We have happy hour and bar bites on our mind this week; fortunately, we’ve found a trio of spots that are good bets for late-afternoon stops, from Broadway to LoHi. Bar food doesn’t have to be bad food, as these three eateries prove. Citizen Rail 1899 16th Street 303-323-0017 Citizen…
Elise Wiggins finally has her own place: Cattivella Wood-Fired Italian. While the Eastbridge Stapleton setting is completely new, the emphasis is on classic Italian, with some hot twists.
Palisade peaches are in their prime and Denver’s chefs are taking full advantage. Here are ten local eateries serving up seasonal peach fare, ranging from classics like peach ice cream and peach cobbler, to inventive spins like peach salad and peach sour beer.
For craft-beer lovers who live inside Denver’s city limits, there’s not a lot of motivation to drive to a suburban brewery. For starters, there are dozens of terrific choices close by. There is also traffic, which gets worse every week, and the fact that no one wants to drive a…
Break out the tiki mugs and watch for unexploded bombs. A new bar with a World War II-era theme is about to land: Hangar 101 Bar & Grill, at 7575 West Jewell Avenue in Lakewood. Those who’ve been in the area just east of South Wadsworth Boulevard may have noticed…
I say to-may-to, you say to-mah-to; I say wine, you say how many wine dinners can there be in one week? A lot, judging from the culinary calendar, but they’re happening at some of the best restaurants in town — so if it’s been a while since you swirled before…
Tacolandia, Westword’s annual celebration of street tacos, will take over Civic Center Park from 4 to 7 p.m. today, Aguust 20. If you were smart enough to snag a VIP ticket, you can get in at 3 p.m. That’s when Jamey Fader, founding chef/co-owner of Lola and culinary director of…
Photographer Brandon Marshall has embarked on a mission to document every bar and restaurant along Colfax, starting at ground zero: the point where east meets west, right across from the State Capitol. And readers are enjoying the ride.
Denver made it through a week without a restaurant closing, quite an accomplishment during a summer that has witnessed a few fond favorites and surprises disappear — including Americatus, the Overland, Axios Estiatorio, Stella’s on 16th, Latigo and Uoki. But a labor shortage, high rents and stiff competition mean that…
Can a chocolate be too spicy to eat? I ventured to the Chocolate Therapist 2560 Main Street in Littleton seeking an answer; I left with a burning tongue and an education in chocolate-and-wine pairings. Earlier this month, while sampling the sumptuous chocolate-port pairing at the Governor’s Cup Competition, I learned that…
The town of Windsor lost a little piece of its history and a little bit of its soul on August 6 when someone set fire to a 118-year old former flour mill that locals had described as being like an old friend. Built in 1899, the four-story mill had managed…
We tend to think of chef/restaurateur Hosea Rosenberg as one of our own; after all, he represented Colorado as a Top Chef contestant in 2009, and began his culinary career in Boulder with time put in at Dandelion and Jax Fish House before opening his first restaurant, Blackbelly, in 2014. But…
There are restaurant “concepts” — easy to define in a word or two, recognizable in format by potential customers — and then there are restaurants. For a new eatery aiming to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner from a team of creative and forward-looking chefs and bakers, a pat definition isn’t…
Brace yourselves, dear foodlings; it’s a busy weekend around town with activities for any level of energy or laziness. Bike to ten farms? Got it. Stay in and binge watch the Travel Channel? Got that, too. Drink beer, eat tacos, and learn about possessed dolls? Yep. Here are ten events…
While the majority of breweries in Colorado have patios — some of them open rain, snow or shine — the action of ordering a beer usually takes place inside. But in the last month, two Denver breweries have added outdoor bars, an uncommon amenity, in an effort to add some…
Happy Throwback Thursday! Make a lunch date today at Civic Center Park, where Civic Center Eats, the city’s largest gathering of food trucks, is on a roll. The Westword team will be there, too, offering a tasty deal on Tacolandia tickets.
On the heels of the Crowne Plaza Denver’s $22 million renovation comes the hotel’s new restaurant geared toward the millennial working crowd downtown. With all the nuts and bolts of a locavore-style eatery, the Lockwood Kitchen & Bar hosts a grand opening today under the helm of Colombian-born chef Alberto…
Milo’s Sports Tavern has come to be a neighborhood standby for the folks of Southeast Denver over the last fifteen years. The bar has been Milo’s since 2002 and was originally a part of the B.U.F.F. Brothers conglomerate. When that started to be broken up in 2011, Thomas Clark, one of…
Chris Starkus, the sustainability-focused Urban Farmer chef, shares photos of his home garden, chicken coop and bees.
Despite fierce restaurant competition downtown, 5280 Burger Bar at Denver Pavillions has carved out some meaty territory since opening in 2014, drawing full houses from the surrounding offices, businesses and convention halls. But a new outpost, which opens on Thursday, August 16 at 4301 Main Street in Westminster, will rely…
New Belgium has been making tiny batches of one-off sour beers for years, but it hasn’t ever packaged them, focusing instead on its larger sour creations, like La Folie and Transatlantique Kriek. But last month, the Fort Collins-based brewery revealed that it had put an end to its acclaimed Lips…
The love of good food can make people do the strangest things. This is the story of what happens when two aerospace engineers fell head over heels with their favorite market, an unassuming fish shop called Tom’s Seafood & Specialties at 767 South Xenon Court in Lakewood. Originally opened in…
