The Colorado Brewers Guild unveiled a new logo and marketing campaign this week titled, “Colorado: The State of Craft Beer.” The campaign includes signage and merchandise and will eventually roll out a a new website along with a State of Craft Beer festival. There are currently more than two hundred…
In this week’s Chef & Tell, I mentioned that I had taken a pickling and preserving class at the Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, through the school’s program for home cooks. Cook Street offers a wide range of instruction for amateurs, ranging from classes in basic knife skills, wine…
Like almost every driving adult in Denver, Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees spent his fair share of time waiting in line at the drab Denver Motor Vehicles office on Welton Street in Five Points. Now, if his plans come to fruition, Rees, along with friends and business partners Austin…
Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, the downtown program that offers curricula for home cooks as well as budding professionals, recently offered a class in pickling and canning. I’d been to the school a couple of times years ago for corporate team-building events, but this time it was just my…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opened yesterday on the corner once occupied by Longo’s Subway Tavern in LoHi, or Sunnyside, or Highland, or the Northside, depending on what map and history book you’re consulting. The burger joint is another venture by Larimer Associates, whose COO, Joe Vostrejs, has deep roots in Denver…
Here’s how former Cafe critic Jason Sheehan remembered his first view of Colorado’s iconic truck stop: “Johnson’s Corner sat right off the frontage road, a dusty sprawl of parking lots and big rigs, mirrored windows reflecting the endless, flat nothing all around it. Johnson’s had everything: a restaurant, general store,…
LYFE Kitchen 8505 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree 303-706-9100 A meal at LYFE Kitchen isn’t just supposed to fill you up; it’s supposed to make you feel good. Founded three years ago in California by a pair of former McDonald’s executives and an investment banker, this rapidly expanding chain,…
Our desire for patio pleasures doesn’t fade with the coming of fall. In fact, Denver loves its cool-weather patios: The opportunity to don hats and scarves while wrapping our beers in mittened hands reminds us of mountain nights around a fire. But while we love the cool, open air, it’s…
Yesterday our Latest Word blog reported that the Denver Police Department says calls have already started coming from parents concerned that their kids will be slipped pot edibles while trick-or-treating on Halloween. In a DPD podcast, the officers advise parents to talk to their children about not eating anything until…
People might think I choose what to review based on what I feel like eating. But many factors go into my decision — and what I want to eat is usually at the bottom of the list. With the frenetic pace of openings these days, there’s an endless number of…
When your neighborhood doesn’t provide the products and services you desire, you can get in your car and drive somewhere else, or you can do something to permanently bring what you need to your neighborhood. A group of northeast Denver residents living in and around Stapleton, Park Hill, East Colfax,…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opens today on the edge of Sunnyside and the Lower Highland neighborhood. We stopped by a day early to see if there’s anything new under the sun for residents of the area. Burgers, as the sign says, are the name of the game here, in a relaxed…
Summer’s not quite over, but fall’s definitely in the air — and in the trees, and on the ground. Now is the perfect time to visit one of Colorado’s farms, orchards or pumpkin patches to harvest your own taste of fall. Here are ten of our favorite spots — take…
When Tiffin’s opened on Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder three years ago, the fast-casual restaurant was completely vegetarian. Over time, the menu has grown from a focus on the street food of southern India, adding more familiar — at least to Front Range palates — curries, kabobs and biryanis. Still, much…
A lot has changed since the Uptown Sampler Restaurant Crawl began crawling nearly thirty years ago, and today you can get a taste of the changes. The Uptown Sampler is celebrating its 27th year with a taste of 27 restaurants in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood between 5 and 8:30 p.m. See…
No. 75 Udon Noodles at Bones 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 When we namedBones the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2009, we said the tiny eatery was less a noodle bar and more “a loose conglomeration of plates and styles and techniques that came together only because one…
Mexican Independence Day officially starts at midnight tonight, marking Father Miguel Hidalgo’s cry for independence to rally the people of Mexico in 1810. Mexican restaurants throughout the Denver area will be helping guests celebrate with specials and parties. Some are rolling out one-day deals, while others are adding seasonal menu…
It’s been a long time coming — but Brian Laird, who’d hoped to open Sarto’s last fall, is finally nearing the finish line for his Italian restaurant and market. Back in early 2013, when Laird first talked to us about Sarto’s, he said he hoped to create “a Northern Italian…
Beer-loving zombies took over the streets of Denver on Saturday for the End of the World pub crawl. Complete with gruesome costumes, chase scenes and plenty of booze, this event was lively enough to wake the dead. Photographer Jake Shane was there to capture the apocalyptic fun; keep reading for…
The Nationalized Tiki at Acorn Last week’s dip into near-freezing temperatures got us thinking that winter is on its way, but relax — we’re looking at a few more weeks of warm weather here in Denver. It may even hit 90 degrees on Thursday, so what better way to hang…
This has been a bad week for Olive Garden. First, its new “Never Ending Pasta Pass” promo has been poked at — or outright kicked — by almost everyone on earth (Jimmy Kimmel’s poke was particularly hilarious) and then Olive Garden investor Starboard Value slaps the chain with a nearly…
A small garden patch next to a popular restaurant may not provide enough bounty to fill the plates of every hungry guest, even in the height of the season. But fresh flourishes can add artistry — as well as bursts of flavor — to the presentation, which is one of…
