If the Bank Bar & Grill has been your neighborhood watering hole for the past several years, grab a beer and weep, because it’s gone. In fact, save for the distressed red brick walls, which have anchored the two-tiered space for decades, little remains of the former sports bar that…
Colfax is the longest street in Denver, and it’s also one of the most culinarily diverse, home to everything from Belgian fare to burgers, Ethiopian timatim fit to Mexican tacos al pastor. And not just tacos al pastor, but the traditional kind — the kind that feature pork roasted the…
When I was growing up in the southern suburbs of Denver, the TCBY in a Greenwood Village strip mall was a go-to family treat spot, where we’d grab a sticky table and order up parfaits layered with hot fudge and cookie dough after every dance recital and tee-ball game. The…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 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…
Randie Thompson has practiced law for thirteen years while simultaneously attending a number of work happy hours and networking events that left her wanting more. “I started getting frustrated with all the networking events where they’d shuffle us into bars or tiny, cramped rooms and we’d drink whatever wine the…
So many edibles and drinkables, so many myths: Organic is automatically healthier than conventional, macaroons are poised to be a huge food trend, sushi is really posh and socially assigned to be attractive yuppie chow, and real foodies will unfailingly watch every single episode of Top Chef. Misunderstandings about foods…
When I was growing up in the suburbs southeast of Denver, my favorite restaurant was Mr. Steak — which sounds less pathetic when you realize that this was the best chain restaurant in the area at the time. Sadly, the southern ‘burbs continue to be an independent restaurant wasteland. If…
Let’s face it: Boxed wines are not exactly perceived as the pinnacle of wine-drinking chic. Don’t believe us? Just try showing up with a box of wine — any box — at next week’s graduation/barbecue/baby shower and observe the look of utter disdain creep across your friends’ faces. Yeah, they’ll…
At this year’s Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, a huge Colorado contingent made a showing, including a chef who knows — as well as anyone — how to pump out a killer pizza. Yes, I’m eating at the Classic, but can you guess the restaurant that created the pizza?…
The cognoscenti of the food world — 5,000 strong — descended upon Aspen this past weekend for the 29th annual Food & Wine magazine Classic, one of the most heralded culinary jubilees in the country. It was a whirlwind weekend of unparalleled gluttony, hangovers, pig parties, celebrity chef sightings and…
Gary Lee is still weeks away from his liquor-license hearing with the city, but he’s already retooled his plans to cool neighborhood opposition, as Laura Shunk reports in this update on Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub. The ongoing fight — coming right on the heels of all the barking…
Get a taste of the most historic part of downtown, the place where Denver got its start, at LoDo Bites tonight. A $30 ticket ($35 at the door) sends you to a starting restaurant, where you can begin your tour at 5 p.m. From there, you have until 9 p.m…
Happy Summer Solstice! On June 21, daylight hours reach their peak; to celebrate the few extra seconds of sunshine, Interstate Kitchen & Bar will present a Spirited Summer Solstice starting at 7 p.m. tonight. Tickets, which buy you a tasting of fine whiskeys, grub and more, are $30; for details,…
Next month, Cebiche will open at 7000 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, in the former home of Minilla’s Restaurant. The massive, 5,000-plus square-foot space will have a main dining room, three bars and two patios where Peruvian food will be served, as well as a basement-level bar called The…
Ben Reid and his wife, Jennifer, didn’t intend to register for their wedding. “We’d been living together for a year, we were a little older and we were happy with our towels and toasters,” Ben explains. “It seemed wasteful to ask for gifts.” But family pressure prevailed, sending Jennifer to…
Ever since Gary Lee Bomar’s plans for a liquor license for Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub came under fire by the West Wash Park Neighborhood Association, the restaurateur has been out canvassing, rounding up signatures for his petition and meeting with the Baker Historic Neighborhood Association in order to…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 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…
At the beginning of this year, my thirtieth coincidentally, I quit my longtime job in the craft beer industry to pursue a career in writing, despite strong disapproval from pretty much everyone I knew. Most of my friends thought I had the coolest job ever working for a microbrewery; an…
>Tomorrow is the longest day of the year, and this could be one of the biggest weeks of 2011 for food and drink events, culminating in the long-awaited Colorado Cocktail Contest. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead:…
We’re fans of Buchi Cafe Cubano; it recently made our list of Denver’s five best spots for sandwiches. Buchi’s Cuban is particularly good; this is one of the few places in town where you can find ham, pork and Swiss pressed between slices of real Cuban bread. But when we…
You’re darn Teuton! Looks like Chinook Tavern will be the first of Denver’s relocating German restaurants to open its doors, with the debut of the new Chinook definitely on for today. But then, Chinook left its Cherry Creek home almost three years ago — and before it moved into its…
There are numerous kitchens across the city that have made us weep tears of joy with their brilliant twists and takes on Brussels sprouts, but the Brussels and bacon combination, which is what we got at the restaurant where the above snap was flashed, has long worn out its welcome…
