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Whittier

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Cardiac arrest: Residents of 5 Denver neighborhoods most likely to suffer

    The statistics are heartbreaking. In five Denver neighborhoods -- Baker, Westwood, Whittier, Villa Park and Valverde -- residents are several times more likely to experience cardiac arrests than anywhere else in the city. Worse, locals who had heart attacks in three of the five communities during t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Frank's Kitchen adds a dollar taco night, a deck and extended Sunday hours

    It's been a year since Frank and Dina Berta, who once wrote for Nation's Restaurant News, opened Frank's Kitchen in the Whittier neighborhood, and they've spent the past twelve months building a joint that, with its homey interior and eclectic menu filled with comfort food, feels like it could have ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 10, 2011

    Like a good neighbor, Frank's Kitchen is there

    It's been a year since Frank and Dina Berta, who once wrote for Nation's Restaurant News, opened Frank's Kitchen in the Whittier neighborhood, and they've spent the past twelve months building a joint that, with its homey interior and eclectic menu filled with comfort food, feels like it could have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Photos: Frank's Kitchen

    Mark MangerDina and Frank Berta are making Frank's Kitchen part of the Whittier neighborhood.​For this week's Cafe review, I head up to 2600 High Street, where husband-and-wife team Frank and Dina Berta run Frank's Kitchen, a restaurant that feels so integral to the neighborhood that it seems ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Denver's five best offbeat neighborhood restaurants

    Oblio's​Some of the most interesting restaurants in the area aren't the hot spots that just opened or the fine-dining mainstays. Rather, they're the quirky eateries nestled into neighborhoods where crowds of regulars gather for good food and better entertainment, places that engage not just th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Frank's Kitchen makes itself at home in the Whittier neighborhood

    Mark Manger​Frank and Dina Berta didn't set out to open a restaurant. Instead, they were exploring the idea of a food truck, and searching out locations for a commercial kitchen that would serve as their commissary. But then they found the storefront in the Whittier neighborhood where the Far ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Frank's Kitchen hooks another Friday fish fry

    ​Frank's Kitchen just celebrated its three-month birthday yesterday, but diners get the present today. The tiny cafe in the Whittier neighborhood -- seating for ten, sixteen if it's not too hot to sit outside -- offered a fish fry last Friday that was so popular that Frank's was out of fish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Fish fry at Frank's Kitchen

    A Flickr photo.​The Friday fish fry is a time-honored tradition in Catholicism -- and though many religious rules have gone by the wayside, fried fish tastes so heavenly that we're sticking by this one. And tonight, inspired by a recent shipment of Alaskan cod and flounder, Frank's Kitchen, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Restaurant roll call for May

    Black Crown Lounge is looking good on South Broadway.​The dining scene saw lots of action last month, including the opening of two new spots in the 500 block of East Colfax -- and the surprise closings of two Mark Tarbell restaurants in the Streets at SouthGlenn, including the one that served ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Frank's Kitchen now serving fresh comfort food in Whittier

    Frank's Kitchen is now open just west of City Park.​Frank and Dina Berta want their new restaurant, Frank's Kitchen, to be the go-to spot for the Whittier neighborhood. "We've gotten a very positive response," says Dina of Frank's, a breakfast and lunch joint that opened May 19. "I think the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    The Kitchen [Next Door] will take sustainability seriously

    The Kitchen [Next Door] will have a local focus.​Last Friday we got a first look at the The Kitchen [Next Door], the third in the growing family of restaurants that started six years ago when The Kitchen sprang to life on the west end of Pearl Street in Boulder. Partners Kimbal Musk and Hugo M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Reader: A downtown grocery store would help this food desert bloom

    ​The revelation that downtown might get a grocery store had urban residents clipping coupons and packing up their cloth bags. here's how Carly greeted the news: If Denver was set up to have a city block (or has one currently) where you could get meat, cheese, produce, sundries, etc on one b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Frank's Kitchen will bring diner food -- and more -- to Whittier

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Why do Mexican immigrants stay stuck on the bottom rungs of the success ladder?

