Chef/restaurateur Kevin Taylor has been helping shape Denver’s dining scene for decades, opening Zenith American Grill downtown in 1987 at the age of 25. He continued with a string of culinary hits from the still-running Palettes in the Denver Art Museum and Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House to the…
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been an invasion of Texas taco slingers in the metro area. Torchy’s hit big when it landed at 1085 Broadway earlier this year, and new outposts will open soon in Englewood and Northfield. Before that, Forth Worth transplant Fuzzy’s Tacos was already packing the house…
Like The Post in Lafayette, Longmont’s Comida changed restaurant culture in it’s city for good. It’s success was based on the revolutionary idea that the thousands who moved to midsize cities to raise families and toil in the high-tech sector might like somewhere nice to eat. It was far from…
Denver has grown a lot in the twenty years since Great Divide Brewing began making a pale ale named for the city, and next month the beer will change with the times as well. Originally an English-style pale ale, it will be a completely American ale, with a slightly lower…
While some people think of slavery as an archaic practice of a bygone era, many people today are still confined by the shackles of slavery. The numbers are startling. According to Love146, a foundation working to end child trafficking and exploitation, an estimated 20.9 million people are enslaved today. According…
To celebrate American Craft Beer Week, which runs May 16 through may 22, the Boulder-based Brewers Association led a project called the the Biggest Small Beer Ever Made, in which brewers from all fifty states each made the same beer, using the same ingredients. At least two local breweries, Declaration Brewing…
Golden’s beer scene will head in a new direction late this summer when two of the former owners at Mountain Toad Brewing open their own spot, New Terrain Brewing, at the base of Table Mountain. The location, a vacant parcel next to a dog park and a bike trail, was…
Restaurateur Robert Thompson has been expanding his Punch Bowl Social family of gastro-tainment spots nationwide over the past few years, garnering attention as an astute businessman in the process. Earlier this month he was named by Ernst & Young as a mountain-desert regional finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year for…
A year ago, I celebrated my friend’s 30th birthday with tequila shots, enchiladas and a few Ghostbusters from a nearby cosplay convention in an overstuffed booth at Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant in the Denver Tech Center. Waiters carried trays past various Guardians of the Galaxy, stopping to pose for photos and…
Four Friends Kitchen in Stapleton recently brought on chef Scott Parker to head the kitchen at the lively breakfast and lunch eatery. When the restaurant opened just over a year ago, the kitchen at Four Friends was under the guidance of executive chef Larry Shore, who’s moved on to a…
Giles Flanagin and Jeff Smokevitch opened Blue Pan Pizza at 3930 West 32nd Avenue last summer to nearly instant acclaim, thanks to a roster of regional pizzas highlighted by a thick, crusty, Detroit-style pie that has won over West Highland hearts and bellies. This was Smokevitch’s second pizza joint, after…
Littleton Taco House has been at 1390 West Littleton Boulevard for over fifty years — but we’re guessing that the last year was the longest, because the restaurant was closed for thirteen months of repairs and remodeling after storm damage last spring. On Monday, Don and Dora D’Andrea finally welcomed…
The Preservery, which opened in RiNo’s Backyard on Blake development this spring, is a product of its time: part market, part live-music venue, part restaurant and more. The relaxed, community-minded operation is a far cry from the intense, Michelin two-star restaurant in London where chef de cuisine Brendan Russell spent…
Richard Sandoval’s modern Mexican restaurant Tamayo has held down its corner of Larimer Square for fifteen years now. When the restaurant first opened in 2001, it was Sandoval’s first foray outside of Manhattan; today the chef/restaurateur has 44 restaurants in his empire, seven in Colorado — which he now calls home. And…
After several years of searching, Colorado’s second largest craft brewery has finally found the right location in Denver for a major operation. Longmont-based Oskar Blues Brewery said Tuesday that it is planning to open a two-level restaurant, beer bar and music venue at 1624 Market Street, in the space formerly…
A new bar with an old theme is coming to historic downtown Golden. Miners Saloon, a project from partners Dean and Aimee Valdez and Noah Heaney, will open in mid-June at 1109 Miners Alley. The partners explain that the new bar and restaurant will aim to reflect Golden’s history as…
Restaurateur Brian Rossi opened Adelitas Cocina y Cantina at 1294 South Broadway three years ago, giving the Platt Park neighborhood a taste of Mexican eats and great margaritas. After the first year, Rossi attempted to open El Guapo in the space behind the cantina, where a big patio and a…
The French Bulldog at Mercantile Dining & Provision “When I taste this cocktail, I want to be out on a patio,” says Daryl Prior, bartender at Mercantile Dining & Provision. “Preferably if I could get it in pitcher form, that would be the best way to go.” He’s referring to…
Caribbean cuisine is a rarity in Denver, probably with good reason. After all, moving to a city where frostbite is even a remote possibility couldn’t have much appeal for anyone who grew up on a tropical island. Still, a few folks from the Caribbean have found their way to our…
Illegal Pete’s finally opened last Friday in the former home of Mama’s Cafe (and an International House of Pancakes before that) at 2001 East Colfax Avenue — and it was definitely worth the wait. The original A-frame has been stripped to its bones and filled with a sleek kitchen and…
If you haven’t headed to Jefferson Park for your last supper at La Loma, you have another reprieve. Since 1981, the massive Mexican restaurant has been perched at 2527 West 26th Avenue — just down the hill from the little bungalow where Savina Mendoza opened her original spot in 1973…
The day is finally here; after thirteen months of remodeling and repairs after storm damage last spring, Don and Dora D’Andrea are welcoming guests back to their Littleton Taco House at 1390 West Littleton Boulevard. The doors opened at 11 a.m. for lunch and will be open from 11 a.m…
