What was once a vast showroom for high-end automobiles and a pre-war curio factory before that is slowly shaping up into the Denver Central Market at 2669 Larimer Street, a multi-vendor indoor marketplace from developer Ken Wolf and chef/restaurateur Jeff Osaka. When last we checked in, a total of eleven artisan…

As a longtime resident of Colorado (I came here the same year that John Elway did, if that helps pin me to a specific era), I not only eat more than my share of green chile, I think about it — a lot. I ponder the significance of green chile…

Chef Pino Saverino closed his Italian restaurant in Cherry Hills Village earlier this year for a remodel and expansion as well as a slight name change. Pino’s Place is now open at 1400 East Hampden Avenue, once again serving lunch and dinner to the neighborhood around the Swedish Medical Center…

No. 80: Potato Tacos at El TejadoWhen the Colorado Department of Revenue shut down Emilio’s Mexican Restaurant in February 2015, it also shut off the steady stream of potato tacos that gave us comfort and a little dose of joy each time we stopped in for lunch. While most of…

Here are a couple of changes at two Denver neighborhood restaurants, from new lunch hours at a Lowry Chinese kitchen to summer specials on South Broadway seafood. The first, Lucky Cat, is brand new to town, while the second, the Chowder Room, has been ladling up seafood soups and other…

No. 81: Late-night Ramen at Brazen For a tiny restaurant located next door to a Comfort Dental office in a quiet neighborhood, Brazen throws a pretty stellar late-night party. At 10:30 every night but Sunday,  the chic little eatery switches over to a menu with only a few items, most…

Marin Toscano spent a year and a half studying food culture in China and returned to Colorado with a new perspective on eating. In her travels and studies, she realized that food was more than simply nutrition. And so she founded Fooition (a combination of the words food and intuition),…

When it comes to south-of-the-border restaurants, Denver is certainly not lacking in Mexican-cuisine options — but what about farther south? Aside from a smattering of Salvadoran joints frying up pupusas, the countries of Central America have yet to establish a firm presence on Denver’s culinary map. Where, for example, can…

Soul food was in the news this week as Gretchen Kurtz talked to chef Lonni Byrd about her vegan eatery, Love, Peace and Sol Cafe, while CoraFaye’s Cafe welcomed guests to its new home on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora.  Seoul food also helped Mark Antonation cool off as he…

When news hit that Colorado Boulevard’s soul-food haven, CoraFaye’s Cafe, would be losing its lease this summer, many were worried that Denver would lose a culinary treasure. But owner Priscilla Smith put our minds at ease by finding a new address for her nationally known eatery. She reopened CoraFaye’s this…

June saw a bounteous harvest of restaurant openings, with a variety of flavors to match Denver’s increasingly diverse scene. Cuban sandwich shops, tiny taquerias and even a Mexican-Korean fusion joint joined spacious new downtown dazzlers, Sicilian trattorias and a health-centered vegetarian eatery. Familiar names dotted the landscape, with the the…

When Gayor Geller and his family opened cozy breakfast spot, Maddie’s, at 2423 South Downing Street three years ago, they already owned the former service station next door and had plans to convert it into a restaurant space. That construction project started earlier this year and Geller says he hopes to move…

Arcana 909 Walnut Street, Boulder 303-444-3885 Arcana opened in Boulder in February with an ambitious menu designed to tell the story of early American cuisine through regional ingredients. But opening chef Matthew Lackey, a Tennessee native and student of celeb-chef Sean Brock’s return-to-roots cooking style, was let go in April…

We get hit with an avalanche of announcements every day, promising everything from new shake flavors at popular burger bars to products from national food manufacturers who don’t even sell their products in the Denver area. The one that particularly caught our eye this morning had this subject line: “Teriyaki…

Grilled chicken or steak, pork carnitas, beef barbacoa: From day one at the original Chipotle at 1644 East Evans Avenue, those were the only protein options. And it remained that way for years until the company added soy-based sofritas as a vegetarian option three years ago. But today Chipotle will…

Restaurateur Robert Thompson has spent the last four years growing his group of Punch Bowl Social restaurants in Colorado and beyond. With six of the gastro-tainment spots already offering food, bowling and booze in as many different states and with several more planned for later this year and into 2018,…

Noodle cravings can sneak up at the oddest of times, but when temperatures slither into the upper 90s, the thought of a hot bowl of ramen or a steaming mound of chow fun could curtain such desires. Some soup lovers advocate consuming hot broth to induce a cooling sweat, but…

At the end of 2014, we talked with two hopeful butchers, Chad Nelan and Alex Windes, who had just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the opening of Elevation Charcuterie, their wholesale sausage and cured meats company. While the fundraiser wasn’t successful, Nelan and Windes kept at it, raising…

This week we said hello to new restaurants from familiar names, including Moxie Eatery, a surprise on Broadway from chef Dylan Moore, who helped popularize this strip that marks the eastern edge of the Baker neighborhood with Deluxe and Delight, two adjoining restaurants he ran for nearly ten years. A…