Liquor-license renewals are generally routine affairs in Denver — but for Jesse Morreale, nothing has been routine this year. He’s in a fight over his First Avenue Hotel, and has an October 1 deadline to satisfy the city’s demands — or face having the building closed. Again. And late yesterday,…
For days the discussion has focused on Cherry Creek North, once this town’s hottest restaurant neighborhood, which may — or may not — be making a comeback. But this morning we’re returning to Highland, the area that Forbes just declared one of “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods,” citing many of the…
Coohills, 1400 Wewatta Street, is celebrating A Taste of Iceland — a four-day celebration of the island — with a four-course prix fixe menu, created by chef Tom Coohill and Iceland’s award-winning chef, Hákon Már Örvarsson…
If you’re of a certain age — I’ll leave the exact number of years up to you — you’ll remember when restaurant menus were as long as novellas, with enough adjectives to give Emily Brontë a run for her money. Intricate details of cooking technique and provenance were listed for…
Mark DeNittis, the co-founder of Il Mondo Vecchio, a local artisan sausage factory, has his hands in a lot of different projects, and up until today, one of them was Cinque Soldi Salumeria, a tiny Italian market and deli exclusively selling Il Mondo Vecchio products that DeNittis co-owned with Tony…
Former Mountain Sun brewers Brian Hutchinson and Jason Stengl have left the company to open their own place in Golden later this year. Cannonball Creek Brewery will be the second craft brewer in a town that sits in the shadow of the Coors plant. Hutchinson, who was the head brewer…
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. “The delicious smell…
Jesse Morreale has spent much of the summer in meetings with the city, which on July 10 slapped a “notice to vacate” on his First Avenue Hotel property – the circa 1906 building at 101 Broadway that holds Sketch and El Diablo, as well as Morreale’s offices. And those meetings…
Earlier this month, President Obama’s designated the 4,700-acres Chimney Rock Archaeological Area in southwestern Colorado — an area that is sometimes called “America’s Stonehenge” — as a national monument. The move means that the area between Durango and Pagosa Springs (which was home to thousands of ancient Native Americans) should…
What makes a red wine fall — or should we say, fall in love — worthy? Given the record-setting quantities of rosé we consumed over the past few months, you might assume that getting us to loosen our death grip on pink wines would equal a Herculean feat…
JP Krause Aloft Broomfield 8300 Arista Place, Broomfield 303-635-2000 www.aloftbroomfielddenver.com This is part one of my interview with JP Krause, exec chef of Aloft Broomfield. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. “Right. My name. It’s John Patrick, but ever since high school, I’ve gone by…
Denver just got another Red Robin’s Burger Works, with another Freestyle Coke machine, so that more folks can be controlled by Skynet treated to Burger Works’ signature craft-your-own-burgers — with drinks designed to match. This location — the fourth in Colorado — opened Monday in the new Hotel and Hospitality…
Before we move on to controversies in other restaurant neighborhoods, we’re taking one more turn around Cherry Creek. That’s where Rodney’s closed this weekend, prompting Denver Dave to say that Cherry Creek North is “just becoming another food court in any mall USA.” That rallied the CCN defenders, including JPL35,…
Cholon Modern Asian Bistro, 1555 Blake Street, is commemorating two years in business with a four-course wine dinner tonight…
From the street, Harold’s and the Bayonet Room doesn’t look like the kind of place you’d expect to find Noah Heaney, the former beverage purchasing agent for Big Red F and the current adviser to the president of the Colorado Bartenders Guild. In fact, Harold’s is attached to the modest…
Mayor Michael Hancock: beer geek. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. Still, Hizzoner will make his second appearance at a Denver craft brewery in as many weeks when he kicks off Prost Brewing’s three-day Oktoberfest celebration this Friday and taps the first keg of the brewery’s new Märzen lager,…
If I had to choose two words to describe menus these days, I’d use these: “short” and “sweet.” Not in terms of length, as anyone who’s gone to Linger knows. (There are enough dishes on that menu to circumnavigate the globe.) No, I’m referring to “short” as it relates to…
Thirteen bucks is more than twice the amount you’d pay for a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Häagen-Dazs at the grocery store, so how good would ice cream have to be to convince your average foodie to spoon over that kind of cash? The answer? As good as Jeni’s…
After two and half years spearheading the line at Jonesy’s EatBar, chef Beau Simmons is no longer in the kitchen. It all went down last week, he says, when owner Leigh Jones pulled him aside and suggested that it was time for the two to part ways, a decision, he…
Update, September 28: Crooked Stave is now serving draft beer again after having come to resolution with the Department of Revenue’s tobacco and liquor enforcement division. It turns out that Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson, who has researched Colorado’s odd liquor rules, had asked Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins, where…
My accountant recently turned me on to this west-side suburban Mexican joint that’s been a fixture in the ‘hood for years, and while we don’t always see eye-to-eye when it comes to food, he steered me in the right direction here, although ordering the carne adovada was all my idea…
There are few pleasures in life as satisfying as sitting down with a good friend and a bottle of wine, maybe sharing a snack. Before the weather gets too cold to enjoy this pleasure in the truly great outdoors, do yourself a favor and head to Flights Wine Cafe in…
