Hawaiian poke — the raw fish dish with Pacific Rim flavors — is trending up in Denver as Ohana Island Kitchen returned this week, moving from a walk-up window just off 15th Street in LoHi to a full-fledged eatery just across the street. Other not-so-pokey poke places joining the fish…
The fourth annual Chef & Brew brought together creative cooks and brash brewers from Denver’s restaurant and beer scenes last night at the EXDO Event Center for a flavored-filled evening while the first snow of the year fell on the streets of RiNo. Judged beer-and-food pairings gave ticket holders plenty…
Ah, Turkey Day. The holiday devoted to over-eating and unbuttoning your pants at the dinner table. On a day like this, when there are so few dietary rules that anyone bothers to follow, one might think that there aren’t many rules to follow in general. But in that, one would be wrong. Oh so very wrong.Because there are some rules and regs for Thanksgiving. And they amount to more than “yes, you have to sit at the table where grandma put you.”
If you’re dreading Thanksgiving or obsessing over the proper size of stuffing cubes, Denver’s culinary calendar has a way to manage your stress. An evening of pancakes, art and music will distract you from pending family arguments, or you can tuck into unlimited oysters, beers and po-boys. The holiday market…
Morrison Road in the Westwood neighborhood (between Alameda Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard) has long been populated by taquerias, nightclubs and Mexican bakeries and butcher shops. But going to the diagonal strip of road was never a fun proposition, as a run-down trailer park and junk yard put a tarnish on…
While much of the newly named Union Station North neighborhood is still a warren of road construction and building projects, a number of new restaurants have been slated for ground-floor retail spaces that will soon be completed. One of those is located at 16th and Wewatta streets, where Frasca Food…
While the turkey remains the star of Thanksgiving, you still need to consider some good nibbles to put out before the main event. What kind of treats should you serve hungry guests as they wait for said bird to grace the table? Easy: Start pouring wine and put out a…
Although the ownership has changed a few times since it’s inception as a bar in 1933, Billy’s Inn at 4403 Lowell Boulevard remains a long-standing drinking institution in northwest Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood. It’s been serving the area since the neighborhood was called only North Denver, or the North Side, long before…
Lechuga’s has been a north Denver Italian institution since long before Chuck Lechuga and Rachel Vigil bought the place in 1989; the building at 3609 Tejon Street previously housed Carbone’s Italian Bakery as far back as 1961. Sydney Stroup bought the place in 2014 — keeping the Lechuga’s name — and…
Lunch is a great way to sample a restaurant’s menu without splurging on a full-fledged dinner spread. Two tony Denver eateries — Departure and Milk & Honey — have just added lunch hours and new menu items to attract a daytime crowd. Meanwhile in Boulder, chef Bradford Heap has hooked…
Ohana Island Kitchen is officially open in its new space at 2563 15th Street in Highland, in a sunny, teal-blue storefront that owners Louie and Regan Colburn took took over from the former Jay’s Patio Cafe. A fresh coat of paint has given the location new life and the Colburns are bringing Hawaiian…
When it comes to believing or not believing this time of year, Santa Claus is the mythical character who gets the most play. But there is another seldom-seen creature who stirs debate: the Yeti. As a result, Great Divide Brewing, which makes a line of Yeti beers, has declared November…
After months in limbo, three weeks ago La Loma finally shuttered its sprawling location in Jefferson Park and moved downtown into the former home of the Trinity Grille. On November 1, when the restaurant reopened in its new location regulars breathed a sigh of relief: La Loma still feels like…
The wait is over for Capitol Hill residents; the chicken has landed. White Fence Farm is now serving lunch and dinner from its newest quick-service location at 1025 East Ninth Avenue. For more than forty years, the original White Fence Farm was a solo operation, until founder Charlie Wilson sold…
Chefs Alex Figura and Spencer White are ready to unveil Dio Mio Handmade Pasta to the public at 4 p.m. today at 3264 Larimer Street in RiNo. The counter-service eatery will serve traditional and “Dio Mio style” pasta dishes along with an array of small plates that are grounded in Italian…
Gayor Geller opened Maddie’s in 2013 at 2423 South Downing, naming the tiny breakfast eatery after his daughter. Maddie was just a toddler at the time and only three years have passed since then, but her namesake restaurant has grown up. Later this month, Geller will unveil a brand-new version…
When we recently chatted with the owners and chefs of the Way Back, they told us they were plotting an American Grind location for 2017, but refused to divulge further information. Now they’ve revealed that they’ll be taking over MiJo’s slot on the first floor of Avanti when that concept…
Good food, good cause: Mo Jones opened Anointed BBQ & Soul Food at 2504 West Hampden Road three months ago — but keeping the fires burning hasn’t kept him from his commitment to the community. The founder of Hedges & Highway Outreach Ministries, which helps youth and homeless individuals, Jones…
Paul and Aileen Reilly, the brother-sister team behind Beast + Bottle, couldn’t have picked a better spot for Coperta, their Italian restaurant that opened at the height of summer. It’s located on the edge of downtown across from Benedict Fountain Park, so after a leisurely meal, you can head out…
The Hound opens at 575 St. Paul Street in Cherry Creek North today, taking the place of the Irish Hound, a more casual pub. While the ownership remains the same, just about everything else about the space has changed. The Hound is designed as a neighborhood restaurant, a place where…
No. 40: Mile High Nachos at Racines Racines is Denver’s go-to restaurant, a place where diverse groups of diners have gathered for more than three decades, always with the knowledge that there will be something for everyone on its menu. And, in fact, one menu item could feed just about…
At a ceremony on November 10, Mayor Michael Hancock and Brad Buchanan, executive director of Denver Community Planning and Development, honored seventeen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making at the 2016 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony. Several of those projects house restaurants, and one, the home of Torchy’s, might…
