Despite a name change, everything about this charming suburban pizzeria is the same, including the notable pizzas, smeared with red sauce, or slicked with olive oil and garlic, and served by the pie, the slice or Sicilian-style. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
Ed Kammerer Highland Pacific Restaurant & Oyster Bar 3934 West 32nd Avenue 303-477-6644 www.highlandpacific.net This is part one of my interview with Ed Kammerer, exec chef-owner of Highland Pacific Restaurant & Oyster Bar; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. If your kid is a picky eater, Ed Kammerer…
Restaurants aren’t just changing the way Denver eats; they’re changing the way this city looks. Last night Mayor Michael Hancock announced the winners of the annual Mayor’s Design Awards — twelve projects cited for excellence in architecture, design and place-creating. “Every great city has exciting, pioneering places like these that…
Remember Hardee’s — the fast-food stop with the oft-touted “Made from Scratch Biscuits?” It’s okay if you don’t, since Hardee’s restaurants have yet to penetrate Colorado or the states to the west of us, so we only have Hardee’s sloppy sibling, Carl’s Jr., to pimp out Hardee’s biscuits. And lucky…
Last Friday night, the Denver Police Department did an undercover operation, sending underage police cadets to liquor establishments across Denver where they tried to buy booze. And succeeded in the case of four bars (and numerous liquor stores), all of which were cited for selling to a minor. The bars…
Boulder Distillery, 2500 47th Street in Boulder, is hosting Souper Bowlder, a benefit for the Boulder County AIDS Projectm in its tasting room tonight from 7 to 10 p.m…
Jesse Morreale has decided he can’t fight city hall on two fronts. And so after last call on Saturday, October 27, he’ll close Rockbar, the hipster hangout he opened in the All-Inn, the motel at 3015 East Colfax Avenue that he bought almost seven years ago. Earlier this month, Tom…
Free stuff: there’s no better way to celebrate a grand opening. And starting at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 24, the brand-new Dazbog coffee shop on the Auraria Campus will give free travel mugs to the first 1,000 costumers. But since life is about more than just coffee, Dazbog will…
Oskar Blues, which was the first craft brewery in the nation to can its beers, has teamed up with Ska, the second canned craft beer maker, to celebrate ten years of aluminum success with a beer they brewed together in Longmont last week. Although the beers doesn’t have a name…
Crazy Asian Cafe, 290 South Downing Street, has been closed for weeks for what the restaurant’s voicemail message calls “a remodel.” But in reality, the space has been bought by the owners of Sweet Ginger in Cherry Creek, and will reopen as Spicy Ginger Asian Bistro. See also: -Sweet Ginger…
I’ve had better pho, but the staggeringly large Vietnamese noodle bowl, crowned with marinated meats and fresh vegetables, is a marvel to behold — and eat. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into…
Ever been to Pete’s Kitchen at 2 a.m.? Packed like Whole Foods on Thanksgiving. Breakfast King at 3 a.m.? Not an empty seat in the house. And given Denver’s love affair with late-night grubbing, you can bet your chicken-fried steak that when Tom’s Urban 24 opens on Larimer Square on…
The Denver Police Department’s Vice 50 team, working with the District 4 SCAT unit, conducted an underage-compliance operation last Friday, October 19. Out of 53 establishments visited by underage, undercover cadets, nine locations sold them alcohol — resulting in nine arrests for the sale of alcohol to a minor, and…
When you go to a restaurant you’ve never visited before, you never know quite what you’ll find. Even if you’ve pulled up the menu on Yelp during the drive over, you’re likely in for a surprise since those menus can be out of date. Middle Eastern restaurants are different, however…
When you’ve got a ton of people to feed and no one can agree on anything but a chain, Maggiano’s can be a good choice — even for those on a plant-based diet. If you know how to order, you can avoid the meat on the Maggiano’s menu and have…
After generations as the Border, a beloved University of Denver neighborhood dive that served Mexican food and showed all the games, this space at 2014 South University has been rechristened Merchants Mile High Saloon. It not only has a new name, it has a new look; the new owners are…
The Tattered Cover at 2526 East Colfax Avenue welcomes acclaimed foodie Diane Morgan this evening at 7:30 p.m. The cookbook author, culinary instructor and restaurant consultant will be signing and discussing her latest book, Roots: The Definitive Compendium with more than 225 Recipes…
Twin Peaks, the Texas-based “breastaurant” chain with a mountain-lodge motif, is opening its third Colorado location, at 8840 East Arapahoe Road in Centennial, next month — and the hunt is on for some “talent” to fill the sports bar’s roster. See also: – Breastaurants: America’s greatest export – Talk Like…
The presidential election is coming up quickly, and Arvada Beer Company is offering another way to judge one of the candidates: by his homebrew. The brewery, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary by tapping a brand-new beer each day through Saturday, will release White House Honey Ale and White House…
Eating healthy can seem easy when all you have to do is go to the store and buy the products labeled “organic.” But Pete Marczyk wants you to know where those products come from. On his new Rocky Mountain PBS show, Great Ingredients, Marczyk is traveling all over the state…
Ever since he left Colorado in 2000 and returned to Texas to finish up college in his home state, it was Israel Trevino’s dream to get back here. In the meantime, though, he opened two outposts of La Playa Mexican Cafe in Harlingen and Austin, Texas — which did well…
Atomic Tamale gave it a good try, but the vegetarian/vegan Mexican-food spot that moved from Santa Fe Drive to Lakewood earlier this year finally ran out of energy — and cash. Which means no more free vegan menudo on Sunday morning. See also: – Photos: Atomic Tamale opens in Lakewood…
