Is Denver’s barbecue scene “pretty lame”? That’s whatDenver Dave said last week, and since our news blog picked up his comment, close to 200 people have weighed in with their opinions of Denver’s barbecue — including what’s hot and what’s definitely not. See also: Denver’s BBQ scene is consistently “disappointing”?…
This week I told the remarkable story of PeaceJam, the Colorado-based non-profit that a down-and-out Denver artist was inspired to start after the Summer of Violence. From those unlikely beginnings, PeaceJam has grown to a powerhouse that includes thirteen Nobel Peace Prize laureates on its board and hosts activities around…
Nearly three years after Scottie Ewing left Denver and the swinger scene in general, his infamous Sugar House is back in business. “I was recently in Denver, hired as a restaurant and nightclub consultant for a new property opening up downtown and was invited to attend a couple swinger parties…
Goose Sorensen’s Solera was a destination restaurant on East Colfax long before that strip started improving. “I love this place and it is so underrated in so many departments,” says one reader. “Best patio, great food and an awesome chef. Now a killer bar program?” See also: New Solera bar…
For this week’s review, Gretchen Kurtz visited Atticus, a spot in the University of Denver neighborhood that’s made some changes since it opened in February — partly at the request of that neighborhood. “We were supposed to open more as a bar with shared plates, but everybody kept coming in…
Their story is more fantastic than anything that screened during the Monte Carlo Film Festival last week, a more unlikely saga than even the fairy-tale life of Grace Kelly, who started the festival in Monaco more than five decades ago, after the Hollywood star had married Prince Rainier, the ruler…
As a city that got its start as a true cowtown, Denver still has plenty of places where you can get great steaks and burgers. But good barbecue places are few and far between in the metro area. That’s why Lori Midson hit the brakes when she saw Big Jim’s,…
An e-mail from East West Partners, which has taken over the beleaguered Landmark project in Greenwood Village, reminded us to check in on one of the area’s most grandiose restaurant plans. Grand Cru, which chef/owner Jonas Brown opened last fall with the idea of serving special prix fixe meals –…
Boulder just made Livability’s Top 10 Foodie Cities list — again. “Known for its array of outdoor adventures, the mountain town of Boulder, Colo., contains an equally impressive collection of restaurants, markets and food purveyors,” the site reports. “You’ll find residents here get just as excited about the opening weekend…
For Ethniche, his new series, Mark Antonation has been eating Ethiopian food around town. After first visiting Queen of Sheba, last week he landed at Eatopia, where he doubled down on mitmita and berbere — and made at least one reader very, very hungry. See also: Doubling down on mitmita…
After fifteen years the Hard Rock Cafe was looking like a fossil, especially as new restaurants — Lime, Grimaldi’s, 5280 Burgers — joined the lineup at the Denver Pavilions. So this link in the national chain just went through a major upgrade, a floor-to-ceiling makeover of the 11,000 square foot…
“Rocky Flats Then and Now: 25 Years After the Raid,” a three-day panel at the Arvada Center this past weekend that coincided with the 25th anniversary of the FBI’s raid on the former nuclear weapons plant, raised more questions than it answered. One of the stumpers: What’s the status of…
The World Cup starts today, and to help get you in the spirit — and the spirits — this week we posted our list of six brilliant places to watch the World Cup. But some readers found our roster less than brilliant. Where was The Armoury? The Abbey? Conor O’Neill’s…
Behind these rolling grasslands dotted with wildflowers stand the foothills and still-snowcapped peaks; far off in front is the skyline of downtown Denver, sixteen miles to the southeast. Sixteen miles downwind. This expanse of open space is a lovely surprise amid encroaching suburbia. But the real surprise is the ugly…
Denver has been rolling in doughnuts lately, with new Dunkin’ Donuts outlets popping up all over town and the first out-of-state store of the Portland-based Voodoo Doughnut making magic on East Colfax. And this Friday, Glazed & Confuzed will finally open its brick-and-mortar spot on Leetsdale. That, coupled with last…
When Robert Thompson opened Brasserie Rouge in LoDo a decade ago, it ran away with our Best New Restaurant award. And when — after a bumpy stretch that saw Brasserie Rouge close and Thompson leave town for a while — he returned to open Argyll in Cherry Creek, that restaurant,…
Since gourmet food trucks first rolled out in Denver four years ago, with the Steuben’s truck leading the way, their popularity has shown no sign of slowing down. New ventures are joining the lineup all the time, including Chuey FU, which made our list of ten food trucks to follow…
In the rough-and-tumble restaurant world, staying in business for a decade is a major accomplishment — and making it for eighty years, all in the same family? That’s something to celebrate. Which Bonnie Brae Tavern will be doing all day today, as the Dire family marks the eightieth birthday of…
Work is progressing on the former Longo’s Subway Tavern, a choice piece of corner real estate on the edge of LoHi/Sunnyside that Larimer Associates purchased in 2012 and is turning into a second location for Troy Guard’s TAG Burger Bar. The Longo family, which ran the Subway for more than…
It was the end of an era. After thirty years, the T-Wa Inn — Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant — went dark last weekend. But T-Wa’s future started looking dim long ago, as other Vietnamese restaurants popped up all over town. And as owner Tom Lam told Jason Sheehan seven years…
It’s the end of an era. After thirty years, T-Wa Inn, Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant, has closed. T-Wa changed a lot over those three decades — and so did Denver’s dining scene, with Vietnamese spots opening all over the city, including longtime favorite New Saigon, just across South Federal Boulevard…
A shooting early Monday morning outside of Cold Crush — the art/music bar at 2700 Larimer Street that we named one of the ten best new bars of 2013 and the Best Hip-Hop Hangout in the Best of Denver 2014 — has prompted a heated discussion of when you shouldn’t…
