Chef Toby Prout and Jimmy Callahan, co-owners of Leña on Broadway, started planning the pan-Latin American menu for their new restaurant months before they even found the location, much less started construction. The two traveled to California and sampled their way through some of the state’s top Mexican, Central American…
Head to Cook Street School of Culinary Arts from 6 to 9:30 p.m. today and take a culinary journey around the world that will provide some global inspiration for your menu. See also:Five Food Trends to Watch For in 2015…
Amass 2240 Clay Street 720-287-1895 Imagine you’re in a movie theater for a showing of your favorite film. The lights dim. The music starts. But instead of the opening scene, what flashes on the big screen is a montage of pivotal moments, snippets of the movie displaced from the chronology…
In November Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, visited Lola, whose space in the former Olinger’s mortuary building at 1575 Boulder Street includes the place where William F. Cody’s body was put on ice after he died on January 10, 1917, until the ground on Lookout…
Aurora’s Asian food scene keeps heating up. The already expansive H Mart got a new tenant late last year in A+ Food Station, which serves Korean dumplings, noodles and more inside the grocery and retail market. A little farther east, Pacific Ocean Marketplace opened its third and largest grocery, with…
Like the beverages it celebrates, the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival in Vail has gotten deeper and more complex as it has aged. Now in its fifteenth year, the festival, taking place this weekend, will welcome more than 1,500 brewers, industry veterans, beer celebrities, regular beer geeks — and…
When Waffle Brothers closed on Corona Street in April last year, John Powers thought he and Rod Dupen would be able to reopen the waffle bar in its new location in just a couple of months. The gestation period turned out to be a little longer, but the new Waffle…
The Denver Cat Company opened last month as one of the first cat cafes in the U.S. Customers can sip coffee and cuddle with a number of cats, provided by Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue, while perusing books, jewerly and other items for sale. Videographer Andrew Batemen dropped in to visit…
There’s no better way to try Novo Coffee than in one of the company’s two Denver cafes, one on East 6th Avenue and one downtown. “Our retail locations are a great way to showcase our coffee,” says president and co-founder Jake Brodsky. “The fact that we do it in our…
When hunting for the cuisine of any country or ethnic group, Colfax Avenue is not a bad place to start. This month I’m looking for pupusas, the stuffed tortillas of El Salvador, and there are at least three restaurants on Colfax east of Quebec Street that either specialize in Salvadorean…
Lower48 Kitchen’s Mario Nocifera and chef Alexander Figura are launching a new weekly dinner series today. Tuesday Tastings will give guests a chance to indulge in an accessible, three-course menu for $36 per person. And in this initial run, the restaurant will help you stick to your New Year’s resolution…
Megan Heinley has been working on her dessert recipes for years, hoping some day to have the opportunity to turn baking into a profession. That chance came in December, when her friend Jason McGovern opened Denver Deep Dish in lower Highland and wanted to serve local baked goods for dessert…
Colt & Gray 1553 Platte Street 303-477-1447 At 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning, Colt & Gray is closed, but bar manager Kevin Burke comes to the door and lets me into the darkened restaurant. We sit down at the empty bar, which was crazy busy for New Year’s Eve…
Jim Seidel just opened his eleventh Snarf’s in the Denver-Boulder area; this one brings his sub sandwiches to a former convenience store on 38th Avenue on Denver’s western border. The pagoda-style building, originally part of a chain of convenience stores in the 1960s, has been decked out in Snarf’s familiar…
2015 is already proving to be an strange, even contradictory year for foodies to follow. Between the weird-ass buttered coffee micro-trend and major fast food chains putting out feelers to re-brand burgers, fries, tacos, pizza and fried chicken as being fresh and less processed, 2015 is already shaping up to…
When the temperature drops, we often make up for the mercury deficit with an indulgent caloric splurge. This year, if you’re not into starving yourself the first week of January until you give up on that crash diet, then head strait to Cart-Driver for the pizza that would have inevitably…
This week you can stick to your resolution to eat healthy and still eat well, thanks to a new dinners series at Lower48 Kitchen, which we named the Best New Restaurant in the 2014 Best of Denver. If you resolved to pour some more fun into your life, there are…
This week, we took a final look back at some favorites — the year’s ten best new bars and the top trends — and also compiled a list of nearly 300 new restaurants, bars and specialty markets that opened in 2014. But now it’s a new year, so now we’re…
Sixteen new breweries opened inside Denver city limits in 2014, a record year that brought the total number of breweries here to 44 — and that doesn’t include beer makers like Joyride Brewing in Edgewater and other nearby suburbs that helped the Mile High City’s beer culture bubble over. At…
It’s winter; now all we need is a wonderland. Might I suggest Beatrice & Woodsley, the venerable purveyor of whimsy on South Broadway? For years, its Nosh & ‘Tails cocktail hour, every weekday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., has been a mix of sophisticated soiree and playful bar time. With…
The best new bars in Denver in 2014 are pouring Colorado beers from multiple tap handles, mixing killer cocktails with local ingredients and providing a high level of professional service to both educate and entertain customers. From laidback and loungey to lofty and luxurious, a wide variety of top-notch watering…
Last month, Chipotle got a public hand-smack because an employee did a “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture to nine visiting NYPD officers who blew off the burrito bowls and left, sparking a store boycott by local cops and a pile of customer complaints. Chipotle co-CEOs Steve Ells and Monty Moran…
