“We’re trying to create a community, a place where you can go and know that your friends are going to be there,” says Colin Floom, co-owner of Roostercat Coffee House, which opened last week at 1045 Lincoln Street. Surrounded by business types pecking at laptops, the smell of brewing coffee,…

Part of the project is always getting to know your different clients, getting inside their heads,” says Sarah Semple Brown, who founded the design and architecture firm Semple Brown Design in the early ’80s and has been designing restaurant spaces ever since. “It’s like reality TV at its best.” Brown’s…

“Part of the project is always getting to know your different clients, getting inside their heads,” says Sarah Semple Brown, who founded the design and architecture Semple Brown Design in the early ’80s and has been designing restaurant spaces ever since. “It’s like reality TV at its best.”…

Colorado’s Best Beef.” The name of the company alone is a bold boast in a state that’s home to roughly 13,000 beef producers. But the owners are willing to back up their claim. “We can give a little more attention to the smaller details that the big just don’t have…

This is the fourth in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. “I want to have a relationship with someone who’s cooking my food,” declares Paul Cure, co-founder of Boulder’s Cure Organic Farm. One handshake at a time, Paul and his wife, Anne,…

“‘Congratulations! Looks like you guys are opening another store!'” That’s how Nicholas Bode, who founded Rooster & Moon Coffee Pub, found out about Roostercat Coffeehouse, which will soon come to roost two blocks away at 1045 Lincoln Street…

The culinary landscape of Denver was quite different when Pat Perry opened Highland’s Garden Cafe in 1994. There was no Fruition or Table 6 to garner rave reviews from out-of-towners. No Lola or Linger to draw the ultra-hip masses to Highland. No Potager to emphasize homegrown ingredients. Meanwhile, for almost…

This is the third in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Why is Red Wagon Organic Farm’s produce so beloved among Colorado’s chefs? Simple: They know when to let it go. “If the quality isn’t there, we simply don’t offer it for…

A signature New York City barbecue pig-out is being expanded to the Mile High City. Danny Meyer’s Union Square Events is debuting the first annual Big Denver Barbecue Block Party, at Skyline Park August 4-5, featuring pitmasters from around the country, cooking demonstrations, live music and, of course, pounds and…

Roostercat Coffeehouse will soon open as a fair-trade, farm-to-table coffee shop in a funky space at 1045 Lincoln Street…

This is the second in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Read the first installment, on Hazel Dell mushrooms, here. Sticky, fragrant, bright orange fat. Rendered from chunks of silky guanciale, it slathers the agliolini all’ Amatriciana pasta at Cellar Wine Bar,…

Green chile, meet cheeseburger. Downtown Denver, meet Bubba Chinos. The latest location in the chain started by Leonard Cordova, grandson of the late Stella Cordova of the original Chubby’s, will open tomorrow at 1361 Court Place, just steps from City Hall. And first-day customers will receive free chile cheese fries…

The second iteration of Beehive, chef/owner Janice Henning’s pared-down, seasonal foods showcase, opened yesterday in Boulder. The slim space that once housed Saxy’s Cafe now looks rustic yet serene, with stark white furniture and whimsical jar lights dangling overhead…

It’s been nearly a decade since the farm-to-table Beehive had Denver diners buzzing. (It occupied the spot now filled by Table 6.) But chef/owner Janice Henning is now putting the final touches on a brand-new Beehive — this one right off Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall…

This is the first in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. In rows and rows of old shipping containers in dark, dank buildings, fungi grow are growing in neatly stacked and sealed plastic bags. These modest mushrooms will soon be shipped out…

Attivo Pizza & Subs, home of the “life changing” Pancho Villa sub, is now helping to bring new life to the revitalized Beauvallon complex…

If you’ve been looking forward to a sizzling sugar steak to kick off this year’s Independence Day, you’ll have to reschedule. Bastien’s Restaurant, a Denver’s Best Low-End Steakhouse winner and 2010’s Best Addition to the National Register of Historic Places, will be closed all next week…