Food & Drink

Nocturne Jazz & Supper Club 1330 27th Street 303-295-3333 Nocturne has been churning through the hits for nearly a year, offering jazz-themed menus to accompany classic albums played in full by some of the city’s top combos. The kitchen has paired bites with vinyl platters from Dave Brubek, Sonny Rollins…

Three years after the groundbreaking for Tavern Platt Park, the latest edition to the Tavern Hospitality Group finally has an opening date: Monday, February 29. And really, if you count by leap years, that puts Tavern Platt Park — which occupies the address at 1475 South Pearl that was once home…

We just unveiled our 2016 list of the best Chinese restaurants in Denver last week, which included dim sum palaces, noodle houses and specialists from regions as far-flung as Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hong Kong and the island nation of Taiwan. Our goal was to not only find great cooking, but to highlight…

It’s Fat Tuesday, and diners will be letting the good times roll all over town. But Tom’s Home Cookin’, a longtime Southern cooking mainstay in Five Points that was a regular on our list of the Best Southern Food Restaurants in Denver, closed at the end of 2015, and its…

A sign reading “Grind” went up at 300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek just a few weeks ago, prompting us to speculate whether the new business would be a coffee shop or a sausage house. A new addition to the sign spelling out “kitchen + watering hole,” combined with a…

Soul food is often misconstrued as fat-heavy comfort food  — or food that’s hard on the heart but good for the soul. But Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, a new vegan soul-food eatery at the corner of 35th Avenue and Albion Street, has a…

No. 93 Zuppa Pomorodo at Parisi Italian Market & Deli Those who have frequented the eateries of Denver’s northwest neighborhoods for the past few decades will remember when Parisi was nothing more than a simple Italian deli with some of the best sandwiches in town and a few tables in…

Big changes are afoot in northwest Denver. After four decades in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, La Loma will be moving downtown — and its home perched high on West 26th Avenue reportedly replaced by a fifteen-story story with 713 units. And Dickinson Plaza, at West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street,…

There’s going to be a lot of pizza ordered today in Denver — much of it from Papa John’s, since Peyton Manning bought 21 Denver-area franchises back in 2012 (and since the chain is offering a free pizza tomorrow to anyone who spends at least $15 online with Papa John’s…

Neighborhoods around Denver are changing — and RiNo might be changing the fastest. The area is technically part of Five Points, and picked up the RiNo nickname — short for River North, since this section is bordered by the Platte — a decade ago. Since then, the area has rapidly…

We visited Torchy’s Tacos twice this week: once to give you a look inside the shiny new Texas taqueria and once to check out what kind of Denverite would stand in line for two hours in a snow storm for said tacos — even if they were free. After the Snowtacolypse,…

Here’s a trio of new menus to get you through the day, from hearty new brunch options at Steuben’s to a spiffed-up happy hour and bar menu at Panzano to a completely updated dinner slate at the intimate Black Pearl that looks forward to spring weather. Brunch at Steuben’s 523…

No. 94: Kimchi-Jeon at Seoul BBQ Pancakes for Sunday brunch are a time-honored tradition, but if you find yourself in Aurora looking for a midday meal, a different kind of pancake at Seoul BBQ beckons and could become a new weekend tradition. Once seated at this Havana Street mainstay, you’ll…

After forty years, La Loma is leaving Jefferson Park — but when the current location closes at 2527 West 26th Avenue, the building where La Loma has been since 1981, the restaurant will move to an as-yet-undisclosed location downtown. And in the spring of 2017, the owners plan to open…