When Steven Waters started working with Black Eye Coffee, the team was preparing to spin out a second shop, building on its lower-Highland success with a more ambitious space in Capitol Hill. “We love the neighborhood, and wanted to do something different than the LoHi spot,” Waters says. “We wanted…
Not very many people can lay claim to having attended the very first Great American Beer Festival in 1982. After all, there were only 800 people there, drinking a measly 47 different beers. Charlie Papazian is one of them, of course. The founder of the festival, he was also the…
I’ve spent many a happy hour at Govnr’s Park Restaurant & Tavern — most of them when I first moved to Denver. It was the place to be for any girl in her twenties who wanted to hang out with the bros, meet new bros, watch sports, hang out with other…
No. 59: Potstickers at Zoe Ma MaEdwin Zoe knows that the best meal is the one mom makes; that’s why he enlisted his own mom to create the dishes at his two Chinese restaurants. The potstickers at Zoe Ma Ma at Union Station or at the Boulder original, like everything…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes, including one sandwich that will drive you…
Colorado barbecue: two words that many smoked-meat enthusiasts think just don’t go together. This state lacks the tradition, they explain, arguing that all of the barbecue in Colorado is inspired by barbecue from somewhere else. There’s some truth to that: In Denver and the surrounding suburbs, we can find Texas brisket,…
Denver has lost a number of old-time red-sauce joints recently, including Patsy’s, which closed last month after nearly a century. Taken together with the rise in gluten-free dining, you might think it’s time to say arrivederci to Italian food. Instead, the scene is more competitive than it has been in…
The Squeaky Bean Farm + Table presented its final farm dinner of the season at Acres, an educational farm at Warren Tech High School in Lakewood, on Sunday, September 18. The dinner was a fundraiser to benefit the school and farm, which teaches students about cooking, organic farming and soil-building…
Chef/restaurateur Andrea Frizzi’s hands are full these days: While running his charming Italian eatery, Il Posto, on East 17th Avenue in Uptown, he’s also getting ready to launch Vero inside the Denver Central Market, which will open before the end of September. Vero will feature pizzas from an imported wood-fired…
The Celtic Tavern has been pouring pints of Murphy’s Stout in LoDo for a good fifteen years, and its adjoined sibling next door, Delaney’s, has also eclipsed the decade mark. But the two will close this weekend, bringing an to an end the Irish dominion of the corner of 18th and Blake…
No. 60-61: Sloppers at Diego’s and Gray’s Coors TavernPueblo has several culinary claims to fame (including the Super Pass Key sausage sandwich), but none bigger than the slopper, which landed on the foodie map after a story on the Travel Channel in 2010 that featured Gray’s Coors Tavern, a classic Pueblo watering hole credited…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. With so many great chefs cooking up…
The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing colors and the days are getting shorter, which can only mean one thing: Oktoberfest! Fall brings a bounty of beer-drinking, as well as festivals and dinners featuring local harvests. Here are the twelve tastiest events on this week’s culinary calendar. Monday,…
New restaurants are opening all over Denver, but one reader worries that too many of them are coming from “hipster/trendy empire-builders.” And Jan has another concern: And the new places seem to all have similar menus. There are vegetables other than kale, beets and Brussels sprouts; I’d like to see…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Chris Sargent opened Brazen…
Bar and restaraurant openings so far this month have ranged from the return of long-forgotten neighborhood gems like the 715 Club to sleek new destination eateries like Avelina downtown. Here’s a list of what’s new, with links to the stories we wrote when they opened. First Look: The 715 Club…
Pockets of Park Hill have become home to some quality neighborhood eateries, including Tables on Kearney Street, Bistro Barbes on East 28th Avenue and Desmond on Oneida Street. A few coffee houses and pizza joints lure locals, but the neighborhood’s small shopping centers have yet to experience the kind of…
It’s hard to believe that in just three years, Lorena Cantarovici’s Argentinian bakery and cafe, Maria Empanada, has gone from a tiny shack on West Mississippi Avenue to where it is today, with a big, sunny Buenos Aires-style cafe on South Broadway, an appearance on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Brews from DISH beer…
No. 62: Manzo at Spuntino The star of this smoky dish at Spuntino, a diminutive neighborhood Italian eatery with big aspirations, is melt-in-your-mouth beef cheek, a cut of meat sadly not often seen on the average menu. Luckily for diners, chef and co-owner Cindhura Reddy knows its merit. “Although steak…
Today is both Mexican Independence Day and National Guacamole Day, and R Taco is celebrating by serving up guac for a good cause. Head to any R Taco location and $1 from every order of guacamole you purchase will go to Littleton-based nonprofit Rachel’s Challenge, which teaches students and adults alike skills and…
Dad & Dudes Breweria created a huge buzz last year at the Great American Beer Festival when it introduced Sativa IPA, the first commercial beer made with cannabis oil. Although the hemp extract used in the beer isn’t the psychoactive kind — meaning it can’t get you high — people…
