Left Hand Brewing’s Milk Stout Nitro made an appearance on HBO’s Girls last week, and although it wasn’t the most notable scene of this season — that happened a few minutes into episode one — it certainly made the Longmont brewery stand at attention. And while Left Hand is the…
Tap rooms can be intimidating for someone searching for the perfect beer. You don’t want to get stuck with a pint of something that’s not to your liking, but new breweries are pumping out beers at a pace faster than you can keep up with. Ideally, it would be great…
If you were going to live above a restaurant, would you choose the downtown Yard House? And by “live above,” we’re not talking about a second-floor apartment. We’re talking about the crawl space above the ceiling. But Stephen Graves apparently took the “House” in the restaurant’s name literally, and made himself…
Blake and Tracy Eliasson, owners of Settembre Cellars in Boulder, met at a wine bar while they were in college — and they weren’t even there for the wine. Trilogy Wine Bar was also a Boulder music venue, and the two went with friends to hear bluegrass. In hindsight, Tracy…
We’ve started the second round of voting in our Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll, which now includes the five finalists in each category — as chosen by the readers. The five Best Burger finalists inspired several snarky comments. Says Willie: Glad to see Highland Tap continuing to bribe customers into voting for…
Yelp is a tool that users love, business owners hate, and the rest of us tolerate. I generally ignore Yelp; as a professional critic, I need to concentrate on my own opinions. But that changed last month, when Yelp released its list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in…
Here are four tasty events to help you get over the mid-week hump: Fat Jack’s Supersubs is now carrying Little Man ice cream, and in honor of the new partnership will be giving away 1,000 pints of the stuff. One free pint will be included with the purchase of a…
Trademark battles between craft breweries are no longer new, but they can have lasting effects on the companies involved. At the moment, at least three Colorado breweries are currently involved in new trademark disputes. The most recent is Zephyr Brewing in Denver, which is facing a trademark challenge from Rising…
It doesn’t seem quite fair that while breweries and wineries are legally allowed to serve food and alcoholic beverages from other producers at their production facilities, distilleries aren’t. Since distilleries play an increasingly large role in Colorado’s surge in artisan products, Representative Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, decided to level…
The epitome of your neighborhood bar and pub, Sloan’s has been going strong for ten-plus years in tiny Edgewater. With a homey, local vibe and a dining room that, upon first glance, doesn’t seem much different than any other bar and grille, Sloan’s seemingly effortless and casual decor belies the…
The Landmark development in Greenwood Village has had its ups and downs over the years, but has managed to attract a few long-term restaurant tenants the likes of Pizza Republica, Yanni’s, Ted’s Montana Grill and Ali Baba Grill. East West Partners took over management of the project in 2013 and…
Looking for something entirely different for Sunday brunch? Epernay Lounge just introduced a new Royal Brunch, featuring entertainment in the form of drag hostesses, an a la carte menu and bottomless mimosas for $20 on Sunday afternoons. But be careful what champagne you put in those mimosas, warns IsBoulder Better:…
Denver has quite a few restaurants that get lumped into the culinary catch-all of “Middle Eastern,” even though much of the food they serve comes from an area far larger than the Middle East itself. Morocco, for example, isn’t part of the Middle East; it’s as far from Iran as…
Last year Lower48 Kitchen won our Best New Restaurant 2014 award, and Acorn was a close contender. Tonight chefs Alex Figura of Lower48 and Steve Redzikowski (co-owner of Oak at Fourteenth and its offshoot, Acorn) will be at Lower48 cooking a collaboration dinner for Art Culinaire, “the international magazine in…
This is National Pancake Day, and IHOP is celebrating by serving up free pancakes. For the tenth year in a row, customers at any IHOP location today will receive a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes; it’s part of an effort to raise awareness and funds for Shriners Hospitals for…
Churchill’s Public House had trouble getting open in a brand-new space at 16th and Boulder streets, finally making its debut in July 2013 after a flood from an upstairs apartment delayed construction. But that was just the beginning of the bar’s woes. Despite LoHi’s reputation as a hot restaurant neighborhood,…
Oysters are coming out of their shells this month at two Denver restaurants. Stoic & Genuine rolled out a new Aww Shucks happy hour today at the its Union Station raw bar, featuring $2 oysters and $3 granita cocktails and select beers. While it’s too late to make it to…
Denver’s 17th Avenue has been known for its eateries for more than two decades, but so far, restaurant row, as its called, has largely missed out on the small brewery explosion that has rocked Denver in recent years. That will change this spring when Deep Draft Brewing, at 1604 East…
La Recoleta Leña 24 Broadway 720-550-7267 Some of Argentina’s most distinguished bones lay buried in La Recoleta cemetery: A slew of the country’s past presidents, famous filmmakers, Nobel Prize winners and poets all rest in this plot of land located just outside Buenos Aires. Former Argentine first lady Eva Peron…
With Leonard Nimoy’s passing, the Star Trek universe lost its Mr. Spock, but his legacy — and that of the entire Trek franchise — lives on in popular culture with all the magical uniforms, stories, jokes, phaser replicas, conventions — and of course the out-of-this-world food and drinks. From Uhura’s…
When the four friends behind Four Friends Kitchen — Kurt and Sarah Pletcher and Genefer and Tim Thornton — broke ground on their new breakfast and lunch eatery last July, it was a rare sight in a planned neighborhood: independent restaurateurs building their own spot. Rather than leasing a space in…
Justin Cucci’s Edible Beats restaurant group includes runaway successes Root Down and Linger in Lower Highland as well as the Root Down that opened at Denver International Airport in 2013. In the coming months, Cucci will double the size of his restaurant empire with three new concepts in various stages of development,…
