The thirteenth annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival got tapped yesterday in Vail, and it runs through Saturday, January 12. This winter fest — which takes place at Vail Cascade Resort & Spa — features some of the most unique and rare (and strongest) craft beers in the country…
This is the seventh in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. As much pride as we Coloradans take in our local producers and their staggering variety of goods, how many of them can say they tangled with the heaviest of heavyweights on…
After just over a year in business, 32nd Treat has shuttered at 2015 West 32nd Avenue, reducing the LoHi Merchant Group’s count of Lower Highland eateries by one. Make that 54 — not 55 — restaurants, bars and coffee shops in the area. For now. See also: -32nd Treat is…
Verboten Brewing, which will open its doors this weekend in Loveland, takes its name for the German word for “forbidden,” and is a reference to German beer-purity laws, or Reinheitsgebot, which forbade brewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from using anything but water, barley and hops in their beers…
For a few days late last summer, Ian Kleinman, Denver’s Willy Wonka double — and the founder of the Inventing Room, a catering company that centers around magical, mystical, molecular marvels — took over the dining room at Table 6, where he morphed the rusticated space into a doughnut paradise,…
A handful of great new Colorado craft beers hit the market at the very end of 2012, including: Boulder Beer’s A Honey of a Saison; Great Divide’s Orabelle; Elevation Beer’s Downpour Imperial Red Ale; Ska Brewing’s Hibernal Vinifera and Crazy Mountain’s Boohai Red Ale. All four are stellar brews, and…
For years, the woman who recently acquired this bare-bones taqueria, where soap operas in Spanish blare from the television, has operated a popular food cart, which really comes to life late at night. The cart is still doing a solid business, but rather than inhaling your tacos in the parking…
Why does pork go so well with breakfast, and poultry not so much? Turkey bacon aside (and in my book, it should be way aside), the only poultry you’re likely to find at breakfast is in chicken and waffles. Long associated with the South, this dish actually traces its roots…
Six years ago, shortly after Lola moved from Old South Pearl into a corner space at 1575 Boulder Street, the LoHi Merchants Group counted the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the Lower Highland neighborhood– bounded by West 38th to the north, Federal to the West, Speer and I-25 –…
It’s the last day of service at Olivea, 719 East 17th Avenue. Owners/husband-and-wife Stephanie Bonin and Keith Arnold have decided to pursue personal plans back East. See also: -Olivea, one of Denver’s top restaurants, is closing in mid-January -First impressions of Olivea -A conversation with John Broening, of Duo and…
Being a restaurant reviewer is a lot like being a detective. With each spoonful of soup and every morsel of fish, I’m gathering clues about what’s afoot in the kitchen. Sometimes the mystery lingers, but as I sliced through the seared duck at Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two, the low-country restaurant that…
Being a restaurant reviewer is a lot like being a detective. With each spoonful of soup and every morsel of fish, I’m gathering clues about what’s afoot in the kitchen. Sometimes the mystery lingers, but as I sliced through the seared duck at Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two, the low-country restaurant that…
The father-and-son team of Dan and Jack Diebolt plan to give north Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood its second brewery this year, when they open Diebolt Brewing in a small warehouse building at 3855 Mariposa Street sometime in late spring or summer. Diebolt will be located about ten blocks south of the…
I live in the belly of the beast, Denver’s hottest restaurant neighborhood last year: Lower Highland, or LoHi, as developer Paul Tamburello dubbed it when he started work on the Olinger project. (In response, I refer to my particular block as SoLola — south of Lola, which moved into the…
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’s action in the Beauvallon, where the space at 975 Lincoln Street that was previously occupied by Japoix (and Nine75 before that) is now under construction. The space has always been awkward, with a dining room in the front and a big lounge in the back. Will that be changing?…
You have three more days to help out the Colorado-based producers of Crafting a Nation, a feature-length documentary that “tells the story of how the American Craft Brewers are rebuilding the economy one beer at a time.” The group’s Kickstarter campaign ends on Friday, and although donors have already pushed…
Boulder-based Glacier Ice Cream & Gelato, which landed a spot on Forbes Traveler’s America’s Best Ice Cream list in 2008 (and has amassed dozens of additional accolades ever since), is opening in Englewood, in February, at Kent Place, the new retail and loft development at University and Hampden that also…
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 the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Christopher Weir, the…
Change is inevitable, but it’s not always smooth, which is why Eugene Kahng, co-owner of the soon-to-open Colorado + Liquid Art Works brewery in Wheat Ridge, hit a few bumps when he painted over a mural that had decorated the side of Valente’s Italian Restaurant, a community mainstay that closed…
So many margaritas, so little time. This one, in the above snap, however, is easily one of my favorite mezcal-based cocktails, its smokiness intensified by specks of jalapeño. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
The Broncos are going to win Super Bowl XLVII — say that with me, and keep repeating it like a mantra because if you say anything else, out loud, in front of other people here in Colorado, somebody will punch you in the stomach really, really hard. And speaking of…
