The Ten10 Group, a local marketing and communications firm, posts a monthly list called the 10Spot, created by former Rocky Mountain Newser Steve Foster to give residents of the Mile High City something to think about and talk about. This month’s 10Spot was near and dear to our hearts: 10…
Since it first came on the scene in 2003, the Blake Street Tavern has been a prime spot to pre-game a Rockies game. Last Friday, it opened the doors to a busy first weekend in its new location, one block away from the old–and one block closer to Coors Field–at…
I’m seeing a lot of commentary about this New York Post story detailing how a growing group of chefs, including Momofuku’s David Chang and Anthony Bourdain, are refusing off-menu requests from diners. Their comments are mostly triumphant validations, declarations of an era in which the restaurant-goer will finally acknowledge that…
There’s a big beer party brewing in Boulder tonight, and there will be nary a keg stand or frat boy in sight. Instead, revelers will be treated to a served five-course dinner, paired with beer, in the swank lounge that is the Kitchen [Upstairs]. Ray Decker, general manager at the…
With cocktail culture exploding in this town, it’s only a matter of time before a crop of speakeasies infiltrates the drinking scene, using storefronts and mundane delis to disguise hidden, dimly lit caverns of revelers imbibing pre-Prohibition libations long into the wee hours. Hush Denver, the not-so-secret supper club that…
It’s almost happy hour on hump day. Don’t feel like drinking? How about a slice of cake? Kim and Jake’s Cakes, which opened last month in Boulder’s Table Mesa shopping center, offers a hump day happy hour from 5 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday. During that hour, the shop offers…
Denver’s downtown farmers-market-for-a-cause is open for the season. Lunchtime last Wednesday was cloudy, so Tiri’s Garden, built last year on the corner of 15th and California streets by Concerts for Kids’ Christie Isenberg and a host of volunteers, was quiet. The few people out for the first day of the…
The Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers first brought stone-baked Southern-style pizza to the Colorado via the suburbs, opening a restaurant at the Streets at SouthGlenn in Centennial last August. And soon, on Monday, July 12, the franchise will open a second location downtown at the Tabor Center on 16th and Lawrence…
By 9 p.m. last night, most of the diners and imbibers who’d come for Colt & Gray’s patio party had bid their adieus, but the party was still going strong, with the stragglers joining the staff for a couple of rounds of poker and one last glass of cachaca punch…
It’s Meatless Monday, and I’m planning on eating meat. Lots of it. Maybe at one of these places, some of the best spots in town to pursue a carnivorous crusade. Eat your heart out, Mario Batali…
“He’s dead to me.” That was a good friend’s immediate response to the news that Mario Batali, patron saint of cured meat, is supporting Meatless Monday, a non-profit that’s trying to convince Americans to go vegetarian one day a week in order to reduce the country’s intake of animal protein…
Nestled between the two walking bridges that connect the Lower Highland neighborhood to LoDo, Colt & Gray’s patio makes for good people-watching, the perfect place to sip a bubbly aperitif while cyclists, rollerbladers and families meander by. That patio opens this Sunday with plenty of fanfare. To celebrate the onset…
Last night, Sailor Jerry’s rum hosted a different kind of cocktail contest. These events normally take place in quiet rooms of trendy restaurants, where participating bartenders explain each move and ingredient of their libation while intensely scrutinized for technique by a panel of judges…
The Airstream trailer that will hawk Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg’s tricked-out street food has yet to hit the road, but his business partner, Laura Rice, already has bigger plans. Think global, eat mobile, urges the Streat Chefs website…
The era of the food truck is heading right for us, with a few kitchens already roaming the streets, supplementing less mobile, but no less hip, enterprises like Biker Jim’s, the Gastro Cart and Pinche Tacos. Use Twitter and Facebook to find out when and where you can sample these…
Should we go get a horn? Dukes of Hazzard or something?” Josh Wolkon, the owner of Vesta Dipping Grill and its younger sibling, Steuben’s Food Service, is chatting with Steuben’s executive chef, Brandon Biederman, and Biederman’s wife, Emily, while they stand in front of a garage that’s the temporary home…
There’s something fun about tracking down a food truck via a cryptic address posted on a Twitter feed, then finally pulling into a parking lot and spotting a tattooed arm protruding from a big pink coach, passing out paper plates loaded with food. It’s like a treasure hunt. For tacos…
It’s hot on the first day of June, and the vast courtyard at the intersection of the 16th Street Mall and Arapahoe Street is crowded. Business people in A-line skirts and pleated khakis are eating their to-go lunches at sunny tables, soaking up a few minutes of real weather outside…
For the past year, under sexy lighting in TAG’s chic modern dining room, Troy Guard has put out his particular brand of East meets West fusion,while Mike Henderson and his staff of mixologists craft equally flashy spirits concoctions to pair. There’s a changing of the guard under way, though: Henderson…
The Le Central patio is surprisingly secluded from Lincoln Avenue’s traffic, a long greenery-encapsulated oasis that, during summer months, invites diners to sit low in their chairs, nursing a glass of bubble-gummy Beaujolais wine long past twilight…
The Crepe Bretonne is a delicate, golden-brown pancake folded over savory accoutrements, like sausage and cheese, or stuffed full of fruit jam and butter. Tonight, Le Central, Denver’s affordable French mecca and romantic dinner spot, is offering a brief cooking demonstration on this traditional breakfast and dessert food. For ten…
Dakota Soifer’s chicharrones, seasoned with a dash of chile oil and salt, are crispy puffs that crack between the teeth and dissolve on the tongue almost instantly, leaving behind nothing more than the sweet smokiness of pork. They’re not on the menu at Cafe Aion, but they’re sent, along with…
