When you travel around the world and devote the majority of your time to eating in restaurants, you take note of what you love, which sometimes turns into a wistfulness of what you wish you had at home: a neighborhood bistro, for example. That’s what happened with Mary Nguyen, chef-owner…
Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group made headlines when two of its best-known properties, Restaurant Kevin Taylor and Prima Ristorante, shuttered this spring — Kevin Taylor at the end of March, Prima just two weeks ago. Both were fixtures in the Hotel Teatro, which is undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation and is scheduled…
If Mary wanted a little lamb that mimicked the taste of beef, she wouldn’t come here, but if she wanted a hearty lamb shank that was strong-flavored, grassy and slightly gamey, which, in my opinion, is the way lamb should taste, then she’d likely be here every night. Can you…
You can always tell when a restaurateur is apathetic, even when it’s his first rodeo and the balls are to the walls. Phil Armstrong is the antitheses of the indifferent restaurant owner. Armstrong, who first made a name for himself five years ago, when he started an underground supper club…
Highland already has Prost Brewing, on the very edge of LoHi. And this month, it’s also scheduled to get Prost Fine Beer and Sausage, an outpost of a Frisco-based restaurant that has no connection to Denver’s Prost…except a mile or so of pavement. The two Prosts have agreed to avoid…
I can’t stop buying asparagus. It’s there in abundance at the Boulder Farmers’ Market when I visit Saturday. The season is so short, and you really can’t get that sweet, crisp, grassy kick at any other time of year: Asparagus doesn’t freeze well, and the imported-from-somewhere-else bundles you get in…
There are only 135 Master Sommeliers in North America, and one of these elite wine aficionados will be at Flagstaff House for a special wine dinner tonight featuring wines from the Spire Collection. See also: Photos: Colorado Chocolate Festival hits the sweet spot at Denver Mart…
Dunkin’ Donuts continues to roll its way to doughnut dominance along the Front Range, with a location at 7615 West 88th Avenue in Westminster that opens this morning. Unlike some of the other new spots in the metro area, this Dunkin’ Donuts will not be open 24/7; both the drive-through…
Boulder will be getting a new upscale diner when Ella replaces Radda Trattoria in early June. Matt Jansen had opened the neighborhood Italian spot in the midst of north Boulder’s low-rise sprawl seven years ago, but now it’s reached the end of the line. See also: First look at Sunny’s,…
While the weather is decidedly chilly today, there are plenty of beer, wine and even sake dinners to warm you up this week. Here’s a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar. See also: Troy Guard marks the fifth anniversary of TAG with eleven of Denver’s best chefs…
The Colorado Chocolate Festival was a chocoholic’s dream this weekend, when the Denver Mart hosted such sweet events as a chocolate pudding-eating contest and a beer and chocolate pairing. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to capture all the delicious action. Keep reading for a taste. See also: Photos: May the…
“Honestly, I never thought I would have more than one place,” reflects Troy Guard, a prolific Denver chef-restaurateur, whose restaurant empire, which includes TAG, TAG|Raw Bar, TAG Burger Bar, Los Chingones and Sugarmill, stretches far and wide — and just keeps growing, with a second TAG|Burger Bar and TAG|Raw Bar…
Upslope Brewing will introduce its newest canned beer, Thai Style White IPA, this month — but only in mixed twelve-packs sold in liquor stores. The tactic of selling beers only in mixed twelve-packs is becoming more common in Colorado and elsewhere as a way for craft breweries to test new…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a cocky, chocolate-frosted doughnut from Voodoo to a burger paved with cream cheese and rings of jalapeno chiles from Providence Tavern to a lovely slice of chocolate cake from a super-tiny restaurant that’s doing everything right…
In late February, Hash, a breakfast joint owned by Heather Haupman, closed in Sunnyside, but the charming space wasn’t vacant for long. Ryan Turano, a chef who spent the last several years cooking in Breckenridge, snatched it up shortly after Haupman shuttered, and two weeks ago, he reopened it as…
In March, Governor John Hickenlooper introduced a craft-beer draft system at the Governor’s Mansion. Now he can show off another one of Colorado liquid assets there: wine. On Friday, Hickenlooper was at the Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery in RiNo to sign a bill that now allows Colorado wineries to bottle,…
Driving towards El Tejado, winner of our Best Breakfast Burrito — Eat-in in the Best of Denver 2014, we noticed that 4G’s has opened its fourth location, this one at 2200 South Broadway, in a space that was most recently home to an outpost of Zocalo, but had held many,…
Tim Myers kicked off Denver’s third wave of craft breweries four years ago when he and business partner John Fletcher opened Strange Brewing in a nondescript business park near Sports Authority Field at Mile High during American Craft Beer Week. Over the last few years, Myers has made just about…
This is finals week on the 45,000-student Auraria Campus, which means there could be a big run on coffee in the area. “I don’t like finals,” says Metropolitan University of Denver student Mathew McKenzie. “They are time-consuming because of all the studying. I will drink tons of coffee during finals…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz determined that things are going swimminglyat the latest outpost of Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, Jax Glendale is not just about the ocean.. Diane Snider of Row 14 is the star of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, talking with Lori Midson…
After the speeches were over and the ribbon was cut, the attendees of the Union Station Bus Line grand opening made their way to Wynkoop Brewing’s beer garden to toast the 22-gate, underground station (which opens on Sunday). The beer garden was pouring Mile High Pale Ale, Kurt’s Mile High…
All-V’s, a 45-year-old sandwich shop that was forced to close earlier this year, reopened this week with new owners, Karen Jacobs and her son, John. “We are alive and well and slinging the best darn sandwiches in Denver,” Karen Jacobs said in an e-mail. The family promises that the sandwiches…
