“There’s plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there’s only five of them in the whole world, and that’s all there’s ever going to be,” Grandpa George said in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “Only a dummy would give this up for something as…
Pug Ryan’s has been a Summit County favorite for four decades, evolving slowly, ever so slowly, from a restaurant and bar into a brewpub in 1996. In 2004, Pug’s became one of the first Colorado breweries to begin canning beer, and this month, the spot began distributing its first-ever canned…
Aurora’s Havana Street is awash with some of the most diverse ethnic cuisine in the Denver metro area; the cultural landscape is primed with every kind experience, from fine-ish dining to lovable dives to mom and pop eateries from almost every nationality and culture: Ethiopian, Vietnamese pho, dollar-a-scoop Chinese, Mexican…
As we reported yesterday, Dan Landes is selling WaterCourse Foods, the legendary vegetarian restaurant he founded seventeen years ago, but he’s keeping City, O’ City — a community gathering place and vegetarian restaurant even non-vegetarians can love. Says Jacob: I’m not a vegetarian and I LOVE City, O’ City. Go at…
In January, when the rest of the city was sporting orange in preparation for the big game against the Colts, I was counting down to another, far less publicized event: the opening of the Chowder Room, a casual seafood restaurant on a busy stretch of South Broadway. If you’ve lived…
The Mayweather v. Pacquiao fight may not have had the thunder many expected, but the real fight will be at TAG at 7 p.m. tonight, and it should be a knock-out. The restaurant will hold a beer v. wine party featuring two booze heavyweights — Master Sommelier Doug Krenick and Cicerone Shane…
Bones executive chef Johnny DePierro is going to have a busy summer: He’s taking on a second job at MiJo, the joint he’s launching with his sous-chef, Michael Nevarez, inside the soon-to-open Avanti Food and Beverage development in lower Highland. While both DePierro and Nevarez will maintain their current responsibilities…
The second annual Wings & Whiskey throwdown will take flight at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, at Ace Eat Serve, to benefit the Denver Housing Authority’s Youth Culinary Academy, which provides mentoring, education, employment and training for students between the ages of 16 and 21 who are interested in a…
Breckenridge Brewery rolled out its latest restaurant last week: The Farm House in Littleton. With about 8,000 square feet, seating for nearly 300 people inside and a couple hundred more seats in on the patios and in beer garden, the Farm House instantly becomes one of southwest suburban Denver’s biggest restaurant attractions. Don’t worry…
“I have the feeling we’ll be announcing something very, very huge in the next month,” Dan Landes told us in late April, when WaterCourse Foods, the restaurant he founded seventeen years ago, celebrated its first anniversary as a all-vegan eatery, after a long run as the city’s leading vegetarian restaurant. And…
Alice In Watermeland at Angelo’s Taverna “Everybody that walks in the door is either an old friend or a new one,” says Kyle Nickerson, bar manager at Angelo’s Taverna. His keen sense of hospitality is fitting at this relaxed neighborhood Italian restaurant and bar, where his new cocktail menu treats…
When Paris on the Platte closed in January, it marked the end of an era on Platte Street, one that began nearly thirty years earlier when Faye Maguire opened the coffee shop in what was then a Bohemian — and hardly gentrified — neighborhood. But times change and the street,…
Is brunch Denver’s official meal? Every weekend morning, you can find lines outside of this city’s most popular brunch spots — but as Lauren Monitz reported yesterday, so far the crowds haven’t discovered the brunch at Leña, even though this brunch deserves to be discovered. Ryan agrees: Lena has the…
Lower48 Kitchen, our Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014, is bringing it home with the “Prix-Fixe Culinary Tour of the Lower48” rotating dinner special for June. This round will focus on the tastes of summer in Colorado, with weekly “State Fair”-inspired menus. The special meal is $34 and…
Oskar Blues threw its third annual Burning Can ExtravaCANza over the weekend in Lyons, a canned craft beer festival that the brewery calls the “first active beer fest” in the country. In addition to plenty of canned beers, festival-goers were treated to slack-line competitions, kayaking, a cornhole tournament and a…
Andrew Myhre and Steve Longman opened their Inside Scoop Creamery in downtown Littleton two years ago, serving house-made ice cream from a quaint shop on Prince Street. Now they’re bringing Inside Scoop to Denver, with a new shop on Platte Street next door to the Savory Spice Shop. Myhre says…
May saw the departure of a couple of old Denver favorites: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, which had held down the corner of 18th and Wazee streets since 1999, and the much more storied Elitch Lanes, which bowled its last strike on Tennyson Street and then shuttered after more than six decades in…
Negroni Week, a seven-day celebration of the classic cocktail, begins today and runs through Sunday, June 7, at various venues across the city. Across the world, over a thousand bars and restaurants are also participating in the program, stirring classic and contemporary versions of the iconic cocktail. Ten Denver bars…
It’s often said you eat with your eyes as much as your stomach, and if that’s true, Lena on South Broadway will have you salivating from the second you’re seated. Sneak a peak at your neighbor’s Mezcal Old Fashioned presented as a botanically muddled masterpiece paired with artfully arranged, brightly…
Lenka Juchelkova wasn’t trying to open a bar — she was just looking for a dishwasher. She heard that a dishwashing machine was available at 1543 Champa St., and stopped by to take a look. A wine events space occupied that address and it was going out of business. Juchelkova,…
First Watch, a Florida-based breakfast-and-lunch chain that got its start in California in 1983, opened its first Colorado restaurant last week in Northglenn. Over the next five years, the company plans to add seven more First Watch locations over the next five years along the Front Range, from Fort Collins…
This is not just the start of June: It’s the start of the first Charc Week, a meaty new event in Denver. This is also the first day of Negroni Week, and restaurants and bars around the world — including many in Denver — are joining Campari in celebrating a…
