Avanti Food & Beverage opens today at 11 a.m., so this week we’ll offering a close-up look at each of the seven eateries inside, starting with Farmer Girl, chef/owner Tim Payne’s farm-centered concept built around local and sustainable ingredients. Farmer Girl’s menu will change frequently, especially in the summer when…
DISH, Westword’s 21st annual celebration of Denver’s dining scene, will fill Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with food and fun from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 20. You’ll be able to try dishes from more than forty restaurants — all favorites of Westword food…
Bars and restaurants change fast along Federal Boulevard — but a transformation on Saturday may have set a record. Early in the afternoon, a sign on 1703 Federal promised the “grand opening” of El Patron Sports Bar in the space that had turned into El Luchador last summer. But that…
The long-awaited Avanti Food & Beverage opens at 11 a.m. today at 3200 Pecos Street, in a LoHi spot that features a terrific view of downtown. And that’s not all: This modern food court packs in seven restaurant concepts from seven different chefs into shipping-container kitchens on two floors with…
Summertime, and the eatin’ is easy. This week’s culinary events take you to locations as exotic as the Bastille and as eclectic as East Colfax; the menu includes everything from Veuve Cliquot to ginger beer. Keep reading for details on the fifteen tastiest events this week. Monday, July 13 You…
The big restaurant reveal comes Monday, when Avanti Food & Beverage opens at 3200 Pecos Street. But there’s been lots of other action on the Denver dining scene — so much that it’s spilled out of the Food section at westword.com, and on over into News. In Ask a Mexican, for…
Denver loves bacon. And tomorrow morning, when thousands of hungover hipsters sit down to brunch, they’ll be getting their bacon fix with eggs, in Bloody Marys, even on doughnuts, as Lauren Monitz reported in her list of Seven Dishes That Prove Bacon is Alive and Well — and Totally American…
Avanti Food & Beverage, the creation of Patrick O’Neill and Rob Hahn, opens on Monday, July 13 in Lower Highland. Described as a food hall, a stand-alone food court, a food-truck rally minus the exhaust fumes and a food-and-booze lover’s heaven, it packs seven restaurant concepts from seven different chefs…
Brothers Kris and Jason Wallenta are ready to start slinging tacos and drinks at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico, their Uptown eatery that will open at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 11 in the East 17th Avenue space formerly occupied by D Bar. Chef Kris Wallenta already operates two restaurants in Cozumel,…
From outdoor dining in Larimer Square to a German Biergarten festival to mountain-top wine excursions, this weekend is all about getting out and enjoying summer in Colorado. Friday, July 10 Coffee at the Point is throwing a grand opening party for its new patio today and tomorrow, featuring live music,…
Beast + Bottle owners Paul C. Reilly and Aileen V. Reilly have been killing it with great food and service since day one just over two years ago, when they opened their tiny nose-to-tail eatery on East 17th Avenue. But as intimate and cozy as the current space is, it’s…
For small restaurants that rely on the seasonal availability of meats and proteins to shape their menus, summer means a big shift in theme and ingredients. Warming winter dishes give way to lighter, brighter fare, but there are also a few surprises that don’t necessarily seem summery unless you’re tapped…
The Flatirons Food Film Festival is entering its third season of culinary-themed movies and guest appearances. While tickets have yet to go on sale for the series, which runs from October 21 to 25, you can get an early start on pairing cuisine and cinema while also chipping in to…
In the Logan’s Run-esque TAXI development, there’s a sanctuary from the demands of office and industry that offers more than the Sci-Fi movie’s menu of plankton and sea greens and protein from the sea. Fuel Cafe debuted along with the mixed-use development in 2008, opening to the public what could have…
The Cherry Creek Shopping Center turns 25 this August, and it’s getting a grown-up restaurant as a birthday gift: 801 Chophouse, a link in a Midwest-based chain owned by the 801 Restaurant Group. The first 801 Chophouse opened in Des Moines in 1993; the group also has the Pig & Finch…
Mark Antonation is no stranger to adventurous eating. And when a recently returned from Peru and extolled the quality of the Andean nation’s cuisine, including alpaca, he started looking for spots where he could find that delicacy here. He located alpaca bondigas on the website of Pikkas — but sadly,…
Get out and enjoy the beauty of Colorado while sipping wine during one of Beaver Creek’s wine excursions. The resort is offering two wine retreats today: Guests can either take a 4×4 or hit the hiking trails as they explore the area around Beaver Creek before heading to Beano’s Cabin…
Colorado’s two best-known sour-beer specialists are puckering up for a fight at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over three beer names that the companies both use. The battle will pit Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, which has been in Denver since 2010, against Trinity Brewing, founded in Colorado Springs in…
With a name like Sugarmill, finding decadent confections within feet of the entrance is no surprise; but finding a dinner menu with veggie options as tempting as the macarons had me smitten. Sipping prosecco while noshing on a mozzarella and tomato plate was the perfect way to unwind, followed by…
Chef/mad scientist Ian Kleinman has been running the Inventing Room as a catering business, pop-up dinner company and educational experience for Denver school kids since 2009, after he left what was then O’s at the Westin Westminster. All the while, he’s had his eye on finding a permanent storefront where…
Local pickle purveyors Tyler DuBois and Justin Park of The Real Dill have been partnering with Colorado breweries for a while now, at food-and-beer pairing events and with one of their jarred offerings, Titan Dills, which incorporated Titan IPA brewing ingredients and techniques used by Great Divide into the pickle-making process…
Big is in when it comes to new restaurants. If 2014 was the year of the tiny restaurant — with the likes To the Wind Bistro, Bistro Barbes, Cart-Driver and Work & Class wedging customers into every nook and cranny — then 2015 is the year to go big or…
