The intersection of South University Boulevard and East Evans Avenue is a constantly evolving hive of bars and restaurants, changing almost as quickly as the continuous cluster of traffic on the northeast edge of the University of Denver. Incoming freshmen may have plenty of cheap dining options, but by their…
National Bison Day is November 7, but the celebration has already begun. Last week, in honor of the return of American bison with distinctive Yellowstone bloodlines to northern Colorado, Fort Collins’s Pateros Creek Brewing Company released Prairie Thunder Imperial Brown Ale, to celebrate — and raise money for — the…
With Bradley Cooper’s Burnt about to hit the big screens, last week we unreeled our list of The Ten Best Food Movies Ever, which put the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the number one spot. Readers quickly took issue with that, as well as other inclusions and…
A new cook walks into a Denver kitchen, and the first thing another cook says to him is “Don’t I know you from somewhere?” The two look at one another, trying to figure out the connection before it dawns on them both: elementary school. Although Travis Messervey and William Johnson…
Today is your last chance to catch some culinary cinema — and dinner — at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The gardens and Chipotle will wrap up the 2015 Chipotle Sustainability Food Film Series today with a screening of Hanna Ranch, a film that follows Colorado rancher and “eco-cowboy” Kirk Hanna and his…
When the team behind Black Eye Coffee sets out to do something, they do it well. Black Eye’s new Cap Hill location is proving to be an excellent spot to grab a bite to eat at any time of day. The Cap Hill space allowed owners Ali Elman, Dustin Audet,…
In this new bi-monthly installment, Lauren Monitz is sharing awesome local gems to binge on a budget and helping you determine if your favorite Denver restaurants are truly the Real Deal. I’ve often walked by Odyssey Italian Restaurant on East Sixth Avenue, but I don’t know anyone who’s been there. It has…
Denver has a chill new dessert bar in the Ballpark Neighborhood: the Inventing Room opened on Saturday with a range of liquid-nitrogen ice cream flavors and other unique treats from chef Ian Kleinman, the city’s answer to Willy Wonka. The shop is closed Mondays, but you can indulge your inner…
After restaurateurs Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk opened their third Kitchen Next Door in Glendale last year, our restaurant critic, Gretchen Kurtz, compared the mini-chain to TGI Fridays in its early days — and she meant that as a compliment. In much the same way that the red-and-white, feel-good eatery…
The 16th Street Mall doesn’t hide many culinary secrets; just about anything that’s edible is visible on a quick shuttle trip or a tourist-clogged stroll. But that doesn’t mean there are no surprises. A Mediterranean falafel-and-pita rig like WikiPita feels natural, but a classic Italian red-sauce joint in the form…
A few years ago, poutine was everywhere. It was the junk food du jour on menus everywhere from burger joints to white-tablecloth dining rooms. Before Denverites even had a chance to figure out exactly what poutine was supposed to be, there were more variations and deconstructions than we knew what…
On Friday we published our Restaurant Roll Call for October, a compendium of all the restaurant openings and losings around town over the past month. Win some, lose some: On the last day of October, Ian Kleinman finally got his Inventing Room open at 2200 Lawrence Street — but the…
Brush up on your cooking and drinking skills this week at one of several educational events around town. If you’d rather let someone else do the cooking, there are plenty of delicious activities that come pre-cooked, too. Keep reading for a taste of this week’s culinary calendar. Monday, November 2 …
The dim and dingy space that was the Rustic Tavern for decades is suddenly bright and airy — a great place to rise and shine with breakfast and coffee in the morning. That’s thanks to Seth Rubin, who purchased the building last spring and turned it into Rise & Shine…
Fall is here and the smell of wood smoke is in the air — but much of it is coming from a handful of new barbecue joints testing out their smokers in preparation for opening in the next week. One has already started wafting the aroma of slow-cooked brisket over…
Rosa Linda’s Mexican Restaurant won its first Best of Denver award in 1985, only a few months after the family-owned eatery had opened at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. It was just the second year of our Best of Denver edition, but we knew a winner when we saw (or tasted…
It’s nearly taco time for the Denver Tech Center: Troy Guard is expanding his restaurant empire with a new outpost of Los Chingones at the Belleview Station development on Denver’s southern border. The first Los Chingones opened two years ago at 2461 Larimer Street, helping to revive an area that’s…
Degree Metropolitan Food + Drink recently opened in the SpringHill Suites hotel on the Auraria campus downtown, offering a globally inspired menu, a full bar with a deep wine cellar — and an educational experience for students in Metro State University Denver’s hospitality, tourism and events program. The restaurant is managed…
Colorado residents rejoice: now you can order craft cocktails delivered to your door with just a click of a button. Okay, so maybe you won’t get a frosted glass brimming with a fresh Gimlet or a dose of a Pain Killer handed to you when the doorbell rings, but with…
The new Westin at Denver International Airport will open next month, and while there won’t be a craft brewery on-site when the hotel makes its debut, a half dozen proposals were submitted to DIA to put not just a brewpub, but an actual brewery in the place. (The deal will…
The Halloween spirit has already descended upon the city, and although Halloween isn’t until Saturday, the holiday is never just a one-day affair. Denverites can expect a weekend packed with candy, costumes and, as always, good food and drinks. The culinary calendar is oozing with spook-tacular events that you can…
One of Denver’s most desirable restaurant properties is about to go on the auction block. A sign is up at 101 Broadway — the old First Avenue Hotel that was the former home of El Diablo — stating that a bankruptcy auction will be held in December to sell the…
