In this week’s restaurant review, Gretchen Kurtz visits Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery, which has grown from a bakery to a breakfast and lunch spot to a dinner destination, too, particularly if you crave Southern-style chicken and waffles. Mark Antonation continues his journey up Federal Boulevard to El Rancherito, which…
Halloween is associated with three things: monsters and ghosts wandering the streets, bags and bags of candy, and alcohol poisoning. That’s because once we grow past trick-or-treating age, Jaeger and Miller replace Hershey’s and Reese’s for many of us. But your oh-so-clever Jersey Shore costume doesn’t mean you have to…
Arch Pizza opened this week in east Denver promising St. Louis-style pizza, and it made us wonder, what exactly is St. Louis-style pizza? We know that Chicago has deep dish and New York has big, tin slices, but what does St. Louis-style pizza entail? The answer, it turns out, is…
Back in 2011, when Robert Thompson shuttered Argyll in Cherry Creek, the plan, he told me, was to reopen the gastropub in Baker. Instead, Thompson, a prolific restaurateur and the founder of Seasoned Development, a restaurant group that designs, develops and manages restaurant concepts, graced the ubranized ‘hood with Punch…
It looks an outpost of the ever-expanding, locally-run Santiago’s Mexican food restaurant chain will take over an Aurora spot that has seen quite a bit of turnover. The address, at 10400 East Sixth Avenue, was most recently home to El Rico Dicho Menuderia Y Taqueria, a quirky Mexican restaurant that…
The Monkey Barrel, Denver’s newest bar and music venue, has opened on 1611 Platte Street in an already hopping part of town. The bar seats forty and features booths with private TVs. It is open from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 2…
New Belgium Brewing makes lots of big news — for instance, it’s about to resume construction on its massive new plant in North Carolina; it just introduced a new winter seasonal called Accumulation White IPA; it will begin distributing beer in Ohio, its 35th state — but the Fort Collins…
On October 15, the world lost Hans Riegel, the German baron and confectioner whose name is synonymous with the rainbow-hued, teddy bear-shaped, chewable-soft candies known as gummi bears, which were first introduced to the United States in 1982. Reigel, who died from heart failure, was ninety, and to honor his…
It’s always difficult to pull myself away from the sushi at this sublime shrine to raw fish, but the rest of the menu, including the cooked dishes, is a treat, too, especially the spicy udon soup heaped with an ocean of seafood. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Yes, college food can suck — but sometimes the school actually notices and takes action. After students gave poor reviews to a food vendor in the Auraria student union, administrators asked for proposals for a replacement — and Infinitus Pie, a local, family-owned pizza chain, won the slot third location…
Are these the kinds of drinking companions you crave? Then you’re going to love Watering Bowl, the very dog-friendly bar that could finally open this weekend at 5411 Leetsdale Drive. But according to one reader, dog lovers might find another kind of love here. See also: Watering Bowl, “your best…
The weekend is full of events — some of them very, very spooky. The action starts tonight with second annual Adult Daycare at The Lobby, this one dedicated to All Hallow’s Eve. From 6 to 10 p.m., kids 21-plus are encouraged to dress up in their finest costumes, forget their…
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard was born in Boulder in 1987 as Good Times Drive-Thru Burgers. Those were good times, indeed: ’87 was a good year for banana hair clips, jelly shoes and skinny ties. But how on the burger-bombarded earth did Good Times manage to survive with the…
After twemty years, the Old Louisville Inn has checked out, and the 109-year-old building has new owners: Historic 740 Front Street, LLC. See also: Denver’s five best historic watering holes…
Wonder how a nice Southern boy like Brian Crow ended up in Denver at the evil-sounding Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery? “We needed to spread our wings,” explains Crow, who moved here from Asheville, North Carolina, two years ago with his fiancée, Megan. “We looked at Chicago and Portland as…
Paige Schuster loves beer, but her heart is in philanthropy, specifically in the family foundation that she and her mother started seven years ago as a way to remember her father, who was killed in a plane crash when Schuster was seventeen. Now, Schuster and her husband, Marcus Christianson, have…
Pumpkin dishes are popping up in restaurants all over Denver — but you can also harvest your own fresh fruit at a Colorado pumpkin patch. Here are five farms where the pumpkins are just ripe for the picking. See also: Five best places to pick apples in Colorado…
I’ve had my share of really, really lousy latkes, especially in Denver. But there’s at least one restaurant in the Mile High City that manages to make the potato pancakes the way they should be: crisp and golden on the surface and savory, starchy and fluffy inside. Here, you can…
Doug Mace CY Steak 1222 Glenarm Place 720-317-2664 cysteakdenver.com BaRed 437 West Colfax Avenue This is part two of my interview with Doug Mace, exec chef of Cy Steak and the forthcoming BaRed; part one of my chat with Mace ran yesterday. Most noteworthy meal you’ve ever eaten: Franina Italian…
Rakun, a sweet little boutique specializing in locally made and vintage items, is now even sweeter, with the addition of a “teeny tiny tea house.” Rakun owner/entrepreneur entrepreneur/mother Meghan Throckmorton has always focused on sustainability, and that carries over into the charming refreshment area where you can get fortified for…
We’ve all heard of Chicago-style deep-dish pie and a New York slice — but St. Louis pizza? That’s what Marc Kak says that he and his partners, wife Stacy and Matt Leiss, are bringing to Denver with Arch Pizza, which just opened on just East Colfax Avenue and will soon…
Sample more than twenty fine wines from Marczyk Fine Foods’s fine wine shop, Fairfax Wine & Spirits, at tonight’s Lowry Uncorked. The event runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Eisenhower Chapel in the Lowry Town Center, and you can not only try the wines, you can buy them,…
