Ian Kleinman keeps reinventing himself. While he’s still disappointed that he had to close the Inventing Room, his modernist dessert bar at 2020 Lawrence Street, a year ago, he was determined to use the bad break as a springboard to better things. Rather than simply focus on an already successful…
Over the weekend, employees of the Secret Sauce restaurant group — which includes Vesta, both Steuben’s locations and Ace Eat Serve — descended on the Union Square Farmers’ Market with company-provided gift cards to stock up on fruits and vegetables. Last week, many of those same employees came together for a…
A food truck with a healthy mission has found a permanent home in Aurora. California Wrap Runner has been in in business in Colorado since 2012, with two food trucks and a catering business that have served metro Denver. Leon Stamatis founded the company in Santa Barbara, California, but moved it…
They had to fight many battles to get here, but Michael and Desiree Keen have finally opened Rivers and Roads Coffee, their project at 2549 Bruce Randolph Avenue. When the couple first found the space in North City Park, it was home to a garage — with little more than dirt…
Despite the devilish wind on Saturday morning, plenty of vendors still showed up to the Union Station Farmers’ Market, albeit without a awnings. With one week to go, the availability of produce has dwindled, but chef Christian Graves of Citizen Rail, a new eatery just around the corner, was on…
This week is all about hearty, stick-to-your-ribs fall food, so tuck your napkin into your collar and belly up to the table for everything from classic casseroles to spaghetti and meatballs to whole pig faces to root veggies of all types. Save room for seven of the best events on…
The nation celebrated National Cheese Curd Day last Sunday, but every day is apparently now Cheese Curd Day in Denver, with happy patrons invading the new Wally’s Wisconsin Tavern and any other bar that serves cheese curds.
This week, we said a brief hello to El Tepehuan in Englewood, which reopened several doors down from its home of nearly forty years after a move that took two years. But sewer problems caused the Mexican restaurant to close quickly, reopening with to-go service only (a full reopening will…
Will the third time be the charm for the vacant restaurant space at 2230 Oneida Street in Park Hill? Chef/restaurateur Jon Robbins, owner of nearby Bistro Barbes, hopes so. He and business partners Megan Silvertooth and Noel Martin are looking to open Red Sauce, a neighborhood Italian eatery, where Table…
Two of the founding fathers of Denver’s current brewery taproom scene will join forces at the end of the year when Wit’s End Brewing closes its taproom and moves into Strange Craft Beer Company’s space at 1330 Zuni Street, where both companies will operate side by side. Tyler Bies, who…
Craig Rothgery, who founded tiny DeSteeg Brewing in 2013 in an alley off of North Tennyson Street, has sold the operation to a pair of Denverites who had always wanted to open a brewery. Longtime friends Ken Klispie and Tom Martinez bought DeSteeg on October 1. They plan to ramp…
“What would someone need to be celebrating to spring for a $100 shot of tequila?” I wondered as I browsed the comically large menu at El Tequileño, a restaurant and sports bar on 2790 South Havana Street in Aurora. Having counted seven TVs in my visual vicinity, all playing some…
If you’re considering grabbing a beer or margarita to wash down your tacos at the Torchy’s at 1085 Broadway, you’ll have to settle for a fountain drink — at least until after October 29. The Austin-based eatery had its liquor license suspended for two weeks on October 16, so the place…
This weekend has an international flair to it, with fairs and fare from across the world making up the bulk of our upcoming events. But don’t worry, we’ve got the lowdown on some local love as well. Without further ado, here are our five favorite events on the culinary calendar…
The Thirsty Monk, an established brewery and bar chain in Asheville, North Carolina, will make the leap west to Denver next month; it’s buying Deep Draft Brewing, at 1604 East 17th Avenue. Opened in 2015 by Robert Lee and his family, Deep Draft had been for sale for several months…
Nearly two years ago, El Tepehuan lost the lease on its home since 1978 at 3457 South Broadway in Englewood. Even then, plans were in the works to move the restaurant just down the street to 3495 South Broadway. But the seasons came and went and there was little sign…
Given their brisk expansion and unstoppable rise, it’s no surprise that the team behind Bar Dough, Highland and Sloan’s Lake Tap and Burger and Señor Bear have been contemplating a fast casual spin-off of some sort for some time. “Juan [Padro] is always pushing us in a 100 different directions,”…
Those who have followed chef Ian Kleinman’s career from his molecular gastronomy days at O’s Steak & Seafood ten years ago, though his magical pop-up dinners with hushDenver at the beginning of this decade, to the launch of the Inventing Room in the Ballpark neighborhood two years ago will be…
If you’re one of the many people working downtown who uses Union Station as your transportation hub, good for you. Not only are you doing your part for the environment, but you’re also saving time and a wee bit of sanity. That’s…
I’ve learned a few bits and pieces of Denver Broncos lore in my time here, despite not being a big football fan and having grown up in the territory of the team’s secondary arch-nemesis, the Baltimore Ravens. One thing I’ve learned over the years has to do with Howard Cosell,…
In this week’s Chef & Tell, we talked to Sheila Lucero, executive chef over the five Jax Fish House locations in Colorado and Missouri, about her commitment to sustainable seafood and about eating oysters. Lucero recently met with members of congress in Washington D.C. to convince them to preserve the…
The fifth annual Collaboration Fest may still be five months away, but that doesn’t mean the brewing hasn’t already begun. Among several collaborations that took place while out-of-town brewers were in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival two weeks ago was one by representatives of fourteen different state beer guilds…
