In the bar world, nothing says “deck the halls” and “happy holidays” better than a glass of creamy, boozy eggnog. But despite the popularity of this seasonal tipple, the real deal (not that artifical grocery-store swill) is not that easy to find come December. Worry not, this winter you…
Denver drink slingers Rob Corbari and Alex Kady won first place last night at Knob Creek’s Repeal Day cocktail competition at Star Bar. The contest is an annual event that coincides with the date Prohibition was repealed in 1933. At the competition, twelve teams of two bartenders each offered up…
After nearly a year since Mission Yogurt Inc. founder Rod Tafoya, who runs a stable of food concessions at Denver International Airport, purchased the restaurant space that was previously Session Kitchen, Que Bueno Suerte is ready for its public debut on Sunday, December 11. The newest eatery to arrive on Old…
It’s Colorado Gives Day, which means your phone and inbox are full of messages from non-profits across Colorado, urging you to donate today. Illegal Pete’s in LoDo is making it particularly easy to do good while also eating good food. From 5 to 11 p.m. tonight, this outpost of the…
Denver has no shortage of traditional Asian eateries, from the longstanding strip of Vietnamese restaurants along Federal Boulevard to the more recent explosion of Korean barbecue places in Aurora. There’s a sushi bar in nearly every suburban strip mall, even if full-fledged Japanese menus are much harder to find. And…
Denver’s annual Santa Pub Crawl was hatched in 2002 with a handful of intrepid Saint Nick impersonators who gathered to partake in some festive day drinking — and to donate toys to families in need. The tradition caught on, and these days more than 2,000 people participate, dressed as old…
No. 37: Smoked Lamb Shank at Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que Coy and Rachael Webb have been putting a little Colorado into traditional smokehouse barbecue since opening in early 2015. That means lamb and bison — as well as the occasional elk sausage special — in addition to more the more typical…
Corvus Coffee Roasters is spreading the coffee love down south as the Broadway coffee house opened the doors to its second location over the weekend. Located at 4925 South Newport Street (just off I-25 and East Belleview Avenue), the Denver roaster is now giving DTC coffee lovers easier access to the highly…
Sometimes it takes just one bite to change your future. As a rule, Greg Jones did not eat Cajun food outside the borders of Louisiana. So when his son dragged him “kicking and screaming” to The Lost Cajun in Breckenridge, this born-and-bred Louisianan was skeptical. Cajun food in a ski…
It’s a wild week in December, staring with Repeal Day parties and Colorado Gives Day, and then pre-holiday parties will ramp up to the end of 2016. Cocktails, wines and music abound, with opportunities to support local non-profits. Get dressed in flapper finery or dig up your ugliest sweater and…
On the night before Thanksgiving, the Cherry Cricket — the iconic, seventy-year-old burger joint in Cherry Creek — suffered a kitchen fire that shuttered the Cricket. And while the current owner, Breckenridge-Wynkoop Holdings, was already in the process of turning Breck on Blake, a former brewpub at 2200 Blake Street, into…
The thrill of so many exciting restaurant openings — and there were plenty this fall — can be tempered by news that one of our favorites didn’t make it. But things other than bad food or bad business can doom an eatery. A kitchen fire shuttered the Cherry Cricket —…
This week we chomped our way through more than our share of fried chicken, as Gretchen Kurtz’s mouthwatering description of the bird at Steuben’s Arvada, which she reviewed this week, prompted us to update our list of the ten best fried chicken joints in town. Chicken also tempted us through…
Last call for listings!! By the time the clock strikes twelve on January 1, 2017, will your restaurant have struck out on getting all that holiday business? Not if it’s in our annual New Year’s Eve guide. If you have anything special planned for December 31, we want to know…
This week our Beer Man, Jonathan Shikes, let us know that Cheluna Brewing would be holding a soft opening on Thursday, December 1, at the mammoth Stanley Marketplace. We headed over for a beer to check out the new brewery, which sports a Oaxacan theme and flavors, thanks to owners Javier…
Anticipation for the opening of Mizu Izakaya has been building over the last several months, in part because of the new restaurant’s prominent location — right at the corner of 16th and Boulder streets in the heart of LoHi — and in part because of the construction delays that have…
The restaurant space at 472 South Federal Boulevard that has served as home to two Vietnamese-Cajun eateries over the past several year, first Red Claw and then Vietnam Bay, is now a coffeehouse and karaoke bar called Giot Dang Cafe. The name translates to “bitter drops” in English, a reference…
There’s still time to find a local, hand-crafted gift for the special people in your life, and there are plenty of places where you can find them. A new apron could be perfect for the family chef, or a bottle of Colorado bubbly would look good under the tree. This…
How can a brewery that specializes in sour beers explain to customers that it has made something that isn’t sour? Simple: call it “sourless.” That’s what Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project did a couple of months ago when it tapped Sourless IPA for the first time in its taproom. Since…
Fried chicken has been on our minds lately; it’s a homey dish suited for family gatherings where platters of crispy, aromatic bird can be passed around a lively table — along with mashed potatoes, gravy, greens and other Southern and Midwestern sides. Whether you like yours with a thick, spicy…
Restaurant openings in November started out slow but then came on strong, far outpacing the closings. But there were a few surprise shutterings, including the Cherry Cricket and the Inventing Room, both of which plan to reopen in 2017. Here’s our complete list of restaurant and bar openings and closing…
I am not a cigar smoker, and neither is my friend who invited me on my first expedition to Devon’s Pub, a modest-looking bar and cigar store in the Happy Canyon shopping center in University Hills. She just likes to smoke clove cigarettes indoors and watch free comedy shows. I…
