Denver Baker to Compete on Food Network’s Duff Till Dawn

Celebrity cake maker Duff Goldman, who rose to fame with his show Ace of Cakes, is hoping to whisk you away with a new show premiering tonight at 9:30 p.m. called Duff Till Dawn, which the Food Network is billing as an “underground competition” pitting bakers against one another in…

Katsu Ramen Opens to an Aurora Crowd Hungry for Noodles

The Denver ramen scene has been heating up over the past couple of years, with high-profile noodle-house openings and anticipation over others. But in Aurora, the demand for Japanese noodle bowls has been bubbling beneath the surface, with few options despite the vast array of ethnic eateries in the sprawling…

Dive Into Pupusas at Tacos Acapulco

Based on a month of exploring Denver’s Salvadoran scene, small is good when it comes to pupusas — at least as far as the eatery itself is concerned. Tacos Acapulco on East Colfax is bigger than the Pupusas trailer in Louisville, but not by much. With only four or five…

Bruxie Will Waffle No More in Glendale

Bruxie, the fast-casual eatery that turned the standard waffle into the base for a host of playful sweet and savory sandwiches opened less than a year ago and made our list of the ten best new fast-casual restaurants in 2014. But a fun menu full of Belgo-American fare and a…

Pastry Chef Natalia Spampinato Puts the Sweet Into Bittersweet

Natalia Spampinato Bittersweet 303-942-0320 500 East Alameda Avenue “I was pretty burned out on school by the time I got to college,” recalls Natalia Spampinato, Bittersweet’s pastry chef, “and I really missed cooking when I was living in the dorms.” A Denver native, Spampinato had graduated from the International Baccalaureate…

Hatred Is Not on the List of Ingredients at Azucar Bakery

Azucar Bakery, which sells custom-made cakes and other confections for special occasions as well as traditional Peruvian treats from owner Marjorie Silva’s homeland, recently received a notice from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) stating that a religious discrimination complaint had been filed against the bakery. The complaint stems…

Zanitas on East Hampden Closes Due to Tax Seizure

Mexican restaurants that start with the letter Z haven’t had much luck of late. Zocalo closed two location in 2014 (on South Broadway and in the Golden Triangle), and now the doors are locked at Zanitas Mexican & Margaritas. Zanitas moved to south Denver in 2013 in a prominent new…

Denver’s Fourth Park Burger Opens in River North

Park Burger feels like a Denver institution even though owner Jean-Philippe Failyau opened the first one in Platt Park just under six years ago. Since then, he’s added two more Park Burgers (one in Lower Highland and one in Hilltop), Park & Co. in Uptown, and a pizza place called…

The Little Red Trailer Called Pupusas Lives Up to Its Name

The pupusa joints I’ve visited for this month’s exploration of one aspect of Salvadoran cuisine keep getting smaller as January progresses. The first, El Chalate on Colfax, had a decent-sized dining room with a number of Salvadoran and Mexican dishes and even featured an attached market. The second, Pupuseria San…

Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl Serves Its Last Green Chile

Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl started out as a food truck in 2010, serving up chile verde and other Mexican-inspired bites on the streets of the city. In 2011, owner Matt Robinette opened the brick-and-mortar location at 35th Avenue and Quebec Street. Just over a year ago, Food & Wine magazine…

Taza de Cafe Reopens as Cafe 44 in Berkeley

Matt and Rosemary Lopez closed Taza de Cafe, and Charlie’s Ice Cream Social next door, late last year with a promise to reopen with a slightly new menu and design. The couple changed the name of the corner eatery to Cafe 44 and opened the doors earlier this month in…

Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que Smokes it Up on South Downing

Coy and Rachael Webb are paying homage to Colorado’s barbecue roots at their new smokehouse, Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que, which just opened on Wednesday. Along with pork shoulder, beef brisket, house-made sausage and a few other specialties, the menu of smoked meats includes Colorado lamb shank and bison short ribs. Colorado…