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…
Oh, pho the love of noodles! Denver’s culinary landscape, as several industry insiders noted in my comprehensive trend piece that ran a few weeks ago, is stamped — liberally — with pho cafes, and now, as we start the New Year, there’s yet another new pho parlor, which, if the…
Cafe Society served up a half-dozen Guess Where? posts over the holidays, including everything from a yet-to-be-identified plate of banana bread French toast from a suburban breakfast and lunch joint, to a handful of liquid assets — a super-sugary cocktail named after an emoticon from Tom’s Urban 24 and a…
Many of us made New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier, more nutritious food — but at this time of the year, the most appealing foods are often the stick-to-your-ribs kind that provide fuel to power through the colder weather. But this baked pasta is the best of both worlds: nutritious…
Six months after the city first slapped the First Avenue Hotel with notices to vacate because the structure was unsound, and five months after a Board of Appeals hearing determined that owner Jesse Morreale could reopen the two restaurants in the building — Sketch and El Diablo — while he…
It’s a new year, and so a clean plate for all food nerds is in order. We can forget the memories of past food flubs and start this year fresher than a bowl of baby spinach (triple washed, of course.) I’ve been studying other food forecasts for 2013 — including…
The thirteenth annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival takes place in Vail this Thursday through Saturday, January 12. This winter fest features some of the most unique and rare craft beers in the country; check the website for the full lineup of participating breweries, the schedule of events and…
We had our mouths full in 2012 — so full, in fact, that we’re still chewing on the culinary headlines that made news over the last twelve months. We witnessed the demise of a restaurant that had survived more than sixty years; applauded the soaring resurrection of another; dropped our…
Breckenridge Brewery rolled out a new monthly firkin program during the Great American Beer Festival last year that is designed to play off the First Friday art walks that take place on the first Friday of every month in the Art District on Santa Fe. See also: – Renegade Brewing…
Utah’s Epic Brewing has signed a lease on a 20,000-square-foot building in the River North neighborhood, where it will open its second brewery. The facility is just four blocks from Our Mutual Friend, a nanobrewery that opened in October, and very close to Black Shirt Brewing, River North Brewing and…
What will be the big culinary trends in 2013? As we prepare for a new year in gastronomy, we posed that question to dozens of people in the local food business, everyone from chefs and pastry magicians to restaurant brokers and PR consultants, from brewers and grape gurus to realtors…
When Strange Brewing Company opened in May 2010 and kicked off a wave of new craft brewery development in the Denver area that continues to grow astronomically, owners Tim Myers and John Fletcher became the godfathers to some of those who followed, offering help, advice and support to anyone who…
Finding feijoada in this city is no easy task. The national dish of Brazil, a thick, inky South American stew — almost like a cassoulet — stocked with black beans, garlic, sausage and other animal flesh, is available at Cafe Brazil, and, once a week, on Saturday, you could also…
When it comes to breakfast, I’m an eggs Benedict kind of girl, but every once in a while, I’ll expand my repertoire, which I did at this suburban breakfast and lunch cafe, forgoing my usual order for a plate of banana bread French toast festooned with fresh strawberries. Can you…
