What better way to celebrate the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition than a big booze battle? Head to TAG Burger Bar at 6:30 p.m. tonight for a fight of epic alcoholic proportions during Beer vs. Wine, when Infinite Monkey Theorem and Prost Brewing will battle it out to see…
When you hear of a restaurant that’s been around for decades, it often sounds like a candidate for Restaurant: Impossible, because the place has been run into the ground and will require plenty of blood, sweat and tears — from restaurateurs, not militaristic host Robert Irvine — if it’s to…
Corner House reopened last night to its biggest Tuesday night ever since it opened in January 2013. And that came just a week after opening chef/partner Matt Selby departed the restaurant owned by Scott Kinsey and James Iacino, president of Seattle Fish Company. See also: Chef Matt Selby and Corner…
Every year, restaurants scramble to open before the holidays — and December has gotten off to the fastest start in recent memory. The streak began when Westminster Brewing opened this past weekend at 7655 West 108th Avenue. It’s the first independent brewpub in that town, but it won’t be the…
Cold? Yes, we noticed. But that’s one of the many reasons we have beer. Great Divide has been making one of the best cold-weather beers in Colorado for years, Yeti, and its various cousins. But there are plenty of brand new cold-weather beers out there for you to try as…
If you’re going to open a restaurant, there’s likely no better place to do it than just steps away from a Trader Joe’s, which, as we all know, is unleashing four stores in Colorado next year, including one at Eighth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, currently slated to open on Valentine’s…
It’s clear from the troop of squirrels that vigorously demolished my gords and pumpkins this past week that they saw winter coming long before I did. But while they’re sleeping in this morning, their bellies plump with pumpkin flesh, bars and restaurants around Denver are still celebrating fall by pouring…
After eighteen months, Lime finally returned to downtown when Lime an American Cantinaopened on Thanksgiving in the Denver Pavilions. The original Lime was in Larimer Square, but after eleven years there, owners Curt and Pam Savage Sims closed that subterranean restaurant in the summer of 2012 and started looking for…
Ian Clark BRU handbuilt ales & eats 5290 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 720-638-5193 bruboulder.com This is part one of my interview with Ian Clark, exec chef and head brewer of BRU Handbuilt ales & eats; part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. More than a decade ago,…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
The only thing Denverites like to dis more than hipsters (and our coverage of them) is green chile — including the dish’s various incarnations and even its spelling. And the fact that Food & Wine magazine’s list of the “Best Chili in the US” included Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl has…
January 16, 1919: a day filled with sorrows — and nothing to drown them in. Congress had just passed the Eighteenth Amendment, outlawing alcohol in hopes of ridding the land of drunkards, mental illness and poverty. But the Prohibition plan rallied for by rural Protestants and the Anti-Saloon League backfired,…
The owners of Mile High Pizza Pie closed up shop downtown this fall when rents went sky-high on Stout Street, and headed for Highland. Along the way, they not only changed locations, but also altered the name and concept, as Mile High morphed into Mile High Italian Deli. “Like Tony’s,”…
No sooner had we posted our Restaurant Roll Call for November that news of more closings started rolling in. Marie’s Cafe has shut its doors after 35 years, ending a Boulder breakfast institution. The spot had been in the same family — natives of Czechoslovakia — since 1979, but after…
“Are you open?” “When are you opening?” “I can’t wait until you open!” I lost count of how many eager people passed through the doors of Olive & Finch earlier this morning, their hopes high that Mary Nguyen’s new Uptown restaurant, a casual European-style cafe, was actually selling the muffins,…
Pints Pub claims to have the largest collection of single-malt whisky outside of Britain. The twenty-year-old Golden Triangle mainstay also has plenty of authentic English paraphernalia, including a British phone booth in front of the building. Which last week got a new outfit, in honor of Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary…
Before Highland morphed from a modest northwest Denver neighborhood into the hot restaurant incubator that it is today, there was bang!, which started dishing up fried chicken and meatloaf back in 1996. See also: Read our 1997 review of bang!, “Big Bang! Theory”…
Highland remains hot as a restaurant ‘hood and Jefferson Park is one of the town’s up-and-coming dining destinations — but its location on the edge of both areas didn’t cast any glow on 5th Sun Cafe and Lounge. And now this Mexican restaurant has gone dark. See also: 5th Sun…
After binging on turkey and all the fixings last week, I shoved the multiple pounds of leftovers in the refrigerator (thanks, Mom!) and headed out for something completely different: a spicy Thai green curry with pork. And judging from crush of bodies anxious to get a table — the wait…
As Westword’s Ask the Bartender columnist, I’ve talked with many bartenders for Cafe Society’s “Behind the Bar” series, posing numerous questions to Denver’s top bartenders…and often receiving the same answers: “I love chartreuse,” or “I’m really into smoked cocktails/barrel aging/bottled cocktails.” See also: A bartender by any other name…is still…
Mirror, mirror on the graffitied wall — which is the hippest hangout of all? Denver is suddenly bursting with hipster neighborhoods, spiraling out from the longtime center in Capitol Hill to South Broadway, LoHi and the burgeoning RiNo area. And not only are these neighborhoods home to cool coffeehouses and…
The owners of Namaste India, which Gretchen Kurtz reviewed last week, are both from Nepal and say they make their food the same way they would back home — but while the fare is solid, it’s also a little stolid. Namaste’s kitchen does stock ginger, cumin, turmeric, cardamom, coriander and…
