On Sunday, September 21, Westword will host DISH, our twenty-first annual celebration of Denver’s dining and drinking scene. More than forty favorite restaurants of Westword writers and readers will be sampling dishes at DISH; Angelo’s Taverna will be back with a selection of oysters. Angelo’s will be offering raw East…

On Sunday, September 20, Westword will host DISH, its twenty-first annual celebration of the Denver dining and drinking scene. More than forty favorite restaurants of Westword food writers and readers will be sampling delectable dishes at DISH;  City, O’ City, always a big draw, will be serving Thai tempeh cabbage rolls. The…

On Sunday, September 20, Westword will host DISH, its twenty-first annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where more than forty favorite restaurants of Westword food writers and readers will be sampling delectable dishes. Here’s what Cracovia Polish-American Restaurant & Bar will be…

Welcome back, Ototo. The space at 1501 South Pearl Street that debuted five years ago as Ototo Food and Wine Bar is returning as a new incarnation of Ototo, with an intimate dining room and the same signature raw bar and sashimi of the Den Corner. For the next three weeks,…

Baum has gone through several incarnations since it first opened on Capitol Hill as a bakery specializing in Japanese baum cakes. It morphed into a bakery/cafe, then a sushi bar/bakery, then back to a bakery/cafe. But the current incarnation of Baum will close at 6 p.m. today, and the fiery…

KRUPS, the coffee- and espresso-machine maker, just launched the KRUPS Best Brew Awards 2015, the company’s fifth annual competition to find the best coffee shops in select cities across the country — and for the first time, Denver is included on that list. Through September 29 (National Coffee Day), you…

School may have started, but at least there’s recess, and Recess Beer Garden — which includes a restaurant, a 38-foot bar and a huge, 4,000-square-foot beer garden — opens this weekend at 2715 17th Street in a former book-binding warehouse in Lower Highland. Recess will be open from 10 a.m…

The sad news spread quickly yesterday: After 34 years, Robert Tournier is retiring, and closing Le Central, “the affordable French restaurant” he opened at Eighth and Lincoln back in 1980 and has been running ever since. Says Joseph: The neighborhood is losing a gem. Really sad to see this go. Adds…

Although New Belgium has long made 3.2 beer for festivals, the brewery will now be selling 3.2 Fat Tire — which means 4 percent alcohol by volume, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight — in cans and bottles in order to enter states like Utah, with specific liquor requirements. As a byproduct…

Last week Mark Antonation visited the Chowder Room at 560 South Broadway, to talk with owners Matt and Carrie Stein about how two New Yorkers (and former high-school sweethearts) wound up in landlocked Denver with a seafood restaurant. And a seafood restaurant that local diners are definitely sweet on, judging by this…

Euro Crepes just opened at 1842 South Broadway, and the restaurant held a grand opening bash filled with crepes, sounds, fashion…and crepes this past Sunday, with griddles working full time both inside and outside the eatery. We sent photographer Danielle Lirette to the party, and she brought back this taste…

Bars and restaurants have been rushing to open their doors before the end of summer, the better to snag as much fall business as possible in the busy weeks leading up to the holidays. September looks to be particularly busy, but plenty of places got their doors open, or reopened,…

There’s a lot of action these days on Capitol Hill, with much of it centering on East 13th Avenue and Pearl Street, which is about to see three new bars. One of them is Hudson Hill, a concept brought to Denver by Jake Soffes, a New York native who moved…