Illegal Pete’s opened the doors to its fourth and newest location in Denver — at 270 South Broadway — on Saturday, June 29. A grand opening celebration July 13-14 will feature live music, tequila, games and an opportunity to win a New Belgium bike. Find more information on the Illegal…
The crew at Coohills is taking the week off to soak up the summer sun — the restaurant will reopen on Monday, July 8 — and given that chef-owner Tom Coohill has spent the last few weeks digging in dirt and expanding his patio, he deserves it. “We’ve all been…
Chilaquiles may be Mexico’s answer to breakfast, but it absolutely satisfies as a late lunch, too, and after a long day scouring the produce markets in Brighton and Commerce City, a plate of chilaquiles, coupled with a michelada, was a perfect afternoon pause. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Cafe Society dished out six Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from flaming volcano cocktail from Ming’s Dynasty, to a bison and corn sausage pizza from Live Basil, to a platter of oysters that, on Tuesday nights, go for just a dollar a slurp…
More than two dozen restaurants opened in the metro area in June, with more to come in these hot summer months. The Whittier neighborhood gained the new Whittier Pub (in the longtime home of M&D’s), but lost Frank’s Kitchen. Boulder lost H Burger, but gained Drakes Haus. And Glendale is…
The fourth Colorado location of Mellow Mushroom opens today at 9271 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. The menu features a variety of pizzas, hoagies, salads and calzones (some gluten-free), as well as as a wide selection of craft beer (guests can join the Mellow Mushroom Beer Club and receive…
Just what Denver needs — another burger joint, right? Cameron Tune, who’s opening Big Smoke Burger in Glendale on Monday, in the same City Set project that already houses Jax and World of Beer, certainly believes so. In fact, Tune even called Denver’s burger scene “immature” — at least when…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed The Universal, where the Southern-inspired biscuits are nearly three inches tall, with as “many layers as shale, each one telling a story of the hands that folded it.” Mark Antonation continued his trip up Federal Boulevard, with a nostalgic visit to the Crawling Crab. And…
Waffle Brothers owners Ron Dupen and John Power had hoped to open the third location in their mini-empire this spring. But while work is continuing quickly at the East 17th Avenue spot, the former home of Tree Haus Bistro, they now say the place won’t open until July. See also:…
Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery is the latest brewery-in-planning to try crowdfunding as a way to raise money for equipment or other needs. Several other breweries in Colorado have tried to do the same thing over the past few years with limited success. The brewery, which has already signed a lease…
Latke Love, which started two years ago as a mobile food vendor, has opened a brick-and-mortar location in north Park Hill serving traditional potato pancakes smothered with all kinds of non-traditional toppings. “We had a food truck before. It’s a lot of work getting out there in the world and…
The Boulder location of H Burger Co.,1710 Pearl Street, has shuttered, and the LoDo location of the local burger chain will soon follow suit. The leases for both spots have been sold — the Boulder one to a new, yet-to-be-announced restaurant, and the downtown location at 1555 Blake Street to…
You won’t find any bison roaming anywhere near this pizza joint, but you will find its meat on the pizzas. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
That Red Robin commercial hawking veggie burgers really got some vegetarians’ carrots in a boil. The ad starts with a mention of the meatless burger, followed by an actress saying, “We even have a garden burger just in case your teenage daughter is going through a phase.” This was probably…
It won’t be Pizzeria Basta, insists Kelly Whitaker, but “I can promise you that it’ll be epic.” Whitaker is describing the new restaurant that he, along with Andrew Birkholz, president of distributorship at Ciao Vino Selections, and Whitaker’s partners at Id Est Hospitality Group, the company that he founded when…
“You better cut that pizza into four pieces, cause I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” So said Yogi Berra, but Coloradans always seem hungry for more pizza options. And the Atlanta-based Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers is now taking a third slice of the metro market: It will open a…
Tamayo started the year with a million-dollar remodel of the space at the edge of Larimer Square that opened a decade ago; the menu got an update, too. Arnold Rubio has been in the kitchen since Richard Sandoval first opened Tamayo, his “modern Mexican” restaurant; today Rubio is the executive…
Renegade Brewing Company, 925 West Ninth Avenue, will close down the 900 block of West Ninth Avenue for a block party celebrating its two-year anniversary on June 29. The party runs from noon to 10 p.m. tomorrow and features live music from five local bands, including Cousin Jasper, The Stormcellars,…
On my way home from the office today, I stopped at a convenience store to grab a bottled water, and when I walked inside, the clerk blurted out, to no one in particular, “It’s so motherfucking hot that I’d run around the block buck-naked if we could have just one…
I didn’t think much about dessert at The Universal, which I review this week, until I’d finished my tempeh banh mi. “Will that do it for you?” the server asked as she came to clear our plates. When we inquired about sweets, she said they didn’t have any. I knew…
City Park has always been a little wild. Denver’s largest green space touches on more than a dozen urban neighborhoods and is home to lions, elephants, bald eagles and just about every form of recreation. So it’s no surprise that there are also wild yeasts floating in the air around…
Chad Michael George is part of the formula behind the fawned-over cocktails at Williams & Graham. An award-winning Certified Sommelier and graduate of the prestigious BAR 5-Day program, he left Linger a little over a month ago to pursue his passion for the craft cocktail at Williams & Graham. That…
