When Jane Knauf and Brett Shaheen set out to create their Italian restaurant, the Wooden Table, in 2011, it took them only three months to remodel a vacant space in Cherry Hills Village and throw open the doors to the public. But progress was a little slower when the two decided…

The best lesson learned in working for a corporation is the importance of quality and consistency. The downside is a lack of creativity given to employees. Former P.F. Chang’s corporate employees Scott Lucas and Fred Garcia experienced both while running a string of Pei Wei Asian Diners in Colorado. After…

When the temperature drops into the teens and single digits and snow swirls around in the wind, all we want is a warm blanket and some comforting, home-style food, like soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. Thankfully, Coperta  — named after the Italian word for blanket — has you covered…

Las Delicias has been a Denver institution since the Torres family opened its first Mexican restaurant at 439 East 19th Avenue in 1976. But the place closed sooner than expected in September 2015, ahead of a scheduled remodel. Things didn’t look promising for the return of the neighborhood green chile…

After nearly a year since Mission Yogurt Inc. founder Rod Tafoya, who runs a stable of food concessions at Denver International Airport, purchased the restaurant space that was previously Session Kitchen, Que Bueno Suerte is ready for its public debut on Sunday, December 11. The newest eatery to arrive on Old…

Denver has no shortage of traditional Asian eateries, from the longstanding strip of Vietnamese restaurants along Federal Boulevard to the more recent explosion of Korean barbecue places in Aurora. There’s a sushi bar in nearly every suburban strip mall, even if full-fledged Japanese menus are much harder to find. And…

No. 37: Smoked Lamb Shank at Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que Coy and Rachael Webb have been putting a little Colorado into traditional smokehouse barbecue since opening in early 2015. That means lamb and bison — as well as the occasional elk sausage special — in addition to more the more typical…

This week our Beer Man, Jonathan Shikes, let us know that Cheluna Brewing would be holding a soft opening on Thursday, December 1, at the mammoth Stanley Marketplace. We headed over for a beer to check out the new brewery, which sports a Oaxacan theme and flavors, thanks to owners Javier…

Anticipation for the opening of Mizu Izakaya has been building over the last several months, in part because of the new restaurant’s prominent location — right at the corner of 16th and Boulder streets in the heart of LoHi — and in part because of the construction delays that have…

The restaurant space at 472 South Federal Boulevard that has served as home to two Vietnamese-Cajun eateries over the past several year, first Red Claw and then Vietnam Bay, is now a coffeehouse and karaoke bar called Giot Dang Cafe. The name translates to “bitter drops” in English, a reference…

A building with a long history as a neighborhood hangout is about to reopen in its newest incarnation: The Thunderbird Imperial Lounge, a joint effort from restaurateur Jesse Morreale and property developer Larimer Associates, will begin pouring drinks for the public at 8 p.m. this Saturday, December 3. The project…

Over the past three decades, Vietnamese cuisine has become a mainstream staple in the Denver area — to the point where diners are now comfortable with many of the basic ingredients, flavor combinations and dishes. That’s what Loc Nguyen, owner of Nom Nom Asian Grill, is counting on. Nom Nom…

The streets of the Cole and Whittier neighborhoods in north Denver are dotted with little corner shops and markets, some of which have been open for decades and others of which are recent arrivals. There’s the Whittier Pub, at Race Street and East 28th Avenue (which took over the vacancy…

Last month, we reported that the Denver Wrangler, now located at 3090 Downing Street, had kicked out Mary Jane’s Pizza, the late-night pizza kitchen that had opened just a few weeks after the longtime gay bar debuted in its new home in August. (Jay Bianchi is opening Be On Key Psychelic…

While shops and restaurants all over Cherry Creek took advantage of Black Friday and the stream of shoppers coming to the neighborhood, one typically packed eatery was unusually quiet. The Cherry Cricket stood closed and dark, with signs on the doors explaining that a kitchen fire was the reason for…

Richard and Brenda Lucio have owned restaurants in Colorado for the past eighteen years, and added Blue Agave Grill in Fort Collins to their portfolio two and a half years ago. Now the couple has expanded to Denver, adding an outpost of Blue Agave Grill on the 16th Street Mall between…

By tomorrow morning, you’ll have wallowed in enough gravy and mashed potatoes to feed a platoon; you’ll have had your fill of turkey, turkey sandwiches and turkey tostadas. And you’ll no longer be standing in front of the refrigerator with the door open because of the dread and sweats induced…

Author Adrian Miller demonstrated his skill as a culinary historian with his first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time, which won a James Beard Foundation award in 2014 for best book in the Reference and Scholarship category. Since then, he’s been researching…

Last year, the Squeaky Bean Farm + Table had little time to pick up the Thanksgiving Feed torch laid down after Rosa Linda’s Mexican Restaurant closed. The Aguirre family that owned Rosa Linda’s had organized a feast to feed the needy every Thanksgiving Day for three decades, but Squeaky Bean…

For most of this fall, we’ve been drawn in by the illusion of an endless summer, where patio dining and sunny outdoor sipping — even in mid-November — have seemed like the norm rather than an autumn oddity. But Colorado weather always has the last laugh, unexpectedly flinging whorls of…