The chile peppers in the shot above are Trinidad scorpions, some of the hottest on the planet. Why would a human want to put that in their mouth? We took one for the team to find out if it was more pleasure than pain. Keep reading to find out where…
Sage Restaurant Group has breathed new life into Oxford Hotel’s restaurant space, where it will open Urban Farmer on Sunday, August 13. Sage currently operates three other Urban Farmer modern steakhouses, in Cleveland, Philadelphia and the original in Portland, Oregon Executive chef Chris Starkus just moved to Denver from Portland to helm the new outpost, and general manager Troy Christian has also made Denver his permanent home after opening two other Urban Farmers.
There’s no bigger power couple in craft brewing than Kim Jordan and Dick Cantwell. Jordan co-founded New Belgium Brewing, the nation’s fourth largest craft brewery, and is now the executive chairwoman. Cantwell helped start Elysian Brewing in Seattle in 1995 before selling it to Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2015; he left…
Every now and then a dish comes around to surprise you, but it’s not often that meal comes in sandwich form. Such is the case with Hops & Pie’s true hero, the Italian. Chef/co-owner Drew Watson created this magnificent sandwich more than five years ago, and the fact that the…
The culinary calendar is overflowing this weekend: The Brown Palace, pierogi and posies top our list of proceedings from Friday, August 11, through Sunday, August 13. We’ve included the five best here, as well as five more to plan for. Friday, August 11 The doors to the Brown Palace opened…
Beer has always been one of Canada’s best-known exports, thanks in part to Molson, Moosehead, Labatt and the movie Strange Brew. But over the next two years, Canada will export an entire brewery — to Colorado. In May, Vancouver’s Red Truck Beer Company revealed that it had purchased Fort Collins…
Chef Matt Selby is in charge of the kitchen at Bremen’s Wine & Tap. See what he keeps in his fridge at home.
I just learned today from Google that the neighborhood surrounding Regis University in Northwest Denver is actually called Regis. I always thought it was somehow part of nearby Berkeley, but I stand corrected. In this stretch of residential blocks, with a few small businesses here and there along the swath…
Forget that tired bowl of crinkle-cut carrots or that pile of limp salad with anemic tomatoes; this summer, up your vegetable game by going big, beautiful and boisterous. Veggies play a huge role at the height of the growing season as they add grace to meat dishes, take center stage…
Mici Handcrafted Italian has quietly built a quartet of family-friendly eateries dotted across the metro Denver landscape. Starting in 2004, the Miceli family — siblings Jeff, Michael and Kim — has slowly grown the business to locations at 1531 Stout Street downtown, 2373 Central Park Boulevard in Stapleton, 9245 South Broadway…
Earlier this summer, the Brewers Association unveiled a new seal that it hopes independent craft breweries will add to the labels on their bottles and cans in order to distinguish themselves from large corporate-owned breweries, or small breweries that have been purchased by mega-brewers. The seal, which depicts an upside-down…
Tina and Vic Ronder tried to escape — but they just got pulled deeper into the escape-room experience. After recognizing the business potential of the popular puzzle rooms that require team members to work together to solve the mystery and unlock the door, the couple is building their own version…
Caribbean cooking comes and goes in Five Points. A few intrepid food hunters may remember long-gone joints like the Cat Island Cafe and Sadie’s Caribbean Cafe, or have perhaps visited A Taste of Haiti at 2622 Welton Street or tucked into the “Island-style pates” (similar to overstuffed empanadas) at the…
When Annie Stookesberry created the Instagram account 5280_eats nearly three years ago, she saw it as nothing more than a creative outlet for her interest in Denver’s restaurants. “I found myself posting photos of food on my personal Instagram account, and thought, I should do this anonymously,” she says. “I…
Chef Matt Selby has a long culinary resume in Denver. For fifteen years, he helmed the culinary ship at Secret Sauce, rising to prominence with the whimsical, bold cooking that anchors Vesta and its younger siblings, Steuben’s and Ace. Now he’s landed at Bremen’s Wine & Tap, a casual neighborhood joint that opened at 2005 West 32nd Avenue in June.
More than forty restaurants and taquerias will be serving samples of their street tacos at Tacolandia on August 20 at Civic Center Park, and chef Jamey Fader has blocked out his own special area: VIP.
Savory Spice has created a porky new seasoning called Chicharron Salt, which the company will roll out the public beginning Thursday, August 17.
Photographer Brandon Marshall has embarked on a mission to document every bar and restaurant along Colfax, starting at ground zero, where east meets west at Broadway.
The store has been on Larimer for three decades.
What happens when a restaurant group rounds up a few chefs and challenges them to create a new dish? Usually not much. Chefs are great at putting a spin on a dish, reinterpreting a dish, or coming up with a good mash-up. But rarely do we see a whole new…
Denver was sizzling this weekend, the calendar overflowing with food and drink events. Here’s a taste of what you might have missed.
A year has passed since Paxia Authentic Mexican Cuisine closed at 4001 Tejon Street in the Sunnyside neighborhood. On a block that seems just on the verge of becoming a restaurant destination, things haven’t quite developed — at least until now. Just down the street, a couple of spaces remain…
