Craft Urbanism extended the Biennial of the Americas’ Draft Urbanism exhibit this past Saturday with a beer garden along Cherry Creek and Wynkoop Street. The event showcased craft beer from Denver Beer Co, Wynkoop Brewing Company, Great Divide Brewing Co. and Strange Brewing Company, and food from Mikes 2 Kitchen…
Hanna Raskin, formerly the food critic for two of our sister papers, just published Yelp Help: How to Write Great Online Restaurant Reviews. The book’s a how-to guide for contributors to sites such as our own Voice Places, where you can weigh in with your opinions of local restaurants. We…
Fruition chef-owner Alex Seidel is still mulling over the name of his new restaurant and European-style market, which will open in Union Station next summer, but he’s made at least one concrete decision that will undoubtedly ensure that the wine program rivals any in Denver: Seidel has enlisted Stephanie Caraway,…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bottle of Greek lager from Steakhouse 10, to a platter of sizzling steak fajitas from La Sandia, to a fantastic green chile pupusa from a tiny restaurant in Golden that’s big on flavor…
On Wednesday night, Jennifer Jasinski, the executive chef and co-owner of Rioja, makes her debut on Top Chef Masters, where she’ll go head-to-head against twelve other chefs, including Douglas Keane, David Burke and Bryan Voltaggio, for a chance to win the Top Chef Masters title and $100,000, the earnings of…
With blueberries in season and bright, bold lemons in the stores, today is a perfect time to bake a big batch of delectable, lemon-blueberry scones. You’ll have breakfast to-go for the rest of the week! See also: – Vegan coffee cake for a morning pick-me-up on Meatless Monday – Vegan…
Love him or hate him, at least Guy Fieri brings national attention to some worthy local restaurants, including Cora Faye’s Cafe, which was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives last month. Fieri raved about chef/owner Priscilla Smith’s fried chicken, pork neck bones, collard greens, cabbage, hush puppies and chitlins. See…
Want to know where to go and what to do in Denver? Your essential mobile guide — also known as our Best Of app — just got better. You already know you can count on the Best Of app to offer restaurant, shopping and nightlife recommendations from Westword’s expert critics…
Denver Beer Co, 1695 Platte Street, is hosting Science on Tap from 6 to 9 p.m. this evening, in collaboration with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Museum curator Nicole Garneau, along with Denver Beer Co owners Patrick Crawford and Charlie Berger, collected wild yeast samples in order to…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz tried to beat the heat at Mali Thai Cuisine, Jason Lebeau of Coohills spoke with Lori Midson about the science of baking, and Mark Antonation rushed up Federal Boulevard to New Saigon Bakery & Deli for the banh mi before the place closed for the day…
July is National Ice Cream Month, and in honor of that manufactured holiday, Boulder Ice Cream is rolling out a new line of gelato. Figo Organic Gelato is made with “only the finest gourmet organic ingredients,” according to the Figo website, in seven flavors ranging from Figo’s Vanilla Trio (a…
Illegal Petes’ new South Broadway outpost is teeming with people this weekend, and it’s easy to see the attraction. The sprawling space is outfitted with old-school picnic tables, perfect for kicking back with a beer and meeting new friends. Much like summer camp, patrons can shuffle outside after ordering plates…
Like a lot of brewers, John Fiorilli spends more time pouring ingredients into a giant kettle than he does sitting in front of a computer screen. And like hundreds of other brewers, Fiorilli was busy doing just that on July 9 when online registration opened for breweries that wanted to…
I don’t know about you, but I’m a little surprised by the assumption that Americans can’t take the heat. In this week’s review of Mali Thai Cuisine, general manager Alex Tongbua didn’t come right out and say it, but he did soft-shoe around the point by noting that “American people,…
So I had just gotten into this craft beer thing. Not obsessively, but enough to tell the difference between a tart saison and a Berliner weisse. Enough to snort dismissively when someone at the table ordered a Michelob Ultra Fruit Lime Cactus. But then they started putting booze in beer…
When Shin Sa Ding, a splashy Korean restaurant opened just over a year ago in Aurora, general manager Patrick Choi was singing the song of success. “We’ve had one Korean guy who’s come in every day for two weeks in a row, sometimes twice a day. They keep telling me…
Greek beer — at least this one — doesn’t taste much different from American beer, but since it was the one and only brew on the list that sounded remotely interesting, I took a leap of faith, only to yearn for a bar that poured Lips of Faith. Can you…
A tennis player just served a bunch of New York City restaurants — including Applebee’s, Olive Garden and Red Lobster — with a lawsuit alleging deceptive business practices, because they add auto-gratuities on meal tabs. The case may get somewhere, because under NYC rules restaurants may not add surcharges to…
This week Lori Midson moved to another part of the kitchen for an interview with Jason Lebeau, who’s been the pastry chef at Coohills since Tom Coohill decided to open his welcoming restaurant on the edge of LoDo. For those who want to follow in his floury footsteps, Lebeau has…
The Golden Triangle Farmers’ Market will debut Sunday, July 28, in the south parking lot adjacent to Rooster & Moon Coffee Pub, 955 Bannock Street. Organizers are kicking off the new gathering with a party at the coffee shop this evening from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be drink…
Cinque Soldi Salumeria, the Italian deli and market that was originally co-owned by Denver meat man Mark DeNittis (who left the restaurant last year), has shuttered; the space is now slated to become Aiko Pops, a gourmet popsicle shop, Denver Eater reports. See also: – Mark DeNittis bows out of…
Hot nights on the patio require cold pints, and at this taphouse, which just began brewing, there’s plenty of outdoor space to soak up the suds, the scene and the sun. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where…
