It’s opening day, but you don’t need a ticket to Coors Field to root for the home team. Throw on your purple gear and head downtown for a sixpack of winning events. And if you’re not in the mood to fight the crowds, there are plenty of other events around…
Linger and Root Down visionary owner/chef Justin Cucci likes to get in over his head, taking risks that he admits seem destined to fail. When Root Down opened in an old gas station in a transitional neighborhood blocks from where the action seemed hottest, Denverites scratched their heads, but were…
Coors Field may be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, but it’s still not as old and grizzled as the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which will turn 27 this fall. And although the famous brewery helped create both the vibrant Lower Downtown neighborhood and Denver’s craft-brewing scene, its age is beginning…
Richard Sandoval is still making waves in Colorado after helping put our state on the national plate by opening Tamayo on Larimer Square in 2002. Sandoval’s restaurants can seem like they’re stuck in time, rarely shifting with times and trends. But Sandoval’s newest venture, La Biblioteca, offers a happy hour…
When I go on vacation, I’m as much of a food tourist as I am a sightseer. So before a recent trip to Scandinavia, I scoured everything I could get my hands on for traditional Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dishes, and mapped out bakeries and restaurants where I could find…
Seventh Avenue near Governors Park hasn’t had much change in its restaurant scene in recent years; stalwarts Luca, Mizuna, Benny’s and Govnr’s Park have held down spots for years, while even relative newcomers like Vesper Lounge and Lala’s have settled into the neighborhood, taking the place of older establishments. Four…
Spangalang Brewery opens today in the former Department of Motor Vehicles office on Welton Street, in the heart of Five Points, an area that was the African-American cultural center of the West decades ago, but started a slow slide in the ’60s. Now development is coming back — but is…
Andrew Novick is a fixture in many of this city’s creative scenes, and tomorrow his worlds will collide with a food-as-art extravaganza. For one night only, he will open Andrew Novick’s Ramen Yatai inside of the 100 on 100 group art show at Love Gallery. The pop-up noodle house is an actual mini-restaurant…
El Charrito, which bills itself as a “five-star dive bar,” is holding a Dulce Vida Tequila tasting and food pairing from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. today. Admission is $10; for more information, check out the event’s Facebook page. The Seasoned Chef Cooking School is holding a Master Level Series cooking class from…
Coors Field opened twenty years ago this week in the area just northeast of lower downtown formerly known as NoDough. Even before the ballpark opened, though, the neighborhood – now one of the hottest restaurant districts in Denver – had started rolling in dough. And there will be plenty of…
There aren’t a lot of craft breweries associated with professional sports teams, but Pikes Peak Brewing just announced that it has become the official craft-beer sponsor for the newly arrived Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, of the United Soccer League; Heineken is also a beer sponsor of the team. The deal kicked off…
The new RTD Light Rail Gold Line connecting Wheat Ridge to Union Station is just getting underway, but businesses are already planning on capitalizing on the growth and traffic anticipated at each of the seven new stations. At the 41st Avenue and Fox Street station, on the eastern edge of…
Spangalang Brewery will jazz up the Five Points neighborhood on Thursday when it opens inside the high-profile former Denver Motor Vehicles office. Founded by former Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees and journeyman beer makers Austin Wiley and Darren Boyd, the brewery takes its name from a jazz term that…
The opening of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market is my favorite herald of spring—even on years when it falls on a wet, icy day. This Saturday, however, was bright and cool, slowly warming hour by hour. And hour by hour the crowd, sparse at first, swelled. For a few weeks,…
Denver has two finalists in the <em>Food & Wine</em> People’s Best New Chef contest; both Alex Figura of Lower 48 Kitchen (our Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014) and Steve Redzikowski of Oak at Fourteenth and Acorn (our Best Chef in the Best of Denver 2015) are…
Dakota Coburn’s quiet intensity expands into full-on enthusiasm as he reminisces about vacations in Mexico and his initial forays into that country’s cuisine when he was eight — from his first taste of real mole to tacos al pastor straight off the spit of a Puerto Vallarta street vendor to…
So there I was, sharing a meal with my husband that shouldn’t have been romantic, given how packed and loud it was at D Bar Denver, an updated version of D Bar Desserts that opened in a new Uptown location this fall after an eight-month closure. But the place was…
The Taste of Vail, one of the nation’s premier food and wine festivals, kicks off today and runs through Saturday in the mountain town. This highly anticipated event explores the Vail lifestyle through food and drink by offering lectures, dinners, wine pairings, seminars, tastings and much more. For the next…
The James Beard Foundation may not have shown much love to Denver chefs and restaurants when none of the five Colorado nominees for James Beard Awards moved on to the list of semi-finalists last month (meaning that Colorado is out of the running entirely on the May 4 awards night),…
Whether dining out is a daily occurrence or a special occasion, a little planning ahead will guarantee that a portion of your dining dollars goes to a worthy cause this month. April 30 is Dining Out for Life night in Denver, which means that if you hit one of 250…
The Colorado culinary scene sometimes feels like one big family — albeit sometimes a rather incestuous one. And last night’s Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spotlight awards ceremony at the Ritz Carlton was one hell of a family reunion, as individuals from around the state’s scene were honored by their peers…and…
The Art DeCo at Molecule Effect “We try to take ‘locally-sourced’ to the extreme,” says Mark Landman, who opened Molecule Effect with partner Megan Rodgers in late 2014. “When we think of ingredients for anything, we start right here and we start to go outward from there.” The community-focused lounge, located…
