The Great American Beer Festival won’t hit the Colorado Convention Center for another six weeks, but already news of related events is pouring in for our GABF week calendar. And it’s a good thing that calendar will be full, because GABF tickets got fast. Says Ken: Beer snobs from around the globe…
Griff’s Burger Bar is an old-fashioned drive-thru where you can still get a great burger, a greasy bag of fries and a drink for a five-spot ($6.99, if you want to go for a double cheeseburger, and it’s worth a little more to add a skull-splittingly thick milkshake). The first…
A trio of tasty events should help you get over the mid-week hump today. Carmine’s on Penn and Firenze a Tavola are both holding wine dinners, and at Cafe Options you can learn to cook your own vegetarian dinner: The chef at Carmine’s will spend the day scouring the Cherry Creek Farmers’…
Brewers and cider makers from Boulder County gathered over the weekend at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont for the first ever Boulder County Fair Brewers’ Festival. The event was organized by the Colorado Beer Trail and featured beers from 20 brewers along with food and music for festival-goers. SInce there…
So, I didn’t want to have to write this post, but there’s no way around it at this point. It is now pumpkin-beer season. This isn’t how it should have been. No, pumpkin-beer season shouldn’t start until September 1 at the earliest. But there are already a couple dozen gourd…
The latest biscuit kitchen/bar/pizzeria combo under the Atomic Cowboy umbrella opened at 8 a.m. this morning on Tennyson Street, completing a Denver triangle of founder Drew Shader’s three-in-one concept that started on East Colfax Avenue more than a decade ago and expanded to South Broadway in 2013. True to the other…
The Heart Beet at the MCA Cafe Visitors to MCA Denver are greeted by a striking work of art, even before entering the building. An enormous, sparkling heart, stuck through with a silver sword, rotates atop a pole jutting up from the sidewalk in front of the building’s main entrance. The heart,…
Jenna Berrios and Sawyer Oglesby had an idea to serve wholesome, quick breakfasts to a Denver coffee crowd ready for something more than muffins. The result is ProsperOats, which opened this summer at 2550 15th Street in Lower Highland. ProsperOats, which takes its name from the character Prospero in William…
Mezcal closed its doors in May for a renovation of the twelve-year-old kitchen and dining room — and when the Colfax Avenue cantina reopens later this summer, it will unveil more of a reboot than a remodel, with new direction from longtime owners Chris Swank and Loris Venegas, and chef…
Chile season is heating up, and chiles from Pueblo, Commerce City and other hot spots are beginning to show up at local farmers’ markets. Just a taste of the Hacienda Maize jelly featured at a Colorado Proud pop-up picnic on August 1 inspired us to stir things up, again, by…
Get a taste of one of the hottest neighborhoods in Denver at the fifth annual Ballpark Plates today. More than thirty venues, including Work & Class, Trillium, Lower48 Kitchen, Sugarmill and more, will open their doors in the Ballpark neighborhood between 20th and 25th streets and Blake and Curtis streets, offering…
Station 26 Brewing Co. served up another version of its Park Hill favorite Bluegrass Brunch on Sunday, with live music from Thunder and Rain, food from the Rolling Smoke food truck and doughnuts from Glazed & Confuzed. There was beer, bluegrass, bajos, barbecue, barley and — more than just about…
It’s been a long time coming, but the first Colorado location of Henry’s Tavern will open next month at 500 16th Street in the Denver Pavilions, in the big space previously occupied by Virgin Records — big enough for a restaurant that will seat 335 inside and another twenty on…
No 28: Mysore Thali at Masalaa Masalaa in Aurora is no secret to seekers of great Indian cuisine or to vegetarians looking for well-made dishes beyond the standard range of tofu-this and seitan-that. But even for regulars, the choices can be a little overwhelming because everything on the menu entices…
If you’ve tried the famous fried chicken at Max’s Wine Dive for dinner, you know that portion control isn’t a part of the company’s lingo. As a chain of eight restaurants with only two locations outside of Texas, Max’s isn’t messing around when it comes to the idea that everything’s…
The word fusion, when applied to restaurant cooking, is generally associated with overwrought combinations of French and Asian ingredients and techniques. As a culinary movement, it reached its apex years ago – although international mash-ups are still making their way onto “New American” menus as chefs search for new ways…
As Mark Antonation reported last week, there are two Ophelia’s in the metro area: very different restaurants connected by nothing but a name. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, which Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed, opened this spring in the Ballpark neighborhood; meanwhile, there’s an Ophelia’s in Olde Town Arvada, where Louise Vigil has been…
The Book of Mormon comes knocking on Denver’s door again this week, inspiring a downtown restaurant to debut a special cocktail; one of Denver’s hottest neighborhoods will be dishing out samples; Solera Restaurant will host an all-star lineup of chefs cooking for a great cause; and the Front Range will be…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz told us which dishes at the hot, hot Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox left her cold, but she definitely warmed up to the brothel burger — made with ground yak. Across town in Arvada, Mark Antonation happened across a much older Ophelia’s, one that, although hardly as sexy…
Kelsey Riley is an herbalist with her own line of skincare products, and Nick Andreson has a background in chemistry and business, but the two share a passion for gin — to the extent that they decided to start a business together. Riley and Andresen formed Strongwater last winter with…
The Nickel is celebrating its one-year anniversary today. Last year, an overhaul of the Hotel Teatro reconfigured the previous restaurants in the space — the posh, Euro-style Restaurant Kevin Taylor and Prima — into a more inviting, almost rustic, dining room and bar. The menu from executive chef Chris Thompson is…
Bellwether opened this week in the Elm District on East Colfax Avenue, becoming the neighborhood’s go-to spot for fashion, coffee and whiskey — and for members of its private social club, the best new place in town for a shave and a haircut. Initially co-founders Rustin Coburn and Josh Schmitz wanted to…
