The Wall Tavern opened at 11th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in the summer of 2013 after an interior upgrade from the previous tenant, Scwherver’s Bar. But now the Wall signage has been removed and replaced by hand-painted lettering that reads the Monkey Bar. Establishments with “monkey” in the name…
The Hunter’s Mule at Comida Years ago, Ted LaMontagne didn’t know much about flavors. He was bartending at Trattoria Stella, where he started to learn about good wines and to develop his palate. “I was the pickiest eater you could ever imagine,” he says, “until I started working at that Italian…
“We’re pretty excited,” says chef Matt Selby of Central Bistro & Bar’s new look and new menu. “It’s coming down to the wires, as always.” The restaurant at the edge of LoHi, where Selby landed a year ago after leaving Corner House, has been popular since Isiah Salazar opened the…
Chef Ian Kleinman has been keeping his skills sharp over the past several years by catering special events, throwing pop-up dinners and teaching kids about the fun and science behind cooking through his Inventing Room brand. Those who have eaten his playful and madcap fare — think exploding whipped cream…
With Wurstküche coming to town last month from California, joining such local favorites as Biker Jim’s, Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs and Mustard’s Last Stand, this city is rolling in sausages — which inspired our list of the Ten Best Places for Sausage in Denver. And after all the expected jokes (“my…
When I told Amy to meet me at Seventh and Grant for dinner, she asked why I was abandoning our plan to go somewhere for Middle Eastern cuisine. I wasn’t so much abandoning it, I explained, as I was modifying the plan. Vesper Lounge did, in fact ,include Middle Eastern…
The St. Patrick’s Day celebrations have been turning Denver green all weekend and the big day has finally arrived. If you still haven’t had your fill of cabbage, green beer and whiskey, or still haven’t found an event that tickles your fancy, here are a few more St. Patrick’s Day…
Our photographers were busy capturing the green-beer swilling fun over a weekend full of pre-Paddy festivities for the Irish and non-Irish alike. LoDo’s kicked things off at 7 a.m. Friday morning with the annual Kegs & Eggs bash with live music from the Dirty Heads and plenty of kegs (although…
The St. Patrick’s Day festivities that took over Denver this weekend will continue through the actual holiday on Tuesday, March 17. Whether you’re looking for one more rowdy night of partying or just trying to enjoy some corned beef, there are many ways to go green. Here’s a taste: The…
Here’s a Colorado conundrum: Wanna buy a joint for a penny? You’ll have to drink a beer first. For the last several weeks, Grass Station, a north Denver pot shop, has been offering customers the chance to buy a joint for one cent if they bring in an empty can…
The posh Cooper Lounge on the mezzanine level of Union Station already captures the vintage style of an era when luxury train travel meant buckets of champagne on ice and a waitstaff clad in the finest livery pushing carts loaded with ostentatious foods meant to show off the impeccable taste…
The latest cavalcade of freshly-introduced eats and sips makes for some enthusiastic observations and happy feels, and this week’s selections are far less disgusting than usual. In food-related news about new stuff the smoking-ass hottest of the hot trends is that crazy-neato blooming flower dessert at Ipsylon Restaurant & Bar,…
No. 42: Pho at Wonderbowl Vietnamese Restaurant 925 S. Federal Blvd. 303-936-0333 The best pho combines complex and mysterious flavors with simplicity and comfort. Pho may have its origins in the street markets of Vietnam, but it’s still nothing more or less than beef and noodle soup. Whether eaten in…
The Stapleton neighborhood has been making news this month. While the upcoming transformation of the Stapleton Airport traffic control tower into a second Denver location for Punch Bowl Social has inspired plenty of discussion, the area just welcomed Four Friends Kitchen, a new breakfast/lunch spot built from the ground up by…
The St. Patrick’s Day celebrations started this past weekend and will continue through the week (watch for an update today). But there’s much more on the culinary calendar than cabbage and green beer. Keep reading for a taste of this week’s other events. Monday, March 16 Frasca Food and…
This week saw an explosion of restaurants looking for all manner of new ways to get people in the door in attempts to appeal to guests with different spending habits, tastes and ideas of what constitutes a good time. Happy hours fill seats at times that are customarily slow, so…
The never-ending feud over whether or not the Cherry Cricket has the best burger in town won’t be slowing down anytime soon; the Cricket is one of the five finalists for Best Hamburger in our Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll. And you can test it for yourself the next time…
March is a busy month for chef Lon Symensma of ChoLon: not only is he putting the finishing touches on Cho77, the new noodle house expected to open at the end of this month, but he’s also added his signature to a new evening menu at the Cooper Lounge inside…
Is there a word or a phrase to describe the experience when you dig into a sandwich, an omelet or, in my case, a vegetarian burrito from Bonfire Burritos in Golden, and somehow you have no recollection of anything after the first bite, until you suddenly emerge with one bite…
Before there were small plates, there were wine flights. Both are perfect for folks who can’t make up their mind, or who are eager to cover as much of the menu as possible. Given its roots as a wine bar, the Village Cork, which Gretchen Kurtz reviewed this week, is…
Many of Denver’s fine-dining establishments have off-the-menu dishes they’ll make for regulars. But even more lowbrow spots have on-request deals. If you ask — nicely — for ” The Cure Burger” at a Red Robin in metro Denver, for example, your server will deliver a fire-grilled patty topped with chili,…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the Village Cork, which has evolved a great deal from when it first opened on Old South Pearl fourteen years ago. Last summer Lisa Lapp closed her place in order to do a major renovation, one that expanded the kitchen and added a chef’s counter,…
