When I asked a friend to meet me at North County, a taco-and-tequila joint that opened in Lowry’s Hangar 2 development this winter, I was a little embarrassed. “Can you do 5:30?” I asked, knowing how impossibly early that would seem to a guy who usually powers off hours later…
The first annual Brain Injury Benefit and Soiree will take place tonight at Jax Glendale. The four-course dinner, which will raise funds and awareness for adults who have suffered traumatic brain injury, will be paired with cocktails, wine and beer from The Post Brewing. Chefs from every Jax location in Colorado, along with chef…
Suddenly there are signs of life at El Rancho, the restaurant/conference center with its own exit off I-70. For the last few weeks, crews have been working inside, and a sign in one window of the 500-seat space promises “Fall 2015.” El Rancho got its start in 1947, when the…
No. 35: Meatloaf Sandwich at City Bakery Cafe Last January, Denver bread master Michael Bortz expanded his City Bakery concept to include a full breakfast and lunch cafe on Lincoln Street. The City Bakery Cafe has been serving breakfast pastries, egg sandwiches, soups, and hot and cold deli sandwiches since…
One third of the small businesses that opened across the country in 2010 closed by 2012. Half of them will be gone by the end of this year. Those numbers, which are kept by the U.S. Department of Labor, stay roughly the same year in and year out. So when…
The Life Necrotic at Ste. Ellie Sometimes, one rum is not enough. This is especially the case when it comes to tiki drinks, where up to three completely different rums might be blended in the same cocktail. This way, a bartender can virtually create a rum that contains flavors such…
One bonus to the hideous traffic in town: While you’re stuck in yet another jam, you have plenty of time to spot all the new businesses popping up in booming Denver. But even with the boom, Boulevard Burger & Tap went bust, and its space at 727 Colorado Boulevard is…
When attempting to tease apart the strands of American cooking that weave together soul food and Southern food, there’s no better source than Adrian Miller, author of the James Beard-award winning Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. Miller’s book is a great…
The Denver FIVE, just like the famous Magnificent Seven of western lore, are a varied bunch of mercenary chefs fighting for the survival and honor of their home town. Both groups teamed up for a greater cause but the Denver FIVE will be slinging chocolaty goodness around the west rather…
Grateful Bread is already one of our favorite bakeries in town, earning the Best Bread award in our Best of Denver 2015 edition — and owners Jeff Cleary and Kathy Mullen are about to make things even better. Starting in August, they’ll be milling their own specialty flours on a…
As a University of Colorado graduate, huge Buffs fan (which has been a little masochistic in recent years) and active participant in alumni organizations, I always feel like a bit of a traitor heading up to Fort Collins — a holdover from the rivalry with Colorado State from college days…
Burgers may be big business in many parts of Denver, but one place where they can’t seem to find favor is on the 700 block of Colorado Boulevard. Little H Burger moved into a shopping center across the street from Snooze in 2011, but didn’t last long, as parent H…
Attorney Sana Hamelin had a dream: to open a cat cafe, one of the first in the country. She found the purrfect spot at 3929 Tennyson Street, and late last year opened the Denver Cat Company, which immediately started attracting fans of coffee and kitties. And those fans came out…
Another chapter in Denver’s northwest side story ended when Elitch Lanes closed last night, after a weekend-long goodbye. “If you’ve been around northwest Denver, you know: The people who come in here are so much nicer than the average person,” owner Cal Eichinger had told us back in December, when he…
Stretch your stomach in anticipation of all those Memorial Day barbecues at beer dinners, cooking classes, benefits and other entertaining events — including the return of the Denver FIVE. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar over the next few days. Monday, May 18 Frasca Food…
With weather looking better this week, at least before afternoon storms roll in, it’s the perfect weekend to roll out of bed and check out some of the restaurants on our list of the ten best brunches in Denver. If eggs and mimosas aren’t you’re thing, oysters and Anchorman-themed cocktails…
Darren “Big Country” Byrd came to Colorado from Texas to attend culinary school at Colorado Mountan College and opened a barbecue joint in Keystone in 2007. But he grew tired of nine months of winter a year and so moved his operation to Denver, where he’s been running a fleet…
When Blackbelly Market opened in east Boulder last fall, chef/owner Hosea Rosenberg had grand plans for offering the Front Range a full market, butcher shop, breakfast and lunch counter, and destination dining establishment. Those plans have all come together and Rosenberg’s kitchen is in full swing, offering a meat-centric menu…
After being served with a lawsuit last week over an alleged cat bite, the Denver Cat Company has received an outpouring of community support. Sana Hamelin, owner of the Denver Cat Company, one of only a few cat cafes in the country, wrote an emotional and frustrated Facebook post after being served…
Gretchen Kurtz did not have great experiences at Lo Stella Ristorante, which last fall moved into a space in the Golden Triangle that has swallowed up several other restaurants. And as she writes in her review this week, Kurtz found several things hard to swallow at Lo Stella, including the fact…
Doughnuts, golf, whiskey, beer and picnics: If that’s not the makings of a great weekend, then we don’t know what is. The culinary calendar is chock full of tasty events, including version 2.0 of Whiskey Throwdown, Doughnut Showdown, the first-ever Oskar Blues golf tournament, the kick-off to a summer picnic…
To win Alton Brown’s Cutthroat Kitchen on the Food Network last year, chef Dakota Soifer of Boulder’s Cafe Aion had to run a maze of red velvet ropes and make a red velvet cake using beets for color. It was, he says, “really fun and really cool, but I wouldn’t…
