Who has the best burger in Denver? The best tater tots? The best gluten-free dish? The best draft-beer list? The best dim sum? The best pizza — thin-crust, thick-crust or deep-dish? It’s time to bring out your best. The first round of voting in our Readers’ Poll for the Best…
Denver got two new burger joints last week, both the first forays into the market by regional chains. Bad Daddy’s Burgers, a joint effort by the North Carolina-based Big Daddy’s and Good Times, got cooking in Cherry Creek, and 5280 Burger Bar & Creamery, a renamed concept from a Texas-based…
Last year, Concept Restaurants took on the challenge of transforming the former home of Strings. “This was a legendary space that had a legendary restaurant,” says Sean Huggard, operations director for Concept. “We did need to put effort into it to do right by this restaurant.” The result was Humboldt,…
Colorado’s first Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar opened Monday in Cherry Creek, in the former home of Tony P’s. The chain was founded by Frank Scibelli, who opened the company’s first Bad Daddy’s in North Carolina in 2007; this location is a partnership between Scibelli and Boyd Hoback, the president and…
Our boilers are antiquated,” says Jeff Barratt, head of the Emily Griffith Technical College. “I swear, some of them are out of the Titanic.” Close. Emily Griffith, who’d worked as a substitute teacher in Denver Public Schools until she got the okay from the district to start a less traditional…
Think Denver is hungry for more barbecue joints? Krewe Crescent City BBQ opened on Sunday in the former home of Cantina (and many other restaurants before that), right on the corner of 11th and Lincoln. The owners of Stoney’s, which is right next door, are the crew behind Krewe, and…
The owners of Racines have just chosen the winners of the restaurant’s thirtieth anniversary contest — and while the grand prize is a trip for two to Paris, home of the original Bouillon Racine restaurant, France hasn’t exactly been rolling out the welcome mat. But the second-place prize — the…
It’s cold out there — which means that maybe, just maybe, there won’t be an hour-long line outside of Voodoo Doughnut, as there has been so any mornings since the Oregon-based outfit opened its first store outside that state on East Colfax Avenue in December. And the crowds have inspired…
There will be no cheap tacos at Lola tonight. The LoHi mainstay closed after brunch yesterday for a quick renovation project that is supposed to be completed in time for the restaurant to reopen late Wednesday afternoon. “Lola gets a lot of traffic, so there are parts that need a…
As Colorado and New Mexico diners debate the benefits of their state’s particular version of green chile, the fight heats up on another front: Texas. But does Texas chili have anything in common with green chile — no matter what state is stirring that pot? See also: Michael Hancock’s Super…
Ruth’s Chris Steak House returned to Denver this week, opening in a 10,000 square foot spot on 15th Street just seven blocks away from the location the New-Orleans-based chain left five years ago. Mayor Michael Hancock was on hand to cut the ribbon — and the steak. “Welcome back to…
Sathya and Sujatha Narayan — an architect and a realtor, respectively, and both natives of Southern India — had never run a restaurant, but when they moved to Denver ten years ago and saw a gaping hole in Denver’s Indian food scene, they couldn’t resist picking up a strip-mall spot…
Barb Macfarlane and Pete Marczyk, husband-and-wife founders of Marczyk Fine Foods, were so excited about the Denver Broncos going to the Super Bowl that their talented staffers dressed up the Marczyk cow in Broncos gear for the weekly newsletter, right over over some tasty ideas for Super Bowl snacks. And…
You won’t find any mention of pot on the state’s official tourism site, Colorado.com — but you won’t find the new Colorado brand there, either. “The Peak,” otherwise known as the green carbon-dioxide hazmat sign, which was unveiled last August to much derision, has been rolled out slowly as the…
Monday was Tourism Day at the State Capitol, and when boosters said the numbers looked good, that the industry was healthy, they weren’t blowing smoke. But then, they didn’t mention marijuana at all. Think of it as the big pink elephant in the room — if you really want to…
If you were going to bet the mayor of Seattle on the outcome of Sunday’s big game, what would you make part of the wager? Denver mayor Michael Hancock and Seattle mayor Ed Murray settled the terms of their bet in a conference call on Monday. Should the Broncos win,…
For over a decade, I’ve enjoyed sharing my neighborhood on the edge of LoHi with the students of the Contemporary Learning Academy, a DPS high school for kids whose needs and/or schedules just don’t fit with the system’s more traditional high schools. When DPS first bought the building overlooking I-25,…
Furr’s got its start in New Mexico in 1946, when Roy Furr opened his first spot in Hobbs. From there it grew into a regional chain of family restaurants, ultimately morphing from Furr’s Cafetaria to Furr’s Fresh Buffet & Family Dining. But today if you want to dine at any…
In his Super Bowl bet with Seattle’s mayor, Denver mayor Michael Hancock wagered a sampling of some of this city’s green chile — including the version served up at Jack-n-Grill. That’s the restaurant that Mark Antonation finally reached in his travels up Federal Boulevard last week, and he praised the…
This past weekend we served a second helping of Sean Kenyon’s list of the ten rudest things servers and bartenders do — a list based on his almost thirty-year career in service. “What really gets to me is when people in my industry treat guests like they’re doing the guests…
Denver is about to see a run of new restaurants with similar-sounding names. Work & Class opens next week. Guard and Grace is coming in February. Opening a month or so later is Salt & Grinder — which will also go by its initials, S&G. That prompted a slight name…
It’s the end of an era! A sign on Furr’s Family Dining in Wheat Ridge says the restaurant is closed (and not a moment too soon, judging from our visit to the place last year). The notice indicates that the closure is temporary — but Colorado has been wiped off…
