More >>

Beer calendar: One-barrel Wednesday at Strange and firkins at Great Divide and Dry Dock

Great Divide​Great Divide Brewing puts on some great throw-downs, especially during the quarterly release parties it typically holds to fete its seasonal beers, three at a time. But the brewery will take a time-out this month even as it puts its first quarter seasonals -- the new Nomad pilsner ... More >>

Euclid Hall puts on a daily show during its Beer Month

Lori MidsonEuclid Hall's beer flight and brew bites.​Like a fine-art collector, Euclid Hall's Ryan Conklin has been gathering up special, rare or unusual examples of his muse over the past nine months and secreting them away. But this month, Conklin, a certified beer Cicerone, is ready to put ... More >>

Beer calendar: Firkins on First Friday and Peanut Butter Milk Stout at Renegade

Have you run the gauntlet at Star Bar? If not, you've got through February 6 to try and drink thirty Avery Brewing beers available at the hip Larimer Street beer bar. For starters, you'll need to drink all of these: IPA, White Rascal, Ellie's Brown, Joe's Pilsner, Out of Bounds Stout, Salvation, The ... More >>

Beer cocktail enthusiasts launch Beermixology.com

We've seen a lot of beer cocktails make best-beverage lists over the past year, and they range in complexity from a glorified michelada -- a classic Mexican blend of lime juice and lager -- to the Naughty Girl Scout, a drink on the list at Euclid Hall that uses a variety of spirits plus Left Hand mi ... More >>

Ten favorite beverages from 2011

The more I travel, the more I'm impressed by the barmen and barwomen of Denver -- many of the beer, wine and spirits professionals in our city can stand with any other bartender in the world. They're professional and knowledgeable, and they pour some pretty awesome drinks. Without a doubt, I had som ... More >>

The Eat Is On

Euclid Hall turns one today

​Time flies when you're having fun, and it seems like just yesterday that Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen opened its doors. But it's been a year, and in celebration, Euclid Hall is throwing a First Anniversary Party, with sausage-making and butchering demos, specialty spirits, DJ Vajra, goldfish rac ... More >>

Announcement! We have a winner of our Euclid Hall anniversary party contest

Lori MidsonNo word on whether Euclid Hall exec chef Jorel Pierce will siwsh around in a tutu at Euclid's first anniversary party, but anything could happen​ Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen is celebrating its first anniversary tomorrow night with a pig-centric party, which exec chef Jorel Pierce pro ... More >>

Win two tickets to Euclid Hall's first anniversary party

Lori Midson​It's going to be "a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout." That's how Jorel Pierce, the chef of Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski's nearly unassailable shrine to pig parts, poutine, offal and everything else we love in the food world, describes Euclid's Hall upco ... More >>

Euclid Hall vs. the Sowbionese Liberation Army: the swine showdown

AnonymousEuclid Hall's pig mascot may be hacked into coasters at Cochon555 ​ The Sowbionese Liberation Army -- they who stomped off with Euclid Hall's pig mascot last weekend and are now holding it for ransom -- are ready for tomorrow's showdown at Euclid Hall, at which we expect to see, amon ... More >>

Euclid Hall retaliates against the Sowbionese Liberation Army by stealing the prime suspect's pig -- and issuing its own set of demands for its safe return

​Things are heating up between Euclid Hall and the Sowbionese Liberation Army, the hooligans who made off with Euclid Hall's iron pig this past Sunday at The Big Eat at Union Station, and are holding it hostage. The staff at Euclid Hall have pinpointed several prime suspects in the heist, t ... More >>

The Sowbionese Liberation Army issues more ransom demands for the return of Euclid Hall's pig mascot

AnonymousWhat, no pink ballet flats?​ The demands from the pig pluckers, who ran off with Euclid Hall's pig mascot last Sunday during EatDenver's The Big Eat, have risen -- and they keep getting more and more hilarious. Initially, the ransom note called for five servings of bone marrow and f ... More >>

Euclid Hall's mascot pig is being held for ransom (no, we're not kidding)

AnonymousGive me my bone marrow, whiskey and sponge baths - or else!​Right...so just a few minutes ago, I received a phone call from someone who shall remain nameless, along with an e-mail, the sender of which will also stay anonymous (for now) telling a tale about how he (or she), along with ... More >>

American Craft Beer Week: Special brews news

​American Craft Beer Week is in full force, and it seems all of Denver is flowing with beer -- which makes sense, seeing that we're right in the middle of the Napa Valley of it. With all the specialty tappings going on around town, it's difficult to to taste everything, but I've been doing m ... More >>

Contest: Win tickets to EatDenver's sold out The Big Eat!

