Sancocho is a stew that originated in the Dominican Republic. Its ingredients come from Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, and are a reflection of the many cultures that make up Dominican identity. The stew offers a taste of how complex the Latino experience can be in this country, and…
DJ’s 9th Avenue Cafe hopes your New Year’s resolution is to eat more bacon (instead of, or at least in addition to doubling up on the gym hours). Quirky drawings on the message board outside the second outpost of the beloved Tennyson Street breakfast joint remind you not to break…
Yelp released its second annual list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. last week, compiling user data of the most popular and well-reviewed eateries of 2014. And according to Yelp users, the one place in all of Colorado worthy of national attention is the Kitchen Table…
Dad & Dude’s Breweria in Aurora/Parker has been growing and changing quickly. The brewery said this week that it produced 1,016 barrels in 2014, a 116 percent increase over the previous year. The majority of that was Dad & Dude’s three canned flagship beers, Leaves of Lemongrass Wit and Ryeot…
Will Tuggle Stout Street Social 1400 Stout Street 720-214-9100 As a kid growing up in Virginia Beach, Will Tuggle liked good food but didn’t have much exposure to cooking. Since his mom and grandmother were Polish, homemade pierogi and cabbage soup were among his childhood comfort-food standards. He was generally…
Brazen Neighborhood Eatery 4450 West 38th Avenue 720-638-1242 Given the excitement that chef’s counters can bring to dining rooms, it’s hard to believe they weren’t always a staple of restaurant design. Rather than being separated from the kitchen by solid walls and a swinging door, a chef’s counter lets diners…
Ding! Ding! Tonight at Boone’s Tavern in the University of Denver neighborhood, Whiskey and Beer will go mano a mano in a boozy battle for supremacy. It’s a friendly contest between the craft beers of California’s Bear Republic Brewing and Charbay Distillery whiskey from Napa Valley. In addition to these…
Work & Class celebrated one year in business last night with a costume bash and charity fundraiser for Denver Urban Scholars, a nonprofit organization that helps metro Denver students with high school graduation and higher education goals. Attendees were asked to dress in the spirit of “What do you want…
Great Divide Brewing will bring back a new version of a very old beer this summer when it begins bottling and canning Whitewater Wheat, a hoppy wheat ale that will replace Heydey in its lineup. But the rollout will also speak as a quiet testament to how craft breweries can…
In the five years since Edwin Zoe and his mom opened Zoe Ma Ma in a tiny spot just off the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Anne Zoe’s cooking has earned a reputation as some of the best and most traditional home-style Chinese cuisine in the Denver-Boulder area. And today,…
When Hannah Ulbrich decided to go back to work full time after a few years as a stay-at-home mom and adjunct literature professor, she was presented with an opportunity by her friend Sinjin Eberle, then owner of Copper Door Coffee Roasters. When he mentioned one day that he was planning…
The Denver ramen scene has been heating up over the past couple of years, with high-profile noodle-house openings and anticipation over others. But in Aurora, the demand for Japanese noodle bowls has been bubbling beneath the surface, with few options despite the vast array of ethnic eateries in the sprawling…
This year’s Super Bowl puts two of the most hated teams in the NFL together in a battle for pigskin supremacy — the Seattle Seahawks (loathed for their embarrassing victory over the Broncos last year) and the New England Patriots (loathed for… gosh, just about everything). But forget the hate…
Based on a month of exploring Denver’s Salvadoran scene, small is good when it comes to pupusas — at least as far as the eatery itself is concerned. Tacos Acapulco on East Colfax is bigger than the Pupusas trailer in Louisville, but not by much. With only four or five…
Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery, the burgeoning microbrewery in the Ballpark Neighborhood, is joining forces with Sleep Tight Colorado tonight to celebrate the local organization’s fourth anniversary. Sleep Tight Colorado is dedicated to providing the homeless with sleeping bags and support, and to date it’s donated over 1,000 sleeping bags to…
Golden has always been good to its beer makers, and Mountain Toad Brewing, which opened less than two years ago, is no exception. The brewery will build a new production facility this year with a thirty-barrel brewhouse, room for a canning line, and small taproom to complement its downtown location…
Sunnyside Burger Bar isn’t generally open for breakfast, but last week there was an a.m. takeover of Troy Guard’s kitchen and dining room. Chef Ian Kleinman, high-tech wiz behind the Inventing Room food lab and catering company, brought his fanciful doughnuts — and a few creative coffee drinks — to…
South Of The Butta TAG 1441 Larimer Street 303-996-9985 Just about any South American dictator would love the new butter-infused cocktail on the menu at TAG. It’s rich and unctuous and refreshing, and perfect for sipping on the veranda after an insurrection. When thinking about cocktails for her winter drink…
SkyMall is filing for bankruptcy, which means what the hell are we all gonna do during flights to keep ourselves entertained when we can’t use our electronics? (Not talk to other people, please dear god, no!) It’s going to be especially mournful for foodies, who skimmed the catalog pages hoping…
Bruxie, the fast-casual eatery that turned the standard waffle into the base for a host of playful sweet and savory sandwiches opened less than a year ago and made our list of the ten best new fast-casual restaurants in 2014. But a fun menu full of Belgo-American fare and a…
Odelay Tacos changed hands at the end of the summer, when the new owners — Dave Cleland, John Elliott and Toby Waters — expressed their desire to consolidate the name and image of the bar, which had previously been going under three separate monikers: 3014, Odelay and the Beetle Bar…
The Denver-born Chipotle chain rolled out sofritas at its Colorado stores back in 2013, and the new, meat-free protein was deemed “so freaking delicious that just about everybody will like it” by our Veggie Girl. And today it’s more than meat-free: If you order sofritas in any entree at any…
