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. Great Divide, which first brewed Denver Pale Ale in 1996, has completely revamped the recipe, updating…
One of Colorado’s favorite roadside attractions, the giant hot dog-shaped eatery known as Coney Island in Bailey, went up for sale last fall — and it now has a new owner who plans to restore it to its former glory. A Kickstarter campaign was started by John D. Wallace last…
Cool River Cafe, a longtime gathering place on East Belleview Avenue in Englewood, is coming downtown, slated to open by the end of May in the space at 1480 Arapahoe Street that’s currently occupied by Reunion Gastro Pub & Wine Bar (and Prime Steakhouse and Hickory Prime Steakhouse and 5280 Steakhouse and…
After nearly nine months of effort, Jake Soffes is nearly at the top of the hill — Capitol Hill, that is. His airy new bar, Hudson Hill, at 619 East 13th Avenue, is lacking only a final liquor license sign-off before the doors can open to the public. That should come today,…
Denver’s dining scene is blooming this week, with beer dinners, wine dinners and birthday celebrations. Here are the twelve tastiest events on the culinary calendar. Monday, May 16 Frasca Food and Wine will explore the wines of Walter Scott with Ken Pahlow at the restaurant’s Monday Night Wine Dinner. The Monday…
Rosenberg’s Bagels and Deli is still closed after a fire in the second-floor apartment last Sunday damaged the deli (a body was found in an apartment closet, and the fire is being investigated as an arson/murder). But while you won’t be able to grab a bagel at Rosenberg’s this weekend, you…
This week Brad Weismann served up memories of ten more long-gone Denver institutions, including such restaurants as the Yum Yum Tree —a forerunner of the food court — and the Denver Drumstick, which once had five locations around Denver. Says Chris: Thanks for this, Westword! It brings back so many fond…
Chefs were in the news this week as Mary Nguyen announced the imminent closing of her longtime Uptown neighborhood gem P17, to be balanced by the opening of a second Olive & Finch in Cherry Creek North. And Elise Wiggins ended her decade-plus run at Panzano, one of our favorite Italian restaurants…
Graduating East High School senior Evan Wells has a passion for film, but he never thought it would lead to a school project. But an assignment through East’s Gifted and Talented program led him to picking up a video camera for the first time to create a short film featuring…
Chef Elise Wiggins has been behind the burners at Panzano in the Hotel Monaco for the past twelve years, but now she’s ready to embark on a new chapter. The chef’s last day at Panzano was yesterday (May 12) and she’s now in the final stages of launching something new…
The Irish eyes of Katie Mullen are no longer smiling down on the 16th Street Mall; Katie Mullen’s Irish Restaurant & Pub shuttered for good on Wednesday night. The closure comes after Northwest Bars Inc., the owner of Katie Mullen’s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January. A message on the…
What’s in a name? There — or “there…” — opened this week on the ground floor of the Lumina apartment building at West 33rd Avenue and Navajo Street; it’s the second outpost for a concept that got its start in Telluride, and is designed to let diners choose their own eating…
You know summer’s on the way when farmers’ markets begin popping up all along the Front Range; the Boulder and Cherry Creek markets are already under way, and South Pearl starts this Sunday. But there’s much more on the culinary calendar; keep reading for the tasty details. Friday,…
Illegal Pete’s took over an abandoned former IHOP at 2001 East Colfax Avenue two years ago and converted it into a towering cathedral of Colorado-style, fast-casual Mexican. The eighth Colorado Illegal Pete’s — and the ninth overall, including a new Tuscon, Arizona outpost — opens to the public tomorrow morning…
If you’ve been to a Colorado beer festival or party recently, then you’ve probably seen him behind his camera. If you follow Colorado breweries on Facebook or Twitter, then you’ve probably seen his work. For the past three years, Dustin Hall has been meticulously chronicling the state’s craft brewers with…
Chef/restaurateur Mary Nguyen has ushered P17 through eleven years and a theme change (from what was once Parallel 17) in the Uptown neighborhood, helping the eatery evolve to meet the dining needs of guests. In 2013, she opened Olive & Finch just a scone’s throw away to provide a more…
As Winston Churchill probably said, “Plan ahead, dingus.” I like to do my research on the happy hours I hit up, but I was drawn to Milk & Honey Bar-Kitchen despite my lack of happy hour recon or recent scuttlebutt from friends. The subterranean Larimer Square eatery certainly has never…
On Tuesday night, the owners of To the Wind Bistro were accepting an Exceptional Newcomer award from the Colorado Restaurant Association at a gala evening. The next morning Royce Oliveira, who owns the tiny spot with his wife, was scrubbing “Meat Is Murder” off the front window of To the Wind,…
Meat may or may not be murder, but vandalism and defacing private property are definitely crimes. Vandals chose the front window of tiny, independently owned To the Wind Bistro at 3333 East Colfax Avenue as an impromptu billboard to voice their somewhat unsophisticated views on eating meat. Chef/co-owner Royce Oliveira was…
Rosenberg’s Bagels & Deli was closed by a fire above its Five Points shop more than a week ago — a traumatic and tragic event that is now being investigated as an arson, possibly set to cover up a murder. While it may be some time before owner Joshua Pollack…
The annual Craft Brewers Conference wrapped up last weekend in Philadelphia: the roving annual event, hosted by the Boulder-based Brewers Association, is the biggest craft beer trade conference in the nation. This year’s CBC also included the World Beer Cup, a competition held every other year, and numerous Colorado breweries…
Last night, the Colorado Restaurant Association presented its annual Spotlight Awards at the Exdo Event Center in River North to honor the state’s restaurant hospitality stars. This year the theme of the awards ceremony was Women Who Rock and the ticketed event was highlighted by cooking demonstrations from five of…
