Stuck in the suburbs, Lori Midson wound up looking not at one of the ninety TVs, but at an order of really, really bad nachos. Where was she? This question racked up a record number of guesses, but it turns out the first guess was the right one: Buffalo Wild…
What’s for dinner tonight? Pizza. You might as well eat it for lunch, too. Because today all 25 of the Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta locations will donate 25 percent of their sales to flood victims in the Longmont community. So by eating good New York-style pizza, you’ll be doing good…
Pho Duy & Grill, which is not affiliated with Pho Duy on Federal Boulevard — but shares family ties with the Pho Duy in Aurora — opened last week in Centennial with a menu that, not surprisingly, bowls over with pho. Seventeen versions of the Vietnamese noodle soup, including rare…
Dave Chichura, who has been the head brewer at Oskar Blues for more than eight years, has left Longmont to take the top job at Eddyline, a tiny brewery in the mountain town of Buena Vista that plans to triple in size over the next few months. The move is…
A development group broke ground today on the first of four restaurants planned for two new buildings outside of Hangar 2, the historic building in the Lowry neighborhood that once held Air Force planes when the area was a military base. Hangar 2 Partners — a partnership between Larimer Associates…
According to Williams & Graham barman Sean Kenyon, who was also the emcee at last night’s Espolón Tequila Cocktail Fights, Bryan Dayton, bar manager at Acorn, is “pretty.” Very, very pretty. And, as Kenyon pointed out multiple times, Dayton was on the cover of GQ magazine. Kenyon was full of…
It was the mountains that first lured Christian Saber, chef-owner of Boulder’s Rincon Argentino, to Colorado from his home in Buenos Aires. But after two seasons working on the slopes and in restaurants in Breckenridge, he realized that he’d fallen in love with more than Colorado powder. His future wife,…
Sometimes things just suddenly appear out of the blue — in this instance, the ocean blue — at my table. Such was the case over the weekend, when a plate of jellyfish head was ceremoniously thrust upon the table. Jellyfish head, it turns out, isn’t the head of the jellyfish…
Native Foods Cafe is a plant-based chain that originated in Palm Springs, California, and has since expanded to several more California cities, as well as Chicago, Boulder and, as of last month, Glendale, where it’s in the CitySet development. And it didn’t take long for this all-vegan restaurant to garner…
Did you think the hysteria over the opening of Dunkin’ Donuts in central Denver this summer was extreme? Then you weren’t here two years ago, when the first Steak ‘n Shake — slogan: “In Sight It Must Be Right” — opened in metro Denver, to major burger-craving crowds. But the…
The southern suburbs were clearly thirsty for craft beer when Grist Brewing opened earlier this month in Highlands Ranch. Founded by organic chemist Rob Kevwitch, Grist is the first independently-owned craft brewery in Highlands Ranch — and the first in a wave of brewery openings scheduled over the next few…
Tonight’s Here & There Progressive Wine Dinner is two dinners in one. Beast + Bottle and Table 6 are teaming up for a meal that features four courses, each paired with a specialty wine from Penner-Ash Wine Cellars. One pair of courses will be served at Beast + Bottle, and…
After two years of stops and starts, Colt & Gray finally opened its new basement cocktail bar, Ste. Ellie, on Friday night. And Danielle Lirette was there to capture the scene. See also: Ste. Ellie opens tonight beneath Colt & Gray…
Great Divide Brewing, which made its name with enormous, potent beers like Yeti and Hercules, will continue a newer romance with lower-alcohol beers in January when it debuts Lasso, an IPA that will carry the lowest ABV in the brewery’s lineup. Brewed with three kinds of hops — Columbus, Centennial…
Just in time for breaks during holiday shopping, another round of restaurants has opened in Belmar. World of Beer is now pouring in Lakewood; it’s the chain’s second outpost in the metro area (the first is in CitySet). Pho Saigon Basil and Rocko’s Cantina also opened in the development. And…
What defines an essential restaurant? Several opinionated friends and I were recently discussing that topic during dinner at a trendy newcomer that’s amassed a flurry of flattery since opening its doors. It’s a restaurant-of-the-moment, but will it still be relevant in six months? Will the crowds continue to jam the…
Stuck in the suburbs, I wound up at this labyrinth of TVs — ninety, according to the hostess, who may have been exaggerating — and shrine to below-average bar food, including these abysmal nachos topped with chile that tasted like a tin can, jalapenos that were definitely from the can,…
Stuffing is an absolute necessity for any Thanksgiving table. And though we won’t talk smack about StoveTop, this version — made with cornbread and green chiles (we used Anaheim, but you could easily sub in Hatch) — pays tribute to the Southwest. It’s also totally vegan, and so delicious that…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a pair of boba smoothies from Cowboba’s to a bowl of unimpressive lentil soup from Cafe Byblos, to a stellar plate of pork belly and mustard greens from a restaurant, whose “secret” Chinese menu is full of wonderments…
Breckenridge Brewery will release its first new seasonal packaged beer in eighteen months this January, when it unveils Ophelia, a 7.5 percent ABV hoppy wheat ale. Ophelia will replace Pandora’s Bock during the January-to-May timeframe; that beer will become part of Breckenridge’s small-batch occasional series, which it bottles in four…
On Friday, November 29, Noah French, pastry chef of TAG, will open Sugarmill at 2470 Broadway, finally unleashing the visions of sugarplums that have been dancing in his head for the past 25 years. It’s a lifelong sweet dream for French, who partnered with Troy Guard, exec-chef owner of TAG,…
The area up the street used to be full of pawn shops and dive bars — the kind of places that were once in the 1400 block of Larimer before it was transformed into Larimer Square. But now the kind of developments we’ve see there — including several of the…
