The short work week doesn’t mean a shortage of tasty events around Denver over the next few days. Today marks the start of Denver Food & Wine festivities, for example, and the culinary calendar also includes special dinners and cocktail competitions. Keep reading for the delicious details on the twelve tastiest…
Our long hunt for Westword’s next restaurant reviewer has ended — and we’re pleased to announce that we’re returning to the tried and very, very true. Gretchen Kurtz, a seasoned pro who takes the role of reviewer very seriously, is back as our Cafe critic, offering her educated, opinionated take…
A Taste of Colorado, now in Civic Center Park, doesn’t capture every taste in town. Laura Shunk, Westword’s former restaurant reviewer, just spent a year in China. While she was there, she realized just how much she missed green chile as well as other favorite foods and places in Denver, as…
A Taste of Colorado returns to Civic Center Park for its fourth and final day today — but you’ll still find plenty of Colorado art, live music and tastes of local products. Our top taste at Taste? Colorado corn, roasted right on-site. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. today, and the…
Food for thought comes from our music section, which recently visited musician Gregory Alan Isakov, who’ll headline at Red Rocks tonight, on his four-acre farm just outside of north Boulder. Isakov, who was born in South Africa and raised in Philadelphia, originally moved to Colorado to go to horticulture school. He’s…
A number of Denver restaurants closed in August, some longtime favorites like Z Cuisine and Black Pearl, others relative newcomers like Osaka Ramen in Cherry Creek. But no closure generated more response than the shuttering of Patsy’s, after 95 years on Navajo Street in northwest Denver, one of Denver’s most rapidly…
August kept up the pace of restaurant openings this year, with twenty new eateries and bars debuting. But it was the closings that caught our attention; we lost some old favorites as well as newcomers that had quickly won our hearts. Fortunately, some we’d miss most have already announced plans…
No. 64: Super Pass Key Special at Pass Key The Colorado State Fair is back in Pueblo, which means you do not want to pass up one of the first vendors you see as you enter the fairgrounds: Pass Key on the Go. For more than fifty years, the Pagano…
Earlier this week we brought you our list of the most promising restaurants to open in Denver so far this year. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t also steer you toward our favorite new watering holes, too. This year has seen a surge of creative new bars offering seemingly…
The tiny Boulder cottage at 2328 Pearl Street that was home to John’s Restaurant for decades will open as River and Woods on Tuesday, September 6. The new eatery comes courtesy of restaurateurs Josh and Kate Dinar and chef Daniel Asher, best known in Denver for his previous work spearheading the…
As you turn onto Raleigh Street from Colfax Avenue to the south or 17th Avenue to the north, you wonder if your GPS didn’t send you on a wild goose chase. After all, there couldn’t possibly be a hip new restaurant smack in the middle of an older residential neighborhood…
I didn’t become a rabid fan of green chile until the last time I moved away from Denver. Don’t get me wrong: I liked the stuff before. I grew up in this city, so I ate my fair share of green chile as a child; I have a particularly distinct…
Last Monday I said a final farewell to Patsy’s Inn, which supplied north Denver with fresh pasta and red sauce for more than ninety years, and then walked around the block before heading back to my car. Along the way, I passed a semi-demolished structure at the corner of West…
Big news, Denver: The wait for the highly anticipated 715 Club is finally over. The bar that once belonged to the legendary Charles Cousins, in the heart of Five Points at 715 26th Avenue, will host a soft opening Labor Day weekend; doors will open at 8 p.m. tomorrow, September 2…
When Z Cuisine and Z Cuisine Bar A’ Côté two doors down consolidated last year, chef/owner Patrick Dupays closed the right-hand dining space to nightly guests, using it instead for large groups and special dinners. And now it seems that the entire operation has closed — or is at least on extended hiatus. A…
Like a high school friend who shows up to his twenty-year reunion looking almost exactly like he did back then, but richer, Colorado’s craft-beer industry has defied expectations, powering forward with a vigor and energy that seems like it should have faded. There are a few wrinkles, sure, maybe the…
August restaurant openings got off to a slow start but picked up steam by month’s end, keeping pace with the rest of the year, which has averaged about twenty opening a month. Big-name national acts were part of the mix, with Sol Cocina, from Southern California, and Departure, from Portland,…
No. 65 : Chicken Salad at Poppies Restaurant & Lounge The first time I had the chicken salad-stuffed avocado at Poppies in South Denver, I was about twelve years old and lunching with my mom and grandmother, something we did often. Little did I know at the time the dish…
Be a tourist in your own town this Labor Day Weekend with breakfast, lunch and dinner at some of the city’s hippest new spots and a few longtime gems that you’ve been meaning to visit but just haven’t had the right excuse. For day one, head to the Ballpark neighborhood…
Labor Day weekend can taste bittersweet: It’s a long holiday weekend, which is always welcome, but it also ushers in the unofficial end of summer. So get out there and have some fun — and lots of food. The Taste of Colorado runs all weekend in Civic Center Park, but…
Last week, hospitality veteran Jesse Morreale announced a return to the Denver restaurant scene with a new project in the Highland neighborhood in conjunction with Larimer Associates. We were correct in speculating that the eatery would go in at the former home of Longo’s Subway Tavern (as well as a…
It’s one thing to sit down over a beer and try to solve the world’s problems. It’s quite another to sit down and try to solve the craft-brewing world’s problems. But that’s what board members of the two-decade-old Colorado Brewers Guild and the upstart breakaway group, Craft Beer Colorado, will…
