Food & Drink

Have you seen the renovated Union Station yet? If not, you might be the only one — the place has been packed since the restaurants started rolling out, attracting everyone from suburban lookyloos to Alton Brown, who was eating at Stoic & Genuine on Wednesday. With the grand-opening festivities over,…

June might have been a record-breaking month for restaurant openings, but July has already stolen the crown, with over forty new spots making an appearance — everything from the stylish Stoic & Genuine in the renovated Union Station to the eclectic Syntax Physic Opera on South Broadway. Keep reading for…

With news of a revamped brunch menu, this week’s venture took us to Root Down, initially on behalf of my roommate — who recently received a gluten allergy diagnosis. She was looking forward to a menu accommodating of dietary restrictions — with gluten-free and vegan options prominently noted — and…

Updated: Read Red Robin’s statement at the end of this post. Colorado may be known for healthy residents who run marathons and climb mountains in their spare time. But there are still plenty of places in this state that cater to gluttons, including twenty locations of the Denver-based Red Robin,…

Pop-up restaurants aren’t new to Denver; they hit their peak of popularity in the dark days of the Great Recession, when one-night private-supper clubs in unusual locations were a feasible way for out-of-work chefs to bring in a few dollars while providing high-end cuisine to cash-strapped food lovers. While cash…

During an otherwise pleasant review meal at The Kitchen Next Door Glendale, Gretchen Kurtz watched as a busser dropped a utensil into a bowl filled with broth — which splashed all over her husband’s shirt. Mistakes happen all the time at restaurants, she notes; what’s important is what happens next…

The Kitchen Next Door is a casual offshoot of the Kitchen, the high-end, community-oriented bistro founded in Boulder a decade ago at the lift-off point of the local, seasonal and sustainable movements. “When we thought of the Kitchen ten years ago, it resonated with people and we called it a…

Mistakes happen — that’s part of life. So it’s what happens next that matters most. When mistakes happen in restaurants, I’m always curious to see how the front of the house will react. In my review of The Kitchen Next Door Glendale, I write about one such mistake, the time…

I’ve been making the rounds at Civic Center Eats the past couple of weeks, prowling for something a tad bizarre, a bit more unusual than Korean tacos or gyros in a cone — maybe for a food substance that might have been created a thousand years ago if the migration…

The story is a familiar one in the restaurant business: a corporate employee from outside the food world — maybe a sales rep or a project manager or a VP of operations — is forced by circumstances to make a life-changing decision and determines to follow a dream. The usual…