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Crips burned down the Holly in Bloods territory, but can peace emerge from the ashes in northeast Park Hill?

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2010

    A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2010

    City Lax brings lacrosse to inner-city Denver

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 20, 2010

    Jezebel's serves up spirits — alcoholic and otherwise

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 6, 2010

    Spitters are quitters at Swallows

    ​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    A busy weekend for KJ's Coffee Bar

    ​Kenny and Kristin Johnson, the owners of KJ's Coffee Bar, have a date with the Denver Department of Excise and License at 1:30 p.m. today, a hearing where they'll ask that their liquor license be changed to a cabaret license, so that they can present live music on a regular basis and "don't h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    KJ's Coffee Bar adds music to the mix

    ​KJ's Coffee Bar, the Whittier neighborhood watering hole at 1710 East 25th Avenue that Kenny and Kristin Johnson opened last year, adds music to the mix tonight, when DJ LHD and friends start spinning at 7 p.m. But don't come to KJ's empty-handed: It's running a food bank to benefit Food Bank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Inspired by Dave Eggers' 826, a local nonprofit helps kids get their write on

    Courtesy of MDPLAttendees of the recent MDPL writing camp work on their projects.​ We don't have an outpost of author Dave Egger's 826 program in Denver, where kids can learn to dream like a writer and write like a writer and even get published like a writer. What we do have, however, is a gro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    KJ's Coffee Bar expands hours....and offerings

    KJ's has become a neighborhood playgroundKJ's Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that's become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today -- until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that's just the start of the changes, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    KJ's Coffee Bar going for its bar exam

    KJ's Coffee Bar opened last summer at 1710 East 25th Avenue, but it finally held its grand opening celebration on May 23. And KJ's could soon have more reason to celebrate. This community gathering place for the Whittier neighborhood is going for a beer/wine liquor license, with a hearing slated f ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Dana Perino talks for the president; her dad talks for the neighborhood

    KJ's Coffee Bar opened last summer at 1710 East 25th Avenue, but it finally held its grand opening celebration on May 23. And KJ's could soon have more reason to celebrate. This community gathering place for the Whittier neighborhood is going for a beer/wine liquor license, with a hearing slated f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2007

    Delegating Denver #13 of 56: Georgia

    KJ's Coffee Bar opened last summer at 1710 East 25th Avenue, but it finally held its grand opening celebration on May 23. And KJ's could soon have more reason to celebrate. This community gathering place for the Whittier neighborhood is going for a beer/wine liquor license, with a hearing slated f ... More >>

  • News

    August 23, 2007

    The Matrix

    Can a white woman with ties to Dune, Keanu Reeves and Burning Man effectively represent Denver’s historically black city council district?

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    You're Toast!

    Franchise owners thought they'd make a fortune serving the toasted sandwiches created by Quiznos. Instead, they got burned.

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    The Transformers

    They created Denver's gang life. A generation later, can they break free?

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2006

    A Cure for the Common Code

    They created Denver's gang life. A generation later, can they break free?

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    They created Denver's gang life. A generation later, can they break free?

  • Calendar

    July 8, 2004

    Down to Earth Music

    Mars Hill Cafe gives sanctuary to diversity

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2004

    Just Can't Get Enough

    Collectors' Extravaganza goes from the sophomoric to the sublime

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Between Rock and a Hard Place

    Half of the 2700 block of Downing falls into one police district, the other half into another -- leaving residents caught in the crack.

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Park Place

    An ambitious plan to expand Denver's parks may take root if the political climate is fertile.

  • Dining

    March 28, 2002

    Consumed

    Tasteful Profiling

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    Centers of Attention

    Denver is selling its community centers, leaving the people who work there wondering why.

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    One More Time Around

    Tired of traveling in circles, Boulder residents head straight for the voters.

  • News

    January 23, 1997

    Forward to the Past

    What will happen when Denver's model of integration, Manual High, returns to the old days of segregation?

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