Walk quickly past the fitness facility that shares a building with LowDown Brewery + Kitchen, which opened this winter in the Golden Triangle. You don’t come here to eat a big meal. You come to sit at the bar and watch a game. You come to play bean-bag toss on…

For months I passed by the future home of Nuggs Ice Cream, watching the construction project and waiting for the hot summer day when the place would finally open and my family and I could mosey on over for dessert. That day came recently when we walked to Marczyk’s II,…

After years in northern California, veteran restaurateur Frank Jolley IV had a choice to make: open a restaurant there, or find a new place to set up shop. “I was 50-50 Healdsburg or Denver,” says Jolley, whose lengthy career includes everything from picking grapes in New Zealand to meeting Julia…

In early March, Gozo finally opened on South Broadway. It’s an Italian-Spanish eatery — not that you’d know it from the name. It doesn’t serve aljotta (fish soup) or hobz biz-zejt (bread with tomatoes, anchovies, mint and cheese) or other staples from Gozo, an island in the Maltese archipelago. It…

Even with experienced teams, it takes a while for a new restaurant to settle in. But right around the time chefs usually begin to catch their breath, the family behind El Chingon realized that they’d need to do it all over again — soon. “Within the first three or four…

David Lopez, who shares executive-chef duties with his grandmother, Gloria Nunez, at El Chingon restaurant in the Berkeley neighborhood, says that his family’s goal for the eatery, which moved from Arvada last year, is “to keep it a bistro, a little more high-end.” As a result, diners will find items…

If you’ve been to a divorce party, you know that separations are no longer seen as the end of something, but rather the beginning. Still, not everyone likes to broadcast the news of a break-up, not even when it involves business rather than personal matters. Until I began fact-checking this…

The neighborhood around the University of Denver is home to many student-oriented hangouts – and Atticus, a Table to Tavern endeavor, was originally conceived as “a bar with shared plates,” says Table to Tavern CEO Brian Midtbo. But people kept thanking the staff for bringing a restaurant to the area,…

When Olive & Finchopened in December, the French café-inspired eatery came as a surprise to fans of chef Mary Nguyen’s previous restaurants, Parallel Seventeen and Street Kitchen Asian Bistro. At Olive & Finch, she traded pho for prosciutto, black bean stir fries for breakfast burritos, and tuna rolls for tartines…

Restaurateur Mary Nguyen fashioned Olive & Finch after the traiteurs, or prepared-food purveyors, she encountered while traveling in France. Though not everything on the menu is French, some, like the poached-pear tartine, took our restaurant critic back to her own European travels. What else does the restaurant have to offer?…

UPDATE: Chai & Chai made another big change in October 2014, switching its dinner service to a strictly Indian menu and expanding the number of vegetarian options. Besides adding Indian chef Prakash Maroju to its roster, the restaurant plans to complement its menu by offering visiting Arabian, Thai and other…

Chai & Chai is located in a stretch of fast-food restaurants serving the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The eatery is owned by Venu Alla, who enlisted dosa chef Rajesh Kannan to make Indian food and Jordanian chef Enas Khalili to make Arabian food. But rather than offer a culinary…