Small plates are a big deal at tonight’s Plates for the Peak at Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street. The event, a benefit for Urban Peak, a non-profit that helps homeless youth, will feature not just dishes by notable chefs but cocktails and live music. It runs from 6 to…
“Today is a special day,” says Sergio Negrin, his voice booming. The former corporate America businessman, who just opened Frijoles Colorado Cuban Cafe in a Lakewood strip mall, repeats the same sentiment to just about everyone who walks through the door of his new Cuban restaurant — a labor of…
Toshi and Yasu Kizaki have built a Japanese empire on South Pearl Street, expanding the success of Sushi Den into Izakaya Den and, last year, Ototo Food and Wine Bar. Because of the nature of sushi, they import a lot of their fish from Japan. But because they wanted to…
Emily’s Coffee, which just opened at 1261 Glenarm Street, is pouring coffee and espresso drinks made with beans from local roaster Kaladi Brothers and a case of freshly baked pastries. And that’s not all: It’s also providing a training environment for hundreds of refugees who have found themselves in Denver…
Two months ago, Herb Brodsky, co-founder of Novo Coffee, was introduced to Meagan Morris, research assistant of the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, through a mutual friend. “I got an e-mail from Heather Larabee at Whole Foods, and she thought the vibes of our company, like our work with the…
There are few restaurants in Denver that stack up to Root Down and Linger, at least in terms of style and design, and we imagine that the staff of both restaurants have scads of pretty cool stuff lying around their abodes, too, some of which they’re selling for a good…
Happy Place: EDGE Restaurant and Bar, 1111 14th Street, 303-389-3343. The Hours: Daily from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $5 domestic bottles, wines by the glass, and well drinks; $5-8 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
There are all sorts of reasons to love autumn: Halloween, rustling leaves, Indian summer and fall festivals, one of which takes place tomorrow — namely the Diggity Urban Harvest Festival, a street-food, music and brew blowout hosted by Diggity, a nonprofit that fosters community camaraderie through neighborhood gatherings…
If you’re hungry and in a hurry, this fluorescent-lit Mexican joint will get you in — and out — in no time flat. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a…
Charlie Palmer will be opening two restaurants in the spot at 1631 Wazee Street that most recently had been home to Big Game (and Il Fornaio before that). District Meats will be taking over about two-thirds of the space, including that big dining area; Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza will be in…
What can you expect from an event called Around the World in 80 Sips? Wine, of course, from all around the globe, including vintages from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, France, New Zealand, Spain and the United States. Tonight’s event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. (starting at 6 p.m. for…
After a long run as Pogue Mahone’s and a shorter run as McMullen’s Irish Pub, a new bar called Clavin’s Bar & Grill moved into the space at 17904 Cottonwood Drive in Parker last month…
Sauced, a pizza joint and watering hole, is moving into the former Rack & Rye spot, which opened almost two years ago at 1320 15th Street, between Mix Music Lounge and Lavish. While the bar should be open this weekend, the place won’t start serving food until next week. Follow…
Talk about a sign of the times: El Chile Rojo has closed at 801 Santa Fe Drive, with a sign in the window announcing “Japanese sushi restaurant coming soon.” Back in December 2008, when United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine devoted its “Three Perfect Days” feature to Denver, most of the restaurant/bar…
No. 54: Carnitas with mole verde from Tarasco’s…
“My family owned a casket company in New Jersey, which has nothing to do with anything, except that even people who own casket companies have to eat,” quips Stephen Lo Iacano, a Jersey native who in 1987 moved to Vail — a town, he says, that doesn’t know its meatballs…
It’s been six months since Tom Nash signed a lease in east Boulder, where he planned to build a lunch and happy-hour restaurant in an area of town that also holds Avery Brewing Co. and the original Ozo Coffee Roasters…
The photo doesn’t do this dish justice, but if you’re searching for a good — really good — shepherd’s pie, along with some of the best craft beers in the city, then this is your place. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com This is part two of my interview with Eric Rivera exec chef of Cafe|Bar. Part one of my chat with Rivera ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Bouchon, in Napa Valley. The food and service were just spot-on perfect. We were…
Any way you slice it, LoDo is soon going to be rolling in pizza dough. Charlie Palmer, the New York-based chef and restaurateur whose portfolio of restaurants across the country includes such big names as Aureole, Charlie Palmer Steak, briscola, Astra and Dry Creek Kitchen, is now coming to Denver,…
When you’re the host of a show on the Food Network called Good Eats, as Alton Brown is, then you probably know a thing or two about … well, good eats. At 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street, Brown will sign and discuss the new cookbook…
One of the most coveted restaurant spaces in LoDo — the former Dixons Downtown Grill, which closed on Labor Day — has been snatched up by Brendan McManus, who owns Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House in Louisville…
