Take a Banjo Billy Bus brewery tour this evening

Every Thursday, the Banjo Billy Bus provides a three-hour brewery tour for $34, with visits to Wynkoop Brewing Co., Strange Brewing, Breckenridge and Denver Beer Co. Tickets include three pints and a designated driver; go to the website for more information. For information on dozens of culinary events around town,…

Slow Food Denver visits Den Farm next month

You’ll need to hurry if you want to sign up for Slow Food Denver’s tour of Den Farm — tickets are going fast. Den Farm is the facility that brothers Yasu and Toshi Kizaki, who own Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, started last year in Brighton. “Our parents were farmers,”…

TRVE Brewing opens today on Broadway

TRVE Brewing opens today at 4 p.m., and if an early-June open house is any indication, the place is going to be packed. The neighborhood spot, located in the former Rule Gallery space, will likely have three beers on the tap and what might be the most hard-core community table…

Renegade Brewing turns one; River North gets aged

Ian Clark, the head chef at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, opened a nanobrewery, Bru, in his garage just two months ago. But Clark is already expanding, replacing his half-barrel system with a three-barrel brewhouse that will allow him to more easily supply beer to his restaurant and…

My top five full-service chain restaurant meals

Popular chain restaurants may have their faults, but they also have their benefits — consistency primary among them. It’s comforting for customers to know that they can count on uniform, no-surprise dishes at certain chains. And I definitely have my consistent favorites. Here’s a list of my top five full-service…

Guess where I’m eating three-bean hummus?

Considering the heat, the mere thought of eating anything hot makes me want to dive into a sea of blue, but since that’s not an option, I’ll take a bowl of cool three-bean, lemon-kissed hummus instead, paired with housemade Parmesan crisps and raw vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating?…

Sample the new summer cocktail menu at TAG tonight

TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, is celebrating the debut of its new summer cocktail menu with a “Summer Sips” cocktail party this evening from 5 to 7 p.m. For $20, party-goers can enjoy a sample of each new concoction alongside creative small bites. View the new menu — which features “bright,…

Comfort Cafe reduces hours due to uncomfortable lack of revenue

“Unfortunately, we’re losing about $5,000 a month right now and it’s starting to really hurt my pocketbook,” explains Jan Bezuidenhout, who openedComfort Cafe, a non-profit, pay-what-you-can eatery at 3945 Tennyson Street two years ago. “It’s been a wonderful two years here, but this location is just too expensive. We decided…

Red Robin’s Burger Works: Rise of the machine

Red Robin’s new spinoff concept, Red Robin’s Burger Works, is a smaller, less-dramatic-and-more-metallic version of the original, meant for smaller urban spaces. It has less hustle and bustle than the original stores, and also much less less square footage, but the company put a handful of its most successful burgers…

Yours Truly, Cupcake now serving liquor-infused treats

Tiffany Rose Goodyear came up with the idea for Yours Truly, Cupcake after winning a cupcake challenge in 2009. Inspired by Denver’s burgeoning experimental food scene, she decided to make her cupcakes unique by adding alcohol to the mix. “Before we introduce a new cupcake, our confectionery bartenders deconstruct a…

Vail Valley’s popular Eat+Drink is opening in Denver on Platte Street

When Pollyanna Forster opened Eat! Drink!, an artisan cheese boutique, charcuterie parlor, chocolate stop and wine shop in Edwards, just outside Vail, in 2004, Valley residents immediately embraced it, and now Forster is hoping that Denverites will do the same when she unveils Eat+Drink in Denver next month at 1541…

Guess where I’m drinking rosé on a hot, hot day?

“When did Denver’s climate become Kenya?” quipped a friend, who was dripping — as we all were — with sweat. The heat, by just about anyone’s standards, is insufferable, but a cold glass of rosé, or, in this case, four, in an air-conditioned bar, provided a bit of temporary relief,…

Superfood salad from Modmarket lives up to its name

The concept behind Modmarket is fresh, seasonal, farm-to-table food served up fast. And it’s caught on fast: After the original outpost opened in Boulder two years ago, the company quickly opened two more locations. We stopped by the restaurant at 8575 East Arapahoe Road in Greenwood Village yesterday, hoping to…

Tonight: monthly beer-and-cheese pairing at Great Divide

Great Divide’s monthly beer-and-cheese pairing takes place tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the brewery’s tap room, 2201 Arapahoe Street. The cost is $24 and includes five cheeses from Marczyk Fine Foods matched with five sample-sized beers; you can also tour the brewhouse. E-mail info@greatdivide.com to grab a spot,…