After twelve years as a mainstay on East Colfax Avenue, Mezcal closed in May for a reboot of both Mezcal’s look and menu, with new direction from longtime owners Chris Swank and Lori Venegas and Chris Douglas taking over the kitchen. “We want to keep the things that give Mezcal its identity,”…
This weekend you can enjoy your beer with a side of classic cars or rugby stars. If you’re not into beer, you can take a caffeinated tour of Denver, sip some newly released wine, hang out with master chefs or bite into ripe Palisade peaches. And there’s even more on…
The West Highland neighborhood lost a gem when chef/owner William Wahl closed Indulge French Bistro in February after seven years in business. It didn’t take long for the space to be claimed, though: In May, a new sign went up announcing that Revelry Kitchen would move in, bringing breakfast, lunch…
Western Europe? That’s so 2006, darling. Everyone’s thinking Scandinavia these days, thanks to Frozen, sexy Nordics cropping up all over pop culture, and the trickling infiltration of Scandinavian cuisine into American dining culture. The invaders have staked their claim in Denver for close to four years now at Chef Ryan…
No one will forget the historic floods that ravaged Colorado’s Front Range in 2013 — particularly not the owners of Spirit Hound Distillers in Lyons, where three feet of water inundated the distillery that year. But at least one good thing came of the floods: Spirit Hound is celebrating the…
The Curtis Club, Denver’s new old-west saloon, will be hosting a Grand Ol’ Reopening Party this Saturday August 15 to unveil their new menu food and cocktail programs. Head chef Chewey Peralta collaboratively with owner Scott Bagus and GM Jeremy Randall made the menu more accessible to the working class…
Pizza, burgers and barbecue are still hitting the Denver restaurant scene hard, with new fast-casual concepts falling like cheese from a shaker onto the metro area. With openings from today through the next few months, our options — in quantity, if not in variety — keep expanding. Here are few…
No. 27: The Papa Bear at Cub’s Q Barbeque The Cub’s barbecue truck has made a semi-permanent home for itself in a parking lot at the corner of South Broadway and Dakota Avenue, where mornings bring the sweet smell of wood smoke to the neighborhood and lunchtime brings piles of…
The last Griff’s will soon leave Colorado. The burger chain got its start in Wichita in 1960, and this summer still had two locations in metro Denver. But the Arvada Griff’s is already gone, and the Griff’s at 742 South Broadway will close by the end of the month, inspiring…
Goose Sorensen, chef/owner of Solera Restaurant, and five other top chefs from the Denver area are teaming up at Solera Restaurant for an event supporting Project Healing Waters starting at 6 p.m. today. Chefs for Vets will feature culinary collaborations from Sorensen, Jamey Fader of Lola and Jax Fish House,…
What’s it take in this town to get a vegetarian sandwich that’s not a total cop out? Repeatedly it seems the veggie sandwich is ubiquitous with hummus and a few veggies. Every now and then you’ll find joy out of a pesto spread or some feta cheese, but since most…
You’re familiar with the story: a young but powerful wizard, born with magical powers, wakes up to find out he’s in a life-and-death battle with He Who Must Not Be Named. In this case, though, we’re not talking about Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. Rather, the story is about Hogshead…
Kim Jordan, who co-founded New Belgium Brewing and turned it into the third-largest craft brewer in the nation, announced this week that she will step down as the CEO of the industry-leading Fort Collins company. Christine Perich, a New Belgium exec since 2000 and the current chief operating officer and…
The corner of 15th and Arapahoe streets downtown has been home to a number of restaurants over the years, most recently Prime Steakhouse and Le Chateau next door, which was once La Fondue. Prime and Le Chateau are both closed now, but there’s plenty of activity inside. There’s a sign…
The northeast corner of Alameda Avenue and Downing street has been home to a string of Asian restaurants since the late 1990s — but that’s about to change. What originally opened as Stir Crazy quickly changed names to the Crazy Asian Cafe, which survived until 2012, when new owners took…
The Great American Beer Festival won’t hit the Colorado Convention Center for another six weeks, but already news of related events is pouring in for our GABF week calendar. And it’s a good thing that calendar will be full, because GABF tickets got fast. Says Ken: Beer snobs from around the globe…
Griff’s Burger Bar is an old-fashioned drive-thru where you can still get a great burger, a greasy bag of fries and a drink for a five-spot ($6.99, if you want to go for a double cheeseburger, and it’s worth a little more to add a skull-splittingly thick milkshake). The first…
A trio of tasty events should help you get over the mid-week hump today. Carmine’s on Penn and Firenze a Tavola are both holding wine dinners, and at Cafe Options you can learn to cook your own vegetarian dinner: The chef at Carmine’s will spend the day scouring the Cherry Creek Farmers’…
Brewers and cider makers from Boulder County gathered over the weekend at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont for the first ever Boulder County Fair Brewers’ Festival. The event was organized by the Colorado Beer Trail and featured beers from 20 brewers along with food and music for festival-goers. SInce there…
So, I didn’t want to have to write this post, but there’s no way around it at this point. It is now pumpkin-beer season. This isn’t how it should have been. No, pumpkin-beer season shouldn’t start until September 1 at the earliest. But there are already a couple dozen gourd…
The latest biscuit kitchen/bar/pizzeria combo under the Atomic Cowboy umbrella opened at 8 a.m. this morning on Tennyson Street, completing a Denver triangle of founder Drew Shader’s three-in-one concept that started on East Colfax Avenue more than a decade ago and expanded to South Broadway in 2013. True to the other…
The Heart Beet at the MCA Cafe Visitors to MCA Denver are greeted by a striking work of art, even before entering the building. An enormous, sparkling heart, stuck through with a silver sword, rotates atop a pole jutting up from the sidewalk in front of the building’s main entrance. The heart,…
