When Uncle owner Tommy Lee staked a claim on a building at 3500 Larimer Street at the beginning of the year, it got tagged with the temporary moniker Bar Uncle, for lack of an official name. But a new website and Faceboolk page are now up, announcing that when the place opens…
The tickets for the Great American Beer Festival were gone almost as soon as sales started, but there will be plenty of other beery activities around town both before and after the event fills the Colorado Convention Hall from September 24 through 26. Still, some readers wish that locals had a…
When the T-Wa Inn, the first Vietnamese restaurant in Denver, closed on Federal Boulevard last year, I felt empathy for the owners of the place, who right up to the very end provided warm hospitality and a menu equally fluent in the lively flavors of Southeast Asian ingredients and the…
This week you can explore the relationship between your food and blooms, bees…and beer, of course. The city will be buzzing with tasty culinary events; keep reading for all the delicious details. Monday, August 24 Frasca Food and Wine will explore the wines of Bodegas Muga with guest Steve Lewis at…
Last week, we reported the sad news that Griff’s Hamburgers would be pulling out of Colorado to focus on its markets in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. The Arvada location was already dark at that point, but the South Broadway branch was still peddling burgers and fries, even as a…
No. 25: Baked rice with pork chop at Hong Kong Cafe Rice, tomato sauce, a breaded pork chop and a broiled layer of generic orange cheese: Maybe it’s a casserole mom threw together on the weekend from what she had on hand in the kitchen, or something in a Midwestern…
Forty-six years after the brew kettles dried up at the Tivoli Beer Company in Denver, the suds will officially flow again on Saturday, when the new Tivoli Brewing celebrates its grand opening inside the historic Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria campus. The Tivoli taphouse and restaurant will open the…
Finn’s Manor is nearly ready to open in River North. The food truck pod and craft cocktail bar on the 2900 block of Larimer Street (across the street from Ratio BeerWorks) is the creation of food industry veteran Noah Price, co-owner of the Populist and Crema Coffee House, Thomas Taylor…
This week Gretchen Kurtz visited bubu Lowry, where she particularly liked the veggie ramen. But the real star was the happy hour she found there, with prices “low enough to also lower expectations for the nibbles we paired with our drinks,” she writes in her bubu Lowry review. But then, she didn’t…
Get in condition for Labor Day at one of the many food and drink events in and around Denver and up in the mountains this weekend. From family-friendly events to international festivals to beer bashes, the culinary calendar is overflowing. Keep reading for details. Friday, August 21 Park Burger is…
Say the word “hydroponics” in Colorado, and only one industry comes to mind. But pot’s not the crop that Colin Clark is focused on at his indoor growhouse in Fort Collins. Instead, Clark is planning to use hydroponics for our state’s other favorite vice: craft beer. On Sunday, City Star…
The Nickel lives at the foot of the Tramway Building on 14th Street, roosting in a place with more than a century of rich history. The building was erected in 1911, where the former home of territorial Governor John Evans once stood, and soon became the heart of the city’s streetcar system…
After six months in the making, sisters Vanessa Tuel and Sara Harris and their mom, Robin Harris, opened Revelry Kitchen this morning in the space that was formerly Indulge French Bistro. The quaint, homey spot will serve breakfast and lunch daily from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a menu…
The news that Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs on East Colfax has closed (the Ballpark and South Broadway locations remain open) didn’t bother one reader — but it did make her think about another hot-dog joint further east on Colfax that has food to die for. Says Anna: Meh… Billy’s kinda sucked, anyway…
With strong cocktails and well-priced nibbles, happy hour turned out to be my favorite time of day at bubu Lowry, which I review this week. But happy hour isn’t always so happy. Earlier this summer I was meeting a friend for an early dinner at Cho77, chef-owner Lon Symensma’s casual…
Colorado governor John Hickenlooper recently demonstrated the purity of the Animas by slurping from a bottle of river water (with an iodine back). In 2013 he told a U.S. Senate committee that he once drank fracking fluid while meeting with Halliburton executives, describing the experience as “almost ritual-like.” In honor…
When a Minneapolis craft brewer revealed last week that it will make a General Mills-sponsored Wheaties beer, the story made national headlines. But cereal beers are nothing new for Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins, which has been working loosely with the cereal giant for the past year on several…
Slide into the weekend mouth-first at one of a trio of culinary events tonight. At the ninth annual Corks and Forks, presented by the Seattle Fish Company from 6 to 9 p.m., you can sample wines, spirits and food crafted by local chefs. There will also be live music, a…
Sativa IPA won’t get you high, but it will almost certainly cause a healthy buzz at the Great American Beer Festival next month. The beer, made by Dad & Dudes Breweria in Aurora, is infused with cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive hemp extract. Although there are several hemp beers made in…
Sometimes it seems like you need to eat a small meal before braving the wait list at some brunch establishments around Denver. If your taste buds have ever been treated to brunch at Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery, you know just how long the wait can be on the weekend,…
When Pisco Sour closed on East Colfax Avenue last year, fans of the Peruvian restaurant weren’t entirely out of luck; the closing just meant a fifteen-mile detour south to a newer Pisco Sour near Park Meadows Mall. The owners of 7 Leguas Mexican Grille don’t want their customers to have to…
Wanna catch a buzz? There are now 309 active brewing licenses in the state of Colorado, according to the latest study released by the Colorado Brewers Guild. Although some are owned by breweries that haven’t opened yet, the numbers represent an incredibly robust scene. Add to that the fact that…
