At the beginning of the year, the Denver Tea Room closed its doors in the Victorian house at 1820 East Colfax where it had poured for years, in preparation for a move to South Broadway. Now, after months of work, the new spot is ready to make its debut today…
Denver has a staggering number of burger joints, and you can also find burgers everywhere from Mexican restaurants to fine-dining establishments, anywhere a customer might want to order America’s favorite dish. Last week Lori Midson tried the new burger at the Squeaky Bean, which just introduced lunch, and she pronounced…
Get out and wag your tail for a good cause tonight. Global Health Connections is hosting a night of music, dancing, food and good company — all for a good cause. Tickets for the event are $25 during the presale and $30 at the door; all proceeds go to the…
Barleywines are part of an ancient style of beer, one that’s primarily denoted by a higher alcohol content than typical brews — an alcohol level closer to that of wine. But Bryan Selders and Sam Calagione don’t care, and why should they? The two brewers built their reputations at Dogfish…
The Bistro at Stapleton opened yesterday in a neighborhood hungry for dining options. Chef and GM Cristino Griego, who worked in Italy and France, hopes to recreate a European bistro with an emphasis on both local and international products in the dining room and attached market. The bar features eleven…
The above photo is from a Mexican restaurant that does a bang-up lunch business, but I can’t imagine it’s because of the carne adobada…or the queso…or the enchilada…or the chile relleno, because we tried all of those dishes, only to push them to the end of the table, pay our…
A presence on Denver’s food scene for more than 25 years, Kevin Taylor has been associated with polished dining since the days of Zenith American Grill, which he opened in 1987 to local and national acclaim. That restaurant closed years ago, and in the past two months, two more of…
Last September, when Miki Hashimoto, the owner of Japon (now John Holly’s Asian Bistro), closed his Japanese restaurant after eighteen years in Washington Park, he teased us with his future plans: “I have some great new ideas and concepts that I’m exploring that Denver hasn’t seen,” he said, adding that…
Daniel Bradley 5280 Burger Bar 500 16th Street Mall 303-825-1020 5280burgerbar.com This is part two of my interview with Daniel Bradley, exec chef of 5280 Burger Bar; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Your three favorite Denver/Boulder restaurants other than your own: I had dinner at Interstate the other…
Range opens today in the stunning former Colorado National Bank building, a circa 1915 structure that’s been transformed into the Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center Hotel. The restaurant, designed to mimic a modern-day whiskey saloon, features executive chef Paul Nagan’s “modern interpretation of Colorado cuisine built around live wood-fired cooking,…
Who knew? It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, and to mark the August occasion, Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe, a Colorado company, is giving a free chocolate chip cookie to anyone who visits one of the seven stores along the Front Range today. This is the third time Woody Creek…
Frasca didn’t have its usual Monday night wine dinner this week — but it’s making up for it with a special Thursday night beer dinner this evening. See also: Best Front of the House – Frasca Food and Wine…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Palettes at the Denver Art Museum is part of the Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group, a name synonymous with fine dining. And for the most part, the aesthetically pleasing dining room matches its art-filled surroundings. To find out if the kitchen has a steady hand, read this week’s review of Palettes,…
In the fifteen-month runup to the opening of Wonderland Brewing, owner Robert Lucero and his team visited lots of other local breweries and taprooms to look for ideas. “One thing I learned is that there are too many of these coming, too many little breweries,” says Lucero, who has worked…
It was a big upset — chains rarely win the editorial picks in our Best of Denver issue — but Native Foods Cafe, which added an outpost in Glendale’s CitySet last summer after already establishing a beachhead in Boulder , took Best Vegetarian Restaurant honors in the Best of Denver…
Back in January, Bones, Frank Bonanno’s noodle house in Capitol Hill, celebrated its fifth anniversary with a smashing seven-course dinner, and at least one of those dishes, namely the soy-braised pork belly ssam, a duo of pork belly and hoison-glossed duck mounted in a bamboo basket and served with glistening…
The ninth annual American Craft Beer Week, which runs through May 18, is in full swing right now as breweries, restaurants and craft-beer bars across Colorado and around the rest of the nation toast the craft-beer renaissance. “With more than 2,800 small and independent craft breweries and hundreds more popping…
I spent last weekend in Steamboat Springs, a mountain town with a soaring restaurant scene that made for very good eating. And one of the restaurants that made a lasting impression was this bustling breakfast joint, which turns out some of the best corned beef hash in the Rocky Mountains…
Daniel Bradley 5280 Burger Bar 500 16th Street Mall 303-825-1020 5280burgerbar.com This is part one of my interview with Daniel Bradley, exec chef of 5280 Burger Bar; tune in tomorrow for part two of our chat. When you grow up in Burlingame, California, where fields of fresh produce are within…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Pigs, like people, arrived in waves to the islands of Hawaii, tagging…
On Monday, we shared the sentiments of a reader who can’t find good Mexican food on South Broadway. Since then, other readers have been offering their own thoughts — not just on spots to try (or avoid), but also of attitudes toward Mexican food in general. See also: Are there…
