This week in Denver there are several opportunities to help out your community while enjoying some expertly prepared meals. Monday you can attend WomenCook! a benefit for Work Options for Women, and Thursday you can enjoy a meal out at one of over 250 restaurants joining together to benefit Project…
Restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz was on vacation this week, so we took the opportunity to explore some Colorado-grown products. Juliet Wittman visited with goat rancher Bob Stocker at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market where he talked about just how smart — and delicious — goats can be. And we followed up…
Earth Day has come and gone, but those looking to extend the celebration of our planet a little longer should head to Boulder, where every day is Earth Day. Especially at Fresh Thymes Eatery, which is throwing an Earth Week bash in honor of honey and the bees that make…
Seeds Library Cafe, the brainchild of Boulder County Farmers’ Market director Brian Coppom and the result of a collaboration between the market and the City of Boulder, held a preliminary celebration this morning before the cafe’s grand opening on Monday. In a beautifully designed, sunlight-filled space on the Boulder Public Library…
Earlier this week, Westword’s Juliet Wittman spoke with goat rancher Bob Stocker of El Regalo Ranch about raising goats and using the meat in recipes. Stocker explains that, depending on the cut, goat should be either cooked long and slow until it’s “falling-apart tender” or cooked quickly on the grill at high…
Just past the first-year mark, Atticus seems to be settling into its space and discovering what the kitchen is best at. In a family neighborhood scattered with college students, you’re not quite sure what to expect upon entering, but the welcoming atmosphere will lure you in regardless. Their menu has…
The scene at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market was subdued last Saturday, the weather chill and drizzly. Snow still lay in patches over the bright green grass of the park; spring flowers wore fragile caps of melting ice. Customers were still few at eight in the morning, some vendors hadn’t…
And the hits just keep coming for Jefferson Park, where many of the new buildings featured in Denver Fugly are located. Now, in the culmination of what may have been another fugly situation, veteran chef Brian Laird — think Barolo Grill, Sketch — is out at Sarto’s. But should the…
It’s already the last weekend in April. If this month has seemed to fly by, it’s time to slow down and enjoy the weekend with a few choice events and maybe a couple of drinks. BruFrou will roll into Denver for its second year, Marczyk Fine Foods kicks off a…
California chef, caterer and restaurateur Dory Ford is helping Denver revive a piece of its history by opening Baur’s Restaurant and Listening Lounge tomorrow night. The Baur’s name in downtown Denver goes back nearly as far as the city itself: The O. P. Baur Confectionery Company was established in 1872…
If you can sit in the lounge of Guard and Grace and order well drinks and small plates without feeling outclassed, you’ve passed the test. Troy Guard’s paean to fine cuts and chops and 2015 Best Steakhouse winner certainly caters to the well-heeled crowd (literally — shoe game on point, ladies and gentlemen),…
The building at 321 East 45th Avenue in Globeville has been home to many businesses over the years: the Portulaca Cafe, the White Owl, Crash 45. In the 1930s it served as a meeting hall for Slovenian residents of the neighborhood. But tomorrow it begins a new life as Fort Greene,…
Brüfrou, the food-and-beer extravaganza featuring pairings from Colorado breweries and chefs, kicks off its second annual festival at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space museum on Saturday with two sessions and a separate pre-event forum called TastyTålks, where local food and beverage experts will discuss current restaurant and beer trends…
New owners are making plenty of improvements to Lamar Station, the new name for the center that Casa Bonita has anchored for over four decades. They’re adding a coffeeshop, two galleries and a brewpub, and looking for someone to run a year-round urban market. They’ve also signed that pink eatertainment…
The modern day Tupperware party? Brunch, booze and bags. At least that’s what industrial chic San Francisco brand Timbuk2 would have you believe. In honor of spring cleaning, a much needed girl’s day out or just a beautiful Saturday in Denver, Timbuk2 is throwing what they call the Bad A$$…
The bagel sensation Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen is going to have a gluteny friend next door by early next year. A new bakery, The Rolling Pin, is the brainchild of Rosenberg’s current pastry chef, Jay Thomas. If all goes as planned—which doesn’t always happen when opening a new business in…
The Denver Athletic Club will play host to the World as a Classroom, a dinner benefiting Denver Public School students tonight at 6 p.m. This dinner will raise scholarship money to send Denver Public Schools students on travel, language immersion, community service and cultural exchange experiences around the globe. The…
Biju’s Little Curry Shop is closed today for a private event, but owner Biju Thomas doesn’t want customers who show up to be completely disappointed. In a neighborly gesture, Park Burger — just around the corner in the same 2601 Walnut building in RiNo — agreed to lend a hand…
The 32nd annual Craft Brewers Conference just wrapped up, and if things seemed a little quieter in Denver last weekend, that was because hundreds of local brewery-industry folks were in Portland, Oregon, to participate in the trade show. At the CBC, OvalOptions for Conflict Management, a Denver firm, announced that…
Tommyknocker Brewery, whose logo and location in the Colorado foothills have given it a rustic, mountain-town image over the past two decades, has begun exporting that image overseas — to Helsinki, Finland. In March Captol Invest, a Finnish restaurant-investment group, opened the Tommyknocker Craft Beer Bar in Helsinki, serving eight different…
What’s the weirdest name for a restaurant in Denver? We thought the Fractured Prune might take the prize when that doughnut chain rolled into town, but then the Belvedere closed — and we learned that downtown joint will be replaced by The Greedy Hamster. Says theFabulousMarkT: Well, we already have…
When Sarto’s opened in the Jefferson Park neighborhood last October, Denver diners familiar with chef Brian Laird’s flair for Italian cuisine from his days at Denver classic Barolo Grill were excited to sample his new menu and grab a seat at the cicchetti bar, where Laird stitched together an array…
