Two new Denver breweries will open this weekend, just in time for the Great American Beer Festival frenzy in town — and you won’t have to go far to visit both, since they’re just ten blocks apart. Black Shirt Brewing in RiNo and Our Mutual Friend Malt & Brew in…
Happy Place: Gumbo’s Louisiana Style Café, 1033 East Seventeenth Avenue, 720-266-5300. The Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $2 off specialty cocktails; $3.50 beer specials; $4 wines by the glass and martinis; $3-$4 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Utah’s Epic Brewing Company, known for its Brainless on Peaches beer, announced at the Great American Beer Festival today that is is hoping to open a second brewery in Denver in early 2013. If it does, Epic would be one of the first out-of-state breweries to open a second location…
For an additional fee on top of the price of a Great American Beer Festival ticket, attendees at last night’s opening beer bonanza earned access to the annual festival’s farm-to-table pavilion, where chefs, local and national, along with independent brewers offered samples from restaurants and breweries across the country. Ticket…
Larkburger, a chain of artisan burger joints founded by chef Thomas Salamunovich in Edwards in 2006, will open its ninth Colorado store today at 8555 West Belleview Avenue in Littleton. “We’re very excited to bring Larkburger to Littleton,” said Adam Baker, president of Larkburger, in announcing the opening. “It’s an…
A sweet, springy cake, smooth frosting and colorful sprinkles — a cupcake can be so pure and simple. That’s how Porche Lovely, owner of Church of Cupcakes, likes to keep it. Her congregation worships cakes made from scratch with local, organic and sustainable ingredients, which are sacred to Lovely. See…
Olive Garden just announced that it’s ditching its fifteen-year-old slogan “When You’re Here, You’re Family” in favor of the simple “Go Olive Garden.” While the old slogan was incredibly cheesy to the point of being disingenuous, at least the marketing folks put more than a cigarette break’s worth of time…
To accompany this week’s cover story on bike safety in this city, Sam Alviani rolled out a list of Denver’s five best bike-friendly bars, culminating with the Denver Bicycle Cafe. But not everyone in this city is feeling so friendly to cyclists. See also: – Denver’s five best bike-friendly cities…
The taps at Falling Rock, 1919 Blake Street, are always up-to-date, especially during the Great American Beer Festival. In fact, Denver’s most famous craft-beer bar can be a welcome alternative to the massive fest. There will be daily tappings throughout the weekend there, and today’s begins at noon with the…
Canned craft beers are big in Colorado and now they’re getting even bigger. On Thursday night after the Great American Beer Festival ended, Oskar Blues revealed its latest aluminum package: a 19.2-ounce can of Dale’s Pale Ale. The Longmont beer makers is the first U.S. brewery — craft or otherwise…
As Sam Levin reports in this week’s cover story, Denver is one of the most bike-friendly cities in the country. But this is also a city that likes to imbibe. Fortunately, there are many Denver watering holes that not only celebrate the bicyclist lifestyle but feature bike-friendly amenities, from parking…
Nancy Johnson has been running the Great American Beer Festival for longer than most of the attending brewers have been in business. She has seen styles and trends and ticket-sale issues come and go, but when it comes to planning, the buck — and the beer — starts and stops…
The Great American Beer Festival, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday, is a river of beer — and a river of people — but there are some things that don’t always meet the eye: secret fishing holes, swirling eddies, rapids. Here are a couple of things to do that…
It used to be that if I wanted stacked “Christmas” enchiladas, I’d have to haul my ass to Santa Fe, but there are a few restaurants in Denver — or close to Denver — where I can now satisfy my caving, including here, at this restaurant whose chef knows a…
The seasonal, pumpkin-flavored coffees and baked goods at Starbucks are my favorite part of fall, and so I head over to my neighborhood Starbucks early — and often — to get pumpkin spice lattes, slabs of fragrant pumpkin bread dotted with roasted pumpkin seeds, and iced pumpkin scones. But this…
Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com Part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcraft, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Being able to engage with people in real time and make things happen…
Baking at altitude is no easy feat. Master the task and you could have your own blog — or at least be the bestseller at your kid’s next bake sale. So it’s little wonder that mile-high sandwich shops go to such lengths to find the right combination of flour, salt…
A crew from Food Paradise stopped in Denver earlier this year to film at My Brother’s Bar, whose JCB rated a segment on the “Hamburger Paradise 2” episode that aired last night on the Travel Channel. The Denver shots included interviews with longtime bartender Jimmy Hayde (who had a big…
The Great American Beer Festival flows through Denver today through Saturday, bringing with it 580 breweries, 2,700 beers and 49,000 thirsty beer lovers. Aside from the action at the Colorado Convention Center, there are hundreds of other craft beer-related events going on around town, including an Oskar Blues “It’s All…
“Poetry,” wrote Robert Frost, “is what gets lost in translation.” Cooking may not be poetry, but in the right hands — whether those of a culinary-school grad or a mother re-creating authentic family recipes — it can qualify as art. At La Guarida Cubana, a tiny Cuban restaurant that opened…
Update: We have a winner! Congrats to Alison Nishi, who was the first commenter to hit the right weight — 95 pounds — on the nose. The Great American Beer Festival barrels into town tomorrow, but the crew at Osteria Marco, Frank Bonnano’s popular pig-, pizza- and salumi-centric gathering spot…
Earlier this year, the crew of Food Paradise traveled the country in search of “the belly-busting best places to get your burger on — from a heart-stopping monster burger in Las Vegas, to cheese-stuffed burgers in Minnesota and wild game gut-bombs in Texas.” To the JCB at My Brother’s Bar…
