Hey, look at that — no restaurant openings this week! Not that there weren’t plenty of other culinary happenings over the past few days. A Chinese/Mongolian hot pot restaurant called Chubby Cattle announced it would be bringing its refrigerated conveyor belt service to the former home of the Walnut Room…
Frank Bonanno’s Denver restaurant empire has been holding steady for the last couple of years, but changes are in the works. The restaurateur just announced that Lou’s Food Bar at 1851 West 38th Avenue will be closing this Sunday, February 12. Here’s the message from Bonanno’s Facebook page: Dear Denver,…
When the Walnut Room at Broadway and Ellsworth Avenue closed last August, it was only a matter of time before someone snatched up the desirable corner location in the heart of one of Denver’s hottest bar and restaurant districts. What’s coming is far from the expected upscale taqueria, wood-fired pizzeria…
Paul Tamburello chose Little Man as the name of his Highland ice cream shop because it was his father’s nickname. The towering, milk-can-shaped kiosk stands as a reminder of an older, slower time in Denver’s history — plus, it’s just quirky and fun. Now Tamburello is ready to launch his…
The weekend run-up to Valentine’s Day smells of love in the air — or at least chocolate. Before you and your sweetie sit down for a prix-fixe meal this Tuesday, really cut loose with beards and brews or brunch and burlesque. Take your significant other along to shop for artisan…
Syria was hit particularly hard by President Trump’s January 27 executive order to ban residents of seven countries from traveling to the U.S. While the order restricts travel by citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia for 90 days, the ban is indefinite for Syrian refugees — of…
Bad news for fans of short skirts and big beers: The Tilted Kilt at 16th and Lawrence streets closed its doors on Sunday, February 5, so if you want brews and bar food served by scantily clad girls in plaid, you’ll have to head to the chain’s two remaining Colorado…
When I started writing about neighborhood bars, I knew I would eventually venture outside Denver city limits in my quest for great watering holes. Admittedly, I can be a little lazy when it comes to driving outside of Denver proper. But clearly I will run out of bars at some…
Denver-based vertical farm Infinite Harvest has big plans to take its produce-growing capabilities to outer space. In the meantime, it could help a lot of people here on earth – and you can now buy its produce at a local market as well as the farm itself.
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…
Two local breweries had big years in 2016 and are hoping for even more in 2017. Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project “saw the culmination” of its $3 million customized brewery — one that includes a coolship; a new hard-piped, stainless-steel fermentation cellar; twice as many wooden foeders; and new packaging…
A few months back, fresh off my return from Beijing to the States, I explored Denver for Chinese food like that I’d eaten across the Pacific, coming up with a short list of places that offer tastes of iconic dishes. It was mostly limited to Taiwanese and Cantonese food, with…
Westword’s Food & Drink coverage is a finalist in the International Association of Culinary Professionals contest.
Here are ten delicious ways to think outside the chocolate box on Valentine’s Day in Denver.
Caroline Glover just opened Annette, a snug restaurant in the Stanley Marketplace, where she hopes to give diners a taste of what she likes feeding people in her own home. Annette is a very personal project for Glover, and to pull it off, she’s drawing on lessons learned at New York City’s Spotted Pig, Acorn in Denver, and various American farms. In the run-up to the opening, we caught up with the young chef to talk about the lessons she learned from farming, why opening a marketplace restaurant is like going to group therapy, and why chefs must continue to pursue sustainable sourcing, even if the novelty of phrases like “farm to table” has worn off.
Let’s say you’re a sustainability-minded food consumer, and you vote with your dollar by buying from farmers’ markets and local producers, by purchasing organically grown produce or cage-free eggs. What do you do when you’re eating out and have less direct control of the food on your plate? Especially as…
In the three weeks since Donald Trump became president, the United States has seen protests by millions of people in dozens of cities who disagree with Trump’s policies and views — and there are many more protests that have been scheduled for the future. In Denver, part of that protest…
Casa Bonita is a true Colorado classic, a forty-plus-year-old eatertainment complex that bills itself as “the world’s most exciting restaurant” and has been immortalized on South Park as the “Disneyland of Mexican restaurants.” Despite its international notoriety, though, some Coloradans have never been to the place – a shocking lapse that we were determined to remedy.
After just two and half years on Colfax Avenue, in the heart of Aurora’s Cultural Arts District, Mu Brewery will close its doors for good later this month. It is one of just a very few Denver-area craft breweries to shutter in the past decade, but in all likelihood, it…
No. 22: Empanadas at Lazo Empanadas Lazo Empanadas is the more streamlined offshoot of Boulder’s Rincon Argentino. The bright but bare-bones shop in the Ballpark neighborhood (which was once the cafe side of Buenos Aires Pizzeria) sells nothing but the South American pastries and a few packaged foods, like jars…
Beer is big, and wine is ripe for a turnaround. Chris Fehlinger and Jon Lipshutz, longtime New Yorkers who came to Denver via Los Angeles and Santa Fe, opened Clyde last fall in the former Capitol Hill home of Le Central. They’ve worked hard to make their concept feel fresh, but the glass seems half full.
Visitors to Hillstone (303 Josephine Street) and its sibling, the Cherry Creek Grill (184 Steele Street), over the weekend got a little less than they bargained for — especially on Super Bowl Sunday. The restaurants were open but the booze wasn’t flowing; signs on the doors explained the reason. Turns…
