In honor of the Year of the Monkey, which starts February 8, Mark Antonation just served up the Eleven Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver, with the number one spot going to the Best Chinese Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2015: JJ Chinese Seafood Restaurant. And Andy agrees with that…
How are property developers increasing the value of urban real estate? They’re scraping single-family homes, restaurants and other small businesses and replacing them with multi-unit dwellings, offices and concrete warrens of retail space. It makes good sense financially, even if it pisses off the preservationists and adds architecture of questionable…
Restaurants on Market between 14th and 15th Streets have always had the challenge of creating an identity to stand out above the evening chaos on the loudest, busiest block in the city — sexy, infuriating, dangerous. Some, like Dorchester Social Eatery, combined dining and dancing in one space and offered…
If there are two things we’re serious about here in Denver, they are football and food. And why not? Food and football just go together — and when you add a drink to the mix, suddenly you’ve got a party. This Sunday we get to combine our passions in a most…
It looked like an indie wedding, or a page out of a Pottery Barn catalogue — but it was a marijuana-pairing dinner. The Headquarters cannabis boutique team and Blackbelly Market’s Hosea Rosenberg hosted a winter dinner event last weekend where marijuana normalization reached a new high, at a sold-out (by private…
Tonight Jensen Cummings of Brewed Food is taking the beer-and-food-pairing concept to another level. Along with chef Elijah Odell of Highland Tap and Burger, he’ll prepare a Brewed Food dinner at Highland Tap, with each course incorporating actual ingredients from New Belgium Brewing Beers (yeast, wort, barley, hops). The meal will include four…
Chinese New Year is nearly upon us again. While the actual date is February 8 this year, many Denver restaurants will be celebrating the coming of the Year of the Monkey with dragon dancers, music and other entertainment this weekend. And, of course, they’ll be offering great food — stir-fries,…
Two Denver Broncos players are getting a little jerky — beef jerky, that is. The world of celebrity endorsements can get very weird (remember when Joe Namath wore pantyhose and Joe DiMaggio shilled for Mr. Coffee?), but this may be the first time that two players on the same team…
The 23rd annual Stout Month kicked off this week at the Vine Street Pub & Brewery in Denver and at the rest of the Mountain Sun Pubs group’s breweries and restaurants in Boulder and Longmont. The yearly tradition has continued to grow over the years and there are now a…
Colorado can hold its own when it comes to craft beer, artisan liquors and homemade hot sauces, but now the state is getting noticed for its legit bean-to-bar chocolate. One of the newest companies to enter the grind (well, company might be a stretch) is two-month-old Fortuna Chocolate, comprised of three…
Arandano Frizzante at Bittersweet When Nicholas Wermaling was putting together his new winter drink menu at Bittersweet, he found that it was lacking one thing: tequila. “There seems to be a lack of tequila-based winter drinks,” he says, “so I wanted to get that in there. I like to have…
Brrr, it’s cold outside. Wouldn’t you like to get your hands on some nice, warm haggis? That oft-joked about, seldom-eaten national dish of Scotland made a rare Denver appearance at the 16th annual Burns Night dinner put on by the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Capitol Hill to honor the birthday…
From a hillside overlooking downtown Denver, La Loma has been slinging green chile for more than forty decades. That green chile is from a recipe created by grandma Savina Mendoza, and it became the focal point of the modest Mexican restaurant that the Mendoza family opened in 1973 in a…
Kent Denver School will host the seventh annual “Give Your Love to Breakthrough” to benefit Breakthrough Kent Denver, a non-profit education program for highly motivated but underserved Denver Public School middle-school students. This year’s event features an authentic Southern meal prepared by chef, author, television host and James Beard Award-winner John…
“All I remember was hearing ‘Firestone Walker,’ and then everyone around us suddenly start screaming in our faces.” That’s what Brandon Proff, co-owner of Our Mutual Friend Brewing, wrote in a blog about the moment when his brewery won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival last September…
Despite the brutal wind chill and pelting snow, Denverites were out in full force (some with shooters in hand and some even wearing shorts) last night to welcome the long-awaited Torchy’s Tacos with proper Mile High gusto. More than 4,200 people RSVP’d to #TorchysDoesDenver on the Texas taco chain’s Facebook…
Is Denver’s brewery boom slowing down? It’s hard to tell: While there certainly aren’t as many small independent breweries on the horizon as there were at this time last year, there is still plenty of action on the new-brewery front. The list of anticipated openings in 2016 include three breweries…
January was a seesaw of openings and closings; with the shuttering of one restaurant came the unveiling of another. While California-based vegan chain Native Foods Cafe closed two of its fast-casual locations (most prominently, the 16th Street Mall store), a cozy, locally owned plant-based joint called the Handy Diner opened…
After 115 years in Denver, Dickinson Plaza is no longer owned by the Dickinson family — and, in fact, the building at West 32nd and Tejon Street will soon be razed for a project that calls for a five-story apartment complex. In the process, nine businesses will lose their homes…
Korean restaurants of all sorts are popping up around town — well, mostly in Aurora, but a new branch of the popular Dae Gee BBQ is set to open soon at 460 Broadway. Korean barbecue joints like Dae Gee are the most common Korean restaurants in Denver — and the…
Dive into the world of sommeliers during a screening of SOMM: Into the Bottle at the Sie FilmCenter at 6 p.m. tonight. Denver Food and Wine and the Denver Film Society have teamed up to bring guests an evening of food, film and fermentation. The night will start with a reception featuring…
After the initial sadness of saying goodbye to Tom’s Home Cookin’ when the celebrated Southern lunch counter closed abruptly in December, curiosity took hold: Who would be the next tenant to bring something new to the Five Points neighborhood in a way that would spark appetites and admiration — as…
