Few people have had more of an impact on Denver’s current dining scene than Frank Bonanno. The New Jersey native and his wife, Jacqueline, own and operate ten establishments in this city: Mizuna, Luca, Bones and Vesper Lounge in Capitol Hill; Osteria Marco, the Green Russell, Russell’s Smokehouse and Wednesday’s Pie in Larimer Square; Salt & Grinder in Highland; and, as of July 17, French 75 downtown.
If you’re like me and love a piping hot Philly cheesesteak sandwich, you’ll get a true taste of Philadelphia fare at Large Marge’s at 3890 Kipling Street in Wheat Ridge. If you’ve never had an authentic cheesesteak, you’re in for a treat.
The Great American Beer Festival, which takes place from October 5-7 this year, just keeps getting bigger. As of last week, the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which hosts the extravaganza, had registered a staggering 2,259 breweries into the competition, up from last year’s record-setting 1,752 breweries. All told, there are 8,218 beers…
In 2012, Rick Abitbol was an out-of-work, opinionated brewer who’d been fired from his last two jobs. So, with a $50,000 loan from his dad, a couple of credit cards and some crossed fingers, he decided to open Brewery Rickoli in Wheat Ridge, specializing in gluten-reduced beers. The last piece…
Chef Lon Symensma has his bases covered when it comes to Southeast Asian cuisine. ChoLon Modern Asian has been going strong on the 16th Street Mall since 2010, serving high-flying interpretations of classic dishes gleaned while traveling and working abroad and in New York City. Next came Cho77, which captures the…
America is obsessed with tacos. What in Mexico is considered an everyday snack, a working lunch, a late-evening indulgence or just a tortilla with leftovers on top has become the subject of nearly unlimited variations and convolutions (many complete with an eye-popping price tag) here in the United States. One…
Denver’s culinary calendar is overflowing in the summer, with farmers’ markets, fairs, festivals…and lots of seasonal bounty showing up on restaurant menus. Since no single person can take it all in, we’ve been serving up slideshows of some of the events you might have missed.
The farmers markets around town are in full swing. But you’ll find far more than just fresh peaches, crunchy peppers, organic eggs and bunches of beets. Plenty of artisan foods are also for sale, all handmade in Colorado and bursting with local flavors. Fancy a bottle of drinking vinegar? You…
Larimer Associates has a pretty good track record with refurbishing old establishments and turning them into new neighborhood hangouts: LoHi Steakbar, Billy’s Inn and Ernie’s Bar & Pizza come to mind, along with a considerable percentage of the dining square footage at Larimer Square. But the location at 3759 Lipan…
Flying Dog Brewery has a long history of fighting censorship — in Colorado, where the brewery was born, in Maryland, where it moved to in 2008, and in Michigan, where it has fought a long battle with the state over the right to sell its flagship beer, Raging Bitch Belgian…
This week starts off right, with National Tequila Day on Monday. After enjoying libations from south of the border, you can go on a culinary tour of other global hot spots: Champagne, Tokyo, West Colfax Avenue. Here are seven exciting food and drink events from July 24 through July 28,…
Beau Jo’s, the forty-plus-year-old purveyor of the “Colorado-style pizza,” is closing its location at 2710 South Colorado Boulevard on July 30, but even older pizza joints are still going strong in Denver.
Nostalgia is a powerful seasoning that flavors our restaurant experiences, and a return trip to an old favorite can be a more satisfying experience than sampling bold creations at a trendy new eatery. And even if the food isn’t quite what we remember from when we were kids, it still…
This week’s Watch List covers a hot new chicken joint, a Cherry Creek fish house with a lobster deal, and a South Broadway breakfast stop that knows exactly what to do with a potato — all places with dishes that balance textures in winning combinations. After that, check out our…
It’s not easy to draw a line in the sand when it comes to the recent phenomenon that is hazy, New England-style IPAs. Although many local brewers and breweries tried to forswear them over the past eighteen months since they took Colorado by storm, a good number of those ended…
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, so you’d better be the one doing the eating. Eating a hot dog, that is – whether slathered in mustard, piled with relish, onions and sauerkraut, or dressed up in something fancy. Just in time for National Hot Dog Day on Sunday, July 23,…
Longtime local brewer Brad Landman has landed the top job at The Post Brewing in Lafayette, where he will take over for founding brewer and craft-beer celebrity Bryan Selders, who returned in May to Dogfish Head in Delaware, where he’d worked for nine years and starred in the Discovery Channel show Brew Masters.
What will you decide to spend your weekend dollars on? Put your money where your mouth is this weekend to support veganism, job training for low-income women and immigrant advocacy — you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to good causes while having a great time. And if you just support…
Black Project Wild & Spontaneous Ales doesn’t make the usual beers, but the brewery’s latest creations are a little more unusual than, well, usual. This Saturday, the brewery will release five different fruited versions of Roswell, a lambic-style sour beer that was brewed, fermented spontaneously and barrel aged over the…
You used to be able to find old-school red-sauce joints all over metro Denver. But their ranks have been dwindling, as the owners of these Italian restaurants decided to retire or sell out to developers — or both. Stlill, there are at least six Italian joints in metro Denver that have been serving for five decades or more.
On another suburban adventure, I made my way to Lakewood for a drink at Teller’s Taproom & Kitchen (1990 Youngfield Street) with a friend who just moved to town from my home state of Maryland. I had never been to Teller’s before because it’s been a while since I had any compelling…
Romano’s Italian Restaurant is the oldest Italian restaurant in Littleton; on December 1, it will mark fifty years at the same address of 5666 South Windermere Street. It’s not hard to see why this family-owned and -operated restaurant has attracted legions of loyal customers: It’s all about love, according to the…
