A snowy day marked the perfect occasion for the opening of a new Vietnamese soup specialist; Fee Fi Pho Fum began ladling broth Monday morning on South Broadway, sharing a wall and an owner — Jason Tietjen — with the Dive Inn next door. The restaurant is the first in what…
Haggis, the oft-joked about, seldom eaten national dish of Scotland, made a rare Denver appearance on Saturday night at the 16th annual Burns Night dinner put on by the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Capitol Hill to honor the birthday of Scottish poet, gentleman farmer and epicurean Robert Burns. The…
Movies are a way to escape reality, but some are so cool you just wish they could happen in real life. One of those for me? Night at the Museum. I’ve always been jealous of Ben Stiller’s romp through the history books, but the Art Hotel, wedged into the Golden Triangle’s…
The much-anticipated Torchy’s Tacos will open at 1085 Broadway at 7 a.m. tomorrow — but first, the first Colorado link in this Austin-based chain will throw an opening party from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, with free tacos, chips and dips, and drinks. And according to one reader, this opening…
Black Black Coffee expanded this week when the TAXI-building coffee shop took over the space in which Refuel had been residing. Now, in addition to pour-over coffee from a variety of roasters, Black Black serves food. Rebranded as Black Black Coffee + Kitchen, the new menu addition consists of breakfast…
Dickinson Plaza at the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street had been in Henry Dickinson’s family for 115 years — until he sold the .8 acre property to Trammell Crow Residential on January 13 for a cool $6.8 million. The Texas company’s plan? To tear down the building…
February in Denver is all about stouts and oysters.You can sip and slurp your way through the next four weeks with Oyster Month at all Jax locations, and Stout Month at all the Mountain Sun Pub spots, including Vine Street, Mountain Sun and Southern Sun. But you can also sink…
Feeling a little under the weather this morning? How about a heaping helping of Mexican food? Gustavo Arellano, author of the weekly column “Ask a Mexican” as well as the book Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, recently tackled a question about whether the Mexican diet is healthy. It once…
Changes are coming to Englewood. The venerable El Tepehuan closed last year, and transferred operations to a food truck while the owners rehab the restaurant’s next location down the street at 3495 South Broadway, which will be called El Tep. And in February, Phil and Erika Zierke, both Englewood restaurants,…
This week, Mark Antonation took a tour of the Denver Tech Center, where three new restaurants — Pollo Lima, Bawarchi Biryani Point and Burnt End BBQ — are dishing out tasty international and regional cookery. Pollo Lima moved in where Chicago Mike’s Beef & Dogs had moved out, but we neglected…
In December 2011, Jerry Feld sold Club 404 — the bar he’d bought six decades before, when he was too young to even have a liquor license. But since then, the spot at 404 Broadway has seen some tough times. Initially it was turned into the Denver Wheel Club 404,…
The annual feeding frenzy known as Denver Restaurant Week is nearly upon us, and Visit Denver — the organization that heads up the ten-day event — has published menus for more than 150 of the participating restaurants so that you can plan out your reservations. This year’s Restaurant Week runs…
Does Denver need Texans coming to Colorado to take over the taco trade? Only if they’re “damn good.” Austin-based Torchy’s Tacos hopes Denverites will agree with the company’s motto when it opens at 1085 Broadway on Tuesday, February 2 — the first of five Torchy’s planned for the Front Range…
Hearing that the Barker Lounge had closed after a series of other high-profile restaurant and bar closings around town, a reader lamented that all of the cool places in Denver are vanishing. But these readers disagree. Says Tony: Native here. If anything uncool is happening, it’s self-pity. Change is inevitable. We…
Quiznos, the homegrown toasted-sub company, is growing up: It just opened Quiznos Grill at 1147 Broadway, a few blocks from where Jimmy Lambatos opened the first Quiznos at 1275 Grant Street back in 1981. The brand has had a bumpy ride over the past 35 years, and occasionally got toasted…
Get cheesy this weekend at a smorgasbord of events highlighting spirits, seeds, beer, music and many more of the finer things in life, including cheese. From mac-and-cheese to music festivals, from sharks to Sunday brunch, this weekend’s culinary calendar has something for everyone. Keep reading for the full scoop on…
Traditional Thai cuisine is not hard to find in Denver, from flamethrowers like Thai Monkey Club and US Thai to practioners of the fresh and sophisticated like Taste of Thailand. But Aloy Modern Thai, set to open Monday (February 1) in the former Trillium space on Larimer Street, promises something…
Denver Broncos pride runs deep in the Mile High City’s craft-brewing scene, where the sunsets are always orange and blue and beer is free-flowing and delicious. To make sure that the world knows how they feel, two local breweries have made recent wagers on the team. In early January, the…
A Hurricane cocktail carries a lot of cultural baggage. There’s that unfortunate name, of course, when associated with the recent history of its birthplace, New Orleans. There’s the popular conception of the Hurricane as a Bourbon Street party drink, festooned with crazy straws and neon garnishes in a flimsy plastic…
DADA Art Bar at Broadway and Larimer Street has looked a little vacant over the past few days, but there are no signs indicating anything is otherwise amiss. We checked with Iain Chisholm, chef-owner of Americatus around the corner, who opened Dada two years ago as a neighborhood hangout for…
The parent company that operates Katie Mullen’s Irish Pub on the 16th Street Mall and its younger sibling, Wee Katie’s in LoHi, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 26, according to the Denver Business Journal. Northwest Bars Inc. opened Katie Mullen’s in 2008, Wee Katie’s nearly a year ago,…
Teague Bohlen recently ticked off a list of seven things that make Stapleton residents really, really mad — and ticked off many of those residents in the process. But it appears that he barely scratched the surface of the irritants; among other things, readers sent in complaints about a lack…
