The corner joint that was most recently 1301 Santa Fe Tavern & Grill — and the Hoffbrau for years before that — has reopened closing almost exactly a year ago. There wasn’t much evidence of activity other than a few neon signs in the windows, but now there’s a banner…
Earlier this month, Highland Tap & Burger owner Juan Padro stated that he was focusing on employee training and that “our plan is to grow the Tap brand.” In the context of talking about the upcoming Bar Dough that he’s opening with Chef Max MacKissock right next door to his…
Sometimes, you just want to get dolled up and splurge for brunch. And the place to do that? Panzano, located in the swanky Hotel Monaco downtown. This timeless Italian rendezvous has been garnering accolades a Mile High since opening more than fifteen years ago. And like a fine wine, this…
“From the beginning, this has always been about challenging ourselves,” says Chris Bell, co-owner of Call to Arms Brewing, which opened late last week in the back half of a refurbished building at 4526 Tennyson Street, in the hot Berkeley neighborhood. And challenged themselves is exactly what Bell, Jesse Brookstein…
The vision of Rebel Restaurant owners Bo Porytko and Dan Lasiy is finally a reality. The reinvention of the longtime dive bar on Brighton Boulevard and 38th Street began last March on Kickstarter as a plan for a restaurant inside Black Shirt Brewing and and came to fruition on Thursday in the RiNo…
Residents of Baker and West Washington Park no longer have an easy place to visit for all their refractometer and microscope needs, not since the Science Company moved to West Hampden Avenue, but at least the building at the corner of First Avenue and Lincoln Street will soon be put…
All last week Mark Antonation profiled the seven eating options at Avanti Food & Beverage, the new hipster food court that opened last Monday at 32nd Pecos Street in the LoHi neighborhood. But parking was already tough in the hot dining destination, and tempers got hot, too, when the city suddenly…
Summer is in full swing, but the wet spring put a damper on one seasonal event: The Downtown Longmont Farmers Market will host its last Wednesday market of the year from 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 22. “This spring’s higher-than-average rainfall placed strains on local farms, causing delayed planting schedules,…
Street food ruled this week as the Avanti Food & Beverage collective opened its food hall on Monday and restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz dug her chopsticks into the Southeast Asian bowls and stir-fries at Cho77. Mark Antonation got in on the action, too, with bites of curry and crispy anchovies…
Ramen is king noodle in Denver right now, but chefs Johnny DePierro and Michael Nevarez are out to dethrone the popular Japanese dish with udon — which they’re serving several different ways at MiJo inside Avanti Food & Beverage. The two have been mastering their Asian chops at Frank Bonanno’s…
If you haven’t stood in line for one of the Venezuelan street-food sandwiches known as arepas at the Quiero Arepas food truck, you haven’t experienced the anticipation of sinking your teeth into one of the best bites in town — mobile or not. Now that owners Igor and Beckie Panasewicz have…
Cho77 has been a hit since it opened at 42 South Broadway in March. Such a hit, in fact, that it just launched brunch last weekend. The restaurant is now open for brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m to 2 p.m., when it switches to the full dinner…
Despite being partially hidden by a tree, the newest restaurant sign to sprout on South Broadway is hard to miss: giant all-caps spelling out Fee Fi Pho Fum above a small storefront just north of Arkansas Avenue. It’s a silly name for sure, but it makes a little more sense…
When chef and cookbook author Biju Thomas opened Biju’s Little Curry Shop in River North last December, he made it clear that he had bigger plans than just a single fast-casual Indian joint. And now with that first eatery all but maxed out in kitchen space and with more customers…
ViewHouse has set its lofty sights on a popular location for rooftop patios— Main Street in downtown Littleton — where it would like to create a third outpost at 2670-2680 Main, its third outpost in three years. And like the original, which is a stone’s throw from the Tavern Downtown,…
As July reaches its mid-point, Colorado beer-festival season is at its height. But that also means we are a little closer to the true pinnacle of Colorado craft-beer culture: the week surrounding the Great American Festival, which runs from September 24 through September 26 this year. Tickets to the three-day event…
Enjoy all the tastes of summer this weekend — ice cream, cold beer, cherry pie and pizza, of course. You can enjoy moveable feasts in parks, across RiNo…or even on the 16th Street Mall. Keep reading for the tastiest events on the culinary calendar this weekend. Friday, July 17 Baur’s…
Chef Marco Gonzales was born and raised in Mexico City but went to culinary school at L’Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France, and worked in many Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe before returning to Mexico. “I went back to my country to try and get in touch with the food of my roots,”…
A joint venture between Tavern Hospitality Group, Southern Land Company of Nashville and GTIS Partners, a New York-based real estate investment firm, will redevelop the 1.5-acre site on East 17th Avenue that currently houses the Tavern Uptown. The plan calls for an eight-story mixed-use building that will include 315 apartments…
The Rocky Flats Lounge, one of our Ten Best Dive Bars in Metro Denver, has long given a whole new meaning to getting lit — at one point, it was the payroll office for the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, the federal facility just across the highway that started producing plutonium triggers…
Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant is so Boulder it hurts just a little. It’s fancy without calling attention to itself, well-decorated but not quite hip — and 100-percent vegetarian, natch. As a proud son of Boulder County, I don’t think this is at all a bad thing — I would never reject…
Bistro Barbes opened last year in the North Park Hill neighborhood, serving French cuisine touched with North African brushstrokes. The menu is refined and evocative at the tiny eatery, so much so that it won our Best French Restaurant honor this year. Now chef-owner Jon Robbins has opened a second,…
