The Curtis Park Creamery has been slinging budget Mexican fare in the Curtis Park/Five Points area for over forty years. And in January 2013, the owners finally opened a second location in Aurora, calling it, not surprisingly, Curtis Park Creamery II. But now you’ll have to head back to the…

Kiernan Maletsky’s cover story, “Rock On,” focuses on the town of Lyons and the music scene’s efforts to recover from last fall’s devastating floods. Oskar Blues has played an instrumental role — not only in the economic growth of Lyons, but in the recovery efforts there and in Longmont. Here’s…

If you’re headed to Old South Pearl for lunch, you’ll now have one fewer option: Session Kitchen has discontinued its extended brunch service from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday — but will keep those hours and the same brunch menu Friday through Sunday. See also: The ten…

For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’s now exploring different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Last week I drove to the outlands of Lakewood for a taste…

We all know the drill: Get in line, read the big menu board, shuffle along the counter pointing at toppings and condiments, pay at the end and grab our food. Or maybe we just pick from lists of ingredients or lunch styles — the wrap, the bowl, the sandwich –…

On a stretch of East Colfax Avenue known more for Ethiopian cuisine and dive bars than for destination dining, Chop Shop Casual Urban Eatery, a new take on fast-casual with a “steakhouse-inspired” menu, hopes to tap into the pent-up needs of Hale, Montclair and Park Hill residents. After opening soft…

If you’re not familiar with the Paleo diet by now, you’re probably living in a cave. In a nutshell, it involves shunning grains, sugars and processed foods in favor of meats, eggs, vegetables, a little fruit and occasional nuts and seeds. Fat is good, especially if it’s the kind of…

Q’s Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado closed last week; it’s turning into Spruce. To understand that name, you need only look outside the circa 1909 hotel, which is located at Spruce and 13th streets in Boulder. The explanation of the name that’s being abandoned is a little more complicated: Those…

July seems to be a big month for change on Federal Boulevard. Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, one of our favorite meat-free alternatives and winner of this year’s Best Vietnamese Crepes, didn’t even make it a year. This particular location on South Federal Boulevard would appear to be cursed; we also awarded…

“Ask me about my Bubu.” That’s the tagline you might hear if you’re out and about near Larimer Square and Union Station over the next couple of days. Don’t worry, nobody hurt themselves — it’s just representatives for chef and restaurateur Troy Guard’s new fast, fresh, build-your-own bowl restaurant, Bubu,…

Oskar Blues Liquids and Solids was closed yesterday after noxious fumes sickened multiple employees during lunch service on Sunday. But management quickly found the source of the problem and is re-opening the Longmont restaurant today at 11 a.m. “Our first priority was the safety of our employees and guests,” says…

Getting Greek food on Colfax Avenue is as natural to Denverites as leaving the snow on the sidewalks for the sun to melt or pushing the stroller into a bar to enjoy a pint or two of IPA with the baby. A stretch of the road near East High School…

The stretch of East 17th Avenue between Broadway and City Park continues to be a hotbed of restaurant activity. Recent lauded additions like Argyll and Olive & Finch are now claiming territory alongside such veterans as Steuben’s and Il Posto. And this week one more kitchen will fire up its…

Employees of Oskar Blues Liquids and Solids in Longmont were forced to evacuate the restaurant just after noon yesterday after experiencing respiratory problems and nausea. According to Longmont Police Department spokesman Jeff Satur, seventeen employees were taken to area hospitals — eight to Longmont United Hospital and nine with less…

Federal Boulevard is filled with constantly evolving views of construction, commerce and change. No sooner does a Vietnamese restaurant close up shop than a new pho joint opens in its place. There’s a little less churn with Mexican eateries, but new spots occasionally pop up. Driving up Federal this week,…

If you live in an area that you love but have to leave every time you want a quality drink or meal, you know how Sita Kedia and her husband, Dipesh Amin, felt as they looked around their East Colfax neighborhood, always feeling like something was missing. But rather than…

The popularity of salad restaurants rises and falls as quickly as health and diet fads in this country. One year will see a proliferation of salad-bar eateries with lines of calorie-conscious customers waiting to fill plates from crocks chilling under a sneeze guard, but come back in a few years…

If you’re like most Denver restaurant fans, you’re already familiar with the shipping-container restaurant, retail and office venue named 25th & Larimer (because of its location at, um, 25th and Larimer streets). Just about every resident of this town has already fought for a seat at the crazily popular Work…

While chicken and waffles haven’t overtaken bacon as the king of food fads, they’ve been a big trend over the last few years, flying into the danger zone between comfort food and high-end food fussiness. Whether or not there’s a fathomable reason for why these two foodstuffs originally shacked up…