​EatDenver, a kick-ass squadron of more than fifty independent Denver food temples, puts out several awesome events and deals throughout the year, including Harvest Week and the EatDenver Dining Decks, a collection of 52 cards, each pimping $10 off any $25 food purchase at participating restau ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: homebrew, Ghost Face Killah and Lips of Faith

Flickr​New Belgium releases two new Lips of Faith beers this week, Abbey Grand Cru and Super Cru, which celebrates the Fort Collins brewery's twentieth anniversary. Super Cru is a double version of Fat Tire, meaning it has twice the malt and twice the hops; it has also been enhanced with Asian ... More >>

Kitchen Crusaders

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Euclid Hall taps the first beer from Crooked Stave

Flickr​As Gandalf says in The Return of the King, "It's the deep breath before the plunge." Colorado Beer Week, Denver Beer Fest, American Craft Beer Week, the Great American Beer Festival. For some, it's hard to keep them all straight. But for the state's brewers and their loyal followers, t ... More >>

Need to lay off the sauce? Try a mocktail at Euclid Hall

​After all of the drinking we did in order to pick our booze-related awards in the Best of Denver 2011 -- like Best Martini, Best House Margarita, Best Dive Bar and Best New Bar -- (coupled with, uh, our normal food and booze pairing habits), we began to think of the gray, plaque-flecked, shri ... More >>

Round two with Will Cisa, exec chef of the Corner Office

Lori Midson​Will Cisa The Corner Office 1401 Curtis Street 303-825-6500 www.thecornerofficedenver.com/food/dinner This is part two of my interview with Will Cisa, executive chef of the Corner Office Restaurant Martini Bar. In part one of that interview, Cisa dished on monumental cooking dis ... More >>

New Year's resolutions from Max MacKissock, Matt Selby, Mark DeNittis, Michael Long and twenty-one more Denver/Boulder chefs

Lori MidsonBrad Rowell, chef at Colt & Gray, resolves to eat twenty percent less pork fat per day and replace that with twenty percent more Schlitz​ Haven't made your New Year's resolutions yet? That makes two of us. But instead of focusing on ourselves, we prodded more than two dozen Denver/ ... More >>

Chef and Tell, part two: Euclid Hall's Jorel Pierce on body parts and being a trigger-puller

Lori Midson​ Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 www.euclidhall.com This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Jorel Pierce, executive chef of Euclid Hall. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Blue Ribbon in Manhat ... More >>

Euclid Hall's Jorel Pierce on the egg man, life without salt and f*cking up the art of cuisine

Lori Midson​Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 www.euclidhall.com This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Jorel Pierce, executive chef of Euclid Hall. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. "You can't write that! I'm not a pussy!" Jorel Pier ... More >>

Five great joints for a late-night bite in Denver

Mark MangerEuclid Hall's foie gras poutine, available until 1 a.m. on weekends and midnight during the week​Denver's late-night dining options are growing. Last week, I had nothing but love for Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, which proffers its gravy-laden poutines and plump homemade sausages ... More >>

More of the same at Rioja

Big love for Euclid Hall

Euclid Hall finds a niche in Denver dining

Mark MangerThe Euclidean cheesesteak​Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, the third restaurant within one block for partners Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch, who also own Rioja and Bistro Vendome, was one of the hottest openings of the summer. The crowds packed into the beautifully refurbished s ... More >>

So foie, so good: Euclid Hall adds a few menu items

Euclid Hall's duck foie gras mini poutine.​The first six weeks at Euclid Hall were one wild ride, culminating in chef/owner Jennifer Jasinski being named Denver Magazine's Chef of the Year -- and then the restaurant doing 600 covers last Saturday, as Great American Beer Festers left the conven ... More >>

Euclid Hall taps its own house beer from Steamworks Brewing today

​When the crew from Steamworks Brewing makes the trip north today for the Great American Beer Festival, they're have something extra on board for Denver. The Durango brewery is making a limited-edition proprietary beer just for Euclid Hall, the happening new beer-centric gastropub owned by La ... More >>

The Great American Beer Festival pours into town. But there's plenty of other beer fun to be had if you don't have tickets.

Falling Rock is home away from home.​Good morning beer lovers. Welcome to the best three days of your life. The Great American Beer Festival kicks off today at 5:30 p.m. with 462 breweries pouring 2,200 different beers -- the biggest number ever served. But if you're not one of the 49,000 peo ... More >>

Denver adds nearly 100 craft beer taps over the past six weeks

Euclid Hall​While millions of bleary eyes will gaze longingly at Denver next week when the Great American Beer Festival, Denver Beer Fest and Oktoberfest transform the city into the world's largest beer garden, July and August were also great months for the sudsy stuff -- especially for those ... More >>

Restaurant roll call for August

Lori MidsonEuclid Hall has given new life to an old building.​While gourmet trucks and other mobile food outfits continued to roll out in August, a number of brick-and-mortar establishments opened their doors, too. Keep reading for our list:

Euclid Hall gives a great building a second chance

Manning the Grill

Rioja team ropes together Martini Ranch deal

Meanwhile, back at Martini Ranch....​Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch, the talented duo behind Larimer Square restaurants Rioja and Bistro Vendome, have their eyes on a third spot around the corner, as Penny Parker reports in a good scoop this morning. According to the sign still on the former M ... More >>