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…
Dive bars are a dying breed in Denver, as developers buy up — and then clean up (or close altogether) — this town’s classic watering holes. As a result, our list of the top ten dive bars in the metro area requires frequent updating, as some of our favorites disappear. Our…
Although the Ballpark neighborhood is losing a great restaurant when Lower48 Kitchen closes this weekend, the rest of this stretch of 2200 Lawrence Street is slowly filling out. The Inventing Room opened on Saturday and yesterday a new neighbor, Max Market, swung open its doors. More than a convenience store…
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…
