The recent Denver Burger Battle was more than just a sandwich showdown: The event was a snapshot of just how much the burger has evolved since its classic incarnation — ground-beef patty on a bun — became ubiquitous in the United States…
John Platt has owned and operated Q’s Restaurant in Boulder’s Hotel Boulderado for nearly two decades, which is about the same amount of time that Philip Shull’s BookEnd Cafe occupied a Pearl Street Mall slot just a few blocks away. After that coffeeshop shuttered a few months ago, the pair…
You’re at a restaurant. The menu is big and overwhelming, and all you want to know is, “What’s good?” Forkly, a free iPhone app that launched today, wants to answer that question — as well as the even more elusive “What will I like?” “Martin and I like to build…
Art Johnson still walks with a limp that he earned while playing football for the University of Colorado. He dresses in CU hats and shirts every day. Calling him a proud alum would be an understatement. So when Johnson decided to open his own restaurant in Boulder, a fast-casual spot,…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
The Budweiser brewery in Fort Collins announced yesterday that it is moving its Clydesdale training program from the northern Colorado town to a farm in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where it will also start a hitch-driving school. The famous horses — which are a big part of Bud’s Fort Collins brewery…
It’s harvest season, and what’s getting us going are the heaps of fresh produce available on tables all across the city. But sometimes you want a fresh salad, and you don’t want to have to leave the house for it. This is where Door to Door Organics is awesome: It…
While perusing the hospitality help-wanted adverts on Craigslist.com — a daily habit of mine — I came across the above listing announcing that a new French restaurant is opening in Cherry Creek. And while the ad doesn’t specify where that restaurant is planning to take up residence, wagging tongues who…
Last we heard, New Belgium Spoke — a cafe, newsstand and grab-and-go concession that would feature New Belgium beer on Concourse A — was slated to open early this fall, after delays pushed back the date from May. Early fall meant late summer: Laura Coale, spokeswoman for DIA, says the…
There are exactly ten seats in the tiny quarters of this Italian cafe that turns out pastries, breads, paninis and excellent caffeine-jolted cappuccino, the foam finished with fancy swirls. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Yesterday Lori Midson started spilling some of the secret, off-the-menu items offered at local restaurants, starting with one at D Bar Desserts. But it was the photo accompanying the post that snagged the comment that warmed her heart. It’s no secret that Cafe Society photos have come in for criticism,…
We’re lucky to have a winery putting out good wines in central Denver, and tonight you can celebrate that bounty at Row 14, which is hosting an Intimate Monkey Theorem Wine Dinner, featuring five courses paired with IMT wines. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $95; for more info,…
The first time a plate was set before me at Crave Real Burgers, I nearly choked. I was sitting at the brightly lit bar that faces the open kitchen, surrounded by the din of a busy dinner service and sucking down a mint chocolate chip milkshake. But when I got…
Over the past few years, the booming burger business has included everything from new joints trying to re-create the classic burger to restaurants so redesigning the burger that it’s sometimes no longer recognizable, as at Crave Real Burgers. And then there are the spots that fall somewhere in the middle,…
Jonathan Power, formerly of Root Down and one of the masterminds behind the Noble Swine Supper Club, is currently putting together a menu for Crema Coffee House, where he and owner Noah Price have some big plans in the works. After discussing those plans, though, we got to talking about…
Over the weekend we heard that Shazz was dark, so we stopped by the new American restaurant that Benny Kaplan opened almost three years ago in northwest Denver to get more details. The restaurant was certainly quiet, and the lack of activity will continue for at least a few more…
There’s nothing quite like a plate of artisan cheese and a chilled (but not too cold) glass of beer to make you feel like you’re living the good life. And to keep it simple. Beer and cheese. They are gifts from nature that satisfy the soul. While Colorado doesn’t have…
Steuben’s does it; Jensen Cummings, the executive chef at Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar has plans to do it; and Keegan Gerhard, the chef/pastry king at D Bar Desserts has been quietly doing it for months. What, exactly, is it that we’re talking about?…
No. 57: Hama Hama herbed oyster from Jax Fish House-Denver…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
This week’s culinary events start off strong with a farm dinner at Ototo Food and Wine Bar, and continue with dinners devoted to wine, sushi, sake, roasted corn and green chiles. Here’s what’s on the menu:…
For 25 years, Jorge Alonso was a partner in Grupo Anderson’s, the Mexican restaurant conglomerate that owns Señor Frog’s, which, if you didn’t know already, is where tourists who trot off to the resort towns in Mexico go to get drunk, hook up and pass out — usually in that…
