Friday night’s opening-night festivities at the Curtis Club were hot — so hot the fire department showed up when the smoke alarm went off. But once the smoke cleared, the party continued. The space looks very different from how it did in its Old Curtis Street Tavern incarnation, but the…
Last week, Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contest posts, including a smoked salmon-and-latke plate from Latke Love, a restaurant that knows its way around a proper potato pancake. We also served up a wonderful bowl of seafood soup from Land of Sushi and a meat-and-shrimp alambre from a…
Butternut squash soup may seem ubiquitous at this time of year, but this recipe is something special, with Granny Smith apples and a taste of curry adding a tart sweetness and hint of heat. It’s easy to make, with just a few ingredients — but there is a lot of…
In February, brothers Hanzel and Eder Yáñez shuttered Chili Verde, their Mexican restaurant in LoHi that celebrated the cuisine of Puebla. The weather-beaten building, with its chipped white paint, had also suffered a fire, rendering the restaurant inhabitable for weeks. But on Saturday, the brothers, along with manager Custo Avalos,…
Before Kassia Koukari parks Roberto, the three-wheeled delivery bike for Kassia’s Pasta Farm, for the season, she wheeled him to the Infinite Monkey Theorem on Thursday night for the kickoff of Operation: Turkey Raisin’, a food/fundraiser for Denver Rescue Mission’s Thanksgiving Turkey Drive. Through November 23, a portion of all…
Last week Mutiny Information Cafe unveiled its new mural highlighting the characters of Broadway. But this is far from the only tasty mural on the side of a local watering hole. At Highland Tavern, an outside wall boasts Rosie the Riveter urging you to drink Pabst. But is that co-opting…
Nine out of ten vegans can tell you exactly who Isa Chandra Moskowitz is. VegNews named her “favorite cookbook author” for seven years in a row; she’s been creating recipes for zines, bestselling cookbooks and her beloved website, Post Punk Kitchen, for more than two decades. And she’s just released…
In this week’s restaurant review, Gretchen Kurtz visits Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery, which has grown from a bakery to a breakfast and lunch spot to a dinner destination, too, particularly if you crave Southern-style chicken and waffles. Mark Antonation continues his journey up Federal Boulevard to El Rancherito, which…
Halloween is associated with three things: monsters and ghosts wandering the streets, bags and bags of candy, and alcohol poisoning. That’s because once we grow past trick-or-treating age, Jaeger and Miller replace Hershey’s and Reese’s for many of us. But your oh-so-clever Jersey Shore costume doesn’t mean you have to…
Arch Pizza opened this week in east Denver promising St. Louis-style pizza, and it made us wonder, what exactly is St. Louis-style pizza? We know that Chicago has deep dish and New York has big, tin slices, but what does St. Louis-style pizza entail? The answer, it turns out, is…
Back in 2011, when Robert Thompson shuttered Argyll in Cherry Creek, the plan, he told me, was to reopen the gastropub in Baker. Instead, Thompson, a prolific restaurateur and the founder of Seasoned Development, a restaurant group that designs, develops and manages restaurant concepts, graced the ubranized ‘hood with Punch…
It looks an outpost of the ever-expanding, locally-run Santiago’s Mexican food restaurant chain will take over an Aurora spot that has seen quite a bit of turnover. The address, at 10400 East Sixth Avenue, was most recently home to El Rico Dicho Menuderia Y Taqueria, a quirky Mexican restaurant that…
The Monkey Barrel, Denver’s newest bar and music venue, has opened on 1611 Platte Street in an already hopping part of town. The bar seats forty and features booths with private TVs. It is open from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 2…
New Belgium Brewing makes lots of big news — for instance, it’s about to resume construction on its massive new plant in North Carolina; it just introduced a new winter seasonal called Accumulation White IPA; it will begin distributing beer in Ohio, its 35th state — but the Fort Collins…
On October 15, the world lost Hans Riegel, the German baron and confectioner whose name is synonymous with the rainbow-hued, teddy bear-shaped, chewable-soft candies known as gummi bears, which were first introduced to the United States in 1982. Reigel, who died from heart failure, was ninety, and to honor his…
It’s always difficult to pull myself away from the sushi at this sublime shrine to raw fish, but the rest of the menu, including the cooked dishes, is a treat, too, especially the spicy udon soup heaped with an ocean of seafood. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Yes, college food can suck — but sometimes the school actually notices and takes action. After students gave poor reviews to a food vendor in the Auraria student union, administrators asked for proposals for a replacement — and Infinitus Pie, a local, family-owned pizza chain, won the slot third location…
Are these the kinds of drinking companions you crave? Then you’re going to love Watering Bowl, the very dog-friendly bar that could finally open this weekend at 5411 Leetsdale Drive. But according to one reader, dog lovers might find another kind of love here. See also: Watering Bowl, “your best…
The weekend is full of events — some of them very, very spooky. The action starts tonight with second annual Adult Daycare at The Lobby, this one dedicated to All Hallow’s Eve. From 6 to 10 p.m., kids 21-plus are encouraged to dress up in their finest costumes, forget their…
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard was born in Boulder in 1987 as Good Times Drive-Thru Burgers. Those were good times, indeed: ’87 was a good year for banana hair clips, jelly shoes and skinny ties. But how on the burger-bombarded earth did Good Times manage to survive with the…
After twemty years, the Old Louisville Inn has checked out, and the 109-year-old building has new owners: Historic 740 Front Street, LLC. See also: Denver’s five best historic watering holes…
Wonder how a nice Southern boy like Brian Crow ended up in Denver at the evil-sounding Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery? “We needed to spread our wings,” explains Crow, who moved here from Asheville, North Carolina, two years ago with his fiancée, Megan. “We looked at Chicago and Portland as…
