Food & Drink

Few chefs have done as much for a cuisine as Julia Child, who convinced a generation of Americans to put down their can openers and make coq au vin. But Nobu Matsuhisa is in the same category: The charming chef and restaurateur revolutionized Japanese food thirty years ago and continues…

Chef Pino Saverino opened Pino’s Neighborhood Pizzeria & Wine Bar in Cherry Hills Village in 2011 and the little eatery has served as a neighborhood gathering spot at 1400 East Hampden Avenue, with wine, pizza and housemade pasta drawing customers and Saverino’s old-world hospitality keeping them coming back. Now the…

At the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Pecos Street in Lower Highland there’s an eatery built from a repurposed, semi-industrial building with a spacious outdoor patio, great views of downtown and a dozen beers on tap. Oh, and it has its own parking lot, so no, it’s not Avanti…

Last night’s sunset revealed a particularly lovely sight: The signs of the Dirty Duck are again glowing. An April 1 fire at the abandoned Rockies Inn next door had forced the temporary closure of the Dirty Duck at 4780 East Evans Avenue, and seven weeks later the burned hulk of the motel…

You’ve mastered single-malt and bested craft beer; you’ve even solved the mysteries of mezcal and speak reasonable rum. But what of that clear — and clearly baffling — Japanese rice beverage called sake? Most of us vaguely remember blurry nights filled with dragon rolls and rounds of hot sake, sometimes…

Highland Tap & Burger at 2219 West 32nd Avenue is known for, you guessed it, beer and burgers. But Juan Padro, who owns the lively bar with his wife, Katie O’Shea Padro, grew up eating his family’s Puerto Rican cooking and visits the Caribbean island regularly, so it’s his prerogative as…

When Avanti Food & Beverage opened last summer in Lower Highland, the concept was to use the seven shipping-containers-turned-kitchens inside as incubators for chefs and entrepreneurs, where they could test restaurant ideas and new menus in a cheaper alternative to a full brick-and-mortar build. The initial leases were short-term, with…

A year or two ago, most Denverites had no idea that such a thing as Detroit-style pizza existed. Now the city has an embarrassment of the doughy riches. And last week, Blue Pan Pizza — which has been a big hit since it debuted last June at 3930 West 32nd…

Under the original plan, by now La Loma was supposed to have left its perch in Jefferson Park and moved into the downtown space that once was home to Trinity Grille. But renovations there have taken longer than anticipated, and the move has been pushed back again, until the end…

Argyll Whisky Beer closed this week, and opinions started spilling out quickly about that restaurant and others founded by Robert Thompson, who earned a Best New Restaurant award for Brasserie Rouge, a second for the original Argyll, and now is creating an eatertainment empire with Punch Bowl Social, which got…

The Uptown neighborhood said goodbye this week to two restaurants, both on 17th Avenue, that will be remembered fondly. Restaurateur Robert Thompson closed Argyll Whisky Beer after two years, and Mary Nguyen will do the same with her decade-old P17 just down the street. Both are shuttering their chef-driven eateries…

The sun is finally out and the weekend weather forecast looks stable (although we know how that goes in Colorado), so Denverites will be out en masse to enjoy bites and booze on the city’s many restaurant patios. You could pick one spot to while away the hours with drink…

Soul food restaurants have a way of seeming timeless, or out of time, with service, decor and humble plates that could hold up in any decade over the last half-century. CoraFaye’s Cafe at 2861 Colorado Boulevard is no exception; the quaint dining room feels lived-in and historical, even if the restaurant…

At 4 p.m. tomorrow,  May 20, chef/restaurateur Troy Guard will open the doors to his new Lucky Cat Chinese restaurant, which takes the place of Bubu at 7559 East Academy Boulevard in Lowry. The eatery is Guard’s homage to the Chinese takeout joints of his childhood, with a little Asian culinary…

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…