As a Puerto Rican, chef Jesse Vega of Candela Latin Kitchen knew he had to do something to help his fellow borinqueños recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. Sending money didn’t seem like enough — and he wasn’t sure which organization would best utilize any donation he might…
Arugula, at 2785 Iris Avenue, has been a fixture of the Boulder dining scene for the past nine years under chef/proprietor Alec Schuler. But the restaurant’s lease expires next summer and Schuler plans to close his eatery rather than renew at a higher rate. The news was announced in Arugula’s…
Denver history is worn into the formica tabletops and vinyl booths of timeless diners scattered across the city. The scent of coffee, fried potatoes and burger grease wafts through the murmuring dining rooms, carrying with it memories of meals past. Places like the Breakfast King, Lookin’ Good and Swift’s Breakfast…
The Kentucky Inn, one of the oldest bars in the Washington Park West neighborhood, closed in July for a remodel and the installation of a new kitchen. As with every other construction project in the city, this one stretched on, but the wait is finally over. The bar, which originally…
Angry Chicken’s soft opening on December 6, 2017, was hugely anticipated by the neighborhood — so much so that the restaurant ran out of chicken after just five hours. “We didn’t expect the first day to be so busy,” says John Kim, owner of the first Korean-based Angry Chicken franchise…
After nearly a decade at 950 Broadway, Tony’s Market is pulling out of downtown for a new home in south Denver. The company, headed by CEO/president Daniel Rosacci (son of founder Tony Rosacci), will close up shop on December 31 and open in the spring of 2018 in a new…
The last twelve months have been oddly slow when it comes to brewery openings inside Denver’s city limits. Only four — Zuni Street Brewing, Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project, Woods Boss Brewing and Alternation Brewing — began pouring beer. A fifth, Oasis Brewing at 3257 Lowell Boulevard, is rushing to get itself…
It’s a good week to party, as there’s present-buying (and -wrapping) for procrastinators, pork, pies, parm and pastries on the program this week. Here are the most-prized projects from Monday, December 18, through Friday, December 22. Monday, December 18 Highland Tavern, 3400 Navajo Street, seems older than it is; it’s…
Some readers support Birdcall, but others agree with Gretchen Kurtz’s assessment that its chicken sandwiches won’t fly.
Here’s our complete list of bar and restaurant openings and closing for the week of December 11-17, 2017.
Bar culture is about far more than booze. Bars should be welcoming destinations where you can relax and forget the outside world. And Denver got ten great new bars in 2017.
Humans have been trying to get drunk for a long time. The earliest evidence of people drinking fermented wheat or barley-based beverages dates all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia (where Iraq is now) about 7,000 years ago, while the earliest beer recipe was discovered in a 4,000-year-old poem. But on…
This weekend, enjoy food and drink from around the world (and the galaxy), edible architecture, and beer, beer and more beer (there’s a reason we keep typing “Decembeer” by accident). Here are six of the best food and drink events in Denver from Friday, December 15, through Sunday, December 17…
Denverites seem to love working out their anger on a piece of wood — with sharp implements. Bad Axe Throwing has been so popular since opening in July at 845 East 73rd Avenue that the venue already needs more space to handle all the reservations. So on Monday, December 18, Bad…
Before my first taste of a new vermouth from one of Denver’s few urban wineries, the sweetish herbal concoction was just another ingredient in my favorite vodka martini. At the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery at 3200 Larimer Street, I discovered the unique, stand-alone virtues of a glass of vermouth. In…
As the days get colder, you can count on Colfax Avenue to stay burning bright at all hours, full of places to take refuge from the wind. One place that has become a quietly reliable Colfax fixture over the years, as well as a great place to warm yourself and…
Have you seen that luminous new skyscraper poking up from the cityscape at 15th and Lawrence streets downtown? The one that looks just a little bit like a giant glass toaster on top? The building is called 1144 Fifteenth and it’s still vacant until construction is completed, but one of…
It’s not every day you can find American spirits created in a traditional Scottish Forsyths still, but at Vapor Distillery in Boulder the whiskey passes through a copper pot from the respected manufacturer before being aged and bottled. The man behind the machine is Alastair Brogan, also a Scottish import,…
Fireman Capital Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm that owns Longmont’s Oskar Blues Brewery, Perrin Brewing in Michigan, Florida’s Cigar City and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries in Utah, is changing the name of the holding company that operates these breweries from Oskar Blues Holdings to CANarchy. CANarchy “provides a…
Christmas Eve might just be the happiest night of the year. Presents are bought (right?), stockings are stuffed (they are, aren’t they?!), and everyone is of good cheer (provided that steps one and two have been taken care of). So it’s the perfect time to take a break from the constant…
When the Panzano executive-chef position opened up, Nic Lebas leaped at the opportunity to move to Denver and to draw from his French roots to refine the Italian menu of the Hotel Monaco restaurant.
Those who have followed good cooking in Denver over the past decade will recognize the name Samir Mohammad, a chef who quietly wowed diners on Old South Pearl at The Village Cork and later at Black Pearl (well before it closed). Mohammad took off for a stint in Indonesia before returning…
