In the next three months, nearly 150 new restaurants will open in Denver, which translates to a lot of food in our mouths. Some have insisted that we’re biting off more than we can chew — that the Denver restaurant landscape is becoming too saturated and that we can’t sustain…
When a Colorado community doesn’t want a marijuana cultivation warehouse, some people assume that the area is anti-pot and, therefore, anti-Colorado. However, one Boulder farming community is fighting a battle against marijuana that has nothing to do with any stereotypes about the plant. See also: Cure Organic Farm veggies are…
There’s been a lot of talk in Colorado over the past six months about whether legal pot sales will impact beer sales, but so far — at least based on the continuing success of the state’s ever-expanding craft-brewing industry — that doesn’t seem to be happening. But pot will definitely…
The brand-new 4 Noses Brewing in Broomfield held its grand opening party last weekend with several beers on tap, including a few special firkins. There were also food trucks and live music — all the hallmarks of a new brewery party. Westword photographer Ken Hamblin was there, and brought back…
Americans are drinking more craft beer, but they’re also making more of their own at home. The Boulder-based American Homebrewers Association released the results of its fifth annual Homebrew Supply Shop Survey, which used data from 408 shops in 48 states, and found that gross revenue grew by an average…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Denver, Colorado, is not exactly soul-food central — but it’s the home of Adrian Miller, the man who wrote the book on soul food: Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time. That book, published by the University of North Carolina Press last summer,…
First thing’s first: Despite the enviable success of Freshcraft, one of Denver’s best watering holes to study the attributes of craft beer, brothers Aaron, Lucas and Jason Forgy, all of whom own Freshcraft, aren’t looking to reinvent the wheel when they open Block & Larder on Tennyson Street later this…
East Denver got good news and bad news this month. First, chef/owner Jon Robbins, founder of Gypsy Kitchen, opened the brick-and-mortar Bistro Barbès at 5021 East 28th Avenue. But then came the news that Latke Love, its neighbor at 5151 East 28th, will be closing on May 31. That prompted…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. This is not a story about Hawaiian food. This is a story…
Think pink! As Kendra Anderson noted last week, it’s rose season — and tonight, Elway’s Cherry Creek will host its annual Pink Patio Party, where guests can sample more than thirty rosé wines from around the world — and help Elway’s sommelier Adam Vance pick the three wines for the…
Work & Class 2500 Larimer Street 303-292-0700 If I were Scheherazade spinning tales to save my life before a disgruntled king, I’d look to Work & Class for inspiration. Within the confines of this much-anticipated Ballpark restaurant, which opened at full tilt four months ago and hasn’t looked back since,…
If you were drinking a cocktail with the floral notes of a rainforest, the aroma of banana and lime flowers, the earthiness of sweet red peppers and the saltiness of oysters, you’d be drinking cachaca (pronounced ka-SHA-sa), a Brazilian spirit distilled from sugarcane juice. And while all of those rainforest-and-ocean…
Most of the Ethiopian joints in Denver won’t win any design awards for their muted aesthetics, but this Ethiopian restaurant, despite its pedestrian outside appearance, boasts a lovely dining room, and as far as I know, it’s the only place in Denver that serves gurage kitfo, a southern Ethiopian dish…
Rarely does a restaurant capture the moment as well as Work & Class, which opened in the Ballpark neighborhood this past January. And I’m not just talking about how it embodies 21st-century sustainability with its shipping-container shell. See also: The ten best restaurants in the Ballpark neighborhood…
The Boulderado is home to two bars, one new and one old. The Corner Bar, which just got a facelift, has been around for decades, providing drinks and food in a lodge setting for hotel guests and locals alike. Now it’s been joined by License No. 1, which replaced the…
It’s been nearly three years in the making, but come late July, Trong Lam, who already owns two Pacific Ocean Marketplace supermarkets, one in Denver and a second in Broomfield, will unleash a 100,000-square-foot, Asian food-centric development in Aurora, 57,000 square feet of which will be devoted to a third…
In the summer of 2012, Derek Dietz opened Bocadillo, originally as a Spanish-influenced sandwich shop, on a quiet street in Sunnyside. “I fell in love with the Sunnyside neighborhood, the huge kitchen and the space, and it had always been my dream to open a restaurant,” said Dietz, Bocadillo’s owner…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, parading everything from a jar of pickled vegetables from Gallo di Nero to a plate of nachos at El Tepehuan to a way overdone burger from a steakhouse that you’d think would know the difference between crimson and ashen. Alas…
Denverites love their patios, and one of the best in town will extend its summer hours starting tonight. The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver will be staying open until 9 p.m. on weeknights so that visitors can experience the museum, enjoy a cocktail and relax in the summer air on…
Is Native Foods Cafe the Best Vegetarian Restaurant in Denver? That’s what we named it in the Best of Denver 2014, when the California-based chain had two spots in the metro area, in CitySet and Boulder. And now Denver’s about to get more of a good thing, when Native Foods…
The three-day weekend is over, but there’s plenty of fun on tap in Denver to ease you through this short work week. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar. See also:Food trending: Five favorite spaetzle dishes…
