Last week Chris Utterback rounded up the town’s Ten Best Happy Hour Dishes, a roster that ranged from the mussels at Ophelia’s to the deviled eggs at Steuben’s. But we missed a major item, says Sara: For happy hour I have always enjoyed booze. Timeless classic. What happy hours around…
When mild-mannered Bruce Banner was exposed to lethal gamma rays, he transformed into the Incredible Hulk, an uncontrollable mass of anger with an appetite for destruction. When Mary Nguyen was exposed to the changing tides on 17th Street and European bistro culture, she transformed Parallel 17 into P17, a neighborhood hangout…
Table Top opened just over a year ago in a sleepy shopping center at East 23rd Avenue and Oneida Street. With a neighborhood hungry for local restaurants, a spacious patio/beer garden and a menu aimed at drawing attention without approaching cleverness, the eatery owned by a group of area residents…
Odell Brewing, which has been a staunch holdout when it comes to canning beer, plans to begin doing just that come November. “It wasn’t so long ago that I totally dismissed the can idea,” says Wynne Odell, who founded Odell Brewing in 1989 with her husband, Doug, and Doug’s sister…
The best barbecue comes at the hands of pit masters, right? Not necessarily. Long before Coy Webb opened Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que with his wife, Rachael, he cut his chops as a chef, graduating from the Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale and working in professional kitchens for nearly two decades. Why would…
Denver is brimming with tasty events that benefit terrific causes today. You can sample some of the finest foods Denver has to offer, sip tantalizing cocktails, and crack open craft beers — all with the knowledge that you’re doing it for your community. Join EatDenver and more than forty independent restaurants…
WaterCourse Foods has experienced many big changes since opening seventeen years ago, moving from 13th to 17th Avenue among them, but this year marks the biggest — if least noticeable to casual observers. Shortly after the restaurant celebrated one year as a fully vegan establishment in April, founder and owner Dan…
Charcoal opened in 2011 in the Golden Triangle with a unique concept and menu: Scandinavian accents from chef Patrik Landberg, combined with coal-fired cooking over a custom-made Japanese bincho grill. While Charcoal is only four years old, the menu has evolved to fit the dining desires of the neighborhood and…
AC Golden Brewing and its fan club, the Colorado Native Brew Crew, have adopted a 23-mile stretch of the Continental Divide Trail, which runs from the border of Canada to the border of Mexico. The company — a Golden-based subsidiary of MillerCoors — is the first corporate entity to sponsor…
The retail duplex on West 38th Avenue that at one point housed El Alamo Mexican restaurant now has a liquor store on the left-hand side and a vacant space on the right. But the owner of Cana Liquors, Kamran Bhatti, is taking advantage of that vacancy: He’ll be opening Mr…
Restaurant veterans Brandon Bortles and Barry Dobesh — known to their friends as “the Bs” — are putting their collective experience and collective nickname to use in a new restaurant called Abejas that they’re opening in Golden later this summer. Abeja is Spanish for “bee” and although the restaurant won’t…
This isn’t a barbecue town. But while we may not have a nationally recognized style, Denver diners have strong opinions about the ’cue they do find here. Carolina transplants grumble about ketchupy sauces. Uprooted Texans mutter about any kind of sauce, ketchupy or otherwise, poured over their brisket. Barbecue lovers…
As summer rolls on and the farmers’ market season picks up steam, Taste of Vail and the Vail Farmers Market are teaming up to bring the market to your table with a farm-to-table dinner today. The meal, part of a summer dinner series, will celebrate the Colorado summer harvests and…
Wynne, Doug and Corkie Odell had three goals when they began thinking about the future ownership of the brewery they’d founded in 1989: upholding its financial stability, keeping independent control, and maintaining their cultural fabric. On Monday, Fort Collins-based Odell Brewing – the third largest craft-beer maker in Colorado –…
No longer do lovers of Colorado Cider Company have to drink their beverages delicately from a glass or commit to downing a whole 22-ounce bottle. Now you can purchase the cider in packs of four 12-ounce bottles to share with your friends, stock your fridge or just slowly sip all day…
New Belgium may be opening a massive new brewery in North Carolina, but the company is also planning to open a third operation a little closer to home. Colorado’s biggest craft-beer will open a ten-barrel pilot brewery along with a rooftop barrel-aging lounge and swimming pool at the future Source Hotel,…
Since Brian Coppom took over as director of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market toward the end of last year, he has put a lot of thought into ways of empowering local farmers and increasing the overall viability of the market. His influence was evident almost from the moment he took…
Just two days after a jury decided the verdict in the Aurora theater shootings case, organizers of the A Night to Remember Beer Festival hosted their annual event at the Four Mile Historic Park, honoring the victims of the crimes, which took place on July 21, 2012. The festival included beer,…
The venerable Briarwood Inn in Golden hired a new chef in May. But rather than hire an industry veteran to turn out prime rib and buffet dinners for weddings, owner Lisa Paterson — who purchased the property from her father’s estate after he passed away several years ago — decided…
At Cho77, which Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed, she found many good dishes — but uneven service. Calling her assessment “dead on,” one reader advised that diners sit at the bar, the better to avoid the surly servers. (The bar also puts you closer to those good drinks.) But Cho77 isn’t…
If you know where to look, Jamaican cuisine lurks on various menus around Denver. The Welton Street Cafe has a selection of the Jamaican meat pies called patties along with its soul food offerings, and the Caribbean Bakery on East Colfax Avenue offers specialties from Jamaica and Trinidad. But for a…
From tequila to wine dinners and even a little chocolate — as well as some big food festivals — there are enough treats on the culinary calendar to keep your taste buds satisfied right through the work week. Here’s a taste: Tuesday, July 21 Chocolate Crisis Center and Stem Cider…
