Last week, Colorado Beer Man Jonathan Shikes brought us news that Crazy Mountain Brewing Company had teamed up with restaurateur Richard Sandoval (of Zengo, Tamayo and La Sandia, among many others here and worldwide) to open a beer-tasting room inside Sandoval’s Latinicity food hall in Chicago. Tempting as it is to…

Since chef Elise Wiggins left Panzano after more than a decade to open her own restaurant, Cattivella, the search has been on for a new executive chef at the Italian eatery on the ground floor of the Hotel Monaco downtown. Despite being part of the Kimpton hotel group, Panzano has…

Old South Gaylord Street has been sporting two Devil’s Food signs over the past few weeks: one at 1020 South Gaylord and a newer sign four doors up at 1004 South Gaylord. So what’s the deal? Is the bakery, restaurant and coffeehouse moving? As it turns out, the business is…

No. 46: Smoked-Brisket Stroganoff Pot Pie From the Humble Pie Store and Kitchen Table Comfort food has an advantage over our food-buying impulses at this time of year, but two eateries got together this month to make that advantage clearly unfair. If one warming, home-style dish can lead to us…

The phrase “Den-Mex” may have been coined by out-of-towner Gustavo Arellano in 2012, when the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America praised Chubby’s on West 38th Avenue for the sheer weirdness of its Mexican hamburger, but those of us who live here already knew what makes this…

Caffeine junkies near the University of Denver are familiar with the name Kaladi; owners Mark Overly and Andy Melnick have been roasting beans and brewing coffee since 2000 at Kaladi Coffee Roasters at 1730 East Evans Avenue. Around town, a handful of cafes and restaurants also sell the company’s coffee. But…

No. 47: The Egg and Croissant Sandwich at La Fillette Pastry chef Melissa Yanc opened the cozy La Fillette bakery just over two years ago in a nondescript storefront at 4416 East Eighth Avenue. Neighbors lucky enough to live within walking distance can follow the wafting scent of her fresh-baked…

Christopher Fehlinger and Jon Lipshutz have been slowly converting the rambling space that once housed Le Central, at 112 East Eighth Avenue, into a new restaurant, wine bar and design shop — all named Clyde. But the two are impatient to get guests in the door, so rather than wait until…

Mary Jane’s Pizza is beginning to seem a little more like Little Orphan Annie. The late-night pizza joint was already forced out of its original home at 2013 West 32nd Avenue by redevelopment (Dickinson Plaza, where it had been located since 2009, is currently just a hole in the ground) and…

A new project called Rory’s Tavern is moving into the former Club 404 space at 404 Broadway, operated by Jerry Feld for more than sixty years. Since the 404 closed at the end of 2011, two other bars have come and gone: first Denver Wheel Club 404 and then Brendan’s…

Italian native Amelia Di Marco just moved to Denver earlier this year after eleven years in New York City, but she has already added a piece of her personality to the Platt Park neighborhood, where she just opened a tiny cafe called Little Spoons at 1705 South Pearl Street last…

Pastry chef Jay Thomas and partner Michael Martinez unlocked the front door to their new bakery, the Rolling Pin Bakeshop, earlier this week for a soft opening that coincided with the reopening of Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen. Martinez describes the Rolling Pin as New-York-meets-Denver, and says that the style is “a…

A little over two years ago, a group of neighbors in northeast Denver put together a plan to open the Northeast Community Co-Op to serve the neighborhoods in and around Stapleton, Park Hill, East Colfax, Lowry, Montclair and north Aurora, an area that was largely a food desert. The board of the…

Donald Trump Jr. was in Colorado on Monday stumping on behalf of his dad, but while he was welcomed at the Centennial Gun Club, admission to a bar in Boulder proved to be a little more exclusive. The Trump campaign trail hit a roadblock at The Sink, the popular bar…

The restaurant space at 3759 Lipan Street that was once Longo’s Subway Tavern (and was most recently TAG Burger Bar) is gradually being transformed into something new by owners Larimer Associates and partner Jesse Morreale. And like the slow-but-steady construction, a gradual trickle of information has come from Morreale and his…

No. 48: Brad’s Neo Gyro at Avelina The sumptuously appointed dining room at Avelina, 1550 17th Street, beckons guests to linger over dinner, with rounds of small plates followed by elegant entrees of a Mediterranean bent. The restaurant, which just opened at the beginning of September, has already earned a reputation…

Taja Indian got its start in Colorado as a fast-casual eatery, first as Bombay Bowl and then with a name and concept change with two locations in Denver and Lakewood. Earlier this year, owner Amar Singh franchised his first Taja Indian to operators in the Pearland suburb of Houston, Texas…

Flour, water, salt and yeast: the four ingredients needed to make a loaf of bread, by the standard modern reckoning. But you can scratch one of those ingredients off the list: According to a few top bakers in Denver and Boulder counties, yeast isn’t needed. At least not in the…

Lorenzo Nunez, owner of El Chingon Mexican Bistro at 4326 Tennyson Street, says it took about a year after the restaurant’s opening in 2013 for Berkeley neighbors to catch on to what he and chef Robert Lopez (Nunez’s nephew) were trying to do. Many assumed the place (whose moniker is Spanish…

Restaurateur Richard Sandoval’s thirteen-year old Zengo was cutting edge when it opened at 1610 Little Raven Street and still retained a swank, neo-’70s air into 2016 despite its relative age. But stagnation equals death in the hip downtown restaurant scene, so Sandoval shut down the Latin-Asian fusion eatery last month…