Last month, Glazed by Sasa became simply Glaze after parting ways with sushi chef Wayne Conwell, owner of Sushi Sasa across town. After hiring Kris Paladino, Glaze co-owner Heather Alcott temporarily pulled back to a lunch menu only. Paladino’s creations cover a creative blend of house-baked specialties — this is…
Before you celebrate Valentine’s Day, show your love of the land — and those who work it. Community Sponsored Agriculture, or CSA for short, is a system for helping farmers sell direct to consumers: Customers buy a share of the farm’s harvest in advance, when the farmer needs money most,…
Station 26 Brewing Co. hosted a beer, bluegrass and brunch party over the weekend as part of its monthly ongoing series. In addition to numerous brews, guests scarfed down doughnuts from Glazed and Confuzed and piles of smoked meats from the Rolling Smoke food truck. Photographer Ken Hamblin tapped into…
Both Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora and Upslope Brewing in Boulder announced over the past week that they experienced significant growth during 2014. Upslope surpassed the 15,000-barrel mark in sales for the first time during 2014, brewing and selling a total of 19,600 barrels, a 66 percent increase over the previous year…
HuHot Mongolian Barbecue, already with several locations in the Denver area, is launching its fast-casual concept, NuHu Mongolian Express, starting tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the Golden Triangle. With a menu of six signature bowls, three style of noodles, rice, a wide variety of fresh vegetables and eight sauces, chief…
Rioja celebrated its tenth anniversary at the end of last year — and then owners Beth Gruitch and Jennifer Jasinski promptly closed the place for the better part of January to bring the dining room up to date. Jasinski and Gruitch were so pleased with the results at their newest…
The Kitchen Table Cafe opened on a cold day in December 2013, serving hearty, warming Midwestern comfort food from a twenty-seat space in the underserved City Park West neighborhood. The first customers were neighbors and health-care workers from the Presbyterian/St…
The Denny’s at 1605 Federal Boulevard has undergone a major remodel in the past few months — it’s the second local location of this chain to get the new look, and a third will follow soon. The restaurant is reopening today at 9 a.m., and to celebrate the successful completion,…
You only get one first — and the original Sassafras in Jefferson Park was my first true brunch love in Denver. But let’s be real: it’s hard not to fall in love with chocolate bacon milkshakes, a wraparound patio that would make any Southern belle swoon, a cloth napkin lovingly…
Today you can help Atticus celebrate one year of serving a more grown-up menu to the bar-food-saturated University of Denver neighborhood, or head to Boulder to see how Pizzeria Locale is going beyond the pie as the kitchen there cooks up traditional southern Italian cooking “al forno.” Keep reading for…
Renegade Brewing isn’t yet cooking malt and hops at its huge new production and packaging facility on First Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, but it has opened the building for public tours — along with pints. Tours will be offered from 4 to 7 p.m. on Fridays and 1 to…
I’m not the cursing type, but when the hostess at The Post Brewing Company told us it would be 45 minutes before two seats opened up, even at one of the four long community counters, a bleep-worthy word raced through…
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After dark, certain stretches of Denver’s suburbs might as well be rural farmland; what few lights there are appear distant and twinkling, and the black silhouettes of trees stand in for strip malls and rows of houses in more populous areas of town. A half-hour drive down Santa Fe Drive…
For years, Sunnyside — the neighborhood bounded by 38th Avenue, Federal Boulevard, Interstate 70 and Inca Street — was a food desert, with only a couple of notable Denver favorites, like the original Chubby’s, amid a handful of other taco joints and tortillerias. The growing popularity of the nearby Highland…
Winter Cocktail – A Arvada Tavern 5707 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard 303-690-6269 It’s all about balance. When you’re making cocktails, it’s best not to let harsh ingredients overpower a drink, or worse, serve a syrupy sugar bomb. At the Arvada Tavern, Adam Douglas is doing just that: crafting cocktails the way…
The never-ending market niche for unconventional food and drink preparation gadgets occasionally has a balls-out month or two, and lately it’s giving us all some of THE most unfathomable creations — and not all of the products are good. Matter of fact, most of them are creepy, crazy and mind-blowingly…
Restaurateur Troy Guard’s second incarnation of Bubu opens tomorrow in the Hangar 2 development in Lowry, just a few months after the original opened in the former home of TAG| Raw Bar off Larimer Square. This newest member of the TAG restaurant group has a brighter, more lively dining room…
It may be too late to snag a reservation at your favorite romantic restaurant, but there are still plenty of lovely options for Valentine’s Day. Read on for some of the hottest parties, dinners and even anti-V-Day events. See also: From Cookies to Cooking Lessons, Nine Tasty Events on This…
Get ready for Valentine’s Day by making your sweetie a cookie today, or sign up for a couple’s cooking class later this week. And for those who simply want a lovely time this week, with or without a mate, there are plenty of appetizing events on the culinary calendar. Keep…
Two local favorites that presaged the Denver restaurant boom by several years and garnered early attention for the city’s national dining reputation reopened this week after makeovers. Rioja swung open the doors on Wednesday to a refresh which modernized the space after ten years on Larimer Square. Fruition is doing…
No. 50: Smothered Breakfast Burritos at Chickee’s Lil Kitchen 4340 Zuni Street 720-329-3980 In a cute neighborhood with a perky name like Sunnyside, what could be more appropriate than a breakfast and lunch eatery so small you have to order from a walk-up window? Owner Harriett Sanchez might be willing…
