While Cafe Society writers have been looking back over the past year, would-be restaurateurs are still scrambling to get their spots open and grab some of the last holiday business before the January doldrums hit. City Stacks, a bookstore/coffeehouse, has started a new chapter in LoDo. Waffle Brothers finally opened…
The Star Bar in Ballpark proudly serves no food whatsoever, paying more attention to compiling a robust list of local brews and spirits — and a pile of regulars. It’s been successful enough that it seems like a decades-old juice joint despite its relative youth, perhaps because that’s exactly what…
Sean Nook is serious about making good beer. But he doesn’t take himself too seriously when it comes to marketing or selling it — which is why his place, Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins, takes an irreverent approach to its everyday operations. Last year, for instance, Nook came up…
No. 58: Diavola Pizza at Pizzeria Locale 3484 West 32nd Avenue, 303-302-2451 550 Broadway, 720-508-8828 Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson and Bobby Stuckey, owners of Frasca and the original Pizzeria Locale in Boulder, didn’t skimp when they decided to open a fast-casual version of their traditional Neapolitan pizza place on Broadway almost two…
Jason McGovern has been serving up deep-dish pizza out of a window at the back of the Bar Car for a couple of years, but he’s finally getting his own place. His stand-alone Denver Deep Dish opens tomorrow in Lower Highland on a stretch of West 38th Avenue that’s seeing…
Now that the eight days of excuses to eat fried food (also known as Hanukkah) have come and gone, you may be craving something that will satisfy your inner East Coaster: a good New York City bagel. Yes, we know that Denver is not New York, and for any NY…
There are plenty of trendy eats and drinks from the entire decade of the 1990s that we either don’t miss or that just won’t die so we can miss them — like spinach-artichoke dip, weirdo fruity martinis, molten chocolate cake, chicken Caesar salads and sun-dried tomatoes on everything. But there…
It’s been a long haul, but partner John Power says the new Waffle Brothers will open this morning at First Avenue and Washington Street — and the crew is excited to get those doors open. They were working late on Christmas Day, putting in the finishing touches on the renovated…
Don’t worry about the snow outside: After two days of cooking at home, you deserve to get out out of the house this weekend. Let someone else serve you — or just do some cooking in a more exotic setting than your own kitchen. Here’s a tastytrio of events on…
Most of us can’t sing unless we’ve had a couple of pints, which means that the Fort Collins-area brewers who got together to sing this jingle at Horse & Dragon Brewing may have had a couple. The singing Christmas card was organized by the Colorado Brewers Festival and the Downtown…
The red and black colors of a new Ink Coffee cafe adorn the former Cash From Clutter building at 2851 Larimer Street, across the street from the neighborhood’s five-year veteran, Crema Coffee House. At first, the addition made me wince: on a street that has small, local businesses popping up…
The Sandoval family has been making Christmas a little tastier at Tamales by La Casita since 1975. What seems like a simple corn wrapper filled with a little corn masa and pork actually requires a team of cooks to make enough tamales to keep north Denverites happy. Videographer Andrew Bateman…
By now the family is all here and the cooking for tomorrow has began — which means that tonight is a perfect time to go out, sit back and let someone else do the cooking for you. Restaurants and bars across town will be serving up special holiday menus and…
This was a year of big changes. I went from writing a weekly blog post about Federal Boulevard to covering the Denver food scene every day as a full-time job — and there has been plenty to cover. I was lucky enough to land the gig in the middle of…
I ate hundreds of restaurant meals this past year, comprising thousands of dishes. Narrowing those down to the ten best dishes I ate in 2014 wasn’t easy — especially when you consider the energy coming out of the 300-plus bars and restaurants that opened over the past twelve months and…
Crema Coffee House is arguably one of the pioneers of the River North neighborhood. Owner Noah Price opened the hole in the wall cafe at Larimer and 29th streets five years ago. At the time, the the tiny space fit a dozen or so people comfortably; the rest of the…
Broken Shovels Farm is a working goat dairy that turns out a wide array of artisan cheeses, yogurt and even goat butter. This weekend the dairy hosted its annual Holiday Open House and Market, where guests mingled with the goats while selecting from holiday treats from local vendors. Photographer Danielle…
On the northwest corner of 44th Avenue and Federal Boulevard, there’s a liquor store, a Heads of State and La Fuente Mexican restaurant. La Fuente is barely noticeable but for a few banners and signs advertising breakfast and tamales. The restaurant looks like it’s been there forever, slowly accumulating those…
In a year jam-packed with bar and restaurant openings, it was sometimes a relief to find comfort in familiar favorites. But even a few of these took advantage of the favorable economic climate to improve on already successful formulas. Two of them closed and remodeled; reopening as larger versions of…
Copper Kettle Brewing is counting down the days until Christmas with its 12 Firkins of Christmas — twelve unique casks themed around the holiday carol, “12 Days of Christmas.” And it’s down to the penultimate brew today. See also: Five of the Best — and Worst — Specialty Holiday Foods…
If you were ever doubtful that a Welton Street renaissance would arrive in Five Points, Dunbar Kitchen and Tap House will relieve those worries. The new restaurant with classic cocktails, shelves of local liquor, a brick-and-wood décor and Southern-tinged menu is a surprise in the mainly quiet Welton Street strip…
RiNo Yacht Club 3350 Brighton Boulevard 720-443-1135 Much of what we perceive as flavor, say scientists who study such things, is actually aroma. We’ve all had that experience of being sucked back into a memory where we first caught the scent of a lemon, fresh-baked bread, the ocean. For McLain…
