Dave Query’s Big Red F restaurant group just spun off the Post Brewing Co. in Lafayette with a new fast-casual version called GoodBird Kitchen, which opened Tuesday in Longmont. Guests will find the same great fried chicken — which made restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz’s list of her top ten dishes…
Restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz said goodbye this week, but only as the weekly restaurant reviewer. She’ll still be keeping an (anonymous) eye on the restaurant scene, but will be easing back on the nightly dinners out. Mark Antonation vows to eat more in 2016 — or at least more good…
Strange Grounds, the funky coffeehouse known for its open-mike night, is now closed on South Broadway. But there’s a sign on the door promising the arrival of Samiches in 2016. The sign also notes that the new eatery will serve gourmet sandwiches, pastas, salads, soups and homemade desserts. More pressing…
There’s certainly no shortage of traditional elements at the new Sushi Ronin, which opened on January 2 in Lower Highland — the first new restaurant of 2016. Japanese koi swim along a band of blue on one wall and touches of bamboo, rough-hewn timbers and brushstokes of Japanese script add…
No. 99: Bacon Shrimp and Grits at Bacon Social HouseWhen you find yourself at a restaurant called Bacon, bacon had better end up on your plate in some form. Fortunately, at Bacon there’s no shortage of cured pork belly in just about every dish — and even in a few…
At the end of the year, we tallied all the action on the Denver dining scene and issued our Restaurant Roll Call for 2015, cataloging the 250 openings and 100-plus restaurant closings in the metro area. Although some of the restaurants that closed — including Le Central — had been…
The National Western Stock Show moseys into town this weekend. For over 100 years the stock show has celebrate two of the driving forces in Colorado, the agriculture and farming industries, which just happen to be all about food. The stock show runs through January 24, but you don’t need…
The historic El Rancho restaurant is back open off of Interstate 70 and Highway 40 after being vacant for more than two years. Like the Buffalo Restaurant & Bar in Idaho Springs, El Rancho reopened in conjunction with a new craft brewery. El Rancho originally opened in 1947 but has…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opened at 3759 Lipan Street (in the old home of the Subway Tavern, right at the corner of West 38th Avenue) in the fall of 2014 as another neighborhood eatery in the Larimer Associates portfolio. At the time, chef/restaurateur Troy Guard signed on as the consulting chef…
Chef/restaurateur Justin Brunson has been a busy man of late; in addition to running the nationally acclaimed Old Major, he’s also piloting two Masterpiece Delicatessens, the culinary program at Honor Society and the soon-to-open Masterpiece Kitchen. He’s also doing quite a bit of traveling as a de-facto embassador for the…
If you’re a dessert skipper, you’re in good company. In a food-service system designed to satisfy diners with an entree and fatten them with small plates and sides, it’s just overkill to drop a dessert menu at the end of all that. Especially for nickel-counting happy-hour goers — and we…
The Brewability Lab, a startup brewery with the novel idea of providing jobs in the brewing industry for adults with developmental disabilities, will take over Caution Brewing’s original location in east Denver sometime later this year. Caution, which was founded in 2011 by Danny and Betty Wang, is consolidating its…
As word got out that I would be ending my work as Westword restaurant critic at the end of December 2015, all anyone could ask was “Why?” Friends who know me best put it another way: “Are you crazy? You’re being PAID to eat out, and you’re choosing to leave?”…
Little Man Ice Cream is on a mission, and needs your help. This weekend the Little Man team will head to Guatemala, to help construct new housing for a family in the rural village of San Lucas Toliman. And they’re not leaving empty-handed: The men and women of Little Man…
The Buffalo Restaurant & Bar closed in October 2014 for what was intended to be a five-month renovation project. But more than a year went by before the historic Idaho Springs watering hole reopened in December 2015. While the original bar, which was built in Chicago in the 1880s, still…
10 Barrel Brewing, a popular Bend, Oregon-based brewery, has confirmed that it plans to open a brewery and pub in Denver within the next six months. The brewery, founded in 2006 by brothers Chris and Jeremy Cox and Garrett Wales, is notable because of the acclaim and awards that it…
How do we sense sweetness? What affects how we perceive sugars? Why does that cookie taste so much sweeter to me than it does to my friend? Can you change how sweet is sweet? These are just a handful of questions that may be answered with the nine-month sweet study…
It’s getting more and more difficult for Colorado beer lovers to wrap their arms — and their taste buds — around the depth and breadth of our brewery scene. With more than 300 breweries, all of them pumping out dozens of brews over the course of a year, it would…
Ever since Colorado’s own quick-service burger chain Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard took control of newcomer Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar (in a move that began in 2013 and was completed last year), Bad Daddy’s has been expanding its presence in Colorado and in other states. The full-service burger company,…
The Superhero at Carbon Beverage Cafe When Habit Doughnut Dispensary and Carbon Beverage Cafe opened five months ago on Platte Street, the plan was to sell lots of coffee and doughnuts. But beverage coordinator Matthew Spicer took it a step further by coming up with a way to add booze,…
Denver’s dining scene got off to a fast start in 2016, with Sushi Ronin winning honors as the first restaurant to open — and Brook’s Steakhouse the first restaurant to close, on January 1. Twenty years ago, when Brook’s opened in the former home of Chateau Pyrenees, it was one…
Boulder Beer Company will raise a toast today to one of its founders, a pioneer of the craft-brewing industry in not just Colorado, but the country. David Hummer died December 17 at Boulder Community Health at the age of 81. “David received his B.S. and masters from Carnegie Tech before moving on…
