On Tuesday, we wrote about the debut of the beer milkshake at 460 Red Robin locations across the country and pointed readers to our 2010 list of places around Denver and Boulder where they could enjoy other beer milkshakes, floats and desserts. We also suggested the beer floats offered by…
The Highland neighborhood is smoking hot these days, and last week it got even hotter when Red Poppy Hookah Tea and Hookah Parlour opened at 2120 West 29th Avenue. Co-owners Mayes and Sakshi Mears already have a Red Poppy in Iowa; when they decided to open a second spot, they…
Talk about the ultimate photo bomb. Last night, during the Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen (you can read all about it here), which was graced by none other than Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern, there was, as you can imagine, a lot of texting, tweeting, Facebooking and…
The Colorado wine industry is having a kick-ass year. In fact, we might even say that 2012 will go down as the one in which our state’s wine biz officially blew up. Let’s rewind: In April, our fair city hosted the fourth annual Drink Local Wine conference, a national affair…
The space at 1434 Blake Street that was once home to the legendary City Spirit has gone through many incarnations over the past decade, from Andrew’s Pub & Lounge to Lure Lounge to SportsBook to Pre-Game Sports Bar to the Blake and, finally, Kraine Station, a Ukrainian restaurant that barely…
I learned several things at last night’s Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen: 1) Pig uterus is absolutely lovely and should appear on menus everywhere. 2) Parallel Seventeen chef/owner Mary Nguyen is one badass chef, who has the ability to cook just about anything, “bizarre” or otherwise, and…
The Great American Beer Festival is also a great American motivator. In previous years, it has driven local breweries to finish construction projects, open their doors, brew new beers, and generally get their acts in shape. And this year is no exception — see the Bull & Bush, which is…
The sad news broke on Monday, as bartenders and servers started telling their regulars to save the date. After close to three decades, Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue will close on October 14. But at least it will go out with a big party. “Brunch is really popular here, so…
Fabio Flagiello PastaVino 1043 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-955-8791 www.pastavino.com This is part one of my interview with Fabio Flagiello, exec-chef owner of PastaVino. Part two of my chat with the Boulder chef will run in this space tomorrow. “There’s something about the life of a chef and restaurant owner that’s…
The Denver Beer Co, which just celebrated its first birthday last month, plans to spill over into a separate, 1,700-square-foot space next door that will be called the Barrel Room at Denver Beer Co. The addition, scheduled for completion in December, will allow the brewery to expand its production capacity…
Red Robin, the burger chain that calls metro Denver home, just introduced a new beer milkshake…made with beer from Boston. It’s Octoberfest from Sam Adams, a brewery that’s been pushing beer milkshakes for a while, Jonathan Shikes reports. The one that Red Robin unveiled yesterday comes with soft-serve vanilla ice…
TAG|RAW Bar, 1430 Larimer Street, is hosting an intimate, five-course sake dinner at 7 p.m. tonight — and there’s still plenty of room for reservations…
Abundant. Plentiful. Excessive. I’m not referring to campaign commercials here. I’m talking about that other seasonal annoyance: zucchini. (Not an annoyance, you say? Then you must not have a garden. Or a neighbor with one.)…
“For so long, we’ve been able to go to the store and get whatever cheap things we want. And now people are becoming more interested in handcrafted, regional products,” says Shae Whitney, the City, O’ City bartender who founded her own company, Dram Apothecary, which creates organic, handcrafted bitters. “People…
Greenwood Village-based Red Robin has introduced a beer milkshake, just in time for, um, winter. Luckily, this state’s hottest summer isn’t over yet. But rather than go with a Colorado brewery, as Smashburger — another Colorado-based fast-casual chain — did for its new beer-and-burger pairing menu, Red Robin is using…
October is far and away my favorite month in Colorado — and it really has nothing to do with marshmallow pumpkins, goblins or watching the original Halloween for the umpteenth time, although I do enjoy all of those distractions. October signifies bounty in Colorado, with farmers’ markets, farm stands and…
Some sales are done in secret, with the employees only learning the day the deal is done — if then. In more drastic cases, employees show up to find the door of the establishment where they thought they worked locked, with a “Closed” sign on the door. And then there’s…
Consider it the little market that could. The Broomfield Farmers’ Market has been voted Colorado’s favorite farmers’ market in a nationwide poll conducted by the American Farmland Trust. The market is run by volunteers and is only in its second year, but then, it might have gotten a boost from…
I’d asked for a small side of shoestring tubers. What I got was the whole fucking state of Idaho. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
Pho is delicious year-round, but we’re coming up on the time of the planet’s rotation around the sun when it’s particularly satisfying: fall and winter. There are a few places in the metro area that offer this Vietnamese noodle soup made with vegetable broth instead of the default beef mixture,…
The Comfort Cafe, a donation-based, non-profit community kitchen and restaurant in Berkeley Park that was the second pay-what-you-can-afford spot in town, struggled from the start. Over its two-year existence, Comfort Cafe has had to close temporarily once and reduce its hours another time. But now owner Jan Bezuidenhout will close…
Pasquini’s has gone through many changes since Tony Pasquini opened the first restaurant at 1310 South Broadway 25 years ago. While his sister, Melinda Pasquini, took over the original spot in 2004, Tony went on to open more restaurants and also franchise other efforts. There have been some bumps along…
