An electrical fire closed School House Kitchen & Libations at 5560 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard at the end of February, and while no employees or customers were injured in the blaze, damage to the kitchen was extensive enough to keep the place closed since then. But repairs and inspections are finally…
Chef/Restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa brought his eponymous eatery to Denver on the first day of April, unveiling a sultry, teak-lined dining room to guests lucky enough to score an early reservation. Matsuhisa, at 98 Steele Street on the ground floor of the Steele Creek luxury apartments, serves elegant cuisine with Japanese and…
Flor de Mayo at El Chingon Valintina Panic loves foam. While attending bartending school in 2010 in her native Serbia, she was particularly fascinated by a class on making foams out of spirits. Shortly after arriving in Denver in 2013, she got a job as a bartender when El Chingon…
Project Angel Heart, a non-profit organization that provides nutritious meals to clients coping with life-threatening illnesses, has become well known to Denver restaurant-goers and the food -service community for its high-profile fundraisers, Dining Out for Life and Taste for Life, which partner with many of the city’s best chefs and…
I’m always fascinated by the migration of specific dishes from one region to another and the transformations that take place ov er time and distance. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered the jajangmyeon noodles at P & Y Cafe, 2769 South Parker Road in Aurora. Researching the dish’s history,…
The Colorado Restaurant Association and the Denver Film Society have teamed up for a special screening of The Birth of Sake at the Sie FilmCenter, starting at 6 p.m. today. Hosted by Marc Hughes, brewer and owner of Denver’s own Gaijin 24866, the film will be followed by a saké tasting and…
There’s a new place in town if you want to get treated coldly: Frozen Matter is now serving icy treats at 530 East 19th Avenue in Uptown. The ice cream shop was created by Geraldine Kim and Josh Gertzen, who installed a pasteurizer and full kitchen in the space so that…
Spring weather is finally upon us, and with flowers and cool breezes come new menus featuring fresh produce and light flavors. Here are three recent menu updates: from a Boulder Italian restaurant, a museum eatery and a Highland neighborhood gem. Arugula 2785 Iris Avenue, Boulder 303-443-5100 After a remodel at…
The culinary opinions of writer, chef and television personality Ruth Reichl matter; after all, she has been a restaurant critic for both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, in addition to writing ten books on food and cooking. So when she makes a stop between the coasts…
In January, we noticed a hand-painted sign reading “Lucia” at 1550 17th Street in downtown Denver, and learned that the space would soon become a new eatery from Urban Food Group, a team that currently operates five restaurants in North Carolina, including the original Lucia in Durham. It looks like…
There are many hot restaurant neighborhoods in Denver — including RiNo, home of Hop Alley, our Best New Restaurant in 2016 — but this is definitely Berkeley’s year, and we named that part of northwest Denver Best New Restaurant Neighborhood in the Best of Denver 2016. The construction on Tennyson Street is…
This week’s culinary calendar is brimming with goodness. Over the next few days, you can find out about the birth of sake while doing a little sake tasting yourself; support a local charity during an all-star chefs’ dinner at Lola; learn about some of Denver’s greatest food failures; and dig…
Coors Field has more beer offerings than ever — which is good, because fans might need to drink a lot in order to swallow the Colorado Rockies’ record thus far, with two losses at the ballpark and another game on tap for this afternoon. This year, Coors Field and Aramark…
How do you feel about the 16th Street Mall? That mile-long strip through downtown is bound to be jumping today, with gorgeous weather and a Rockies game tonight. But while some locals love it, others avoid it — and downtown boosters are in the process of revisioning the mall. “It’s…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz made a beeline for Abejas in Golden, where she interviewed chef Nicholas Ames about working a Toyota factory cafeteria and his love of ramen. Mark Antonation rustled up a few fried pork tenderloin sandwiches, a rarity in Denver but a big slab of comfort for displaced…
No. 84: Korean Fried Chicken Wings at Yong Gung The nondescript little storefront at 2040 South Havana Street that once boasted the name Yong Gung Dragon Palace Chinese Restaurant is now simply Yong Gung — a minor change that takes away some confusion, since the restaurant doesn’t serve Chinese cuisine…
Woof in Boots, a doggie day care, boarding and grooming facility at 719 West Eighth Avenue, is looking up for its next project. The company, owned by Vincent Palazzotto and John Comandari, is raising the roof on its existing building for a dog-friendly bar to be called Biscuits & Brews,…
Coors Field is surrounded by independent craft breweries — there are more than a dozen within a one-mile radius of the ballpark. But inside, the story has been very different. Although Coors Field is home to the only working brewery at a Major League stadium, Blue Moon Brewing at the…
It’s Opening Day, which means that bars and restaurants all over downtown, RiNo and LoHi will be celebrating the start of baseball season — which means lots of beer and brats. No sooner had we published our list of Ten Top Spots to Celebrate Opening Day, when we heard of…
The Rockies swing into action at Coors Field today for the team’s home opening, an event that’s practically a local holiday; see our list of ten places to celebrate Opening Day. But there’s much more to Denver than the Rockies (which you’ll appreciate in a few months of baseball games), and…
Nothing marks the arrival of spring in Denver more than the Rockies’ home opener. The cheers of the crowd, over-priced yet completely toothsome stadium foods, cold beer, hot sun and the resounding chorus of “Hey! Baby” — these are what spring days are made for. On Friday, April 8, the…
For two decades, TheWrangler, a popular gay bar catering to a burly clientele, has held down the corner of 1700 Logan Street. But this summer it will move to Five Points, taking over the big building at 3090 Downing Street that was once a church, then home to Tosh’s Hacienda…
