A new breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant is coming to Sunnyside this month; Bacon Social House announced on its Facebook page that it will open on November 20 in the new Cobbler’s Corner project. But the name itself got us thinking about the basic, single-word monikers of the city’s favorite…
The citywide eating orgy official known as Denver Restaurant Week doesn’t start for another few months, but we don’t need to wait until the end of February to take advantage of a multitude of three-course, $30 meals. Boulder’s First Bite begins next Friday, November 13, with more than forty participating…
While there are plenty of independent restaurants hoping to get their doors open before the end of the year, they’ll have to move fast to beat the onslaught of chains both coming to Colorado, and growing in Colorado — which has earned a reputation as the birthplace of successful fast-casual…
Nick French has a dozen beehives on seventy acres of a Colorado hemp farm. With these bees, he has harnessed the power of three super foods to create his Colorado Hemp Honey. Containing whole CBD hemp extract, as well as essential oils for flavoring and aroma therapy, the locally grown…
Beer, bacon and rock-a-billy are all in the cards if you play your hand right — and that’s just on Saturday. The weekend also brings art events, free pancakes, chocolate, wine, cocktails and more. But do you really need more? Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary…
No. 8: The Pretzel Dawg at CuredFriday lunch in Boulder features a completely different array of options from what you’d find in Denver. The compact city tucked up against the foothills has a reputation for crunchy offerings along the lines of vegan nibbles and organic everything, but there’s also a…
Authors like Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) changed the way we think about food. How were the animals treated? How were the vegetables grown? How much corn is hidden in that meal? Now Danny Meyer is changing the conversation about who makes and serves…
Globe Hall, a new barbecue joint and music hall in the former Sidewinder space, opened last night in Globeville. Fans of the Sidewinder needn’t worry much; owner Jeff Cornelius hasn’t changed the vintage dive bar much — a seat at the bar won’t feel much different than it did five,…
You can sometimes tell when a new restaurant is having its moment. For Bar Fausto, freshly popped open in early August on upper Larimer, that time is right about now. Fall looks good on its white brick and colorful wallpaper, and it looks even better when the space is bursting…
A construction crew went to work quickly to get Marczyk Fine Foods at 5100 East Colfax Avenue open less than 48 hours after an SUV plunged through the front doors. The store confirms that it will be business as usual starting at 8 a.m. this morning, A contractor on the…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviews Fire, the restaurant in the Art hotel that opened this summer with relatively little fanfare. But maybe that’s good, because her meals there were uneven; chef Chris Jakubiec needs to light a fire under his crew if this place is going to last, she concludes…
Pizzeria Locale Boulder is hosting a special Apertivo Hour today from 4 to 6 p.m., in honor of special guests Mirco and Gary Snaidero, who are visiting from Italy. The father-and-son duo recently refurbished Locale’s VDF prosciutto slicer—the first slicer of its kind to be used here in the States—and…
We warned you that this week would be full of barbecue, with two barbecue joints opening today alone. The most eagerly anticipated is Globe Hall, a Texas-style smokehouse, dive bar and music hall that opens at 4 p.m. at 45th Avenue and Logan Street in Globeville, in the space where locals…
Southern Concepts, the franchise group that operates three Southern Hospitality restaurants along the Front Range, just launched a new fast-casual concept, Carve Barbecue. Carved opened at 11 a.m. today with a soft opening; the South Colorado Boulevard smokehouse, located in the space that was previously Bruxie (a Belgian waffle eatery),…
Black Shirt Brewing is mixing things up. The River North beer-makers said this week that it will begin tapping a keg of a new one-off beer every Wednesday at 5 p.m. “Often times, we incorporate ingredients into our beer that might be more familiar to a high end kitchen than…
Smokey Bandito at Butcher’s Bistro “I look at cocktails as cooking,” says Scott Bauer, co-owner of Butcher’s Bistro on Larimer Street. “It is cooking. You’re taking many different things and putting them together to make the palate play.” Bauer opened Butcher’s Bistro last year as a meat-centric restaurant with a…
Will and Coral Frischkorn opened Cured on the east end of the Pearl Street Mall in 2011 to bring imported and domestic artisan cheese to Boulder. Cured is much more than a cheese shop though, with a specialty market in the front for high-end pantry items, a deli counter for…
Bar menus and liquor-stores shelves have gotten crowded in recent years as the number of breweries in Colorado soars past the 300 mark — which is why it’s important to stand out, with both beers and logos. Crazy Mountain, the Edwards-based brewery that took over the former Breckenridge Brewery space…
This summer saw its share of big food stories. The opening of Fire, an elegant restaurant in the Art Hotel, wasn’t one of them. Indeed, the restaurant was so far off the radar that unless you followed the food scene closely — or were a hotel guest who grabbed a…
Troy Guard could be the busiest chef in Denver, cooking up plans for new restaurants — he has a half-dozen opening in the next year, starting with a second Los Chingones in the Denver Tech Center — while still cooking in his own kitchen. Tonight TAG will host winemaker Tadeo Borchardt,…
Marczyk Fine Foods at 5100 East Colfax will be closed today and tomorrow as a result of an automobile accident on the property. An SUV plunged through the front door of the market earlier this afternoon, taking out a light post in the process. The Denver Police Department Tweeted at…
When Trillium closed on Larimer Street at the end of September, it skewed the dining scene away from chef-driven quality to bro-friendly bar-and-grill fare. But a new tenant has already claimed the space, and promises to bring something new to the neighborhood: The owners of Aloy Thai Cuisine in Boulder…
