The news lately has been full of restaurant fuck-ups that create headaches for customers…and hardships for employees. While the restaurant industry as a whole serves a very useful purpose — it sells prepared meals to people who need and want them, provides a flow of tax money to communities, and…
While there’s no end to the bottomless mimosas suddenly pouring out at brunches around town, Panzano has just introduced another sweet option: the Lychee Sparkler. Bartender Jodi Dolph created the concoction for an in-house contest that called for creating summertime drinks featuring Zonin Prosecco, the Italian sparkling wine. See also:…
Leña opened quietly last week — so quietly that its phones still weren’t hooked up yesterday — but word-of-mouth is already strong on this restaurant, a concept cooked up by Jimmy Callahan, the owner of Prohibition, and chef Toby Prout. The space on Broadway, a former antique store, was gutted…
The Hotel Boulderado opened on New Year’s Day 1909. Since then, restaurants have operated almost continuously in the Boulder landmark, including a few that became landmarks themselves — like Q’s, which Dave Query opened there almost twenty years ago. But in an ongoing effort to update the hotel, Q’s closed…
Bree Davies penned a Love Letter to Denver, the City I Used to Know for our arts blog last week, and in response dozens of people have spilled out their own memories, many of them of restaurants: Colorado Mine Company, Soapy Smith’s, Denver Drumstick, M&Ds, White Spot, Cafe Giovanni, Yum…
Save calories and carbs for later in the week, when you can visit Denver’s Best Restaurant Neighborhood to sample dishes from forty kitchens, visit the Denver Botanic Gardens for wine and more food, or throw down both doughnuts and locally distilled whiskey in the ultimate throwdown. Dough! Keep reading for…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed To the Wind Bistro, a tiny — but mighty — new restaurant that she considers a breath of fresh air. For Chef and Tell, Mark Antonation visited Sushi Den and spoke with Yasu Kizaki, one of the brothers who landed on South…
Crave Real Burgers dominated the Denver Burger Battle last night, earning First Place for Best Burger in both the judges’ and peoples’ choice categories. “To have that happen — and for it to be a double-win — was such an elation,” says Jeff Richards, owner of Crave Real Burgers. The…
Just three years after opening in a former garage on Platte Street, Denver Beer Co has just tapped a huge new production facility in the Sunnyside neighborhood, making the brewery a perfect symbol for the rapid rise of craft brewing’s third wave. Denver Beer Co’s Canworks in located inside a…
Biker Jim’s opened its second brick-and-mortar spot, this one in Highlands Ranch, at 11 a.m. today. Although the hours might not be as expansive in suburbia as they are at the original in the Ballpark neighborhood (where Biker Jim’s stays open until 3 a.m. on weekends), the menu is just…
Dunkin’ Donuts has jumped the shark. Last year at this time, two spots were duking it out to be the first new Dunkin’ Donuts store to open in metro Denver in decades. (The Broadway location won by a few hours.) And now, with doughnut joints popping up all over town,…
Dorchester Social Eatery opens tomorrow in a prime slice of real estate at 15th and Market streets, on a block where the young and chic often club away the night with champagne, house music and expensive outfits. While offering a full dinner menu of continent-hopping entrees as well as smaller…
The word “hipster” gets tossed around a lot in the blogosphere, usually as a derogatory term for someone who wears different clothes or likes different things than the troll or flamer employing the word as a slur. But every generation has had its defining iconoclasts — the mostly young and…
Here, kitty, kitty! Yesterday we told you about Sana Hamelin, an attorney who wants to follow her dream and open the city’s first cat cafe. And if donations pour into her Denver Cat Company fundraising campaign the way comments have been flowing, she should have no problem meeting her goal…
The action’s in the alley behind the Rialto Cafe Saturday.From wine to craft beer all the way to distilled spirits, there is something for everyone this weekend — assuming you’re of legal drinking age. But people of all ages can enjoy a free concert at TheBigWonderful food market in Sustainability…
Kobe An Shabu Shabu opened in July after an extensive overhaul to the location occupied decades ago by neighborhood favorite Little Pepina’s. Kobe An’s menu features only two entrees: shabu shabu, which the owners call a Japanese version of fondue, and sukiyaki, a one-pot meal of vegetables, beef and noodles…
More than forty restaurants opened in July, with dozens more the month before. But amidst the boom comes news of a significant closing: twelve, which celebrated its fifth anniversary with a grand soiree last fall, will serve its last seasonally-inspired supper on August 23. When a place like twelve closes,…
At lunchtime today, there were a lot of disappointed people outside the locked doors of Zocalo Restaurant & Bar, the Mexican joint that some veteran employees of Benny’s opened four years ago on East 11th Avenue. But no one was more disappointed than landlord Regas Christou, who’d stopped by to…
After thirty years, the T-Wa Inn — billed as Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant, a claim no one has disputed — finally closed in June. But Federal Boulevard is nothing if not efficient in reclaiming, renovating and moving on. After a few early signs of a new tenant (the faux-stone trim…
Sana Hamelin used to be a corporate litigator. Now she’s an entrepreneur looking to create Denver’s first cat cafe. Cats, coffee, books and art would all be featured at the Denver Cat Company — if Hamelin can just raise the money to open her place. Currently her crowdfunding campaign is…
No. 84 Chips and Dip at Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 When the phrase “chips and dip” appears on a restaurant menu, your eyes tend to slide right past to more interesting options. At Euclid Hall, though, that would be a mistake. As with all the dishes at this…
Now, this is more like it: a real happy hour at last. The legendary Charlie Brown’s in Capitol Hill is well known to the city’s bar-crawlers and chain-smokers, but also to a new generation of students and hipsters who appreciate a place with cheap drinks — and food served all…
