Chef Andrea Frizzi didn’t miss many days of work at the beginning of January. After closing the original Il Posto 1t 2011 East 17th Avenue after New Year’s Eve dinner service, less than two weeks later the restaurant was up and running in its new home at 2501 Larimer Street. And…
Denver dining finds its roots this weekend, when the happenings are all about local food and drink, from an urban farm hosting an educational beer and wine dinner, to the neighborhood salumi shop teaching you how to make your own local sausage. And don’t forget one of the state’s most unique events, as the Quaker Oatmeal Festival brings oats by the gallon to Lafayette.
A historic church building that was at the center of a long and bitter zoning dispute in Highlands Square will finally welcome a new tenant this year — one that may be the answer to some neighbors’ prayers. The owners of Oasis Brewing, which has a long history of its…
Is something bugging you? Maybe you’re not getting enough insects in your diet. As one of the leaders in insect-based food, Linger wants to fix that. Last night, the LoHi eatery got buggy with guest chef and author, David George Gordon, for a Denver Bug Banquet & Benefit to raise money…
Lucky Pie owner Brendan McManus and director of operations James Samara opened El Jefe to the public last night at the corner of West 44th Avenue and Alcott Street in Sunnyside. The Mexican restaurant joins Bacon Social House and Cheese + Provisions to complete a culinary trifecta at the Cobbler’s Corner development…
Despite working in the surrounding neighborhood for years, I had never made it to Phil’s Place. My coworker and I recently decided to stop in for a drink on a Friday after an event over at our office, which is just blocks from the unassuming little bar that sits on the…
We lost a lot of movie stars in 2016, but we also lost a lot of beers — beers that we were used to seeing on tap handles and on liquor-store shelves around town. They included not just all of the packaged beers from Wynkoop Brewing and Twisted Pine, but…
American Grind started its life as a mobile food vendor in the summer of 2014, serving diner-style burgers and milkshakes. But owner Jared Schwartz says he had to “put that idea to sleep for a while” as he was busy opening the Way Back with fellow Linger alumni Chad Michael…
It’s only 38 miles from Vail to Breckenridge, but it was a huge leap for the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival, which moved to Summit County this year after sixteen years in Vail. The change came with complications — finding new sponsors, a new venue and new partners —…
There’s no shortage of Colorado-born burger bars: With Illegal Burger, Crave Real Burgers, TAG Burger Bar, Larkburger, Park Burger and Smashburger all based here, no cow is safe in this state. Even Red Robin and Good Times have local ties. But meat lovers still crave the burgers of their home towns or…
John Broening has been a torchbearer for Denver’s culinary community for the better part of the last two decades. In addition to stints at Brasserie Rouge, Le Grand Bistro and Argyll, he and his wife, pastry maven Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, owned and operated Duo — a leader in Denver’s nascent New…
A new coffeehouse with a mission to empower women could soon be coming to the former home of Rooster & Moon at 955 Bannock in the Golden Triangle. Called 8th Day Coffee, the planned enterprise won’t be your average coffee shop: It will have a goal of employing at-risk women in Denver,…
Still hurting from a bruising dispute last year that nearly split the organization in half, the Colorado Brewers Guild, which advocates for and represents more than two thirds of the state’s craft breweries, will enter the 2017 legislative session this week without an executive director. John Carlson, who led the…
Mell’s Cheese carved out a new restaurant space at West 30th Avenue and Zuni Street in the fall of 2015, but made it only a year before closing up shop. The building has been vacant since November but will soon have a new tenant. Kathy Knight, co-owner of Crepes ‘n…
The Best House Margarita became even better when Adelitas Cocina y Cantina, a three-time champ,switched the house tequila from Cimarron. But that’s not the only innovation at Adelitas: Founder Brian Rossi also came up with a winning formula for his back room, which is now Palenque Mezcaleria. After Adelitas hosted Guillermo Erickson Sauza at a special dinner last week, we checked in with Rossi for more tequila talk.
You can find corner markets with innocuous names that offer little indication of their contents all over Denver and its surrounding suburbs. The European Market, for example, is wedged into a strip-mall spot between a nail salon and a dollar-a-scoop Chinese joint in Lakewood. Europe’s a pretty broad category for…
Some restaurants feel timeless, as if they’ve been around forever but somehow maintain the energy and attraction of a brand-new eatery. Such is the case with Fruition, chef/owner Alex Seidel’s tribute to Colorado’s changing seasons that draws heavily from the farm he maintains just outside of Larkspur. Next month, Fruition…
Of all the tacos served and eaten at our Mexican street-food festival, Tacolandia, last summer, some of the most memorable came from a food truck called Roxie’s Tacos, which topped fresh flour tortillas with a variety of Indian fillings, from chana masala chick peas to its aromatic Red Oven Chicken…
After thirty years, Sage Hospitality and its restaurant group finally has control of the Cruise Room.
While most of the city turns its attention toward the National Western Stock Show, chefs are still turning out some good food this week, with a lunchtime pop-up from Troy Guard sandwiched between an early-harvest olive oil dinner in Boulder and a Buffalo Bill tribute feast that might just attract a…
Denver needs more more small, chef-driven restaurants in 2017 and fewer “concepts,” says this reader.
Last year was a busy one for restaurant openings, with more than 220 debuting in metro Denver in 2016. And so far, 2017 is looking to keep pace. Two eateries opened this week; many more are scheduled to arrive in January and the months ahead. Here are the two that got out of the gate fast this week, along with eight more to look forward to.
