This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Mas Kaos, a Mexican-Italian mashup on Tennyson Street that defies the logic many restaurants focus on, to focus on one cuisine and executie it properly. Instead, at Mas Kaos, Kurtz found herself doing what everyone else was doing: “chasing a few chile-soaked tacos with a…
After a recent dinner out left me unsatisfied (small plates — again), I pointed my car, as I often do, in the direction of Federal Boulevard, a slow but direct route from hipper zones to my southwest Denver neighborhood. Scotch whisky was on my mind, along with tacos (when are…
Kent and Greg Dawson have been answering the question “Is there beer yet?” frequently of late — and for many months. The brothers first signed on to open a brewery and restaurant at 2298 Clay Street in Jefferson Park some two and a half years ago, but permitting, zoning changes…
Paul Reilly and Aileen Reilly, owners of Beast + Bottle at 719 East 17th Avenue, opened their second restaurant, Coperta, just a few blocks north at 400 East 20th Avenue at the end of July. But today marks the launch of something that the brother-sister duo have never attempted at…
Charcoal has been flying solo since Gary Sumihiro opened the restaurant in the Golden Triangle in 2011, but yesterday Sumihiro added a second restaurant, Charcoal Bistro, at 1028 South Gaylord Street. That’s the space that was previously an outpost of John Holly’s Asian Bistro, and held Japon before that. Charcoal…
Rosenberg’s Bagels fans have been getting their fix at various breakfast pop-ups this summer, ever since a fire in an apartment above the deli at 725 East 26th Avenue closed the business in early May. But owner Joshua Pollack is nearly ready to relaunch the bakery; a message on the…
Earlier this week, writer Laura Bond took us on a tour of King Soopers Store 124 in Glendale, one of the most diverse major grocery stores in the Denver metro area. And while it’s encouraging to find small pockets of specialty goods within big-name supermarkets, where do we turn to…
Earlier this month Barolo Grill’s owner, Ryan Fletter, and chef, Darrel Truett, announced plans to open a quick-service pasta counter called Chow Morso inside Avanti Food & Beverage at 3200 Tejon Street. Those plans have nearly come to fruition; Fletter and Truett hope to open Chow Morso sometime next week, possibly as…
How do you turn a time-worn breakfast joint into a brand-new Puerto Rican restaurant in just under a month? You do the work yourself — which is exactly what Alex Rivera, owner of El Coquí D’Aquí, did. Taking the food-truck concept that he originally launched in 2011, Rivera and his wife,…
The luck of the Irish has been running low of late as several Irish pubs have shuttered this year. The latest is Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub at 1922 13th Street in Boulder, which will close permanently on Sunday, October 2, after seventeen years in business. The Boulder longtimer posted this…
For the month of September, twenty chefs around town have been challenging each other to sell weekend specials made with unusual ingredients as part of the Culinary Cricket Challenge. Sales of each dish have gone directly toward funding food skills and nutrition education programs at Cooking Matters Colorado, which is…
Alarms sounded, overhead sprinklers went off and customers of businesses at the Lowenstein Theater complex at 2526 East Colfax Avenue were evacuated on Friday night as the Denver Fire Department responded to a kitchen fire at The Goods, which had just opened on September 16 in the space formerly occupied…
If you’re trying to live by the motto “sing like there’s nobody listening,” Voicebox, a new private-suite karoake bar that opens today at 4 p.m. at 2601 Walnut Street, is just what you’ve been waiting for to unleash your inner Adele or Eddie Vedder. Voicebox comes to Denver from Portland,…
Adrian Miller knows his soul food and barbecue. He’s an accredited barbecue judge and author of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, so he doesn’t just eat soul food, he studies its history, travels the country talking to professional and home cooks, and…
Developer Ken Wolfe has lived in the RiNo neighborhood for years — long before the area was given that monicker by the River North Art District. As condos and apartments sprang up and hip restaurants and galleries moved in, Wolfe realized that the neighborhood was missing the kind of community-oriented…
Jim Wiste, owner of the Campus Lounge at South University Boulevard and Exposition Avenue, is retiring after forty years and selling his bar. “I’m ready to just be a customer,” he explains. Wiste is a University of Denver alumnus and former professional hockey player whose bar — a neighborhood favorite…
Colorado barbecue: two words that many smoked-meat enthusiasts think just don’t go together. This state lacks the tradition, they explain, arguing that all of the barbecue in Colorado is inspired by barbecue from somewhere else. There’s some truth to that: In Denver and the surrounding suburbs, we can find Texas brisket,…
Chef/restaurateur Andrea Frizzi’s hands are full these days: While running his charming Italian eatery, Il Posto, on East 17th Avenue in Uptown, he’s also getting ready to launch Vero inside the Denver Central Market, which will open before the end of September. Vero will feature pizzas from an imported wood-fired…
The Celtic Tavern has been pouring pints of Murphy’s Stout in LoDo for a good fifteen years, and its adjoined sibling next door, Delaney’s, has also eclipsed the decade mark. But the two will close this weekend, bringing an to an end the Irish dominion of the corner of 18th and Blake…
Pockets of Park Hill have become home to some quality neighborhood eateries, including Tables on Kearney Street, Bistro Barbes on East 28th Avenue and Desmond on Oneida Street. A few coffee houses and pizza joints lure locals, but the neighborhood’s small shopping centers have yet to experience the kind of…
The Good Son closed two weeks ago at 2250 East Colfax Avenue, but new owners Seth Murty and Mark Whistler turned the restaurant around quickly, renaming it the the Goods and retooling the menu with a vegetable-forward focus. The Goods opens to the public on Friday, September 16. Those who…
Last month I stopped by Garibaldi Mexican Bistro at 3298 South Broadway in a lead-up to Tacolandia, Westword’s celebration of Denver’s Mexican street food. I was on a mission at the time, and made a beeline for Garibaldi’s unique queka: a cross between a taco and a quesadilla on a thick, fried…
