Last week we posted our list of the ten best barbecue joints in Denver. Jabo’s Bar-Be-Q, a perennial favorite in an unlikely Centennial location, made the list for its smoky ribs and pulled pork as well as for a wide variety of fruity, spicy and tangy sauces. Our videographer Bailey…
The news that Johnson’s Corner, the iconic truck stop just north of the Berthoud exit on I-25, will soon be sold to TravelCenters of America drew many cries of “noooo” and “Welcome to corporate America.” Members of the founding family — Joe Johnson opened Johnson’s Corner back in 1950 –…
Update: Fall is in the air — and that means Harvest Week is right around the corner. Next week, EatDenver will again host a series of pop-up parties at The GrowHaus, featuring more than thirty independent restaurants in Denver. The fun runs from September 23 through September 27 — four…
Whether you are into whiskey, wine or farm-fresh food there’s a dinner for you tonight at a local restaurant. Keep reading to find out more about a trio of unique events happening tonight. See also: Beer Calendar: A New Brewery, Anniversaries, Olympics, and Craft Beer Parties Galore…
It’s good to see the retail shops at Beauvallon finally settling down, with restaurants and cafes DiFranco’s, 100% de Agave and Drip Coffeehouse all maintaining a steady presence over the past couple of years, and even Denver tapas stalwart the 9th Door opening a second location here. While Attivo Pizza…
Many of Denver’s barbecue joints line up sauce bottles like they’re craft beer taps, offering an array of house blends to suit the palates of transplants from every meat smoking region of the South. Sweet Kansas City sauce, in hot or mild, and tangy Memphis style compete for attention against…
The Colorado Brewers Guild unveiled a new logo and marketing campaign this week titled, “Colorado: The State of Craft Beer.” The campaign includes signage and merchandise and will eventually roll out a a new website along with a State of Craft Beer festival. There are currently more than two hundred…
In this week’s Chef & Tell, I mentioned that I had taken a pickling and preserving class at the Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, through the school’s program for home cooks. Cook Street offers a wide range of instruction for amateurs, ranging from classes in basic knife skills, wine…
Like almost every driving adult in Denver, Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees spent his fair share of time waiting in line at the drab Denver Motor Vehicles office on Welton Street in Five Points. Now, if his plans come to fruition, Rees, along with friends and business partners Austin…
Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, the downtown program that offers curricula for home cooks as well as budding professionals, recently offered a class in pickling and canning. I’d been to the school a couple of times years ago for corporate team-building events, but this time it was just my…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opened yesterday on the corner once occupied by Longo’s Subway Tavern in LoHi, or Sunnyside, or Highland, or the Northside, depending on what map and history book you’re consulting. The burger joint is another venture by Larimer Associates, whose COO, Joe Vostrejs, has deep roots in Denver…
Here’s how former Cafe critic Jason Sheehan remembered his first view of Colorado’s iconic truck stop: “Johnson’s Corner sat right off the frontage road, a dusty sprawl of parking lots and big rigs, mirrored windows reflecting the endless, flat nothing all around it. Johnson’s had everything: a restaurant, general store,…
LYFE Kitchen 8505 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree 303-706-9100 A meal at LYFE Kitchen isn’t just supposed to fill you up; it’s supposed to make you feel good. Founded three years ago in California by a pair of former McDonald’s executives and an investment banker, this rapidly expanding chain,…
Our desire for patio pleasures doesn’t fade with the coming of fall. In fact, Denver loves its cool-weather patios: The opportunity to don hats and scarves while wrapping our beers in mittened hands reminds us of mountain nights around a fire. But while we love the cool, open air, it’s…
Yesterday our Latest Word blog reported that the Denver Police Department says calls have already started coming from parents concerned that their kids will be slipped pot edibles while trick-or-treating on Halloween. In a DPD podcast, the officers advise parents to talk to their children about not eating anything until…
People might think I choose what to review based on what I feel like eating. But many factors go into my decision — and what I want to eat is usually at the bottom of the list. With the frenetic pace of openings these days, there’s an endless number of…
When your neighborhood doesn’t provide the products and services you desire, you can get in your car and drive somewhere else, or you can do something to permanently bring what you need to your neighborhood. A group of northeast Denver residents living in and around Stapleton, Park Hill, East Colfax,…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opens today on the edge of Sunnyside and the Lower Highland neighborhood. We stopped by a day early to see if there’s anything new under the sun for residents of the area. Burgers, as the sign says, are the name of the game here, in a relaxed…
Summer’s not quite over, but fall’s definitely in the air — and in the trees, and on the ground. Now is the perfect time to visit one of Colorado’s farms, orchards or pumpkin patches to harvest your own taste of fall. Here are ten of our favorite spots — take…
When Tiffin’s opened on Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder three years ago, the fast-casual restaurant was completely vegetarian. Over time, the menu has grown from a focus on the street food of southern India, adding more familiar — at least to Front Range palates — curries, kabobs and biryanis. Still, much…
A lot has changed since the Uptown Sampler Restaurant Crawl began crawling nearly thirty years ago, and today you can get a taste of the changes. The Uptown Sampler is celebrating its 27th year with a taste of 27 restaurants in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood between 5 and 8:30 p.m. See…
No. 75 Udon Noodles at Bones 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 When we namedBones the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2009, we said the tiny eatery was less a noodle bar and more “a loose conglomeration of plates and styles and techniques that came together only because one…
