Southern food has been in the national culinary spotlight in recent years and Denver restaurants are responding with more and more examples of heartland cooking. Grind Kitchen + Watering Hole, which opens tonight in Cherry Creek North, isn’t what you’d call a Southern eatery, but chef/owner Preston Phillips draws inspiration…
Mondegreen Lime at Pon Pon Bar If Paul Garcia isn’t making cocktails at Pon Pon, he’s on the other side of the bar, spinning records. Garcia opened the arty cocktail lounge two months ago at 2528 Walnut Street, where you can listen to him play selections from his vinyl collection…
Canadians, for reasons unknown, love Clamato, especially in the version of the Bloody Mary known as the Caesar. My Canadian uncle used to mix beer and Clamato juice and call it a Red Eye. At first I couldn’t understood why anyone would want to drink a seafood-flavored beverage, but as…
The Best of Denver 2016 will land on March 31, and now’s your chance to bring out your personal best, in the second round of our Best of Denver 2016 Readers’ Poll. We’ve tallied the votes cast in the first round, and now we’d like you to vote for your…
Nothing tastes better than a beer at the end of a long, terrible day. But what if the beer itself has been through hell and high water? Find out this week when Upslope Brewing begins pouring Scottish Style Ale, a collaboration with Spirit Hound Distillers that was born in the…
This past Saturday marked the birthday of Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant ramen, and the debut of Slurp, a pop-up ramen event hosted by Ramen Mafia. The event was a collaboration of a few noodle lovers paying tribute to papa noodle. Distiller Jake Norris of Laws Whiskey House, artist Andrew…
Chefs around town are gearing up for spring by rolling out seasonal menu items, adding dishes inspired by travels or are taking a cue from an Oscar-winning movie. Here are three restaurants making menu changes this month. Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace 950 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-7771 For the…
Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson are extending their restaurant empire with a new iteration of The Kitchen in Cherry Creek North. This will be fifth Kitchen (the others are located in Boulder, downtown Denver, Fort Collins and Chicago) and the ninth establishment overall for the team, which also runs three…
A little more than eight years ago, two chefs who met while working at an upscale Italian eatery took a chance on a sandwich business. Justin Brunson and Steve Allee were working at Luca d’Italia (now just Luca) when they concocted a scheme to sell deli sandwiches out of a…
Zoës Kitchen is the newest out-of-state chain to make its way to Colorado, with a goal of bringing the freshest and healthiest food possible in a fast-casual setting to what Zoës CEO Kevin Miles calls the “birthplace of fast-casual.” The inaugural metro Denver location, at Southwest Plaza in Littleton, is set…
Denver Restaurant Week may be over, but some of the participants will continue their specials this week, adding to a cornucopia of other culinary events, including a big chef benefit for the National Kidney Foundation. Keep reading for the tasty details. Monday, March 7 The Alamo Drafthouse will be hosting a…
A new Lucile’s recently opened at 999 East Evans Avenue — which is good news for anyone who’s ever waited, and waited, in line for brunch at the Lucile’s that opened at 275 South Logan in 2005, or any of the other outposts, including the original in Boulder. Says Ben:…
After a proposal to establish spots where people could consume marijuana was pulled out of consideration last year, activists went back to the drawing board. And now Denver NORML has submitted a draft of the Responsible Use Initiative that would “legalize venues known as ‘Private Marijuana Social Clubs’ and establish a…
A new restaurant from a familiar name opened at the end of 2015 in Park Hill. Desmond is the creation of chef Sean Kelly, who Gretchen Kurtz talked to this week about the last thirty years of the Denver dining scene and running a restaurant in his own neighborhood. Mark…
No. 90: Green Chorizo at Los Compadres South Broadway from Alameda Avenue all the way down to Evans Avenue has become a stop-and-go traffic nightmare over the last year or so, with the population density along the street adding to the number of cars coming and going at all times…
It’s not easy to be all things to all people, but for the past five years, the Denver Bicycle Cafe has tried, operating a spot that’s a combination of cozy coffeehouse, bike sales-and-repair shop, and beer bar noted for its focus on small local breweries. This month, DBC will try to…
Dave Query, founder of Jax Fish House and the Big Red F restaurant group (which now totals eleven eateries), has been running an annual oyster contest in some form since 1998, the year he launched the first Jax Oyster Eating Contest. The event has grown and evolved over the years…
On Tuesday, a Denver City Council committee approved a contract for a joint venture between Denver’s Consumer Concept Group, owners of the Smashburger chain and Tom’s Urban Diner; Tivoli Brewing and Michigan’s Midfield Concession Enterprises, which runs 45 outlets in nine airports across the country (but none in Denver); the…
The Boulder Blind Cafe, which got under way yesterday, continues this weekend with dinner shows at 6 and 8:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow; grab tickets at theblindcafe.com. But there are plenty of other events lighting up the culinary calendar this weekend; keep reading for the tasty details. Friday, March 4 …
A few years ago, I asked the then-mayor of Lakewood to suggest the worst dive in his city. His answer came back quickly: Hart’s Corner Bar & Restaurant, where one customer had bitten another customer’s ear the weekend before. Sold! I visited Hart’s, right on the corner of Morrison Road…
Zoës Kitchen is the newest out-of-state chain to make its way to Colorado, with a goal of bringing the freshest and healthiest food possible in a fast-casual setting to our lovely state, or as Zoës CEO Kevin Miles calls it, the “birthplace of fast-casual.” (We’ll take it.) But Zoës feels…
Mike Henderson, beverage director for Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, is out to prove that Denver’s cocktail scene is one of the best in the country. On Monday, he competed in the regional semifinal of the Bartender of the Year event hosted in New Orleans by Heaven Hill…
