Gird your loins and steel your livers; the most wonderful time of the year is upon us, bringing with it the attendant consumerism, family drama and, of course, drinking. No doubt you’ll be making a few runs to your local liquor store for supplies, but this festive season is also…
Sometimes a new food and beverage “concept” is more difficult to describe than it is to experience. Such is the case with Beckon|Call, a new dual-identity cafe and restaurant at 2845 Larimer Street. After poking your head inside Call, the white cottage on the right half of the property (Beckon…
The Reuben sandwich is said to have been invented just over a hundred years ago, in either Omaha, Nebraska, or New York City (depending on whose story you believe). The hot sandwich is an imposing stack of corned beef (or, less frequently, pastrami), sauerkraut, Russian dressing, melted Swiss cheese and…
Birdcall is fast. It’s affordable. And it’s where the future is headed, given the pinch of high labor costs. But is it good food?
At least a dozen breweries closed their taprooms in Colorado in 2017. That’s the bad news. But eight of the twelve were replaced by other existing breweries or breweries-in-planning, so the vacated spaces are at least being recycled, the brewing equipment reused and thirsty beer drinkers are being served. One…
The fire has gone out at Brik on York, a wood-fired pizza kitchen and wine bar at 2223 East Colfax Avenue. The restaurant closed over the weekend, leaving this message on its Facebook page: Brik is officially closed for business my friends. It was a short and beautiful dream, but…
Thanks to Comal Heritage Food Incubator, we now have one more culinary word in our lexicon. The lunchtime restaurant at 3455 Ringsby Court in the Taxi development is named for the large, flat cooking surface used to cook tortillas and other Mexican fare. But starting this Thursday, December 14, we…
Fort Collins is long on community gathering spots; breweries fill with neighbors on nights and weekends and locals turn out in force to support a vibrant live music scene. But until this week, it was lacking an upscale hub for business meetings and lingering lunches. Enter the Emporium Kitchen and…
The week is packed with toys, tea, Turkish food and tacos, so take time to treat yourself to tantalizing tastes of all kinds this week — and then celebrate Friday by getting totally trashed. Here are the six best events on the culinary calendar through December 15, as well as…
Denver is losing many of its iconic restaurants, including the Wazee Lounge and Supper Club.
Westword’s most-read drink stories of 2017.
Our metabolisms are slowing down, but our appetites aren’t. Thank god more restaurants keep cropping up to keep us fed and watered. Topping the list this week is Ultreia, the sumptuous new Iberian eatery in Union Station from the owners of Rioja and nearby Stoic & Genuine. On the casual…
Westword’s most-read food stories of 2017.
Chef Lon Symensma’s energy level clocks in somewhere between a welterweight boxer and a toddler on a sugar rush; he’s always moving, always looking at things from several angles at once. After launching two restaurants this year, Concourse Restaurant Moderne (which made our list of the best new restaurants this…
The plus side of growth in Denver: an infusion of new blood, new creativity and great new restaurants. Here are the best new restaurants of 2017…so far.
South Broadway can be gritty along the half-mile stretch known as Antique Row, and the owners of Alternation Brewing, which opens its doors Saturday, want it to stay that way. “This isn’t LoDo or even River North. I like the grunge feel, so I hope the neighborhood doesn’t change too…
One of the premier offerings on the opening menu at Ultrieia is Cinco Jotas Jamón Ibérico de Bellota, a cured Spanish ham aged for four years before being sold. With as many delays as owners Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch have experienced since announcing their plan to open a Spanish/Portuguese “gastroteka”…
Start off the weekend like Jay Gatsby, one of the great drinkers in American literature, then continue to re-create his story arc as he chases the green light — which in your case, we hope, is just a string of Christmas lights on the house at the end of the…
Family roots and a love of wine run deep at the newly opened Deep Roots Winery & Bistro at 1516 Wazee Street in historic lower downtown Denver. Located in a long, narrow Victorian-era building just off the 16th Street Mall, the winery produces more than a dozen high quality wines…
Yellowbelly Chicken is out to conquer the suburbs, one fast-casual chicken joint at a time. But this month the company is doing a two-fer by unveiling locations in Arvada and Lakewood within a week of each other. Yellowbelly was founded in Vail in 2012 by Michael Friedberg, Eric Wupperman and…
When Salt Lake City’s Epic Brewing revealed in 2012 that it would open a newer, larger production facility in Denver, co-owner Dave Cole mentioned that the search had come down to Colorado and California. Colorado won out, though, and Epic unveiled its $2.5 million, twenty-barrel brewery the next year. But…
Although it may seem easy to shop for that cocktail and beer-loving co-worker or father-in-law, this year go beyond the usual bottle of bottom-shelf bourbon and try something better made right here in the Centennial State. Whether the recipient lives in town or somewhere else, nothing says “taste the Rockies”…
