Earlier this week, on Monday, I spent the afternoon in Kansas — specifically St. Francis, Kansas, a small, sleepy town just a few miles east of the Kansas/Colorado border, population a mere 1,200. Cattle far, far outweigh humans in St. Francis — there are thousands and thousands of them –…
Looks like El Diablo is really gone for good. The restaurant and its sibling, Sketch, held a final bash on May 2, then closed after last call — right before the city’s most recent notice to vacate the First Avenue Hotel was set to take effect on May 3. Earlier…
Don’t let the name mislead you: The Chocolate Nemesis may soon be your new best friend. The “oldie but goody” dessert that won fans at The Kitchen in Boulder has now been imported to The Kitchen Denver, and is winning hearts (and stomachs) across town. The flourless chocolate cake, accompanied…
The Single Malt and Scotch Whiskey Extravaganza is visiting thirteen major markets around the country this year. Last night, it was Denver’s turn, when the event poured out the love — and the booze — at the Brown Palace. Photographer Christopher Morgan was there; keep reading to get a look…
If you spend any time in the comments section of our blogs, you might have already noticed that some commenters show up with the titles “Editor” or “Community Manager” next to their usernames. Well, there’s now a new badge on the block, and it’s called the “Vocalizer.” Continue reading for…
Update: Congrats to AliP11 and banannarama! You’ve each won two wristbands to tonight’s opening. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: Blake Street Tavern’s Underground Social game room officially opens at 3 p.m., and we’ve got four free wristbands to give away so you can…
Arvada will get a new brewery later this month when Odyssey Beerwerks opens up at 5535 West 56th Avenue, Suite 107, just north of the Denver border. The 1,700-square-foot taproom, which will include a fifteen-barrel brewing system and room for at least eighty people, was founded by friends Chris Hill,…
No, this bánh mì isn’t from a Vietnamese restaurant. In fact, it comes from a restaurant where you’d likely never expect to see it on the menu. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into…
Any food-nerd knows that it’s almost impossible to keep up with every new culinary gadget or cool DIY kit — but it’s almost as tough to resist them. You contemplate giving up imported cheese or cartons of duck fat for a month just so you can buy some food-tastic item…
Federal Bar & Grill is now open in the former home of Micky Manor, right across a parking lot — the bar’s own parking lot! — from Jack-n-Grill. There’s not much grill yet to the bar, which occupies a circa 1904 fire station, but there are enough craft beers to…
An eclectic group of neighboring, locally owned businesses will convene in the parking lot at 2830 Larimer Street tomorrow afternoon for a free street party that’s open to the public. The Grand Maintaining festival is a celebration of “keepin on” in Denver’s latest hub of cultural development. See also: -…
For almost eighty years, the Micky Manor — and that’s Micky, without an “e” — was a landmark on Federal Boulevard, its trademark-respecting neon Mickey and Minnie signs a constant. But in the fall of 2011, the mouse finally left the house. The circa 1904 firehouse at 2544 Federal Boulevard…
Denver is about to get Brainless. Sometime in late May or early June, Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, known for its series of Brainless fruit beers, will brew its first batch in Denver, in a soaring old warehouse building it is renovating in the River North neighborhood. By July, Epic…
It’s easy to eat seasonally when the fields are full of tomatoes and the trees are heavy with peaches, as I write in this week’s review of Potager. But abundance, whether in August or May, brings its own challenges. This counter-intuitive lesson is one I learned first-hand when I was…
The space that harbors this Mexican restaurant has seen its share of dining dens — it’s a revolving door of restaurants — but this one may have the chops to stick around longer than the rest, thanks to good food and an even better tequila selection. Can you guess where…
For years — YEARS! — I’ve prayed to the Mexican food gods that someone in my Wash Park ‘hood would open a taqueria, or at least a taco joint, saving me from hiking to Federal Boulevard when I want my al pastor fix. And, now, it looks like I’m finally…
Taylor Drew Russell’s Smokehouse 1422 Larimer Street 720-524-8050 russellssmokehouse.com This is part two of my interview with Taylor Drew, exec chef of Russell’s Smokehouse; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I don’t get out to eat nearly enough, but I recently ate…
When Blake Street Tavern moved a block down Blake Street three years ago, it took over a big space with a great view of the Ballpark neighborhood — and a really big basement. After several attempts to brand that underground area, it looks like Blake Street has finally come up…
When Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, listed the “Best Ethnic Food in the U.S.” for Food & Wine, he lauded Denver for its Den-Mex — gravy-like green chile in general, and the variations served at Chubby’s and El Taco de Mexico, especially when accompanied by anything else from El…
Whole Foods has partnered with thinkThin — a health-conscious snack brand — for a nationwide giveaway deal today as an early celebration of Mother’s Day. Each participating location will give the first fifty moms who show up to shop today a gift bag. See also: – The sh*t-show that’s the…
If you’re looking for housemade honey-chamomile bitters, ice chipped off a block or a community counter where you can sit and grab a bite, don’t go to Potager. The place doesn’t have a soda gun, much less a mixologist. And Teri Rippeto, who founded this Capitol Hill institution with her…
Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, just published his list of the “Best Ethnic Food in the U.S.” on the Food & Wine website, and Denver rates high for its “Den-Mex” — a term coined, as far as we can tell, by Gustavo Arellano, the Ask a Mexican columnist who…
