It’s above 80 degrees right now in Denver, which means that for the past several hours, we’ve been doing nothing but daydreaming of our favorite patios, counting down the minutes until we can shut down the computers and head outside for a drink. Adding urgency to our mission is the…
Over a holiday meal at Elway’s a year and a half ago, One Republic lead singer and now Grammy-winning producer Ryan Tedder was telling his family about Southern Hospitality, the Manhattan restaurant started by Justin Timberlake; Tedder had jumped on board when a second location opened in Hell’s Kitchen. “Ryan…
A procession of lovely Fridays has made work very difficult when the weekend is just hours away. One recent Friday, as the temperatures crawled slowly and steadily toward the 80s, I gave up trying altogether, ditching my coffee-shop seat and computer in favor of a long lunch with a friend…
Each year Food & Wine releases a cocktail guide, which, in addition to being an anthology of recipes both classic and creative, is a window into the minds of some of the country’s best bartenders and a reflection of current drink trends. This year’s guide — Food & Wine Cocktails…
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…
The Denver area has a plethora of good ice cream parlors, and no sooner was our list of the five best published last week than other suggestions began pouring in — for places like Bonnie Brae and Eis Gelato, which are worthy of note, if not a place in the…
Two decades ago the Ballpark neighborhood was home to pawn shops, dive bars and empty buildings, an area of town that you didn’t want to drive through late at night, much less wander through on foot, looking for a place to eat…
It’s been just over a year since Danny Wang and his fiancee Betty Fey opened CAUTION: Brewing Company, a brewery that was initially a wholesale operation that would supply Lao Wang Lager to Lao Wang Noodle House, owned by Wang’s parents, as well as other Colorado restaurants…
A few years ago, the partners behind The Hornet looked around at small, upscale restaurants that were getting into farming and began to wonder, “Why not us?” “Other restaurants were having success as far as farm-to-table,” Sean Workman, the Hornet’s general manager, explains, “but it doesn’t just have to be…
In 2010, when Jeff Lindauer and Russ Wall first began scheming to turn Lindauer’s Buckhorn Canyon water into craft spirits, they consulted with a private-label distilling company to come up with the formula and recipes. And by random chance, they worked with Rob Masters, who soon left that group to…
Just when we thought summer-like weather was here to stay, we woke up today to find that last night’s rainstorm lingered and outstayed its welcome like the last drunk patron at the bar. And since the prospect of staying cooped up inside more than two days in a row makes…
In this interview, Pizza Republica’s Rona VanSlyck weighs in on the importance of being open-minded, her current back-bar obsession and the dive bar she frequents when she’s not at work…
The warm weather has us constantly craving ice cream, and yesterday, we listed our five best Denver parlors. While those are the places we’re most likely to go for a double-scoop cone, ice cream parlors aren’t the only places in town that turn out the dessert we crave: there are…
Rain or shine, we spend a considerable amount of time thinking about ice cream. It’s one of our very favorite desserts, not least because you can totally put it on the side of any other dessert and it doesn’t count as two treats: it counts as a la mode. This…
Fifteen years ago, remembers Rick Betance, he hired James Lee at Zolo Grill, giving the bartender his first real bar job, a position that would plant the seeds for Lee’s rise to mixology stardom. Now, after Betance spent years as an owner and operator of a boutique hotel in the…
I love fried chicken — from the triple-fried wing coated in sticky, spicy sauce of Southeast Asia to the Southern comfort of a battered and fried drumstick paired with mashed potatoes and gravy. But the Korean version could be my all-time favorite…
Christine Black is an avid home baker, one who bestows treats on her friends, family and co-workers. As requests for her goodies grew, she considered renting commercial space and actually growing her passion into a business. But when the “cottage food bill,” which allows home cooks to sell their goods…
Boulder Organic Pizza opened almost two years ago in a market already near-saturated with pizza joints, with a business plan that called for carving out an ingredient-focused niche. Two weeks ago, though, BOP packed away the pizza peels and closed for good, giving up the lease to Troy Guard –…
Creole is suddenly on a roll in Denver: Zydeco’s opened last fall on Wynkoop Street, a new Gumbo’s is going into the space that had been Roam on East 17th Avenue, and the 1812 Restaurant & Bar is currently amassing funds to build a restaurant in Five Points. Now you…
When Matt and Rosemary Lopez saw that the former Heavenly Cakes space next door to Taza de Cafe, the coffee shop they’ve run on West 44th Avenue for six years, was available, they thought it would be perfect Charlie’s Ice Cream Social, a ’30’s- and ’40’s-style soft serve ice cream…
Before I left for the airport a week and a half ago, I parked my car in an empty lot in LoHi that I’ve been using since I moved to the neighborhood. It was one of the last reliable caches of parking in the area, although in recent months it’s…
On May 5, you’ll be able to pick your reason to drink: Not only is it the date of this year’s Kentucky Derby, which is our favorite reason to suck down mint juleps while wearing a funny hat, but it’s also Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that always brings Denverites…
