There’s nothing like a first-date dinner. You probably picked a place with dim lighting, something that looked good on Yelp, with food that leans toward the sensual but doesn’t belie any unsavory intentions. You might choose a place like Vesta Dipping Grill, which not coincidentally has been a regular Best…
The organizers of the Great American Beer Festival have released the list of more than 3,000 beers that will be poured at the Colorado Convention Center over the next three days. And while that’s a lot of brews to choose from, there are a few unusual and/or interesting items offered…
Finding funding to open a restaurant used to be a simple matter. Either you’d write up a business plan and account for every penny to be earned and spent and head to the bank hoping for a sympathetic loan officer, or you’d rustle up a few of your richest acquaintances…
Barbecue and beer: Everyone has opinions about those. But while people uniformly praise Colorado craft beers, opinions of this state’s barbecue offerings are much more mixed. Last week we served up our updated list of the Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver, which includes Brewshine — a place that happens…
For years, there were hard-and-fast rules about restaurant criticism. Critics shall remain anonymous. Critics shall not accept free food. Critics shall eat more than one meal before forming an opinion, and won’t have said meals until the restaurant has been open long enough to work out the kinks. The Internet…
Earlier this year, Food Network host Guy Fieri rolled into town in his red Camaro convertible and dug into meals at several of our favorite Denver eateries. One of those was Lorena Cantarovici’s Argentinian cafe, Maria Empanada, on South Broadway. The cozy bakery will be featured this Friday, September 25,…
From brunch to breakfast at midnight, beer is seeping into every nook and cranny of Denver, as the Great American Beer Festival pours into town. There will be an astronomical quantity of beer inside the Convention Center today; here’s a taste of two events happening outside the festival. Whether you…
Michigan native Ryan Leinonen had worked the burners in several restaurants in Boulder and Denver — including The Kitchen and Q’s (now Spruce), as well as Colt & Gray and Root Down — when he decided to strike out on his own, drawing knowledge from his experience and inspiration from…
When judges rate beers at competitions like the Great American Beer Festival, they are typically looking for how well a particular brew fits its style definition. Does it taste, smell and feel like it is supposed to? Is it cloudy or clear? Does it have the right color, the right…
Iceland Naturally is once again bringing a Taste of Iceland — a culinary and cultural plunge into the chilly Nordic country — to Denver. This year, the food and cocktails are again being presented at Coohills. Ylfa Helgadóttir, owner and chef de cuisine of Kopar in Reykjavik, is presenting four-…
Chef/restaurateur Bradford Heap has made a name for himself in Boulder with his dedication to organic and non-GMO ingredients at Salt and Colterra, restaurants he’s run with his wife, Carol Vilate, since 2009 and 2007, respectively. While those two eateries rely heavily on local farmers and ranchers for meat and…
Denver’s being invaded by craft-beer lovers coming to town for this weekend’s Great American Beer Festival — or, if they couldn’t get tickets, the many beery events connected with GABF. But there’s another sudsy holiday already being celebrated all along the Front Range and in the mountains: Oktoberfest. And if…
Jeff Cleary has been making bread at the Grateful Bread Company for a decade, but soon he’ll be making his own flour, too. The Golden bakery’s new grain mill just arrived from Austria and will be installed over the next two weeks so that Cleary and his crew of bakers…
The swirling winds along South Broadway, which splits Denver in half, carry with them a lot of what makes up the city’s past and present, its culture and its vibe. The aromas of street tacos and marijuana float on those winds, as do the sounds of local bands, light rail…
”Do you want to be as close to or as far away from the music as possible?” asked the hostess at Baur’s Restaurant and Listening Lounge, which opened last spring in the former downtown home of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar. There was a band coming on later that…
The Great American Beer Festival officially starts tomorrow, which makes this GABF Eve — and that’s pretty much a holiday as far as we are concerned. You can celebrate at four beery events today, and if beer doesn’t pique your interest—or maybe you’re not 21—we’ve thrown in a celebration of…
It 5 o’clock somewhere, and during Great American Beer Festival week, it’s 5 o’clock all the time in Denver. This year’s festival runs from September 24-26 at the Colorado Convention Center, but the fun will begin long before that with dozens, if not hundreds, of events taking place all of…
With all the beer brains at the Brewers Association focused on the best ways to promote craft beer in the U.S., someone still needs make sure there’s great food to go with the amazing variety of brews being produced across the country (and no, that doesn’t mean flipping a coin…
Coloradans have it pretty good. We live in one of the best craft-beer states in the nation, both because our 300-plus in-state breweries are constantly turning out amazing creations and because out-of-state breweries like to try their hand here. Even so, we always thirst for more, and more is what…
Swagger Mai Tai at Metroboom As summer starts to slowly fade away, and the chilly evenings evoke thoughts of colder nights to come, we’re hastily quaffing our last glasses of rose before it’s time to switch to something more suitable to the snowy season. But at Metroboom, an innovative new…
While we await the opening of the southern branch of Los Chingones — slated for a fall opening — in the new Belleview Station development, a few other food and drink destinations around the Denver Tech Center are making Greenwood Village and the surrounding area a more appealing place to live…
The storefront at 4483 Logan Street in Globeville has been a neighborhood watering hole throughout its hundred-year history, according to its newest tenant, Jeff Cornelius. He’s in the final stages of building out Globe Hall, a Texas-style barbecue and live-music venue that will open this fall, taking the place of the…
