May is heating up with seasonal and local ingredients, great outdoor cooking and plenty of new restaurants to check out. Peas and carrots are at their peak sweetness — making them perfect even in a dessert! And new potatoes and spring lamb are making appearances on menus too. Here are…
Grower’s Organic co-founder Brian Freeman has been working in the organic produce business long enough that he remembers when people would tell him that organic farming was just a fad that wouldn’t last. But that was before Grower’s Organic launched in 2005 as a wholesale company focused on putting quality…
The house margarita is a subtle masterpiece, at once crowd-pleasing and unique — after all, it must represent a Mexican restaurant to all of its tequila-loving customers. Here are the ten best house margaritas in Denver.
Ambitious home cooks, aspiring brewers and hopeful gardeners: There’s something for all of you this weekend. But fear not, weekend drinkers and intrepid brunchers — we could never forget about you, either. Keep reading, everyone, for the nine tastiest food and drink events this weekend. Friday, May 5 Spring is…
Chef/restaurateur Richard Sandoval opened his first Denver restaurant, Tamayo, on Larimer Square in 2001. He followed that one soon after with Zengo in 2004 on a brand new plaza at 16th and Little Raven streets. Back then, the place was packed nightly even though the Riverfront Park neighborhood was new…
That the mint julep gets prime billing during the Kentucky Derby is no accident; the cocktail has been the official drink of the Louisville horse race since 1938. But there’s no reason why you should limit yourself to one day to order the julep; a silver cup full of bourbon,…
Troubadour Maltings doesn’t supply huge quantities of malted barley to Colorado’s craft breweries, but the grain it does provide them still makes a big difference. Take Oskar Blues, for example, which sells a Mexican-style lager called Beerito in all fifty states and overseas. While the state’s second largest craft brewery…
The news came as a shock to beer lovers in Colorado yesterday. Wicked Weed Brewing, the five-year-old North Carolina-based superstar in the world of craft brewing, revealed that it had become the tenth independently owned craft brewery to be consumed by Anheuser Busch InBev, the maker of Budweiser and Bud…
Next Door, founded in Boulder by The Kitchen owners Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson as a kind of “Kitchen Light,” just opened in the new Eastbridge Stapleton development. This is the fourth Colorado location for the group, which is also launching the brand in Memphis, Tennessee this spring and will…
Put down your tray…unless you want to bite off a piece of the past at an auction today. The Country Buffet at 7407 East 36th Avenue has closed, and the remaining assets are being offered through Auction Nation, a national online auction company.
The old 404 Club on Broadway in Denver’s Baker neighborhood is being reinvented yet again, this time as Rory’s Tavern, an Irish bar. The owners of the last iteration of the bar, Brendan’s Pub, have gutted and redone half of the bar, which they opened on New Years’ Eve. The…
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
A pair of Colorado breweries will put some new cans on the shelves this week, one with a new beer and the other with a new look. Both will be around all summer for your warm-weather drinking pleasure. The first can is Oskar Blues’s new summer seasonal, Fugli Yuzu & Ugli…
Garett Palecek’s love affair with cheese began by happenstance: After a stint working in purchasing and warehouse management for Aramark at Coors Field, he landed a job at Cheese Importers, a Longmont outfit that maintains a shop and supplies specialty grocers and restaurants all over the Front Range. He’d been…
Merlin Verrier, culinary director of the Kitchen’s Next Door eateries, talks about how and why he made the transition from Michelin-starred dining to fast-casual food, detailing a produce-filled California childhood, struggles with addiction, and cooking for President Barack Obama along the way.
Pug Ryan’s Brewery, which has been a mainstay in the town of Dillon for decades, was sold by its longtime owners Travis and Annie Holton this week to another couple, John and Judy Jordan. John Jordan had been a brewer at Breckenridge Brewery for seventeen years. Originally a steakhouse, Pug’s…
The big Cinco de Mayo party at Civic Center Park – celebrating its thirtieth anniversary – is actually on May 6 and 7 this year (from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. both days), so if chihuahua races make you giggle, join the thousands of other Denverites downtown. But if you’d…
May is a busy month for Colorado — and especially for Colorado breweries. Not only is it the beginning of festival season — several examples of which you can see below — but you have Cinco de Mayo, May the Fourth, Memorial Day and American Craft Beer Week, a national…
It’s a testament to the magnetic pull of Sichuan food on American eaters that Szechuan Tasty House, 1000 west Evans, is yet another new Denver Chinese restaurant named for or specializing in food from a region from which the owners do not hail. The chef at this unassuming eatery is…
Graduation season is here. For most students across Denver, that means final exams, family events and a big sigh of relief once the ceremony is over. But for students enrolled in Ready for American Hospitality, graduation is just the beginning of fulfilling a dream — after surviving the nightmare of…
April in Colorado was a time of uneven transition and rapid change — whether we’re talking about seasonal changes or the Denver restaurant scene. While the number of new bars and eateries slowed from this time a year ago, other happenings made for plenty of ups and downs, for restaurant…
Five years might not seem like a long time, but it’s definitely a milestone for any new business in this town, where the food and drink scene competition gets fiercer every day. The Dive Inn has enjoyed staying power over the past half-decade as a neighborhood fixture catering to the…
