Food & Drink

In January, we made a list of eleven vacant restaurant spaces that were calling out for new tenants. Some of those have since been filled, or at least claimed. There’s Sera’s Ramen Enclave, a new favorite that’s now serving noodle bowls in the former Bang! space on West 32nd Avenue,…

Tacos, burgers, Chinese food, steaks and desserts: Chef/restaurateur Troy Guard has covered a wide range of styles at his eateries over the past few years. But his newest venture, Mister Tuna, which opens this Friday, July 15, in the Industry building on Brighton Boulevard, is a little more difficult to…

Union Station, which unveiled its renovation in July 2014, is celebrating its second birthday by giving Denver a couple of presents. One is the Union Station 105th Meridian Buskerfest, a resurrected festival that developer Dana Crawford is bringing back this weekend. And the party won’t end when buskerfest does. The…

Mary Nguyen is no stranger to tough decisions. After pursuing a career in finance, she woke up one day and realized it wasn’t for her. “I found myself spending more time reading books about food and downloading recipes off the Internet than learning about the financial markets,” she says, “so…

The windows are boarded up at 1789 Ogden Street, and a cleanup crew was removing furnishings and equipment from Wok Uptown today. A note on the window indicates that the popular Chinese spot is closed because of a fire, with no time frame yet for reopening. The Xiao family has operated Wok Uptown…

What was once a vast showroom for high-end automobiles and a pre-war curio factory before that is slowly shaping up into the Denver Central Market at 2669 Larimer Street, a multi-vendor indoor marketplace from developer Ken Wolf and chef/restaurateur Jeff Osaka. When last we checked in, a total of eleven artisan…

There are some restaurant locations that seem cursed. One of the biggest black holes, 250 Josephine Street, was a success as Radek Cerny’s Cafe Papillon, but killed off numerous eateries in the years that followed, most recently Opus. Now that building is gone altogether, wiped off the map for another…

As a longtime resident of Colorado (I came here the same year that John Elway did, if that helps pin me to a specific era), I not only eat more than my share of green chile, I think about it — a lot. I ponder the significance of green chile…

Chef Pino Saverino closed his Italian restaurant in Cherry Hills Village earlier this year for a remodel and expansion as well as a slight name change. Pino’s Place is now open at 1400 East Hampden Avenue, once again serving lunch and dinner to the neighborhood around the Swedish Medical Center…

No. 80: Potato Tacos at El TejadoWhen the Colorado Department of Revenue shut down Emilio’s Mexican Restaurant in February 2015, it also shut off the steady stream of potato tacos that gave us comfort and a little dose of joy each time we stopped in for lunch. While most of…

In late January, when then-owner Henry Dickinson finally revealed that the century-old Dickinson Plaza had been sold to a developer, the storefront’s tenants were suddenly thrown into limbo. This past weekend Fat Jack’s was still serving at 2015 West 32nd Avenue, but it’s slated to leave this week and move…

A taste of the goods at Anointed BBQ & Soul Food at a Friday fundraiser for the future barbecue joint at 2504 West Hampden Avenue was enough to have some readers hankering for more of Mo Jones’s “Florida-style” barbecue; others dishing on the 2016 Best of Denver winner, Roaming Buffalo; the majority…

On weekend mornings, hungry, hungover thoughts turn to brunch — Denver’s favorite meal — and from there, thoughts often move on to the type of people you’ll see at brunch in Denver.  Says Cyril:  Where there aren’t yuppie-hipster-douches, you deal with insufferable yet boring cornpone suburbanites. It doesn’t get any more…

This was a short week, thanks to Independence Day, and a time to look back on the first six months of 2016. So far, this year has been a great one for bar and restaurant openings, so we picked fourteen new eateries and ten new bars that have impressed us…

Here are a couple of changes at two Denver neighborhood restaurants, from new lunch hours at a Lowry Chinese kitchen to summer specials on South Broadway seafood. The first, Lucky Cat, is brand new to town, while the second, the Chowder Room, has been ladling up seafood soups and other…

The news that Mo Jones is close to opening his Anointed BBQ & Soul Food in the former home of Country Time came as good news for those hungering for more barbecue action in Denver. But even the whiff of a new barbecue joint — Jones says he specializes in “Florida style,”…