Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl started out as a food truck in 2010, serving up chile verde and other Mexican-inspired bites on the streets of the city. In 2011, owner Matt Robinette opened the brick-and-mortar location at 35th Avenue and Quebec Street. Just over a year ago, Food & Wine magazine…
Matt and Rosemary Lopez closed Taza de Cafe, and Charlie’s Ice Cream Social next door, late last year with a promise to reopen with a slightly new menu and design. The couple changed the name of the corner eatery to Cafe 44 and opened the doors earlier this month in…
Blink and you might miss the Curtis Park Delicatessen while driving down Champa Street in the historic Five Points neighborhood, but this is one establishment you won’t want to pass by. Marked with a red door and small sign on the brick above, the owners makes good use of the…
Coy and Rachael Webb are paying homage to Colorado’s barbecue roots at their new smokehouse, Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que, which just opened on Wednesday. Along with pork shoulder, beef brisket, house-made sausage and a few other specialties, the menu of smoked meats includes Colorado lamb shank and bison short ribs. Colorado…
This weekend Rosa Linda’s will be celebrating three decades on the Denver dining scene with special dining deals; the culinary calendar also includes wine, tequila, a new book on the history of Denver’s restaurant scene and a sweet event for the whole family. See also: Jeff Osaka Plans a Second…
Get ready for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the latest watering hole from Tavern Hospitality Group. But the spot, which officially opens January 19 in the up-and-coming Prospect Park, right at 29th Avenue and Huron Street, is not another Tavern — though it has a great rooftop deck, a Tavern hallmark. Instead,…
The last two restaurants I’ve reviewed, the Bistro at Stapleton and Amass, seem to have little in common. With its long bar, community counter and seasonal patio, the Bistro serves as a home away from home for residents of restaurant-starved Stapleton, who drop by from morning to night for crepes,…
No. 56: The Rare Beast Sandwich at Salt & Grinder 3609 West 32nd Avenue 303-945-4200 When Salt & Grinder first opened in the West Highland neighborhood in June, owner Frank Bonanno had this to say about what makes a perfect deli sandwich: “A ton of meat, sliced to order and…
I’ve passed by LoDo’s Venice Ristorante and Wine Bar many, many times over the years, writing it off as a generic expense account Italian restaurant — or hardly noticing it at all. It took the retro-chic revival of Union Station across the street and the promise of a great happy…
Excitement has been building over the past few months as ramen fans have watched the progress of Osaka Ramen in River North; it’s Jeff Osaka’s first restaurant venture since he closed Twelve on Larimer Street late last summer. Now there’s even more to look forward to: a second Osaka Ramen…
January is a slow time of year for many restaurants, as potential customers attempt to recover from holiday overindulging and overspending. That’s just fine with Z Cuisine owner and chef Patrick DuPays; it gives him a little time to give the kitchen a good overhaul and to make some long-planned…
Jeff Miller will be at Tattered Cover on Colfax at 7 p.m. tonight, talking about his book Behind the Lines, which tells the history one of the world’s greatest food-relief efforts that was founded and supervised by Americans a century ago. See also: Modmarket Opens at DIA, With Another Coming…
Visit Denver launched the menus for the 2015 Denver Restaurant Week on its website today to help get Denver diners salivating for ten days (no, not a week!) of discounted meals at the city’s top restaurants. This year’s Restaurant Week will take place from February 20 to March 1, encompassing…
It’s a crisp winter day at the Bark Bar, and the wind carries the sounds of light conversation and animal happiness. A few muted barks are heard as the dogs in the yard roughhouse and roll in the dirt while their owners look on, beers in hand. Dogs running free…
If you ever feel like you’re half asleep being dragged out to brunch, the fantasy-like ambiance of Beatrice & Woodsley will do nothing in the sense of waking you from your daydream. But that’s okay, because this is one “cabin in the woods” where we don’t mind wasting away the…
Food & Wine just offered a list of seven “breweries to watch” in 2015, and included Longmont’s Oskar Blues, along with a few other big names. And while the magazine focused on the brewery’s recent East Coast expansion, as well as a planned addition in Colorado, there’s another reason to…
Bartender Allison Widdecombe of Williams & Graham just took first place at the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience, a nationwide competition held at the Bowery Hotel in New York City on Monday. “I’ve been so close to winning a national cocktail competition,” says Widdecombe. “It was just a matter of time.”…
Tyson Holzheimer Butcher’s Bistro 303-296-2750 2233 Larimer Street Tyson Holzheimer grew up in Montana, in a family where do-it-yourself was a necessity rather than a passing trend. “I first skinned an animal when I was ten,” he recalls. Using a knife to separate muscle from skin and bone was just…
The Bistro at Stapleton 2955 Ulster Street 303-388-9463 Over the past fifteen years, Stapleton has morphed from a land of tumbleweed and prairie dogs to a thriving community, with enough houses to constitute its own suburb. Though the development has been a success, the restaurant scene in this corner of…
For its first Craft Beer Dinner of 2015, Frasca Food and Wine will welcome John Dannerbeck of Anchor Steam Brewers & Distillers at 6 p.m. for a four-course meal paired with craft beer. See also: Modmarket Opens at DIA, With Another Coming This Spring…
Ian Kleinman is back at it, applying his molecular magic to another batch of breakfast treats at his fourth doughnut pop-up — this time at Sunnyside Burger Bar in LoHi. Kleinman, known for his Inventing Room food lab and catering company, will be whipping up his biggest menu yet –…
Colorado is the nation’s leading grower of millet, a grain used mostly for birdseed but that’s cropping up in more and more recipes, due in part to the fact that it’s gluten-free and is a good source of protein, at 11 grams per serving (compared to protein powerhouse quinoa at…
