Brothers Kris and Jason Wallenta like to tell stories with food. Their first restaurant, Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico (1475 East 17th Avenue), captures the flavors of their mom’s Mexico City upbringing. And their new venture, White Pie (1702 Humboldt Street), will serve wood-fired pizza in the style of their…
Opening chef Nicholas Petrilli is back at Gozo, the Italian/Spanish-inspired restaurant that opened in March 2014 at 30 South Broadway. He’s back, but he has a new boss: Curt Sims and his wife, Pam Savage Sims, familiar faces in Denver’s restaurant/club world for the past thirty years, took over the place a month ago, bringing lots of local connections to the concept.
The miles of Colfax Avenue stretching from the city center past the Denver-Aurora line maintain a certain chaotic character. But just off the main drag on the many north-south streets that weave together Denver’s neighborhoods — the warp to Colfax’s weft — the pace and flow of life feels drastically different, and restaurants have a slower, more neighborly pace.
A few months back, Bryan Dayton revealed that he’d signed a lease for the rooftop of the PearlWest development at 1023 Walnut Street, which sits atop the old Daily Camera site in Boulder. At the time, he was tight-lipped about what he had planned, as he was still searching for…
Chef Amos Watts joined Justin Brunson’s Old Major team in January 2016, after opening Acorn in 2013 with owners Steve Redzikowski and Bryan Dayton. Watts recently departed Old Major for a new gig, so Brunson is promoting some young blood at his four-year-old LoHi eatery. William Mack, who was hired…
Today Chipotle has more than 3,000 locations around the world, but that original Chipotle remains a popular stop for University of Denver students, residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and tourists seeking a fat bite of fast-casual history. But history is about to change: the very first Chipotle will close its doors on Thursday, May 18, for a major renovation.
You treated your mother right on Mother’s Day, so this week it’s time to treat yourself. You can check out a culinary tribute to a legendary pop star, a pair of anniversaries (one boasts beer, one whiskey), a guacamole throwdown and more. Here are the nine best food and drink…
Like a good mom, the RiNo Art District is rallying around Ratio Beerworks starting at noon on Mother’s Day to help the brewery while it faces what could be a three-week-long closure due to a licensing problem. The nonprofit organization is basically taking over the taproom during that time, buying…
Zengo and La Guera just closed; this reader thinks chef/owner Richard Sandoval could use a refresher course in good service.
Restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz takes restaurant reviewing seriously, so she always follows three important rules before pen ever hits paper (or fingers hit keyboard): She works anonymously, she eats at the restaurant she’s reviewing several times, and she waits at least three months after a place opens before going public…
If you’re looking for what’s new, what’s hot and what’s adventurous in the Denver dining scene, you’ve come to the right place. We’re scouring the city for the best bites in the most exciting or unexplored eateries for the weekly watch list. This week, we have two seafood dishes that…
Lucky Cat is not so lucky; restaurant impresario Troy Guard’s modern Chinese eatery in Lowry will close for good after dinner service on Saturday, May 13. Guard’s restaurant group released a statement earlier today stating that the lease is up at 7559 Academy Boulevard in the Hangar 2 development and…
Boulder Beer Company is Colorado’s oldest craft brewery — founded in 1979 — but it has never been the city’s most prominent. The brewery’s beautiful restaurant and taproom are hidden in an out-of-the-way east Boulder business park on Wilderness Place. That will change in July though, when Boulder Beer takes…
Café Byblos Mediterranean Grill, at 400 Corona Street, has been a neighborhood staple since 2013, but recently it’s gotten a new lease on life. New owners, a completely new menu and a bit of a remodel have given the Greek/Lebanese cafe a cool new vibe. Cousins Yousef (Joe) and Justin…
He came, he saw, he ate some chicken and brewed some GABF-award winning beers, and now he’s leaving. Bryan Selders, who became the founding brewmaster at The Post Brewing in Lafayette in 2013 after nine years as the head brewer and reality-TV star at Dogfish Head Brewing, is heading back…
In case you’ve forgotten (or your dad didn’t remind you), Sunday is Mother’s Day; hopefully, you’ve already solidified your plans with mom — see our recent list of Mother’s Day events for ideas. But what to do the rest of the weekend? From high tea to an encore performance by…
Ratio Beerworks, which opened its doors in February 2014, has temporarily closed those doors while it sorts out a paperwork issue with both the city and the state licensing authorities. The intensely popular River North brewery didn’t say how long it intends to be closed or whether it will reopen…
Denver has been craving the creative confections of chef Ian Kleinman ever since he had to close the Inventing Room at 2201 Lawrence Street last fall. A four-day doughnut pop-up at Fruition last month sated our sweet tooth temporarily, but a person can only go so long without exploding whipped…
Oskar Blues Brewery, which purchased Florida craft-beer darling Cigar City Brewing last year, will begin rolling out Cigar City’s beers in Colorado next week. Oskar Blues and its financial backer, Fireman Capital Partners, also own Michigan’s Perrin Brewing and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries, both in Utah. Colorado is the…
Dina Castillo has been working on overhauling the former Rosa Linda’s Cafe space at 2005 West 32nd Avenue for the better part of the year, and now she’s nearly ready to unveil her new Highland neighborhood eatery, Bremen’s Wine & Tap. One of the last steps before opening was hiring…
The stretch of South Broadway near Evans Avenue continues to add new restaurants in a variety of styles. The latest is Turtle Boat, which bills itself as a specialist in “Colorado-style poki salad.” Chef/owner Jeremy Song says the spelling of poke as poki is intentional, to help Coloradans get past…
In the heart of Capitol Hill, Charlie Brown’s Bar and Grill has been serving booze since the Prohibition era. Notable Denver characters, new and old, have made the bar their own over the years. The history of this classic bar starts with Judge Earnest Colburn, a mine owner who made…
