Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Christopher Weir, the…
Change is inevitable, but it’s not always smooth, which is why Eugene Kahng, co-owner of the soon-to-open Colorado + Liquid Art Works brewery in Wheat Ridge, hit a few bumps when he painted over a mural that had decorated the side of Valente’s Italian Restaurant, a community mainstay that closed…
So many margaritas, so little time. This one, in the above snap, however, is easily one of my favorite mezcal-based cocktails, its smokiness intensified by specks of jalapeño. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
The Broncos are going to win Super Bowl XLVII — say that with me, and keep repeating it like a mantra because if you say anything else, out loud, in front of other people here in Colorado, somebody will punch you in the stomach really, really hard. And speaking of…
The locally headquartered Red Robin burger chain has produced some weird stuff lately, like the noticeably un-hot Cry Baby and Fiery Ghost burgers, Freestyle Coke machines that will eventually destroy humanity as we know it, and those blecky beer milkshakes. But the chief execs at Red Robin appear to be…
Did you vow to eat more veggies in 2013? You can’t beat the roasted beets and arugula salad that Lori Midson recently found. Unless you hate beets, of course. Or are just over them. See also: – Guess where I’m eating an arugula and beet salad? – Guess where I’m…
Every Wednesday throughout the month of January, Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, 1317 14th Street, will surrender its back-wall taps to various craft breweries. Tonight’s takeover will be courtesy of California’s Russian River Brewing Co…
Could Korean be the next fast-casual concept in Denver — and beyond? Quite possibly, especially if it’s Bop & Gogi, which, like Chipotle and a whole slew of other quick — but not fast-food — cuisine concepts, is the kind of joint that ballyhoos good grub, at affordable prices, in…
Jamie Wells has been working for four years to convert his 1.5-barrel homebrewing kit into a commercial system that could sate the thirst of many more people, and on Thursday, January 10, he’ll finish that task by opening J Wells Brewery at 2516 49th Street in Boulder. His little brewery…
Restaurants located in converted old homes tend not to be the edgiest places around. But what they lack in trendsetting they usually make up for with atmosphere, using the power of architecture — exposed brick, stained-glass windows, fireplaces and wrap-around porches — to draw you in and make you feel…
The writing was on the wall, says Joe Freemond, the soon-to-be-former executive chef of Cellar Wine Bar, which lost three of its kitchen staffers last week — Freemond included — after what the chef describes as a “long list of problems” that the owners, including Brian Delgado, refused to address…
In 1906, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody took his traveling circus on the road to Belgium, performing in Antwerp, Brussels, and half a dozen other cities. Now, more than a hundred years later, a beer that was accidentally brewed as a result of that tour (according to legend, that is)…
Denver has no shortage of places serving up delicious, locally brewed beers with solid food offerings — and the venerable, revamped Wazee Supper Club is one of them. The beer list is as big as (if not bigger than) the food menu, which features your typical bar offerings — burgers,…
It’s a tricky time for plan-ahead, chain-dining daters. They have six weeks to figure out where to make Valentine’s Day reservations, and despite the fact that dining out on February 14 is way more hassle than it’s worth (big waits even with reservations, crowded dining rooms, flustered staff, long ticket…
To the Hopi, Gretchen Kurtz writes, kachinas are spirit-beings associated with rain, corn, animals and other elements critical to life in the desert. Not that you’d grasp this from the splashy Southwestern restaurant of the same name that opened in the Westin Westminster in September. According to the menu, kachinas…
It’s two-dollar taco night at Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder. The restaurant offers the deal every Tuesday from 4 p.m. to close…
I went here to get my fried chicken fix, but it turns out that Monday is two-for-one burger day, so I got two of those instead (one for me; one for the guy on the corner). It’s a beast of a burger, but its size isn’t the only thing that…
Did you resolve to clean out your kitchen cabinets for the new year? Your time spent sneezing your way through your messy spice shelves could pay off: Marcyzk Fine Foods is holding its annual Old Spice Contest, and you can enter until 8 p.m. today. Here’s the deal: Bring your…
If you’re Mark DeNittis, you don’t wallow in pig shit when the USDA pulls the pork from underneath your livelihood. Instead, you pick yourself up, eat a sausage or ten (and porchetta, to boot) and map out a future that brings you back to what you love most: the classroom…
Gather, a new community lounge and cafe, opened today at 1062 Delaware Street. The concept comes from ChoLon’s Lon Symensma — whom we picked as best chef in 2012 — and ChoLon partner Jim Deters, who opened Galvanize, a 30,000 square-foot collaborative workplace in the same historic Rocky Mountain Bank…
The Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries group is getting ready to open its newest eatery and taphouse, Under the Sun, at 627-A South Broadway in the former Giovanni’s space. That’s right below the Southern Sun Pub & Brewery in south Boulder. The restaurant will feature a lower-priced flatbread menu and…
In her recent review of Ace, Gretchen Kurtz noted that the four-month-old restaurant was a work in progress, and that owners Josh and Jen Wolkon and executive chef Brandon Biederman would soon introduce a revised menu, one that increased the number of tried-and-true dishes — including the Brussels sprouts and…
