Historians Ale House is about ready to make some history of its own: The new watering hole at 24 Broadway will open at 11 a.m. tomorrow, June 28. “Colorado is a majestic state with the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Our sports teams are heroic champions, the skiing is epic and the…
On Tuesday night Lower Downtown was filled with hundreds of revelers, who needed no urging to follow the suggestion of LoDo Bites that they “sip, sample and stroll” their way through one of Denver’s hottest restaurant neighborhoods. The restaurants that put out samples for this annual event: Bistro Vendome, Backcountry…
Paul Krzystyniak spent a year mastering the art of making cold-pressed juices from raw fruits and vegetables, and now he’s sharing the fruits of his labor at The Juicing Tree, the shop he opened last week at 1504 Ivanhoe Street. While cold-pressed juices — healthier because they don’t involve high-pressure…
Arnold Rubio Tamayo 1400 Larimer Street 720-946-1433 richardsandoval.com/tamayo This is part two of my interview with Arnold Rubio, exec chef of Tamayo; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What’s your idea of a great dining experience? I love great food, but a great dining experience really depends on superior…
It was just two years ago that Frank’s Kitchen opened its doors. The regular e-mail that Dina Berta, a longtime restaurant reporter, and her contractor-turned-chef husband, Frank, sent out last week was full of plans for the future after a successful car show. They were talking about doing more events,…
Timing is important when you’re making fluffy biscuits — or references to Paula Deen. When Gretchen Kurtz wrote her review of The Universal, comparing the sky-high biscuits to those of Paula Deen was a compliment. But by the time the paper with that review was off the press, Deen’s career…
Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Avenue in Boulder, is debuting its new summer music series tonight. Every Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. throughout the summer, the restaurant will host an acoustic set by a local band; tonight’s performance will feature members of local act Whiskey Autumn. See also: – Cookbooks…
Fried chicken would fit right in at The Universal. For that matter, so would Paula Deen, given all the butter whisked into the grits that have become synonymous with this breakfast-and-lunch spot in a Sunnyside strip mall. But the restaurant isn’t as Southern as those “grits of the day” make…
Last year, the coordinators of the Colorado Distillers Festival created a tongue-in-cheek infographic comparing the costs of road-tripping around the state to visit distilleries versus simply attending the festival. The 1,020-mile road trip would take five days and cost $132 in gas alone, according to the infographic. The festival meanwhile…
Boulder is the cradle of craft brewing in Colorado, and nearby Longmont is home to two of the biggest breweries in the state, but until recently, southeastern Boulder County was primarily known only as the former headquarters for the Rock Bottom chain. By this fall, however, there will be eight…
Candy, coffee and ice cream? Enstrom just opened its new location at 6770 West 52nd Avenue in Arvada — a door down from its previous Arvada location. Turns out the Enstrom family, which has had four generations in Colorado’s candy industry, owns the building, and when Stephanie’s Candy moved out…
Longmont-based Mobile Canning Systems has helped thirteen small Colorado craft breweries can more than a million beers since the company started up in 2011. In fact, the demand from breweries that want to begin packaging their beers is so great that Mobile Canning took delivery of its second mobile canning…
In Philadelphia, cheesesteaks are a cultural obsession — but the sandwich infatuation stretches all across the nation, including Denver, where we have dozens of cheesesteak shacks, some of which do justice to the city where they originated and others that don’t. This one falls somewhere in the middle of the…
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 choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. “We grilled some sausages…
I had Paula Deen’s back (for the most part) when she finally divulged that she had type II diabetes, but I’m afraid that butter-bump’s latest scandal is indefensible. For those of you not in the butter zone (or on the earth), Deen dipped herself in a deep fryer during a…
The Little Pub Company just opened the latest in its chain of neighborhood bars and restaurants, The Whittier Pub, at 2000 East 28th Avenue. Mark Berzins, who runs Little Pub, told Westword earlier this year that he’s not normally an urban pioneer, preferring to open new locations in established areas…
Arnold Rubio Tamayo 1400 Larimer Street 720-946-1433 richardsandoval.com/tamayo This is part one of my interview with Arnold Rubio, exec chef of Tamayo; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Arnold Rubio’s smile is infectious, and it’s all because of Richard Sandoval, the New York-based chef and restaurateur who owns…
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…
There are plenty of chefs who are passionate, hungry, driven. But Kimber Hollar is all that and a merlot burger. “I was thinking earlier today that I’m just this small town girl from a cow town who never thought I’d be doing this,” says Hollar, fighting back tears. “This is…
Ondo’s Spanish Tapas & Bar, 250 Steele Street, is hosting a flamenco dance party tonight, with professional performances from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and a special prix fixe menu available all evening. Keep reading for a look at the selection. See also: – Ondo’s welcomes spring with a new menu,…
Many restaurants rely on a good happy hour or late-night bar scene to help drive traffic. But breakfast-and-lunch spots have to find another draw, and The Universal, which opened in a strip mall on West 38th Avenue last summer, found it in biscuits rather than craft-beer, grits rather than gin…
Twelve Degree Brewing, which opens tonight in Louisville, is rewriting history. Not only is it the second craft brewery to open in the former headquarters of the Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery chain (the company, now owned by Craftworks, has since moved to Broomfield), but it is doing business in…
