No matter how much fun you have at a bar in Denver, there’s always the melancholy time when the lights go up and everyone has to pay the tab and head home. If you’re unlucky, the bouncer will shove you out. If you’re especially unfortunate, the DJ will play Semisonic’s…
Like vegetables, desserts are seasonal. Just as we’re moving out of winter’s root vegetables and into spring’s pea shoots and asparagus, we’re also moving towards refreshing sweets such as berry tarts and ice cream. But we’re not there yet, which is why you’ll still see heavier fare such as bread…
Colorado’s breweries are growing fast — expanding, adding employees and ordering new equipment. Some of that equipment is on display at the industry-only Craft Brewers Conference, a trade show in Denver for the first time this week. For some of the breweries, like Durango’s Ska Brewing and Denver Beer Co,…
Denver restaurants are rolling out new happy hour menus to coincide with the warmer weather, and late yesterday afternoon, while the sun was warming my neck, I enjoyed one of the new happy hour dishes — crab dip and housemade potato chips — at a joint whose two patios were…
Jimmy “Snarf” Seidel Snarf’s eatatsnarfs.com Snarfburger snarfburger.com This is part two of my interview with Jimmy Seidel, chef-owner of Snarf’s and Snarfburger; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: I’ve had some very memorable meals in my life, including the one where I asked…
Put a little optimism in a student’s glass while filling yours — with wine. Greenhouse Scholars is holding its annual Glass Half Full wine-tasting and fundraising event this evening, giving community members the chance to help transform the lives of our future leaders. See also: Wine dinners, beer dinners and…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz ventured to Arvada, to Braun Taphaus & Grille, which the Bar-On family (Udi’s) opened last November as a not-so-typical sports bar, one whose menu is flavored with Austrian accents. Read Kurtz’s review of Braun’s, now posted on Cafe Society…
Nooch Vegan Market, the vegan store owned and operated by Joshua LaBure and Vanessa Gochnour since August 2012, left its original home in RiNo last month and is reopening today in the Baker neighborhood, at 10 East Ellsworth Avenue. With twice the space they had at their original store, Labure…
A friend of mine — a bona fide burger baron — turned me on to this burger joint, which, he insisted, flipped a burger that was the closest meat-between-the-bun he’d ever eaten that mimicked a famed burger from In-N-Out. It wasn’t quite quite an In-N-Out burger, but I agree that…
The Craft Brewers Conference begins in earnest today with speakers, seminars and a trade show for the 8,000 or so craft-beer industry professional who are in town for the annual event — which takes place in Denver this year for the first time. But just because the event is closed…
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…
Jimmy “Snarf” Seidel Snarf’s eatatsnarfs.com Snarfburger snarfburger.com This is part one of my interview with Jimmy Seidel, chef-owner of Snarf’s and Snarfburger; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. If you’ve ever wondered why Jimmy Seidel, owner of Snarf’s and Snarfburger, named his joints what he did, all you…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
In 2012, Udi’s Foods, one of the most prominent food brands in Colorado — and across the country — was sold to Boulder Brands for $125 million in a sale that required a number of prerequisites, including the stipulation that the owners of Udi’s Foods would rebrand its company and…
A black hole at 2200 South Broadway has swallowed another restaurant: an outpost of Zocalo. The building that was once home to Mr. Steak has housed a succession of unsuccessful spots over the last decade, and the news of yet another closure prompted one reader to suggest that it’s time…
Braun Taphaus & Grille 5601 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada 303-456-2630 brauntaphaus.com The last time I overheard a server talking about this little-known vegetable, so electric with its fuchsia flesh that it looks like candy, I was at twelve, a place where novelty is to be expected. But the dialogue caught…
Grab your gal pals and head downtown tonight to sip expertly mixed drinks while giving cancer a swift kick. Cocktails for a Cure, a benefit for the University of Colorado Cancer Center, will feature some of the finest mixologists in town, including bartenders from Frasca Food and Wine, Guard and…
It’s almost time for the big reveal. Later this week, Udi’s will announce the new name for its local restaurant empire, a change prompted by the $125 million sale of the company’s gluten-free and granola division in 2012. The name won’t be a complete mystery, though: We know it will…
Denver lays claim to a lot of different cuisines, but the foods of the Caribbean, namely Jamaican, are woefully few and far between. But last week, in Lincoln Park, just on the fringe of the Santa Fe Arts District, a small storefront called Jamaican Grill opened on Eighth Avenue in…
“People came here as kids with their parents, and now those people are grown up and bringing their own kids. There aren’t many places like that any more, but a community needs them.” Those are the words of John Jacobs, who plans to reopen the 45-year-old All-V’s sandwich shop with…
On Saturday, April 12, Tom Ryan and his crew of pizza cohorts will open another Live Basil Pizza, a homegrown, fast-casual concept that, according to Ryan, also the founder of Smashburger and Tom’s Urban, is based upon “hand-stretched doughs, organic San Marzano tomatoes, live hydroponic basil and other organic, natural,…
The first award was thrilling — and a big relief. The second was a welcome surprise. The third and fourth, well, those were just icing on the cake. Two years ago, the crew from the Bull & Bush went to San Diego and came back with four medals from the…
