Row 14 was ambitious — perhaps too ambitious for its location right across from the Colorado Convention Center, where business was either feast or famine, depending on which group had been booked into the facility. When visitors are eager to try Bubba Gump’s, you know a more upscale restaurant is…

Yesterday Dunkin’ Donuts launched its version of the fading fad-tastic cronut, simply named the Croissant Donut. With the chain making a big comeback in Denver — over a half-dozen stores have opened in the metro area over the past year, with more to come — there are plenty of spots…

The controversy in Fort Collins over the name of Illegal Pete’s — a Boulder-based company that’s slated to open its seventh spot in that city next week — got us thinking about restaurant names that have truly offended local sensibilities. And on Friday, we served up a list of our…

The record pace of restaurant openings slowed a bit in October, but there were still some notable events, including the long-awaited opening of Sarto’s in Jefferson Park. And two of the town’s best Chinese restaurants — Chef Liu’s and East Asia Garden — gave up the ghost, although the latter…

Over the past year, the Boulder-based Brewers Association has repeatedly urged all breweries to get on board with quality control, saying that inexperienced brewers making poor quality beer could jeopardize the industry’s success. The owners of Cerebral Brewing, which will open next year off Colfax Avenue, are keeping that in…

Stoic & Genuine opened in the renovated Union Station this summer, and Gretchen Kurtz, who reviews Stoic & Genuine this week, says the restaurant lives up to those expectations. But readers have some quibbles — with the “hip” factor, the noise, and that damn ampersand… See also: Review of Stoic…

There are plenty of bars and restaurants around town hosting Halloween events this week. In addition to pouring spirits, some restaurateurs will be introducing guests to the spirits that reportedly haunt the storerooms and back halls of their establishments. But a few spots don’t need to conjure up special-occasion parties;…

For years, we’ve heard that Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery, which opened in northwest Denver in December 2008, would soon have a second outlet — maybe in downtown, maybe on Broadway, maybe in Aurora, on Broadway. But now that second Tocabe is becoming a reality…in Centennial? See also: Tocabe Does…

Pete Turner Illegal Pete’s Six metro locations (with more to come) illegalpetes.com Pete Turner never expected to wind up on the Drudge Report. But that’s where he landed last week — while he was dealing with an eleven-week-old baby, fighting a cold, moving the original Illegal Pete’s that he’d opened…

The conversation about Gretchen Kurtz’s recent review of Kobe An Shabu Shabu, a long-anticipated restaurant that opened this year in LoHi, got hot — hot enough to disintegrate the shabu shabu meat and veggies that diners are supposed to drop in hot broth and swish into a DIY dinner. See…

Since he opened his first store in Boulder almost twenty years ago, Pete Turner has been serving up big burrito as well as lots of community support for neighbors, musicians and other good causes. But recently, Illegal Pete’s has also been the source of plenty of food for thought: A…

Billboards have gone up around town, asking “Can you spot the pot?” They’re from smartcolorado.org, of course, the leading opponent of legalized marijuana. But the Denver Police Department is also cautioning parents that their kids might be handed pot-laced candy this Halloween, and media outlets are jumping on the story…

Do you have what it takes to be the next celebrity chef? Our announcement that the Food Network would be holding a casting call for Food Network Star in Denver on November 1 inspired a number of Howie haters to pop up — and several people to toss their toque…

Denver Restaurant Week hasn’t actually been a week-long for years. Soon after the event started more than a decade ago, some participating restaurants decided to extend the DRW deals on their own. And a half-dozen years ago, Visit Denver, the organizer, made it official — extending DRW to two weeks…

Last week Chipotle Mexican Grill officially endorsed Proposition 105, the Colorado ballot initiative that would require food that has been genetically modified or treated with genetically modified material to be labeled, “Produced With Genetic Engineering.” Although Chipotle — and other restaurants — would not be subject to the regulation, the…

Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed The Noshery, a bakery-cafe that she says is the kind of place every neighborhood needs. But does the neighborhood itself need to change? That’s a big question across northwest Denver, including the area by Regis University where Andrea Knight opened the Noshery. See also: Five Bakery-Cafes…

The Sidewinder is for sale, as reported on Backbeat this week. The hundred-year-old building in Globeville has been home to numerous saloons, including one incarnation that served some of the town’s best green chile; for the past two years, it’s also hosted great live music acts in a room that…

Have you decided how you’re voting on Proposition 105, the ballot measure that would require food that has been genetically modified or treated with genetically modified material to be labeled “Produced With Genetic Engineering.” This week, Chipotle officially endorsed 105– which does not apply to restaurants. “Fundamentally, we believe that…