This summer saw a record number of eateries opening in metro Denver — but many restaurants also celebrated big anniversaries, including New York Deli News (25th anniversary), Briarwood Inn (35th anniversary) and Wazee Supper Club (40th anniversary). And all of those are relative newcomers compared to Saucy Noodle Ristorante, which…
The deadline is fast approaching for My Favorite Place in Denver, a program created by the Denver Department of Community Planning and Development that’s currently soliciting nominations for favorite places in town from residents and visitors alike. We’ve already weighed in on our least favorite places and my personal favorite:…
Last week we rounded up a dozen restaurants that have lasted at least fifty years in the same family’s hands. Compared to those long runs, the Wazee Supper Club is a relative newcomer: It just celebrated its fortieth birthday. And it changed hands more than a decade ago, moving from…
The homegrown Rio Grande chain just opened its first new location in almost ten years up in Summit County, at 182 Lusher Court in Frisco. It’s the perfect spot to stop after a leaf-peeping excursion this weekend. Because the gold in the hills isn’t just those aspen turning colors: There’s…
We’re on our way to a record-breaking year for new restaurants opening in Denver. With all the action, it’s easy to overlook some of the restaurants that have been around for years — almost a hundred years, in the case of Blue Parrot, which is still in the founding family’s…
Where do you go for healthy food? Gretchen Kurtz gets that question a lot, and last week she reviewed LYFE Kitchen, a link in a California-based chain that wopened in Park Meadows last month. A meal at LYFE — “Eat Good Food Everyday” –isn’t supposed to just fill you up;…
While there are many small restaurants in Denver, some eateries are so tiny that they’re really nothing more than walk-up windows. We posted a list of five of these little spots last week — which led to a big debate on the burgers at Grandpa’s Burger Haven. See also: Five…
Mike Dunafon, former mayor of Glendale and husband of Debbie Matthews, owner of Shotgun Willie’s, is running for governor as a third-party candidate — and it might as well be the Party party. Because as a major booster of Glendale’s riverwalk project, he and other officials pushed for a 2011…
On Wednesday, September 24, members of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission will head northeast from Eads along Chief White Antelope Way to the banks of Sand Creek, where 150 members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes were killed by volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington on November 29, 1864…
At 10 a.m. today, Bruhns Auction Gallery began selling off the contents of the Wonder View Tower, the amazing roadside attraction that C.W. Gregory built on the plains a hundred miles from Denver back in 1926, and that subsequent owner Jerry Chubbock turned into an amazing museum stuffed with…stuff. Chubbuck…
Olive Garden has had a tough month. Its new, “Never Ending Pasta Pass” promo was mocked by everyone from Jimmy Kimmel to Red Eye; more ominously, Starboard Value, an investor that’s trying to gain control of Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden’s owner, at the annual meeting October 10, slapped the chain…
The news that Johnson’s Corner, the iconic truck stop just north of the Berthoud exit on I-25, will soon be sold to TravelCenters of America drew many cries of “noooo” and “Welcome to corporate America.” Members of the founding family — Joe Johnson opened Johnson’s Corner back in 1950 –…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opened yesterday on the corner once occupied by Longo’s Subway Tavern in LoHi, or Sunnyside, or Highland, or the Northside, depending on what map and history book you’re consulting. The burger joint is another venture by Larimer Associates, whose COO, Joe Vostrejs, has deep roots in Denver…
Joseph Hutchison didn’t set out to write a poem about Silas Soule. But he’d been thinking for a while about the Sand Creek Massacre — a dark chapter in Colorado’s past that he’d never learned about when he was a student at Skinner Junior High, writing his first poem. He’d…
Here’s how former Cafe critic Jason Sheehan remembered his first view of Colorado’s iconic truck stop: “Johnson’s Corner sat right off the frontage road, a dusty sprawl of parking lots and big rigs, mirrored windows reflecting the endless, flat nothing all around it. Johnson’s had everything: a restaurant, general store,…
Yesterday our Latest Word blog reported that the Denver Police Department says calls have already started coming from parents concerned that their kids will be slipped pot edibles while trick-or-treating on Halloween. In a DPD podcast, the officers advise parents to talk to their children about not eating anything until…
Margaret Tobin Brown was not the perky, Debbie Reynolds-like character from The Unsinkable Molly Brown. In fact, she was not even known as Molly when she lived in Denver. The “Indomitable Mrs. James J. Brown” might have been a better nickname, since despite being snubbed by this city’s society mavens…
After a month of eating barbecue, last week we served up our list of the ten best barbecue joints in Denver — and the comments line has been smoking. “Wayne’s is the best!” “Jabo’s got robbed!” “Georgia Boys is yum.” See also: The Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver…
With the Great American Beer Festival just a few weeks away, the gang’s all beer — and just about every spot in town is getting into the act. That includes Denver International Airport, which next week will introduce Beer Flights, a temporary beer garden in the main terminal where ten…
There are certain things people from Denver say all the time — like, for instance, “This is the best city in the country, but please stop telling everyone!” So earlier this week, our Latest Word blog published the top ten things you never hear someone from Denver say. Number 5?…
Lower downtown has changed a lot over the past three decades — and photographer Kim Allen, a Denver native, has been there to document it all. He was shooting photographs of Denver’s decrepit viaducts and gritty warehouses before the area was nicknamed LoDo, before it became an official historic district…
Katie Reinisch kept her cool through four years as a communications director at the Colorado Legislature, so it wasn’t surprising to learn she was having a blast running the frozen-yogurt spot, Red Mango, that she and her husband opened in the Lowenstein Complex in the summer of 2012. “We’d always…
