September was a busy month for restaurant and bar openings, with more than twenty that made our end-of-month Roll Call. Here’s a list of the ten biggest debuts, with links to the stories we wrote throughout the month. First Look: Avelina Opens With Chefs John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom Jozi’s…
Denver continues to grind out new restaurants at a surprisingly consistent pace, like a sausage maker turning the crank round and round. So far in 2016, each month has seen about twenty openings in the metro area — and September was no different. Two debuts this month, at opposite ends…
Earlier this week, writer Laura Bond took us on a tour of King Soopers Store 124 in Glendale, one of the most diverse major grocery stores in the Denver metro area. And while it’s encouraging to find small pockets of specialty goods within big-name supermarkets, where do we turn to…
Later today we’ll publish our Restaurant Roll Call for September, a compendium of all the openings and closings around town. We already know it’s been a tough month for Irish bars, with The Celtic Tavern and Delaney’s closing last weekend (the Celtic is slated to reopen at 1400 Market Street),…
With Oktoberfest season in full swing and the Great American Beer Festival just around the corner, you can expect to see plenty of suds around Denver this weekend — but there will be plenty of other libations pouring, too. At everything from sake to cider events, and even a few…
Apparently yesterday was national coffee day. So we found it coincidentally great timing to visit Commonwealth’s new coffee shop at 5225 East 38th Avenue in Park Hill, where every day is coffee day. The wholesale roastery is not new to Denver; owners Jason Farrar and Ryan Fisher are ready to celebrate three…
Earlier this month Barolo Grill’s owner, Ryan Fletter, and chef, Darrel Truett, announced plans to open a quick-service pasta counter called Chow Morso inside Avanti Food & Beverage at 3200 Tejon Street. Those plans have nearly come to fruition; Fletter and Truett hope to open Chow Morso sometime next week, possibly as…
No. 55: Lobster, Egg and Caviar Bruschetta at Bar Fausto There’s not exactly a tricked-out kitchen at RiNo cocktail haunt Bar Fausto (which made our list of the ten best in town) — this venue from neighborhood veterans Jonathan Power and Koan Goedman offers a menu of bites simple enough that…
Ohana Island Kitchen, the Hawaiian lunch window in Highland that serves poké bowls, bento boxes and spam musabi from a walk-up window on the side of the Truffle Table, will soon have a storefront of its own. Due to an increase in demand and the fact that Ohana owners Louie…
Interstate Kitchen & Bar opened its doors back in 2009, in what was then considered a sketchy spot on Tenth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in Lincoln Park. At that time, there were quite a few empty storefronts, and the art galleries in the area were not nearly as established…
Denver International Airport has brought back Beer Flights, its temporary beer garden, to Level 5 between the Jeppesen Terminal and Westin Denver International Airport. This is the third year in a row that the airport has used the beer garden to toast both the Great American Beer Festival, which begins next…
A big gap — both stylistically and philosophically — exists between mixed drinks and cocktails. Mixed drinks are two-ingredient blends that you order when you don’t care for the taste of a specific type of booze (hence the vodka-tonic), when you want to disguise the fact that you’re drinking too…
Fall is in the air, and with it comes changes and new menus from Denver chefs. This week brings lunch hours and hearty lunch dishes from Avelina, a new jazz-inspired tasting menu from Nocturne and some restaurant-quality dishes designed by chef Frank Bonanno for delivery service Supperbell. Avelina 1550 17th…
No. 56: Macaroni and Cheese at Work & Class Upon first bite there was something about chef Dana Rodriguez’s addictive macaroni and cheese that just tasted different, in a good way. Turns out it’s more than one thing that makes this lauded chef’s pale yellow-orange version stand out, and six-year-aged…
Hanan Chthieer has done harder things than push a line of shopping carts up an incline through an obstacle course of a parking lot — like flee Iraq in fear for her life, for example. But now this is her job, and it’s difficult. The wheel on one of the…
How do you turn a time-worn breakfast joint into a brand-new Puerto Rican restaurant in just under a month? You do the work yourself — which is exactly what Alex Rivera, owner of El Coquí D’Aquí, did. Taking the food-truck concept that he originally launched in 2011, Rivera and his wife,…
The first Great American Beer Festival took place in Boulder in 1982. There were 24 breweries, 47 beers and about 800 attendees. Oh, how things have changed. This year, the Brewers Association, which hosts the annual event, expects more than 800 breweries, 3,800 beers and 60,000 attendees. But after 35…
The luck of the Irish has been running low of late as several Irish pubs have shuttered this year. The latest is Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub at 1922 13th Street in Boulder, which will close permanently on Sunday, October 2, after seventeen years in business. The Boulder longtimer posted this…
For the month of September, twenty chefs around town have been challenging each other to sell weekend specials made with unusual ingredients as part of the Culinary Cricket Challenge. Sales of each dish have gone directly toward funding food skills and nutrition education programs at Cooking Matters Colorado, which is…
“Colorado barbecue” are two words that just don’t go together, according to many smoked-meat enthusiasts. This state lacks the tradition, they explain, arguing that all of the barbecue in Colorado is inspired by barbecue from somewhere else. But as Mark Antonation notes, there’s a small group of chefs attempting to put…
On paper, Steve Fenberg, Rob DuRay, Casey Berry and Sam Alviani look like an unlikely coalition of bar owners. Fenberg and DuRay are nonprofit and politics guys. Boulderite Fenberg is currently running for state Senate; a decade ago he launched progressive political organization New Era Colorado, where he met DuRay,…
Tonight is the night when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go toe-to-toe in the first of three planned presidential debates. Whether you’re a Hillary holdout or disciple of The Donald, you won’t want to miss every important platform point and blow landed in what promises to be a political knockdown…
