People swoon over tonkotsu ramen, with pork bones — including heads and trotters — boiled for twelve or more hours until the broth turns opaque. Vegetarian versions don’t have quite the same heady effect, but some chefs are trying to change that. In my current review of Tokio, I write…
This week’s cover story profiles Craftsy, the Denver start-up that’s thriving by teaching people new hobbies through high-end online tutorials. Cooking and cake-decorating classes are among the most popular courses on the site, with baking instructors turning into online celebrities and students launching their own pastry businesses. But can Craftsy…
Did you overdo it on New Year’s Eve? For 2015, have you voted to eat better, drink better, shop locally, learn to cook? This weekend, you can stir up some romance while cooking, rise to the occasion at a baking class, and buy local produce — even in the dead…
If 2013 seemed like a busy year in the restaurant industry, 2014 was positively manic, with nearly 300 bars, restaurants and specialty markets opening in the Denver metro area. You could have had a meal or a drink at a new place every weekday this year without hitting them all…
Earlier this month, a Chipotle worker made a raised-hands gesture when nine New York Police Department officers entered a Brooklyn location of the national burrito chain for dinner. The officers immediately left the building and the incident has since sparked a boycott of the store by local police from the…
In less than a year, Work & Class has made some big waves in the Denver dining scene. With plenty of praise for the food, atmosphere and beyond-friendly staff, it comes as little surprise to find the place packed every night. Come 2015, the Work & Class family will mark…
I’ve never experienced a weekend,” says Duc Huynh, who runs the second Vinh Xuong Bakery. His parents opened the original bakery on Federal Boulevard more than 24 years ago and still work there from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day of the week, baking baguettes and other Vietnamese sweet…
Tokio 2907 Huron Street, Unit 103 720-639-2911 With his chic, minimalist noodle bar, global restaurateur David Chang did for ramen what Julia Child did for coq au vin, putting the Japanese soup once relegated to Styrofoam cups squarely on the American culinary map. In the decade since Momofuku opened in…
As 2014 draws to a close, many Denverites have extravagant plans to ring in the new year. From big concerts to intimate house parties and everything in between, Denver will be awash in holiday cheer, great food and booze, lots of booze. If you don’t have plans yet, here are…
No. 57: Chorizo Breakfast Stew at DJ’s 9th Avenue Cafe Food doesn’t always have to be fancy or fussed over to be great. Sometimes it just needs to be the right dish at the right time. In cold and blustery weather, when stumbling into a cafe steamy with vapors from…
While LoDo is known for late-night douche-baggery, Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill, a family-run, neighborhood joint that just happens to be wedged into a stretch of blocks more known for last call than first cups of coffee, is a mid-morning reprieve from the bros and bro-ettes. On a quiet weekend…
With the incredible number of bars and restaurants that opened this past year, trend-following can lead you down a pretty deep rabbit hole. Sure, there was plenty of kale on Denver’s menus, but a big part of that is that kale is cheap and easy to grow in Colorado. But…
Move over, Brussels sprouts. Stand aside, kale. It’s time for another vegetable to be tapped as trendiest snack: shishito peppers. And we’re all for it, because unlike those other two veggies, these slender green peppers are proving themselves to be highly versatile, so that every bowl around town doesn’t taste…
Ethniche started in May as a deep dive into a different ethnic cuisine each month. Since then, I’ve traveled through Hawaii, Ethiopia, Greece, Thailand, the American South, India, Eastern Europe and back home to Colorado for four weeks of Den-Mex green chile in December. On my journeys, I’ve found that…
Our Backbeat blog shared the sad news yesterday: D Note, a mainstay in Arvada for a dozen years, will close on January 3. When the DeGraff family sold the spot two years ago to Dave and Mernie Rosenberg, live music became as integral to the spot as the pizza that…
If you’re antsy to start the end-of-the-year celebration, curb that craving at Adelitas Cocina y Cantina for Taco Tuesday. The cantina serves up $1 tacos from 11 a.m. to midnight every Tuesday; you can wash them down with the margs that won our Best House Margarita award in the Best…
After exactly one year, the vegan cafe and elixir bar Nectar House is closing its doors. Located inside the lobby of the Kindness Yoga Studio on South Broadway, the business was doing pretty well, according to co-owner Piper Rose, but she feels that it’s simply time to move on. The…
Beast + Bottle 719 East 17th Avenue 303-623-3223 The staff at Beast + Bottle regularly visits local farms and breweries to taste fresh products, which eventually find their way on to the farm-to-table restaurant’s dinner and drink menus. One of those farms supplies watercress, which fell into the hands of…
Winter Park Resort, which turns 75 this year, has struck a deal with the state’s largest craft brewer that will guarantee plenty of Mary Jane Ale for the foreseeable future. As part of the arrangement, New Belgium Brewing will make a certain number of barrels of the beer per year…
After one of the biggest drinking days of the year, ringing in the new year with a hearty meal at one of Denver’s finest brunch spots is a must. Whether you’re rolling out of bed with a raging hangover or raring to get a head start on those resolutions, usher…
This year has seen some almighty good food trends from paleo-inspired, wood-grilled meats to the proliferation of pop-up restaurants, citrus everywhere and DIY foods, more global tastes than ever before, and even a ramen renaissance. But like every year, 2014 had its share of downer-grade food fails, and plenty of…
Denver has given birth to many fast-casual efforts, from the giant Chipotle to Smashburger to the just-opened, one-of-a-kind Biju’s Little Curry House. But after we rounded up the ten best new fast-casual spots in Denver last week, some readers made it clear they don’t find the fast-casual concept very appetizing…
