When you look at RiNo today, it’s hard to remember what this area looked like a dozen years ago, when two artists formed the RiNo Art District in a dusty old warehouse area. In fact, the neighborhood is almost unrecognizable from then — or even from six years ago, when the Matchbox, which Sarah McGill just profiled, opened on Larimer Street.
Now that the Colorado Rockies are back for another season of baseball at Coors Field, Denverites will be spending plenty of time and money rooting for the home team — and loading up on typical ballpark eats and drinks. Sure, you could settle for the same hot dog or nachos…
This was a slow week for restaurant and bar activity, with only one Denver opening. Morning Collective made its debut on Monday, April 4, bringing sweet and savory breakfast and lunch menus to the Rosedale neighborhood on South Broadway. The kitchen is helmed by chef/co-owner Joseph Strelnik, formerly of Snooze…
The U Baron Group (better known to most Coloradans as the founder of Udi’s) has decided to consolidate its restaurant brands by closing the last of the Silvi’s Kitchen locations.The Arvada address, at 7600 Grandview Avenue, closed at the end of March, while the Glendale CitySet outpost, at 686 South…
The Denver dining scene is heating up: Here’s the Westword Watch List for the ten places to eat in April 2017. Some are old favorites, some are hip new spots, and all are great.
Where Mona’s moved out at 2364 15th Street, Just Be Kitchen is getting ready to open a different style of breakfast and lunch eatery. Founder Jennifer Peters and chef/partner Carrie Baird hope to have the nutrition-oriented restaurant open by the end of April. Baird’s menu focuses on paleo foundations: gluten-free,…
The weekend kicks off with National Beer Day today, and nothing goes with a pint like…yoga? Or perhaps cats, wine and cat wine. How about coffee and doughnuts? Luckily, everything goes with beer, so pour yourself a cold one and choose from one of these seven events this weekend. If…
Oskar Blues, which was founded in Lyons and is now headquartered in Longmont, has been looking for a spot in Boulder for at least five years. The state’s second largest craft brewery thought it had found one in 2012 in a historic Union Pacific train depot there, but the deal…
One of my absolute favorite quick lunches is a good pad Thai. I want it to be spicy, not too saucy, with a good ratio of noodles to other ingredients. In my humble opinion, there are a few good pad Thai options in Denver, but recently I’ve been enjoying Thai Monkey Club.
For years, fast casual chain Chipotle, founded in Denver in 1993, has been trying to eliminate artificial preservatives and additives that aren’t part of recipes any home cook could replicate from a trip to the grocery store. The final obstacle to success has been the corn and flour tortillas that…
Since opening at 955 Lincoln Street five years ago, DiFranco’s has earned a reputation for its handmade pastas. The daily board of penne, spaghetti and other Italian noodles keeps Golden Triangle neighbors and other regulars coming through the door for lunch and dinner, to eat in the tiny storefront or…
Before LoDo-sized crowds came to RiNo, Sudhir Kudva stumbled upon an interesting opportunity to open a bar in the now-booming neighborhood. At the time, the 2600 block of Larimer Street and most of the surrounding area was home only to warehouses, liquor stores and a few outposts of nightlife at…
As competition heats up in the craft-beer world, medium-sized and large breweries continue to look for ways to stay relevant and to ring up sales. Sometimes that means producing beers that you might not expect. Such is the case with two new beers that were revealed in the past few…
WhiteWave Foods veteran Mike Fogarty has long canvassed the country for work and play, and about five years ago, over the course of those travels, he realized the convenience store was long overdue for an update. “As you stop at various convenience stores, you get the sense that the products…
This Sunday, April 9, marks the end of Glazed & Confuzed Donuts on Leetsdale Drive. But fans of the stoner-themed doughnut shop that originally opened in June 2014 don’t have to mourn the closing for long. Owner Josh Schwab plans to open up again in the Stanley Marketplace come April…
If some of your earliest childhood restaurant memories involve slurping noodles while seated in a trolley car inside a dining room, you’re not alone. The Old Spaghetti Factory has been making memories for Denver residents for more than forty years at 1215 18th Street downtown. Even if you’re not from…
Kyle Mendenhall spent nearly a decade helming the burners at the Kitchen, expanding the restaurant’s farm-to-table mission from one dining room in Boulder to cities across the country. “And then that came to an end,” he says, which sent the chef into an abrupt spiral of self-reflection. He decided to…
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
Welcome to April in Denver, when a snowy day can put a damper on the mere suggestion of spending time outside, even just a few days before the boys of summer show up for the Colorado Rockies’ home opener — on a day predicted to be sunny and warm. You…
Dedicated vegan kitchens are a rarity in Denver, so many diners were delighted when Nandini and Carlos Rossi took over the cafe at the Radha Krishna Temple at 1400 Cherry Street several years ago and turned it into a buffet called Govinda’s Garden Vegan Cafe. The temple had operated a…
Sports analysts are fond of the phrase “To be the best, you have to beat the best.” But in the restaurant world, if you want to eat the best, well, you just have to eat everything. Because until you’ve sampled your way through the menus of eateries ranging from hole-in-the-wall…
Just weeks after chef/restaurateur Justin Brunson unveiled a completely new menu at his Lowry eatery, Masterpiece Kitchen, the place suffered a fire on Saturday, April 1, and is now closed until repairs can be completed. A statement from Brunson’s restaurant group notes that the fire took place early in the…
