Joy Wine & Spirits’s second annual Chili Cook-off will take place this Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. in the parking lot behind the shop at 1302 East Sixth Avenue. The family-friendly block party and competition features an impressive lineup of local restaurants: Fruition, Barolo, Mizuna, Table 6, Potager, Lala’s,…
Update: We have a winner of our contest. Congrats to Alison Torvik, who was the only commenter to guess all five restaurants correctly: Vesta Dipping Grill, Sushi Den, Strings, Highland’s Garden Cafe and Duo. While last week was all about the Great American Beer Festival (and hangovers), this week is…
Fall means many things to people: pumpkins, football, piles of leaves. But to nationally-recognized bartender Sean Kenyon, designer of the cocktail menu at Squeaky Bean (which I review this week), it means something else: aromatics. “When I think of fall and winter, I think aromatics right away,” says Kenyon, whose…
It’s been an…interesting year for Ambria, the American-Mediterranean restaurant that managing partner Steve Halliday opened on the 16th Street Mall in November 2011. Halliday, who revamped the space, a former Ling & Louie’s where he was also a partner, brought in a big-name chef in Jeremy Kittelson (he’s now cooking…
Why is that every restaurant seems to think it can do barbecue? Even when it can’t? Such is the case with this once-dependable neighborhood burger joint that, judging by last night’s dinner, has lost its mastery of burgers, too. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Colorado took home 35 medals at the Great American Beer Festival this year, including six that went to Fort Collins brewers, highlighted by Funkwerks, which won two golds and was named Small Brewing Company of the Year. See also: – Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012 -…
Epic Brewing’s Kevin Crompton surprised a room full of reporters and bloggers during the Great American Beer Festival last week when he announced that his Utah company planned to build a second brewery in Denver during the first part of 2013. He also surprised Epic’s owners, David Cole and Peter…
Black Pearl, Steve Whited’s popular contemporary American restaurant on South Pearl Street, opened in 2005, and while several of the dining dens on that stretch of asphalt have shuttered or suffered from an identity crisis, the unpretentious Platt Park gem has remained largely consistent, despite a raft of chefs that…
“I can’t tell you how hard it was to find a new name. Everything I thought of was already taken,” says Craig Rothgery, who plans to open De Steeg Brewing in January in the alleyway across the street from the Oriental Theater, at 4342 North Tennyson Street. But De Steeg…
Patrick Hartnett Kachina Southwestern Grill 10600 Westminster Boulevard, Westminster kachinagrill.com 303-410-5813 Part one of my interview with Patrick Hartnett, exec chef of Kachina Southwestern Grill, ran yesterday; this is part two. Favorite restaurant in America: Kaya, in Pittsburgh. It’s a restaurant I opened about twenty years ago, and it’s still…
I had never eaten at aBonefish Grill, and I as I lurked the menu online on the way to the restaurant, I was unimpressed with what I saw: grilled meats and seafood that seemed pretty typical of any American seafood/steakhouse. These days our food-centric culture tends to steer diners toward…
Denver Police Chief Robert White and Commander Ron Saunier just announced that three arrests had been made in the quintuple murders that took place early yesterday morning at Fero’s Bar & Grill on Colorado Boulevard; among the five victims in an incident that began as a robbery and escalated into…
The chefs from Vesta Dipping Grill, Steubens, Linger, Root Down, 1515, Coohills, Duo and Olivea will take the stage at GrowHaus, 4751 York Street, for a unique dining experience tonight: “The Feast of the Hunters and Gatherers.”…
Thomas Keller’s latest cookbook, Bouchon Bakery, is coming out in a few days. This is old news to food lovers around the country, who pre-ordered months ago to ensure not a second’s delay in tackling the purported nine pages of croissant instructions from the perfectionist chef of French Laundry fame…
Developer Dana Crawford remembers the first time she saw the Cruise Room. It was in the ’50s, and the Oxford Hotel, a once-elegant Victorian establishment that welcomed visitors getting off the train at Denver’s Union Station, had become a “flophouse,” she recalls. “The people who lived there were retired railroad…
After reading last week’s column, you may have correctly deduced that we were less than thrilled by a set of half-witted wine branding ideas designed to insult the intelligence of women everywhere. Lest you think we were unduly harsh in our assessment, trust that we understand that it’s gotta be…
And the hits just keep coming for Rockbar, the hipster hangout that Jesse Morreale opened six years ago when he bought the All-Inn at 3105 East Colfax Avenue. Last week, the city denied Rockbar’s request to renew its hotel and restaurant liquor license, but extended its temporary license until November…
Old, new and local — really local. That’s the only way to describe Denver Beer Festivus, a new craft-beer festival set for December 15 that will feature Denver breweries only, something that makes sense now that there are more than twenty of them — eight having opened in the past…
Nico Eymar — or Nico the Frenchie, as his regulars know him — has been a bartender/server at Rioja for over seven years. Last Friday, he was involved in a serious motorcycle accident that will require at least three months to recover from. So his colleagues and friends are hosting…
A lamb sandwich, or a salad sans lamb? It came down to making a choice between the two, and in the end, the lamb won. It always does. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Patrick Hartnett Kachina Southwestern Grill 10600 Westminster Boulevard, Westminster kachinagrill.com 303-410-5813 This is part one of my interview with Patrick Hartnett, exec chef of Kachina Southwestern Grill; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. The restaurants at a Holiday Inn will never make anyone’s short list of favorites, but…
Fero’s Bar & Grill is a longtime dive on the edge of Glendale, a place to get a quick drink before the movies or a cheap steak if you’re staying at a hotel in the area. Over the decades, it’s kept a low profile — until now. As Denver Police…
