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…
A fourth Urban Farmer opened in the Oxford Hotel August 13. Helming the burners is Chris Starkus, who moved here from the Portland flagship. Starkus got his start cooking in Las Vegas fine-dining restaurants under Wolfgang Puck and Alex Stratta before decamping with his family for a friendlier, Pacific Northwest lifestyle. In this interview, Starkus talks about seizing on sustainable sourcing, nursing an obsession with beekeeping, and gaining the “Farmer 15” thanks to a particular late-night snack.
San Diego fried-chicken expert Lydie Lovett needed a change of scenery, so she brought her street-food stand, Chicken Rebel, to Denver in July for a month just to test this city’s chicken-sandwich market. Lovett has been so overwhelmed by the positive response from customers that she has already taken steps…
You can find most Coors products everywhere, but Barman, a special pilsner named after the hometown of brewery founder Adolph Herman Joseph Coors, is tougher to locate. It’s brewed at AC Golden, and sold at only sixteen bars in metro Denver.
Jax Fish House and the Truffle Table lost a friend and employee when Marlon Casanova, a New Zealander who had worked at both restaurants for the last year, was killed while walking home after a kitchen shift at the downtown Jax just after midnight on July 31. Raoul Lanius was charged…
Denver dining has evolved over the past twenty years — and so has Westword’s annual celebration of the local restaurant scene. On Sunday, October 15, that celebration will rise to the next level: What had been an outdoor event is moving inside and uptown to the McNichols Building at Civic Center Park, where it will be a true feast for the senses.
The big day on Colfax is nearly here: Bourbon Grill will open in its new spot at 571 East Colfax Avenue at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, August 15. The tiny walk-up eatery closed up its former home at 1618 East Colfax last month, and owners Lien Vo and Tom Lieber have…
Bierstadt Lagerhaus is very particular about its beer…and the glasses its poured into. The brewery is the only one in Colorado to insist that its beer be sold in its own glassware….and many bars are willing to comply.
West-side residents are more than familiar with Tacos Rapidos, the 24-hour joint where carne asada fries, rolled tacos and other cheap fare keeps the drive-through backed up at all hours of the day and night at the original location at 2800 West Evans Avenue. The bigger Tacos Rapidos — with…
From the outside, Crazy Mountain Brewing’s path over the past few years has seemed, well, a little crazy. Founded in 2010 in Vail Valley, it expanded rapidly by packaging and distributing beer to other states and overseas, using the recognition it had earned from tourists who’d visited. Then in 2015,…
On August 15, the Kimpton Hotel Born will open at 1600 Wewatta Street, and with it comes a new restaurant called Citizen Rail, making two hotel/restaurant combos in downtown Denver for the Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants group. Those who have enjoyed meals at Panzano in the Hotel Monaco, less than…
Is Denver feeling a little busy and crowded? You don’t have to go far to find a small-town feel; just off Highway 285 at 6328 South Turkey Creek Road sits Tomari’s coffee shop, only thirty minutes from Denver and ten minutes southwest of downtown Morrison. While Tomari’s hasn’t been there nearly…
A pair of wine dinners and a pair of festivals anchor the culinary calendar this week; there’s even an homage to Julia Child and free ice cream sundaes. Here are the seven tastiest events from August 14 through August 18, with six more to plan for. Monday, August 14 Austrian…
Although plenty of restaurants are still opening in Denver, the number of spots closing kept pace last week. Some of those shuttering their doors were longtime eateries, while others others flared out quickly. After just seven months, for example, Stella’s on 16th closed abruptly at the start of August, leaving former employees complaining about missing paychecks and observers of the Denver dining scene concerned about more to come.
This week we welcomed Lot 14 to the building formerly occupied by Paxia in Sunnyside; sampled the jerk chicken at Healthful Juices, a new Jamaican juice bar and restaurant in Five Points; and took a look inside Urban Farmer, the new steakhouse that opens August 13 in the space in…
