Everyone was a Broncos fan on Sunday — even if the bar where they were drinking could only show the game on ancient, black-and-white TVs. Can you guess where we were drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a…
The long-anticipated Nectar House Cafe and Elixir Bar is finally open on South Broadway. The eatery took over the lobby space at Kindness Yoga, and yogis and yoginis leaving class can even get discounts on their sustenance! As the city’s first true purveyor of raw vegan food, Nectar House is…
Clay Markwell majored in fine arts and photo journalism in college; he wanted to be a photographer. He wound up in advertising, though, where he found himself “very unhappy.” Markwell knew he needed a change, but instead of doing what most of us do — which is pursuing a similar…
Feisty Spirits is the first distillery in Fort Collins, operating a still (named Aphrodite) that produces an interesting, often experimental lineup of whiskeys (and more) on “fermentation row,” as Feisty team member Alex Mackewich affectionately calls it. After all, Funkwerks and Fort Collins Brewery are only a stone’s throw away…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of kung pao chicken from Shanghai Garden to a bowl of cumin-spiced green beans from Shish Kabob Grill to a parade of side dishes from a stalwart Japanese restaurant…
While waiting, and waiting, for a table at Highland Tavern on Saturday, we strolled around the neighborhood, looking at all the projects under way in this section of LoHi. When Highland Tavern opened here seven years ago, it was a pioneer in an area where the Arabian Bar was still…
On Saturday, when a restaurant-industry pal was craving tater tots for his 25th birthday breakfast, we headed to Highland Tavern, renowned for its homemade tater tots — and very long brunch lines. A wait that was originally estimated at half an hour translated to ninety minutes before we finally got…
When the Denver Housing Authority opened a new facility last year at 11th and Osage, it included the Osage Cafe, a culinary training kitchen and restaurant. Not only is this a place for the community to eat, but it’s also a place where kids from that community can train for…
Frank Schultz of Tavern Hospitality Group has a lot on his plate. He and his wife just had a baby boy last week, around the same time THG finally broke ground on the Tavern Platt Park, which is going into the old home of India’s Pearl at 1475 South Pearl…
Soup is a winter favorite for lots of cooks — it’s easy, it’s cheap and it’s filling on a cold day. And a little effort nets you a big pot that can last several days (or feed lots of people). But for hungry eaters who aren’t satisfied by a bowl…
Entrepreneur alert: Denver needs more brunch places. Make that more good brunch places. The spot we stopped by shortly after noon on Saturday is definitely a good brunch place — with a waiting list for tables that stretched ninety minutes. But the chicken-fried steak was definitely worth the wait. Can…
Yes, it’s another brewery opening in Denver — this one Alpine Dog Brewing, which Gardiner Hammond, a former brewer at the Old Mill in Littleton, plans to open this spring in part of the space on East Colfax Avenue that once housed Independent Records. And Alpine is just one of…
Frasca Food and Wine will host another rendition of its famed Monday night wine dinners at 5:30 p.m. tonight. This edition will feature a flight of white and red wines presented by Craig Lewis, local wine distributor and avid cyclist. Lewis, along with Frasca’s Bobby Stuckey, will pour the wines…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Acorn, an offshoot of Oak at Fourteenth that opened last summer in The Source and has already come into its own. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with chef/co-owner Noah French about another new spot, Sugarmill, a sweet spot that is…
Dry Dock Brewing, which opened a new, 30,000-square-foot production brewery and packaging facility in Aurora last January, said today that it had nearly quadrupled in size over the past twelve months, going from 3,273 barrels in 2012 to 12,000 barrels in 2013. It also managed to can more than two…
How to grab the interest of future culinary masters? Hold an ice cream-creation contest, for which the winner gets a year’s worth of free ice cream. That’s what the Buell Children’s Museum and Cold Stone Creamery did in Pueblo last fall as part of the museum’s Math Carnival exhibition. Kids…
Steven Redzikowski, co-owner with Bryan Dayton of Oak at Fourteenth and Acorn, which the partners opened in The Source this summer, knew that Denver and Boulder were far more different than just a thirty-mile separation might suggest. Still, he was taken aback by just how adventurous Denver diners can be…
Everyone’s on the Denver Broncos bandwagon right now, but West Flanders Brewing in Boulder (which made news last week for naming a beer in honor of pot legalization) manged to find the line between enthusiasm and over-enthusiasm after it named a beer for the home team — only to have…
Gardiner Hammond, a former brewer at the Old Mill in Littleton, plans to open his own brewery this spring in a space that once housed Independent Records, next to the Ogden Theater on East Colfax Avenue. Part of the space was taken over by Angelo’s CDs in August, but the…
Distilleries are popping up all over Colorado, to help quench the thirst of drinkers crowding craft cocktail bars. But smaller distillers can face a challenge as they try to get their products into the hands of the bartenders who live, breathe, mix and drink booze every day. Now a new…
Omaha! Omaha! Bronco-related deals and decor are popping up all over town in anticipation of this Sunday’s big game. We spotted this fan at a restaurant better known for its green chile than its orange-and-blue devotion. Can you guess where we’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Yesterday we released our updated list of the best dives in the metro area, and the comments have been fast and furious. Mostly furious. Some people are peeved we included their favorite bars — which means they’ll be more crowded — and others are irritated that we ignored their favorite…
