Weekends are generally a busy time on Federal Boulevard, with parking lots packed at every Vietnamese and Mexican joint on the strip — even the ones with empty dining rooms during the week. But as the sun set on Federal on Sunday night, the lights didn’t come on at Playa…
We’re about to post our Restaurant Roll Call for February, a compendium of all the openings and closings in the metro area over the past month. And while several spots opened, there were also some notable places that threw in the kitchen towel, including the Slotted Spoon, the fast-casual meatball…
Happy Leap Day! Make the most of your extra day by diving mouth-first into one of today’s tasty events, including a new happy hour at Rioja and a pouring of Pliny the Younger, and then just keep rolling through this week’s heaping helping of culinary activities. There’s also Denver Restaurant…
The weather’s beautiful, and people all over Denver will be in the parks and on patios today. But what about their pets? While several restaurants — including Racines — have dog-friendly patios, some of town’s most pooch-oriented places have closed over the past year, including the Barker Lounge, which shuttered…
The fate of the Your Choice Colorado — the proposal to allow full-strength beer and wine sales at supermarkets — won’t be decided until November, but the Super Target in Glendale isn’t waiting around. With tough competition from the King Soopers down the street (the only King Soopers in the state…
There’s a new chef at Zengo, and he’s giving the upscale fusion eatery a more Asian bent. Gretchen Kurtz chatted with chef Robert Juan about growing up in Hawaii and cooking Filipino cuisine. Zengo may be moving away from some of its original Mexican flavors, but Mark Antonation moved in…
Bronx native Joseph Gerace has been running East Coast Joe’s food truck with Alli Evans for the past three years, serving lobster rolls, crab cakes and other culinary favorites from the Atlantic seaboard. But when the couple decided to open a second food truck, they took their inspiration from another…
No 91: The Signature Bowl from the Churn & Burn Food Truck So you love barbecue and everything that comes with it: cornbread, some tangy slaw, a drizzle of sauce —and don’t forget the scoop of creamy mac and cheese. But when you’re at a food-truck rally, craft brewery or festival, finding…
IPAs are dead. Long live IPAs. Although it’s trendy to bash India Pale Ales these days as being the death of craft beer, reality shows that they’re what has helped to give the industry life: The Boulder-based Brewers Association reports that IPAs make up more than 27 percent of the…
How long does a restaurant have to last before its closure sets off a wave of nostalgia? That’s one question that’s emerged from the recent round of bad news, including the imminent loss of the Gypsy House Cafe, which is a dozen years old. But nostalgia over a neighborhood spot closing is…
Denver Restaurant Week kicks off its twelfth annual extravaganza of citywide menu deals tonight, with $30 dinners at over 200 metro dining destinations over the next ten days. But if you’re just now calling around to see where you can still grab a table, you may be surprised at how…
Medical marijuana’s CBD craze has shown no signs of slowing down, with high-CBD strains and pure-CBD oils in almost every dispensary in Colorado — but where are the CBD edibles? A Denver area couple says they’re ready to fill that void, and they don’t need a dispensary — or even…
Fillmore Street between Second and Third avenues in Cherry Creek will soon undergo a major change, as demolition on a row of retail shops on the east side of the street begins. The replacement will be an eight-story office and retail complex being developed by Schnitzer West. Of course, that…
Neighborhood Peruvian eatery Limón closed at the end of 2015, but owner Alex Gurevich didn’t give up the space. Instead, he and managing partner Larry Lane converted it into a Southern eatery and whiskey bar called Bread-N-Butter, which opened on Tuesday night in Uptown. The biggest changes to the interior are…
2010, the year we all felt so fly “Like a G6,” incessantly tooted our vuvuzelas, and pretended to be outraged at many a natural and man-made disaster. Harnessing our nostalgia for the end of the aughts, Hollywood has already made the Wikileaks and Deepwater Horizon movies, but has yet to…
We’ve been eating our way through town as we make our choices for the Best of Denver 2016, which will land on March 31. Our hunt for the Best Chinese Restaurant has led us all over the metro area; we outlined some of our finds in our recent list of…
If you’ve dined at the Palm Restaurant, you’ve no doubt noticed the caricatures of guests that adorn the walls throughout the bar and dining rooms — and if you’ve dined at the Palm enough to be a regular, you might have noticed your own caricature among those faces. Now that…
Ian Clark opened BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats in Boulder in the summer of 2013, bringing his career as a chef and his passion for small-batch brewing together under one roof. But Clark has another passion that has threaded its way through his life in the kitchen, a passion that’s…
Greeley’s WeldWerks Brewing — which Westword called one of five breweries to watch this year — has also attracted some national attention: USA Today has included the company in a readers’ choice contest to select the Best New Brewery to emerge over the last few years. And the voting will…
Spanish Gin-Tonic at Linger The menu at Linger touches almost every continent on Earth, bringing regional dishes from all over the world to the mortuary-turned-restaurant in the LoHi neighborhood. And that globally inspired mission is not lost on Ky Belk, who manages the bar and oversees Linger’s diverse cocktail program…
Tickets are now on sale for two top culinary events. The Boulder International Film Festival is back for another year beginning March 3, and with it comes CineChef, the culinary competition where a selection of chefs create dishes inspired by their favorite movies — and then guests get to vote…
The Denver dining scene has seen a spate of closings lately, and the news just keeps coming. Gypsy House Cafe must vacate its space at 1279 Marion Street next month; word is the eclectic neighborhood spot will be replaced by a sushi restaurant — and the trademark mural outside will be…
