Denver’s a sunny city, according to weather statistics, but sometimes you want to have it (dinner, that is) made in the shade. Eats and drinks on a secluded, quiet patio can be nourishing for both the belly and the soul. Here’s our list of the ten best hidden patios in…
Eat too much over the holiday weekend? This week you can sign up for several food-related courses that will fill your brain as much as your stomach. But there are also feasts in which you can indulge, including a crawfish boil. Keep reading for the ten tastiest events on the…
El Charrito didn’t open yesterday, after a fire in the alley Saturday night knocked out the power to the bar at 2100 Larimer Street. But El Charrito was back in business today, opening just in time for the Coors Field crowd — even though the bar is usually closed on Mondays…
The wait is over: Godfather’s Pizza returns to the Denver metro area today after nearly twenty years away when a new franchise of the Nebraska-based chain opens at 11 a.m. at 2350 East 120th Avenue in Thornton. While the city has plenty of other pizza options to choose from, Midwesterners…
Sounds like it was a hot night at El Charrito — so hot that the fifty-year-old dive bar turned hipster hangout on Larimer Street will not be open for brunch today…and the rest of its entertaining entertainment schedule (comedy, Nerd Nite) is up in the air. Here’s the word on…
Memorial Day Weekend serves as a sort of signpost to summer. Sure, summer doesn’t officially start until June 20, but we all know that when the three-day weekend rolls around it’s time to break out the grills, flip flops and tank tops. Denver will be sizzling with events all weekend…
You’re starting your three-day weekend, and there’s only one way to start it right: with a long, leisurely brunch. Here’s an option: Beast + Bottle opens at 10 a.m. this morning, but if you can wait to order until 12:30, you can indulge in the Beastly Brunch Burger special, which will…
There were plenty of Japanese eateries in the news this week, starting with Monday’s opening of Bamboo Sushi, serving certified-sustainable seafood inside Avanti Food & Beverage. For Chef and Tell, Gretchen Kurtz tracked down the globetrotting Nobu Matsuhisa to talk about his newest Matsuhisa restaurant in Cherry Creek as well…
In less than a year, Black Eye Cap Hill has become the object of lust for coffee drinkers, food enthusiasts and design junkies alike. Among a handful of awards, the coffeehouse and eatery’s commitment to creativity earned a Colorado Restaurant Association award for Best Restaurant Design earlier this month. And earlier…
Another Korean restaurant opened in Aurora earlier this month, which is not exactly a rare phenomenon these days. But this one’s a little different — in more ways than one. Soban took over the space formerly occupied by K-Pub at 12101 East Iliff Avenue, bringing with it an impressive pedigree…
Matsuhisa opened in Cherry Creek this spring, and when chef/founder Nobu Matsuhisa was at the restaurant earlier this month, Gretchen Kurtz met with him for this week’s Chef and Tell. This is the third Matsuhisa in Colorado, and the group of restaurants is continuing to grow as it approaches its…
Yes, there are lots of tasty events on the menu, but let’s remember why we have a three-day weekend: Memorial Day, a holiday to honor those who have served our country. Max’s Wine Dive is showing its appreciation to active military and first responders by offering a free appetizer and…
Not too much time passed between when Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs closed at 2950 South Broadway in Englewood and when new banners appeared announcing the imminent arrival of Grillerz Pub, a new eatery set to open on June 1. Manager and co-owner Kathleen Thompson says she had to move quickly to…
Menu Spanish isn’t too difficult to pick up in Denver, with plenty of Mexican restaurants — and a few Central and South American eateries — to let you work on your language skills while enjoying delicious food. But the Spanish names of meats can get a little confusing to those…
The Inventing Room’s Ian Kleinman is equal parts chef and scientist, serving up wild and wonderful treats at his Ballpark neighborhood dessert bar. You can stop in and enjoy liquid-nitrogen ice cream, exploding whipped cream and housemade cotton candy in unusual flavors just for the pure pleasure of it —…
Depending on how you think about it, Solitaire on West 32nd Avenue could be a stormy portent of new Denver or a warm reminder of the old. Owners Andrea Faulisi Ferguson and Mark Ferguson bought the space that housed neighborhood standard Highland Garden Cafe since 1994 and transformed it into…
Since Lakewood’s venerable White Fence Farm changed hands almost two years ago, the new owners have started a farm team, opening fried-chicken outlets in the Pepsi Center and at Green Valley Ranch. Now they’re expanding into Capitol Hill and onto the 16th Street Mall — and a White Fence Farm…
Triplets Jill, Jessica and Jennifer Emich, also known as “The Blissful Sisters,” certainly know their way around healthy foods. The trio first opened the popular Trilogy Wine Bar in Boulder, which had a ten-year run before the sisters sold the spot in 2008. Their next venture into restaurants was Shine…
Civic Center Eats, the food-truck convergence on the main plaza at Civic Center Park that’s now in its eleventh season, kicked off earlier this month to better weather than last year, when May saw rain on all but one day of the month. This year, the rally has added a…
Brazilian fast casual from Missoula, Montana, with a name that sounds like a Central City roulette strategy? That’s Five on Black, which opened its first Colorado location in Boulder in late April and is set to debut in Denver at 1617 California Street (in the former Planet Sub location) this summer…
Everybody’s favorite fried-chicken-joint-slash-petting-zoo, White Fence Farm, is making urban inroads. After Craig Caldwell and Tom Piercy bought the Lakewood family restaurant from founder Charlie Wilson in 2014, they’ve had as a goal growing the business with several quick-service outposts. The first opened in Green Valley Ranch at the end of last…
Ska Brewing in Durango has added a new seven-barrel pilot brewing system at its World Headquarters, where it will be able to focus on experimental and one-off beers. The new system will free up the brewery’s primary system for its mainline beers, like Modus Hoperendi and Mexican Logger. Ska says…
