Food & Drink

It doesn’t take a late-night raid of leftover Halloween candy to make you feel like a kid again. At the District, which I review this week, you can relive your lunchbox days with a better peanut-butter-and-jelly than Mom ever packed. This Uptown eatery serves the sandwich beer-battered and fried, with…

Denverites certainly aren’t lacking when it comes to fast-casual options. In fact, our city has spawned chains ranging from Chipotle to Smashburger, which have gone not just national but international. Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a quick Mediterreanean concept founded by Alon Mor seven years ago, has brought falafel, pita, grilled meats…

Dunkin’ Donuts returned to the Denver area over the past year, opening stores from Denver International Airport to Edgewater, Boulder to Colorado Springs. Fans of the chain on the East Coast have welcomed Dunkin’ with open arms (and mouths, and wallets), while others just wish they’d go home. Here’s just…

Qdoba recently announced that its restaurants would no longer be charging for add-on items like guacamole, fajita vegetables and queso — both the three-cheese queso and the queso diablo. The new, simplified pricing structure features two price points based on the protein order: one for vegetables, ground beef and chicken,…

On the morning after Halloween, my friends and I had three requirements for brunch: somewhere that served alcohol (in quantity), somewhere with elevated dishes but where we could get away with wearing yoga pants and last night’s makeup, and somewhere we could walk right in with no wait at whatever…

When restaurateur Alex Gurevich opened Ay Caramba! in Cherry Creek North in early 2013, it was a bit of surprise, considering that most of Denver’s tortas joints are of the hole-in-the-wall variety in lower-rent neighborhoods. There was much speculation as to whether Creekers would even know what a torta was,…

The Nickel 1100 14th Street 720-889-2128 thenickeldenver.com Chris Thompson moved with his mother from Long Beach, California, to Telluride when he was a kid, and quickly adapted to mountain-town life. He’d always had a love of the outdoors, engendered by camping, hiking and fishing trips with his dad in the…

Row 14 was ambitious — perhaps too ambitious for its location right across from the Colorado Convention Center, where business was either feast or famine, depending on which group had been booked into the facility. When visitors are eager to try Bubba Gump’s, you know a more upscale restaurant is…

The District 1320 East 17th Avenue 303-813-6688 I don’t live in the district that is home to The District, the historic area in Uptown that inspired the restaurant’s name. But I drive by often, so it’s been easy to keep tabs on the place. At the start of summer, I…

The Village Cork opened its doors to customers last night for the first time in four months, when the tiny Platt Park wine bar and bistro closed for a remodel. The space is still charming and rustic, but now there’s a little more space — for the cooks as well…

The Nacho Tuna Maki at new Boulder fast-casual Japanese eatery Motomaki is almost as big as a Chipotle burrito (and even comes wrapped in foil); it has the word “nacho” in the name, which generally indicates good things to come; and it seems somehow healthy and audacious at the same…

Row 14 closed unexpectedly in July, leaving an empty space in the downtown Spire. Now a newcomer to Denver, Uncle Joe’s Hong Kong Bistro, will fill that space with a fast-casual concept straight from China’s island city, where the only other Uncle Joe’s currently operates. See also: Row 14 Pours…

Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly Market is set to open next Tuesday, November 11, in a nondescript east Boulder location that belies the complexity of the operation inside. With his new, expansive kitchen, Rosenberg will run a catering business, a fine-dining restaurant, a salumeria making fresh sausage and cured meats, a butcher…

Yesterday Dunkin’ Donuts launched its version of the fading fad-tastic cronut, simply named the Croissant Donut. With the chain making a big comeback in Denver — over a half-dozen stores have opened in the metro area over the past year, with more to come — there are plenty of spots…

Suvipa Thai didn’t have to do much to make its dining room presentable for guests: a new coat of paint in the small, square room and some flowers on the tables, and everything was ready to go. The previous tenant, Pho De, had already painted over the lime green and…