Food & Drink

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a plate of burrata, asparagus and sopressata, which hails from the Oven, to a platter of tacos and salsas from Tacos Marlene, a new brick-and-mortar on Alameda that’s an extension of the namesake owner’s food cart on Federal,…

As chilly as it’s been outside, no one wants to subsist on salad and trail mix. This Southwestern-inspired stew has plenty of substance for keeping the body warm: potatoes, black beans, corn and carrots cooked in a savory, smoky chipotle-adobo broth that’s got the perfect amount of heat to warm…

There’s been a lot of action on South Pearl Street this season, with Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two joining the lineup, bringing low-country cuisine to the Mile High City. But when Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the restaurant last week, she found both highs and lows. But one reader thought her review was a…

“Celebrating now!” read the text from Paul Reilly, who just inked a deal to take over Olivéa, Stephanie Bonin and Keith Arnold’s beloved New American restaurant, which the couple, along with exec chef John Broening and pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (the betrothed twosome now own Spuntino), opened three-and-a-half years ago…

Update, 7:05 p.m., January 11: Attorneys for Morreale Hotels LLC filed a motion today in Denver District Court, asking a judge for a temporary restraining order against the City of Denver that would allow El Diablo and Sketch to reopen. And after a hearing that started at 2 p.m. today…

Next year, Smashburger, the smashingly successful Colorado-based burger chain, will unleash sixty to seventy more locations, not just in Colorado, or nationally, but around the world, all of which will incorporate a new design concept that’s just been unveiled in Colorado, including the newest outpost at 6305 East Hampden, just…

The space at 404 Broadway has been in a state of flux for over a year. After a sixty-year run as Jerry Feld’s Club 404, it changed hands in December 2011 and reopened in February as the Denver Wheel Club 404, a bike-themed bar that rolled to a halt in…

We ordered a pizza, too, from the massive wood-fired oven, which is the focal point of this restaurant that also dispenses sopressata, burrata and asparagus, all on the same plate. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post…

Soon, within the next few months, the clan behind Udi’s Foods will open another full-service restaurant in a vacant space in the Lowenstein CulturePlex that, up until last April, housed Encore, Paul Reilly’s former restaurant. But before that happens, Etai Bar-on, along with other members of his family, will unveil…

No sooner had the LoHi Merchants Group added up the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the neighborhood to a whopping 55 than some of them started disappearing. Gramma Dor’s is gone, as is 32nd Treat. And now comes news that Erika Cunha, owner of Living the Sweet Life, is…

Restaurants and bars keep coming into LoHi — but what does the neighborhood really need? Parking, for sure, says Philo99: “It’s a great place to party but has become a terrible place to live.” But does it really need a fast-casual spot, as one reader suggests? See also: – Reader:…

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…

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,…

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 –…