When judges rate beers at competitions like the Great American Beer Festival, they are typically looking for how well a particular brew fits its style definition. Does it taste, smell and feel like it is supposed to? Is it cloudy or clear? Does it have the right color, the right…
Iceland Naturally is once again bringing a Taste of Iceland — a culinary and cultural plunge into the chilly Nordic country — to Denver. This year, the food and cocktails are again being presented at Coohills. Ylfa Helgadóttir, owner and chef de cuisine of Kopar in Reykjavik, is presenting four-…
Chef/restaurateur Bradford Heap has made a name for himself in Boulder with his dedication to organic and non-GMO ingredients at Salt and Colterra, restaurants he’s run with his wife, Carol Vilate, since 2009 and 2007, respectively. While those two eateries rely heavily on local farmers and ranchers for meat and…
Denver’s being invaded by craft-beer lovers coming to town for this weekend’s Great American Beer Festival — or, if they couldn’t get tickets, the many beery events connected with GABF. But there’s another sudsy holiday already being celebrated all along the Front Range and in the mountains: Oktoberfest. And if…
Jeff Cleary has been making bread at the Grateful Bread Company for a decade, but soon he’ll be making his own flour, too. The Golden bakery’s new grain mill just arrived from Austria and will be installed over the next two weeks so that Cleary and his crew of bakers…
The swirling winds along South Broadway, which splits Denver in half, carry with them a lot of what makes up the city’s past and present, its culture and its vibe. The aromas of street tacos and marijuana float on those winds, as do the sounds of local bands, light rail…
”Do you want to be as close to or as far away from the music as possible?” asked the hostess at Baur’s Restaurant and Listening Lounge, which opened last spring in the former downtown home of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar. There was a band coming on later that…
The Great American Beer Festival officially starts tomorrow, which makes this GABF Eve — and that’s pretty much a holiday as far as we are concerned. You can celebrate at four beery events today, and if beer doesn’t pique your interest—or maybe you’re not 21—we’ve thrown in a celebration of…
It 5 o’clock somewhere, and during Great American Beer Festival week, it’s 5 o’clock all the time in Denver. This year’s festival runs from September 24-26 at the Colorado Convention Center, but the fun will begin long before that with dozens, if not hundreds, of events taking place all of…
With all the beer brains at the Brewers Association focused on the best ways to promote craft beer in the U.S., someone still needs make sure there’s great food to go with the amazing variety of brews being produced across the country (and no, that doesn’t mean flipping a coin…
Coloradans have it pretty good. We live in one of the best craft-beer states in the nation, both because our 300-plus in-state breweries are constantly turning out amazing creations and because out-of-state breweries like to try their hand here. Even so, we always thirst for more, and more is what…
Swagger Mai Tai at Metroboom As summer starts to slowly fade away, and the chilly evenings evoke thoughts of colder nights to come, we’re hastily quaffing our last glasses of rose before it’s time to switch to something more suitable to the snowy season. But at Metroboom, an innovative new…
While we await the opening of the southern branch of Los Chingones — slated for a fall opening — in the new Belleview Station development, a few other food and drink destinations around the Denver Tech Center are making Greenwood Village and the surrounding area a more appealing place to live…
The storefront at 4483 Logan Street in Globeville has been a neighborhood watering hole throughout its hundred-year history, according to its newest tenant, Jeff Cornelius. He’s in the final stages of building out Globe Hall, a Texas-style barbecue and live-music venue that will open this fall, taking the place of the…
As we celebrated tacos last week, we reported that the fried taco — a particularly juicy, greasy concoction glued together with melted American cheese — was created decades ago in Denver, and lives on at Mexico City Lounge and El Toro. But Nick has another version of the story: In…
This is the last day of summer — but Civic Center Eats is still going strong, with food trucks and entertainment. Since today is National Voter Registration Day, you can grab lunch and rock the vote at a registration rally at Civic Center Park. The Denver Votes Crew will have a booth…
There was a guy in tights and a wrestling mask; there were Mexican dancers in traditional costumes; there were cooks and chefs and bakers and ice-cream makers; but mostly there were hundreds of Denverites out in the gorgeous September sun enjoying food and drinks from more than forty metro area…
Sure, you can dunk your cookies in a glass of cold milk, but come on, real adults steep their sweets in a frothy pint of beer. Of course, it helps to have an idea about what beer goes with what cookies, lest either be wasted. That’s where Kansas City writer…
Another Westword DISH is in the books: hundreds of hungry Denverites feasted at the 21st annual food and beverage extravaganza yesterday at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. This year featured Tacolandia, a celebration of some of the city’s top tacos, enhanced with Mexican folk dancers, margarita samples…
Earlier this summer, a sign went up in the window at 84 Rampart Road in Lowry’s Hangar 2 development stating that construction would soon begin for Masterpiece Kitchen. Hangar 2 development group Larimer Associates confirmed that this would be a new project from chef/restaurateur Justin Brunson and his business partners,…
Sometimes the best hole-in-the-wall eateries are discovered by accident, which was exactly how I stumbled upon Tacos El Paisa. You can thank the tire angels at Les Schwab across the street (seriously, who fixes cars for free?) for leading me to the taco fairies at this non-descript little Mexican haven…
Oyster bars and raw oyster service have become trendy in Denver restaurants, but Blue Island Oyster Bar, which opens tomorrow in Cherry Creek North, is taking shellfish obsession to a new level. The new seafood house next door to the Cherry Cricket is partnering with the Blue Island Shellfish Farm…
