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…
If you were planning on heading to the Source for lunch, dinner or shopping today, you might want to make other plans. The entire building is closed until further notice after a crane working on the site of the Source Hotel next door (at 3300 Brighton Boulevard) hit the roof…
Burnt, a new chef movie starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, opens October 30 in Denver theaters. While early reviews haven’t been mouthwatering, Cooper and Miller are always fun to watch, and seeing the two cook up something together could be the perfect appetizer before heading out for a night…
If you’re a football fan, you know what’s riding on this weekend’s game between the Broncos and the Green Bay Packers: bragging rights. By Sunday night, only one team will have that prized zero in the loss column. But regardless of who wins, you can have bragging rights in the…
It’s a big week for the Denver Broncos, who take on the Green Bay Packers in a battle of unbeatens on Sunday. It’s a bigger week for Little Machine Beer, which opens its doors next to Sports Authority Field for the first time today at noon. Founded by Brett Williams,…
A sushi roll met a burrito and felt a little intimidated, so it bulked up to a hefty new weight. The result is Komotodo, a new sushi burrito fast-casual eatery that opens this Saturday, October 31, on Writer Square. The idea springs from the mind of owner Alonzo Martinez, who…
Readers say the biggest obstacle to dining downtown is not finding a good restaurant (unless you’re on the restaurant-starved 16th Street Mall, some suggest), but deading with the problem of two-hour parking meters. Says John: Fortunately we live near an RTD station and so we can take the train. Much cheaper way…
The second annual Kids Halloween Parade and Party will roll into Union Station today. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. you and your little devils can enjoy trick-or-treating in the merchant shops, Halloween music, a magic show, balloon twisters, palm readings, a costume parade led by Dayle Cedars and Lisa…
Nearly three years have passed since Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group broke ground in Cherry Creek for a new Del Fisco’s Grille, the more casual sibling to the company’s Double Eagle Steakhouse brand. But opening day is within sight, if a little tenuous; regional manager Kim Owens says the doors should…
