Denver Restaurant Week can change the heart of a kitchen: For ten days, eateries in the city steel themselves for big crowds and plate after plate of risotto, roasted chicken and flourless chocolate cake. You can tell a lot about a restaurant from how well it handles the event and…
Remember the uproar when Gabor’s closed four years ago? The beloved watering hole at 1233 East 13th Avenue had been purchased by the owner of the Providence Tavern in Edgewater, who was going to turn the space into a Capitol Hill companion of his Edgewater bar. Regulars loudly lamented the…
The Blind Cafe lit up back in 2010 as the bright idea of Boulder musician Brian Rocheleau, known as Rosh, and friends Rick Hammond and chef Marcus Mccauley. After experiencing a cafe in the dark in Iceland while on tour as a singer-songwriter, Rosh was inspired to put on his…
New Belgium forged new ground two years ago when it released Snapshot, a sour wheat for the masses that was available in both twelve-ounce cans and bottles. Now Epic Brewing in Denver is taking things a step further with Tart ‘n Juicy Sour IPA, which it calls “a unique fusion…
Late last year, chef/restaurateur Lon Symensma, the mastermind behind Cholon Modern Asian Bistro and Cho77, announced plans to open a new restaurant in the Eastbridge Stapleton development that’s currently under construction. He has already tapped a chef, Luke Bergman, who he met while the two were students at Culinary Institute of…
Burgers and beer are big business in Denver, and plenty of the 54 million travelers who passed through Denver International Airport last year have probably tried plenty of both. Burgers and beer will be even bigger business at the airport next year, though, after a Denver City Council committee approved…
February was a tumultuous month for established Denver restaurants, with name changes, rebrandings, moves and closures both temporary and permanent. We lost longtime favorites in Jus Cookin’s Restaurant, DaLat Vietnamese Cuisine and the Trinity Grille downtown. Meanwhile, quaint Cherry Creek cafe So Perfect Eats went on an extended hiatus while…
Yesterday Mark Antonation offered a tale of two tacos, comparing a pair of taco joints in the 1000 block of Broadway: the modest Quijote’s and Torchy’s, an Austin-based import that has many fans and was a hot-hot spot when it opened earlier this year. But some Denver diners feel burned…
As one long-standing Capitol Hill spot goes out of business, a new place right across the street is just getting started. Across East 13th Avenue from the Gypsy House Cafe (which closes on March 14), the Marion Street Tavern has quietly opened its doors in the former Gabor’s location. Four…
Not long ago, it was considered risky to open a restaurant past a certain block on Larimer Street. With all the construction dust in that area, though, these days the risk lies in other neighborhoods, such as Park Hill, where noted chef/restaurateur Sean Kelly recently opened Desmond Bar & Grill…
The High West Oyster Fest has been offering oyster enthusiasts a chance to spend a night shucking and slurping since 2013, and the mollusk mayhem returns to the Boulder Theater from 6 to 9 p.m. today. The fourth annual event will feature oyster shucking and eating contests, music from Denver DJ Styles…
Southern food is becoming a growing trend in the Denver restaurant scene, with Bread-N-Butter opening last week in Uptown and fried chicken, biscuits, barbecue and Low Country cuisine hitting menus across town. A couple of weeks ago, a Facebook page simply named Julep appeared in my feed, so I fired off…
No need to set the building on fire, Milton. Nobody is taking your red Swingline away. Or at least, no one is taking Trinity Brewing’s Red Swingline away. This week, Trinity owner Jason Yester revealed that he has signed an agreement with ACCO Brands Corporation, the maker of Swingline staplers,…
No Sleep Till Denver at Amethyst Coffee Amethyst Coffee cranked up the coffee pots for the first time last February, serving cups of espresso and pastries at 1111 Broadway in the Metlo complex. And two months ago, owner Elle Taylor secured a liquor license, adding a hand-picked assortment of spirits…
The Tavern Hospitality Group launched the latest in its string of bar-and-grill-style eateries yesterday when the Tavern Platt Park opened on Old South Pearl Street. The newest Tavern joins Izakaya Den next door and Fourteen Seventy-Two across the street to make the block one of the city’s prime indoor-outdoor destinations, since each…
The intersection of South Federal Boulevard and West Evans Avenue is only a few blocks from my house, so I drive past Cowbobas Steakhouse and Boba Smoothies nearly every day — often wondering how much longer everyone’s favorite Vietnamese steakhouse can survive. So last night when I saw a cherry…
When Chris Marchio peers into a glass of IPA, he doesn’t want to be able to see out the other side. Instead, Marchio, the head brewer for Fiction Beer Company, wants to see a haze, like a thick fog rolling off the Atlantic Ocean onto Cape Cod. He’s not alone…
A big, loud, flamboyant and insanely popular taco shop landed in the Golden Triangle last month. The dazzling sign of Torchy’s Tacos lights up the night like a marquee looming over that other Broadway (the one in New York City), and a line of curious taco-philes stretches from the order…
The sixth location of Lucile’s Creole Cafe, a Southern-comfort institution that got its start in Boulder almost forty years ago, just opened at 999 East Evans Avenue. Since this was the first time the Richards family that owns Lucile’s had taken over a non-restaurant space — most recently, the stand-alone…
In 2008, pig was big — everyone was makin’ bacon. That was the year Cochon 555 kicked of its national parade of pork, not to get more folks eating “the other white meat,” but to prove that there’s more to pork than pallid cuts of flavorless tenderloin. The multi-city tour…
Last summer, the Richards family began work on the sixth outpost of their popular breakfast and lunch kitchen, Lucile’s Creole Cafe, which got its start in Boulder more than 35 years ago. The new Lucile’s is now open at 999 East Evans Avenue, with the same great menu of New…
Oskar Blues has little secret brewing in the back room. Well, make that a big secret: a big barrel-aged one. Over the past three months, the Longmont-based beer maker has been filling and stacking hundreds of bourbon barrels with a couple of its concoctions. Although Oskar Blues has had a…
