The Wynkoop Brewing Company was founded in 1988, just three years after Bess Dougherty was born. And although there have been plenty of women who have worked in Denver’s oldest brewpub, Dougherty will be the first to don the rubber boots of a full-time brewer. And you can bet those…
The new menu has moved far, far away from the decades-old menu of the past at this long-standing Italian restaurant, but you can still get the lasagna…for now. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Randy Balch Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th Street 303-623-9518 www.wazeesupperclub.com This is part one of my interview with Randy Balch, chef of Wazee Supper Club, which will reopen Friday following a remodel. Part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. Before waltzing through the door of the…
Next Wednesday night at Linger, local chefs Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca d’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones, Green Russell, Lou’s Food Bar and Russell’s Smokehouse), Eric Skokan (Black Cat Bistro and Bramble and Hare), Ann Cooper (the Renegade Lunch Lady), Daniel Asher, Samm Sherman and Justin Cucci (Root Down and Linger) will…
Pearl Street Harbor, as one chef deemed it when South Pearl Street, once a destination restaurant row, had lost Pearl Street Grill, OTOTO and India’s Pearl within days of each other, has a new dining den, and after having dinner there on Monday night, I’m inclined to move in…
The seventh annual Civic Center Eats — a moveable feast in the heart of Denver — kicked off yesterday, with an assortment of Denver dignitaries, a record number of trucks…and no urban campers in sight. “We know we’ve had some challenges in the park,” said Lauri Dannemiller, head of the…
Cherry Creek is getting a new/old restaurant: Opus, which was a terrific restaurant when it opened in Littleton a decade ago, is merging with Aria, its sibling. Michael Long, the opening chef at Opus, left that fine-dining restaurant in 2010 to head the kitchen at Aria, which went into 250…
Parisi Italian Market & Deli, 4401 Tennyson Street, is hosting a four-course dinner paired with wines from the 626-year-old Antinori Winery this evening at 6:30 p.m. The dinner costs $48; call 303-561-0234 to RSVP…
My mom has only commanded a classroom since I was a teenager, but she’s always been a teacher at heart, and when I was a kid growing up in the southern suburbs of Denver, she’d devise elaborate lessons for my brother and me to carry out over summer break, packing…
Colorado has a rich (no pun intended) mining history, and when I was a kid growing up in the southern suburbs of Denver, my mom would devise elaborate lessons for my brother and me to carry out over summer break, packing us into the minivan for day or weekend trips…
Designed as spaces where huge numbers of people can get down to businesses, convention centers can be cold, hard buildings — each one very similar to the next. But the Colorado Convention Center and its caterer, Centerplate, are hoping to ground themselves a little more in Denver by starting a…
A new program that will provide free meals for schoolchildren this summer starts this week, according to Mayor Michael Hancock. Hancock was at the Curtis Park pool yesterday to announce the Summer Food Service Program, and passed out free lunches to children in the area. “This collaborative program will help…
Larkburger, which got its start as a little stand-alone burger joint in Edwards in 2006, plans to open an eighth Colorado location — this one in downtown Denver…
The southern I-25 corridor has not been known for its proliferation of fantastic eateries — but as Laura Shunk noted earlier this year, things are looking up lately, and Shiraz is one of many good spots we’ve found in the Tech Center…
I’ve had some exquisite food at Opus, the Littleton restaurant that’s orchestrated by executive chef Sean McGaughey, who took over the burners after opening chef Michael Long departed the fine-dining restaurant to spearhead the kitchen at Aria, which opened in late 2010 in Cherry Creek. Long parted ways with Aria…
When you order breakfast or lunch at this cafe straight out of the Elvis era, your waitress will likely answer your request with “Okey-dokey, artichokey.” And when ask for a cup of coffee, it’ll arrive fresh and hot alongside a 45 rpm vinyl coaster. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
While devouring gluten-free Udi’s bagels yesterday, our office chewed over the news that Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods had been bought by Smart Balance for $125 million. That’s big money, but Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods — founded by Udi’s, the beloved breadmaker that offers fresh-baked goodness in grocery stores and at its own…
Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins has spent the past few weeks in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Elise is now back in Denver, putting the lessons she learned in Italy to use…
The streets of Denver are filled with bicyclists — some doing errands, some going to and from work, some out for recreation, and others seeking a drink. For that last group, Laura Shunk served up a weekend B-Cycle bar tour that was “seriously cheap and disgusting,” according to Bradman…
Civic Center Eats kicks off today at Civic Center Park. The mobile food celebration will roll into the park every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through September 27. This year’s lineup includes Manna From Heaven, NZ’s Smokin Guns, Denver Cupcake Truck, Steuben’s Food Service Truck, Pinche…
What do Governor John Hickenlooper and chef-restaurateur Frank Bonanno have in common?…
Avery Brewing hosted one of the most talked-about beer festivals of the year on Saturday — and one of the hardest tickets to get — delighting 400 beer geeks who love “sour” or “wild” ales, beers typically brewed with bacteria and yeast strains that give them deliciously off flavors…
