This summer Taita Peruvian Restaurant quietly closed up in the spot next to Tooey’s at Colfax and Marion, but the location didn’t stay vacant for long. Zach Parker, co-owner of the new Las Margs, says he was ready to move on the place just eighteen days later. He owes the…
Eighteen months ago, when renowned restaurateur/chef Frank Bonanno revealed that he was opening Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria in Park Meadows Shopping Center, Cafe Society readers had high hopes the venture would inject some local flavor in an area whose main dining options are outposts of national chains: Brio Tuscan Grille, California…
Need an eye-opener this morning? You might if you’d joined the throngs at DISH, Westword’s twentieth anniversary of the Denver dining scene, which yesterday filled Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with booths featuring signature dishes from forty of our favorite local eateries — with Bloody Marys from…
Score! Last night’s Broncos win kicks off a week of great after-work culinary activities. You can eat a good meal while supporting do-gooders, raise a glass (or three) of beer at Frasca, or exercise your animal instincts at the Denver Zoo. Keep reading for details. See also: Seven Great Dishes…
Do good things come in small packages? That’s been Gretchen Kurtz’s experience this summer; she’s reviewed a number of tiny restaurants over the past few months, most recently Bistro Barbès, and found that while the kitchens may be tiny, they cook up big flavors. And speaking of big flavors, before…
Colorado restaurants have had their fair share of interest from the ever-popular Food Network in recent years, and more than one of our chefs have competed head-to-head with other chefs on deathless competition shows like Top Chef. Now our state can crown another TV champ: Dakota Soifer of Boulder’s Cafe…
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Westword will host its twentieth annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, DISH, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where many of the favorite restaurants of Cafe Society writers and readers will be serving delectable dishes. For example, Lala’s Wine Bar +…
You may have seen a black-and-gold bicycle-trailer contraption peddling coffee and other treats on the 16th Street Mall at Larimer Street; it’s been setting up shop there since January. Now Marley Coffee, the brainchild of chairman Rohan Marley (son of reggae legend Bob), is expanding its bicycle caffe program into…
After eating Jon Robbins’ inspired French-North African fare at Bistro Barbès, I was hungry for more. Not just more of his upscale fusion, but more dishes such as the tagines and harira I came to love in Morocco, Algeria and France, a second home to many North African immigrants. Yesterday…
For more than a year Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria, Frank Bonanno’s first restaurant outside of Denver city limits, made a go of it in a tough Park Meadows Shopping Center location — tough for independent restaurateurs, at least, if not for the national chains. “We loved the mall — the mall…
The BSide opened just last Wednesday at 17th and Humboldt, a corner that is quickly becoming a restaurant destination quarter. Justin Lloyd, the owner of Star Bar on Larimer Street, is also behind the debut. The new restaurant is serving craft beers and cocktails and food that ranges from down-home…
When Breckenridge Brewery opens its $20 million, park-like beer campus on the banks of the South Platte River in April 2015, it will be unlike any other brewery in the state: The twelve-acre spot, tucked between two swaths of open space, Santa Fe Drive and the bike path along the…
As Michael Roberts reports on the Latest Word this morning, yesterday’s protest outside the McDonald’s at 505 East Colfax Avenue — part of a nationwide campaign demanding higher wages and union rights — resulted in three arrests and plenty of attention for the issue. And the comments keep coming in…
This weekend is overflowing with food events, including Westword’s own DISH, a Broncos season kickoff party at Elway’s (where else?) and the Denver Food and Wine grand tasting — among many other dinners and festivals. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar. See also: Whet Your…
We’re mixing in the last ingredients for DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining and drinking scene, at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Sunday, September 7. This is Westword’s twentieth anniversary event, and it promises to be quite a party: sun, fun and fine food…
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Westword will host its twentieth annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, DISH, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where many of the favorite restaurants of Cafe Society writers and readers will be serving delectable dishes. Patxi’s Pizza will be bringing its…
The Humble Pie Store has burst its boundaries. Fortunately, there’s no hot filling spilling into the streets — just good news for Denver’s favorite pie shop. Humble Pie will be shuttering its bakery in Baker and moving out on September 21 in order to open up a brand-new location in…
Mercantile Dining & Provision, Alex Seidel’s new venture and the last eatery to open in Union Station, will be open for dinner on Monday, September 8. The menu features an expected attention to local produce, meat and dairy — much of it from Seidel’s own Fruition Farms — as well…
For Hops & Pie co-owner Drew Watson, the trickiest part about changing up his popular pizza joint’s house IPA wasn’t saying goodbye to longtime provider Strange Craft Beer Company: “I love those guys. We still have a great relationship.” Rather, it was making sure that the new beer, brewed by…
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Westword will host its twentieth annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, DISH, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where many of the favorite restaurants of Cafe Society writers and readers will be serving delectable dishes. And the Farm to Truck truck…
At Barolo Grill, the Italian restaurant that Blair Taylor opened two decades ago at 3030 East Sixth Avenue, there’s only one thing on the menu from twenty years ago: the duck. “I’m not allowed to change it,” Taylor says. But he can, and does, think about changing everything else. “You…
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Westword will host its twentieth annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, DISH, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where many of the favorite restaurants of Cafe Society writers and readers will be serving delectable dishes. Little Man On Wheels — Little…
