This week our music blog featured Savvi Neufer, a cook who’s trying to spread a little comfort by cooking for bands under the name Feed the Scene Denver, a personal chef service of sorts that got its start in New York City. Read about how Neufer provides hot meals and “a…
The northeast corner of Alameda Avenue and Downing street has been home to a string of Asian restaurants since the late 1990s. What originally opened as Stir Crazy quickly changed names to the Crazy Asian Cafe, which survived until 2012, when new owners took over and gave it the name…
A new concept in beverage service kicks off tonight when First Draft will unveil its self-service beer system in RiNo. First Draft opens at 5 p.m. today with a wall of forty tap handles and an electronic system built by iPourIt that allows customers to pour their own beers (measured down to…
Saint Louis native Jason Ganahl has barbecue sauce running through his veins. After moving to Colorado, he missed the smokehouse meats of his hometown and decided to perfect his own recipes by entering the competitive barbecue circuit more than five years ago. since then, as a member of the Rocky…
Historic Denver has weighed in on plans for a new, mixed-use, eight-story project that would be built on the 1.5 acre site of the current Tavern Uptown, at 538 East 17th Avenue, complete with a brand-new Tavern occupying the same ground-floor corner of the block — but with a rooftop…
Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que opened this past winter, bringing some heat to the city’s often disappointing barbecue scene. Gretchen Kurtz found a few smoking’ dishes when she recently reviewed Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que. But where there’s smoke, there’s ire — and readers are once again debating the merits of barbecue in Denver, including the…
Today is National Tequila Day, and what better way to kick off the weekend than with a shot or two…or three? Several restaurants around Denver will help you celebrate the holiday with drink specials to get the weekend started. Friday, July 24 Celebrate National Tequila Day and beat the summer…
A few years ago, craft canned beers were more of a novelty: Any time a brewery decided to can a new one or can one of its existing offerings, it was worthy of a news story. These days, canned craft beers are the norm, especially in summer, and new ones…
No. 32: Chicken Gizzards at Catfish King Admittedly, chicken gizzards aren’t everyone’s idea of a pleasing appetizer. You don’t want to even think about what part of a chicken the gizzard is (mostly muscle, it’s the organ that helps the chicken grind up food for digestion, in case you were…
Last week Chris Utterback rounded up the town’s Ten Best Happy Hour Dishes, a roster that ranged from the mussels at Ophelia’s to the deviled eggs at Steuben’s. But we missed a major item, says Sara: For happy hour I have always enjoyed booze. Timeless classic. What happy hours around…
When mild-mannered Bruce Banner was exposed to lethal gamma rays, he transformed into the Incredible Hulk, an uncontrollable mass of anger with an appetite for destruction. When Mary Nguyen was exposed to the changing tides on 17th Street and European bistro culture, she transformed Parallel 17 into P17, a neighborhood hangout…
Table Top opened just over a year ago in a sleepy shopping center at East 23rd Avenue and Oneida Street. With a neighborhood hungry for local restaurants, a spacious patio/beer garden and a menu aimed at drawing attention without approaching cleverness, the eatery owned by a group of area residents…
Odell Brewing, which has been a staunch holdout when it comes to canning beer, plans to begin doing just that come November. “It wasn’t so long ago that I totally dismissed the can idea,” says Wynne Odell, who founded Odell Brewing in 1989 with her husband, Doug, and Doug’s sister…
The best barbecue comes at the hands of pit masters, right? Not necessarily. Long before Coy Webb opened Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que with his wife, Rachael, he cut his chops as a chef, graduating from the Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale and working in professional kitchens for nearly two decades. Why would…
Denver is brimming with tasty events that benefit terrific causes today. You can sample some of the finest foods Denver has to offer, sip tantalizing cocktails, and crack open craft beers — all with the knowledge that you’re doing it for your community. Join EatDenver and more than forty independent restaurants…
WaterCourse Foods has experienced many big changes since opening seventeen years ago, moving from 13th to 17th Avenue among them, but this year marks the biggest — if least noticeable to casual observers. Shortly after the restaurant celebrated one year as a fully vegan establishment in April, founder and owner Dan…
Charcoal opened in 2011 in the Golden Triangle with a unique concept and menu: Scandinavian accents from chef Patrik Landberg, combined with coal-fired cooking over a custom-made Japanese bincho grill. While Charcoal is only four years old, the menu has evolved to fit the dining desires of the neighborhood and…
AC Golden Brewing and its fan club, the Colorado Native Brew Crew, have adopted a 23-mile stretch of the Continental Divide Trail, which runs from the border of Canada to the border of Mexico. The company — a Golden-based subsidiary of MillerCoors — is the first corporate entity to sponsor…
The retail duplex on West 38th Avenue that at one point housed El Alamo Mexican restaurant now has a liquor store on the left-hand side and a vacant space on the right. But the owner of Cana Liquors, Kamran Bhatti, is taking advantage of that vacancy: He’ll be opening Mr…
Restaurant veterans Brandon Bortles and Barry Dobesh — known to their friends as “the Bs” — are putting their collective experience and collective nickname to use in a new restaurant called Abejas that they’re opening in Golden later this summer. Abeja is Spanish for “bee” and although the restaurant won’t…
This isn’t a barbecue town. But while we may not have a nationally recognized style, Denver diners have strong opinions about the ’cue they do find here. Carolina transplants grumble about ketchupy sauces. Uprooted Texans mutter about any kind of sauce, ketchupy or otherwise, poured over their brisket. Barbecue lovers…
As summer rolls on and the farmers’ market season picks up steam, Taste of Vail and the Vail Farmers Market are teaming up to bring the market to your table with a farm-to-table dinner today. The meal, part of a summer dinner series, will celebrate the Colorado summer harvests and…
