Let’s say you’re a sustainability-minded food consumer, and you vote with your dollar by buying from farmers’ markets and local producers, by purchasing organically grown produce or cage-free eggs. What do you do when you’re eating out and have less direct control of the food on your plate? Especially as…
Infinite Harvest has great food, no atmosphere. That’s because Tommy Romano, the aerospace engineer who launched the Lakewood complex, isn’t in the business just to provide high-end restaurants with superior microgreens: He believes Infinite Harvest is a gateway to the food of our future — especially if that future carries us far from Earth.
Need a little more renewal than the January 1 ushering in of 2017 could provide? You’re in luck; on January 28, Denver’s Asian community will observe the Lunar New Year, an important celebration in many Asian countries that is attended by a number of different traditions representing a fresh start…
Chef Corey Baker says he didn’t so much find sushi as fall into it — but doing so had an element of fate. “I got a job at Sushi Den…at age seventeen,” he recalls. “It felt kind of like destiny. Sushi Den was the first restaurant I went to: When…
Fine-dining veterans Alex Figura and Spencer White have teamed up at Dio Mio, a fast-casual pasta joint.
John Broening has been a torchbearer for Denver’s culinary community for the better part of the last two decades. In addition to stints at Brasserie Rouge, Le Grand Bistro and Argyll, he and his wife, pastry maven Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, owned and operated Duo — a leader in Denver’s nascent New…
Happy 2017, Denver! Here’s round two of our interview with local chefs and hospitality professionals, wherein they share their opinions and predictions on rising stars, old favorites, the service-industry labor shortage and the rise of gratuity-free restaurants. Read part one of the Q & A, which includes pleas for better…
Happy 2017, Denver! As we kick off what promises to be another action-packed year in the Mile High City’s restaurant industry, we asked local chefs and hospitality professionals to tell us what they’d like to see happen over the next twelve months. In response, they issued pleas for better service…
What were Denver’s restaurant industry pros talking about in 2016? We provided some answers in part one of our second taste of this year’s chef interviews. Here the reflection continues with more observations on what dining in Denver this year was all about. On how Denver’s changing demographics and the…
This past year was frenetic — and not just in the political arena. Denver’s dining scene continued to move at a breakneck pace, as seasoned restaurateurs, rising stars and fresh transplants alike all opened ambitious new restaurants. Amid all the activity, what were the Mile High City’s hospitality professionals talking…
At the end of this year, Andrea Frizzi will shutter his Il Posto on East 17th Avenue and start anew in a fresh space in RiNo, just around the corner from Vero, the Milano pizzeria he recently launched in Denver Central Market. Il Posto’s new digs are dazzling, a sleek…
As Tuesday night’s meeting of Boulder’s City Council kicked off at 6 p.m., constituents spilled out of the chambers and into an overflow area in the lobby, where a crowd sat tensely, glued to the live TV proceedings.
When New Saigon opened on South Federal Boulevard in 1982, it was only the second Vietnamese restaurant in Denver. Refugees fleeing the Communist regime in Vietnam were just beginning to settle in Denver at the time, forming the basis of the vibrant community that exists today. New Saigon became a…
On December 31, Andrea Frizzi plans to hold one last blowout New Year’s Eve party at his 17th Avenue location of Il Posto, and then he’ll shutter the nearly ten-year-old neighborhood restaurant in anticipation of a move to new digs at 26th and Larimer streets in RiNo. But when the…
Three and a half years ago, the organizers behind the Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project (or BNSCP) first went before Boulder City Council to ask the city to establish an official Sister City relationship with Nablus, Palestine.
When developers Eric Kramer and Randy Nichols approached Oak at Fourteenth, Acorn and Brider owners Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski about opening a restaurant in PearlWest, the project at 1023 Walnut Street that sits on the old site of the Daily Camera building, Dayton’s first instinct was to pass. Then he…
When Elise Wiggins stepped away from the burners at Panzano — the acclaimed restaurant in the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Denver that she’d overseen for twelve years after taking over for Jennifer Jasinski — the search was on for a chef who could build on her legacy. Enter heavy hitter Patrick…
When we reported on Peak Academy, a city government initiative that teaches employees at all levels of government to rethink their jobs to eliminate waste and deliver better service, we mentioned that the program has earned a number of accolades. It adds another today: Mayor Michael Hancock has been named…
When Ellen Daehnick launched Helliemae’s five years ago, she had no professional experience in food or hospitality, much less candy-making. But she quickly built an enthusiastic audience for her sultry salted caramels, which are dark, chewy and richly complex. As Daehnick’s business grew, she bought a building in Wheat Ridge,…
When Mell’s Cheese closed its doors a couple of weeks ago, manager Mike Keuler found himself in a situation that inspired immediate action: owner Paula Dick “had to get rid of her product,” he says. “For a cheese shop to close right before the holidays is tragic. I bought her…
When Williams & Graham first slid back the bookshelf that covers the entrance to the bar, it was only the second cocktail bar in Denver, and it came online almost exactly one year after the first: Frank Bonanno’s Green Russell. In the five years since, the city’s cocktail scene has…
Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, Denver: Have you picked up your heritage, free-range, hand-fed, lovingly nurtured turkey? Baked your from-scratch, orchard-to-table pies? Decorated your table with festive decorative gourds? Worked out how to avoid conversation with your slightly sloppy, mildly offensive uncle? No? Well, saddle up and pour yourself a…
