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…
The locally headquartered Red Robin burger chain has produced some weird stuff lately, like the noticeably un-hot Cry Baby and Fiery Ghost burgers, Freestyle Coke machines that will eventually destroy humanity as we know it, and those blecky beer milkshakes. But the chief execs at Red Robin appear to be…
Did you vow to eat more veggies in 2013? You can’t beat the roasted beets and arugula salad that Lori Midson recently found. Unless you hate beets, of course. Or are just over them. See also: – Guess where I’m eating an arugula and beet salad? – Guess where I’m…
Every Wednesday throughout the month of January, Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, 1317 14th Street, will surrender its back-wall taps to various craft breweries. Tonight’s takeover will be courtesy of California’s Russian River Brewing Co…
Could Korean be the next fast-casual concept in Denver — and beyond? Quite possibly, especially if it’s Bop & Gogi, which, like Chipotle and a whole slew of other quick — but not fast-food — cuisine concepts, is the kind of joint that ballyhoos good grub, at affordable prices, in…
Jamie Wells has been working for four years to convert his 1.5-barrel homebrewing kit into a commercial system that could sate the thirst of many more people, and on Thursday, January 10, he’ll finish that task by opening J Wells Brewery at 2516 49th Street in Boulder. His little brewery…
Restaurants located in converted old homes tend not to be the edgiest places around. But what they lack in trendsetting they usually make up for with atmosphere, using the power of architecture — exposed brick, stained-glass windows, fireplaces and wrap-around porches — to draw you in and make you feel…
The writing was on the wall, says Joe Freemond, the soon-to-be-former executive chef of Cellar Wine Bar, which lost three of its kitchen staffers last week — Freemond included — after what the chef describes as a “long list of problems” that the owners, including Brian Delgado, refused to address…
In 1906, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody took his traveling circus on the road to Belgium, performing in Antwerp, Brussels, and half a dozen other cities. Now, more than a hundred years later, a beer that was accidentally brewed as a result of that tour (according to legend, that is)…
Denver has no shortage of places serving up delicious, locally brewed beers with solid food offerings — and the venerable, revamped Wazee Supper Club is one of them. The beer list is as big as (if not bigger than) the food menu, which features your typical bar offerings — burgers,…
