When Rob and Karin Lawler, owners of Truffle Cheese Shop, decided to open a wine and cheese bar, they discovered that Denver diners “didn’t want to treat it like an educational experience,” Rob remembers. So instead they created a winsome neighborhood spot.
The Great American Beer Festival has always been a little geographically lopsided. Since the annual event — which begins Thursday — was founded 36 years ago in Boulder, it’s no surprise that Colorado is the most heavily represented state. California also brings the brews with more than 150 breweries at…
Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas have all been hit hard by hurricanes this fall, and the latest relief efforts are focusing on Puerto Rico. Here are two ways to help out our fellow citizen on the Caribbean island, along with a pizza fundraiser for the American Lung Association. Pizzeria Locale…
When Franco Ruiz, the chef de cuisine at Fruition, visits the Union Station Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, he always brings his daughter Luna along with him. After all, he says, why bother with the museum or zoo when there’s so much fun to be had among the candy-colored stands of…
What kid doesn’t want a fresh, warm cookie after a long day at school? Under the Umbrella Cafe and Bakery will soon be serving up treats along with a breakfast and coffee menu at its second location in the heart of the Baker neighborhood beginning mid-October. The building at 300…
Torchy’s Tacos is known for their delicious creamy queso. Making it at home is a great way to put your own twist on it and save a few bucks!
If you don’t like beer, then Great American Beer Festival week, October 2-8, is a great time to head for hills to take in the beautiful reds, yellows and golds of Colorado’s fall colors. But if beer is your passion, then those reds, golds and yellows are all right here in town —…
It’s almost all beer, all the time this week as the Great American Beer Fest floats into town on a river of lavender RyePAs and session Imperial saisons. But you do have alternatives to the GABF: Many spots around town are holding their own beery events, and some are even…
Denver’s Dive Bar Beer just unveiled Nice Dart American Lager, which is modeled after PBR and the rest of the cheap, easy-drinking lager brands that are found in dive bars. But craft-beer lovers may not buy the concept behind the new brew.
If you’ve lived in Denver for a while and you like craft beer, chances are you’ve been to the Great American Beer Festival at least once — and maybe you’re even a seasoned veteran. Chances are better that you now like to regale people with tales about how crowded the…
Are we just getting used to this? Another month, another twenty new restaurants — ho hum. What’s not so ho hum is when the food is unique, fun or flat-out spectacular. Sandwiches are nothing novel, but the Obey Sandwichery team — the same chefs braising whole animal heads at Rebel…
A brewery should be a place where everyone feels comfortable. “There shouldn’t be constraints based on your race or your ethnicity, or what language you speak or who you want to kiss,” says Tamir Danon. “Nothing should make you feel alienated in the brewing community. If you are from a…
One of the biggest perks of living in the Mile High City is the easy access it affords to the Rocky Mountains; just jump in your car and you can be in the foothills in 15 minutes, and in true mountain towns not much more than 15 minutes after that…
Did you buy a pint of beer at your local brewery in 2016? Then you can be proud to boost the Colorado economy. Craft breweries and brewpubs nationwide contributed $67.8 billion to the U.S. economy in 2016. That’s a lot of pints, and it’s an increase of 21.7 percent from just…
Denver’s dining scene is not only growing, it’s diversifying. Building on 2016 trends, market halls remain popular, veggie-forward menus still reign, and New American cooking is a prime genre (though maybe that’s not so much a trend as a catch-all for the personal cooking that defines America’s restaurants at large)…
Next week, Create Cooking School is teaming up with Mondo Market to serve up a sample of what the school will offer when it opens early next year. From October 2 to 6, co-founders Erasmo Casiano and Diego Coconati will lead lunchtime cooking demonstrations at Mondo Market at Stanley, located…
The weekend is upon us, friends. And it’s a busy one, packed with (coffee) beans, brunch, beverages, border collies and a bazaar. Keep reading for six of the best food and drink events from Friday, September 29 through Sunday, October 1. Friday, September 29 It’s only fitting that the beverage…
It’s stunning how quickly things are evolving these days in the craft-beer industry: styles, trends, rules and regulations, even the packages that beer is sold in. Breweries are bought and sold; they change names, change focus and change addresses. And collaborations between brewers can fall victim to the change.
Rain Adams has been cooking and baking for most of her life and she recently launched her own bakery selling cakes decorated for special occasions, cupcakes, cookies and other sweet treats. The story isn’t uncommon, but the difference with this story is that Rain Adams is 14 years old. Adams…
The Park Tavern and Restaurant (931 East 11th Avenue) was one of the first bars I ever visited when I moved to Denver. In fact, a Ouija board once predicted that I was going there with friends. Seriously. As Halloween approaches, it seems only appropriate to share that I was once…
Buffets are a great place to dine alone. You can sample every dish offered that you wouldn’t normally try — and nobody judges you. At least that was my rationalization for multiple trips to the six different buffet islands at the oddly seductive Mr. Panda Super Buffet at 2852 South Havana Street…
The Great American Beer Festival, which hits town next week, is an interesting time for any brewery that participates and usually results in some great stories. For Telluride Brewing, one of those stories begins in May 2012, just five months after Chris Fish and Tommy Thatcher opened the brewery. Still getting…
