Big Red F and Lola welcome guest chef Javier Plascencia, a Baja star brought to Denver by Big Red F founder Dave Query and founding Lola chef Jamey Fader, who visited him in Mexico last month, for a special collaboration dinner tonight. Chef Plascencia, who has appeared on No Reservations with…
As a certain aging rocker likes to sing, every picture tells a story. But restaurants do, too, and the one told by Stowaway Coffee + Kitchen is largely autobiographical. Launched this winter by Amy Cohen and her husband, Hayden Barnie, Stowaway draws together strands of Cohen’s life. There are influences…
Is there such a thing as Colorado-style barbecue? Anna and Jonathon Ortlieb, the couple behind Happy Camper BBQ, think so — because they say they’ve invented it. The two plan to have their mobile barbecue kitchen open by the beginning of June serving smoked pork with a Colorado twist: Instead…
When Rob Kevwitch opened Grist Brewing in late 2013, he picked Highlands Ranch for one reason: “I grew up here,” he says, and “this neighborhood needed a brewery, dammit. I was so tired of driving to Denver.” But even after two successful years, an expansion and the implementation of rigorous…
Que Bueno Suerte!, a restaurant featuring upscale, modern Mexican cuisine, will open this summer at 1518 South Pearl Street. We thought the saga of this building had everything — and then its new owner, Mission Yogurt Inc., signed colorful, talented Dana Rodriguez, founding chef at Work & Class (and chef at…
Indian Summer at Adrift Last Autumn, Paul Larkin was playing around with cocktail recipes for a new drink menu at Adrift, experimenting with flavors in the South Broadway bar’s tiny kitchen as the line cooks were setting up for dinner service. They told him to make a drink out of…
Inside Silvana Mondo, Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt’s Tennyson Street art and antiques gallery, a low table surrounded by five cushioned stools that are barely higher than the floor itself awaits a group of guests, the tabletop set with a spread of dates, almonds, Turkish delight, a bottle of Bosnian sljivovic plum brandy,…
A week ago, after weathering the disappointment over the cancellation of the Official 4/20 Rally at Civic Center Park on April 16, Denver was high on all the celebrations for 4/20 that were actually taking place. Nearby businesses and food trucks were also high on the business they were about…
No 82: Shakshuka at Stowaway Coffee + KitchenRestaurant breakfasts are generally pretty tasty, but they’re rarely relaxing; the best places fill up quickly, and the morning meal becomes a rushed, noisy affair over a cluttered table where the speed-pouring of coffee becomes a spectator sport. Even the breezy, sun-drenched Stowaway…
There’s an award-winning pizza crust here in Denver and you can find it at more than one restaurant — including eateries already known for great pizza, like the Good Son, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, the Crafty Fox, Denver Deep Dish and Silvi’s Kitchens. The Gluten Free Explorer, a Denver…
What was until recently an office for American Family Insurance will soon become another restaurant on a stretch of Tennyson Street that has turned into a dining destination so quickly that it helped earn Berkeley our Best New Restaurant Neighborhood in this year’s Best of Denver. The stately brick building…
Tengu, one of the first in the recent wave of noodle bars to wash up in Denver, closed quietly last week. Was it a victim of a city awash in other options? High prices? Or just poor signage? Says Jeanie: I ate ramen when we were young and broke; why…
Before you check out the culinary calendar, make a reservation on Thursday so that you can support Project Angel Heart at Dining Heart for Life. But there are definitely other worthy events around town, including a very special dinner at Lola on Wednesday. Keep reading for the tasty details. Monday,…
Although there was a lot of restaurant action in Boulder this week, including the opening of Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly Butcher. But there’s food new in other areas as well: The November ballot in Boulder may include a measure that calls for an vice tax on sugary beverages such as soda and…
Happy Doors Open Denver! Today and tomorrow, you can tour dozens of historic and architectural marvels around Denver….but you might want to eat at home before you head downtown, because the brunch lines are long. Snooze at Union Station — where Doors Open Denver is headquartered — is on a…
There was plenty of news coming out of Boulder this week, as three popular metro-area eateries opened new outposts in the city. Local brewery/restaurant Bru Handbuilt Ales & Eats took over the space next door for Heifer and the Hen, an upscale ice cream shop with creative, seasonal flavors. And…
At the end of March, the Edible Beats restaurant group, which consists of Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox (with others on the way), announced that Jeremy Kittelson was taking over as culinary director for the entire group and that chef Daniel Asher was stepping away from the role…
Spring means growth and change, sometimes so much that it’s hard to keep up with. So here’s a look at three restaurants with changes afoot, including a new lunch slate from Arcana in Boulder to go with a chef shuffle in the kitchen, the Way Back’s new dinner menu, and…
All aboard! The train to the plane officially pulls out of the station this weekend, with free rides from Union Station to Denver International Airport today and tomorrow. But the airport isn’t the only place you can get on the A line; as Jonathan Shikes points out in his Ten…
Today is Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate our planet this weekend than by indulging in its delicious bounty? The culinary calendar is overflowing with everything from Earth Day celebrations to the Spring Flea; keep reading for the delicious details. Friday, April 22 In celebration of Earth Day,…
The Palm Restaurant came to Denver in 1996 and it’s not difficult to imagine that some regular customers have enjoyed weekly, maybe even daily, power lunches over martinis and filet mignon for the past twenty years. So when the storied steakhouse, which got its start in New York City in…
We’re hungry for validation here in the Queen City of the Plains, and when someone from either coast bestows it on a local institution, we flock to be part of the conversation. With a James Beard award, national plaudits, and a Ruth Reichl bump, Rioja and its owners Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch…
