Welcome back, Ototo. The space at 1501 South Pearl Street that debuted five years ago as Ototo Food and Wine Bar is returning as a new incarnation of Ototo, with an intimate dining room and the same signature raw bar and sashimi of the Den Corner. For the next three weeks,…
Baum has gone through several incarnations since it first opened on Capitol Hill as a bakery specializing in Japanese baum cakes. It morphed into a bakery/cafe, then a sushi bar/bakery, then back to a bakery/cafe. But the current incarnation of Baum will close at 6 p.m. today, and the fiery…
KRUPS, the coffee- and espresso-machine maker, just launched the KRUPS Best Brew Awards 2015, the company’s fifth annual competition to find the best coffee shops in select cities across the country — and for the first time, Denver is included on that list. Through September 29 (National Coffee Day), you…
School may have started, but at least there’s recess, and Recess Beer Garden — which includes a restaurant, a 38-foot bar and a huge, 4,000-square-foot beer garden — opens this weekend at 2715 17th Street in a former book-binding warehouse in Lower Highland. Recess will be open from 10 a.m…
From Park & Co. to P17 to Ace Eat Serve, a lot of my happy-hour adventures have taken place on East 17th Avenue. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Take a drive through Uptown and you’ll see for yourself the many bus tling patios and dining rooms, all filled with happy hours and their…
No. 18: Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa Don your leather pants and pink coat and get ready for a superb ride of flavor when you order the Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa. It sings with rich omega-three and well-balanced heat, and has a pleasing texture thanks to the…
The sad news spread quickly yesterday: After 34 years, Robert Tournier is retiring, and closing Le Central, “the affordable French restaurant” he opened at Eighth and Lincoln back in 1980 and has been running ever since. Says Joseph: The neighborhood is losing a gem. Really sad to see this go. Adds…
Like the exquisite, twenty-layered baum cakes that have been spinning inside its imported rotisserie oven – affectionately dubbed the Red Dragon — the past few years, Glaze is a restaurant with many strata. It opened as a bakery, became a joint sushi bar-bakery for a brief period, then earlier this…
The Denver Public Library has teamed up with two local breweries, Fiction Beer and Denver Beer Co, and author Kevin Hearne to make two beers that will be tapped as part of a month-long DPL series called BrewHa!Ha!, which “celebrates all things brewed,” from coffee to kombucha. Hearne, author of…
Tickets for the sixteenth annual Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival went on sale this morning — and they will be gone quickly! This iconic fest, which takes place January 7-9 at the Vail Cascade Resort in Vail, includes a major tasting of high-gravity beers, along with a couple of intense…
Long before they even considered the fun part — making and serving delicious craft beers — most of the breweries that have opened in Colorado over the past five years began with a physical location, their own equipment and some tables and chairs. But that hasn’t always been the case…
No. 19: Mongolian BBQ Duck Buns at Linger Though Linger is housed in what used to be part of the Olinger Mortuary, these Mongolian BBQ duck buns are anything but deadly. In fact, you might consider them life-savers, especially if you indulge in the $5 order available found during happy…
Although New Belgium has long made 3.2 beer for festivals, the brewery will now be selling 3.2 Fat Tire — which means 4 percent alcohol by volume, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight — in cans and bottles in order to enter states like Utah, with specific liquor requirements. As a byproduct…
Concept Restaurants has been busy over the past few months. Since opening Stout Street Social last winter, they’ve also opened a second Ignite in Arvada and have updated the menu at Humboldt, where chef Will Tuggle took the reins this summer. That doesn’t mean the restaurant group is ousting former…
Eating dessert after a bowl of ramen is like ordering a brownie fudge sundae after downing a milkshake. It’s excess with a capital E, a feat best left to competitive eaters who swallow 62 hot dogs while the rest of us gawk in horror. That’s because these famously rich Japanese…
Two lovely dinner options are blooming today. The Denver Art Museum and BRU Handbuilt Ales are teaming up for an “In Bloom” beer dinner at BRU inspired by the museum’s In Bloom: Painting Flowers in the Age of Impressionism exhibit. The beer dinner will showcase the use of flowers in…
An affordable French restaurant? Mais ouis. Le Central charmed Denver from the moment that Robert Tournier opened his restaurant at Eighth and Lincoln — and for the next 34 years, Le Central stayed true to its goal of serving good, inexpensive French fare in surroundings as accessible as the price…
Last week Mark Antonation visited the Chowder Room at 560 South Broadway, to talk with owners Matt and Carrie Stein about how two New Yorkers (and former high-school sweethearts) wound up in landlocked Denver with a seafood restaurant. And a seafood restaurant that local diners are definitely sweet on, judging by this…
Euro Crepes just opened at 1842 South Broadway, and the restaurant held a grand opening bash filled with crepes, sounds, fashion…and crepes this past Sunday, with griddles working full time both inside and outside the eatery. We sent photographer Danielle Lirette to the party, and she brought back this taste…
No. 20: Colorado Striped Bass Crudo at Beatrice & Woodsley When you think about eating fish in land-locked Denver, you may not think about eating local fish — especially not raw, local fish. One bite of chef Travis Messervey’s Colorado striped bass crudo at Beatrice & Woodsley, though, and all…
Get your fix of two things Denver does best: weed and food. The brainchild of local cannabis cool guy Brett Davis, the first annual Mass Roots Munchie Crawl will take a group of stoners to a string of locations along Broadway, where they’ll partake in some of the best munchies the…
Moulin Rouge at Highland Tap and Burger When Mike Kelly crafted the recipe for what has become the most popular cocktail on Highland Tap and Burger’s drink menu, he didn’t find his inspiration behind the bar. He found it in the kitchen. “It’s just like going into your kitchen and…
