Food & Drink

Denver is rapidly losing its classic dive bars, and now you can add one more to the list — at least temporarily. The Filling Station has locked its doors at 3507 Brighton Boulevard…

When we noticed that a restaurant named Masala Xpress had set up shop in the Aurora Mall, our first hope was that it might be a quick-service outpost of Masalaa, the restaurant on South Parker Road that serves an all-vegetarian menu and landed our Best Vegetarian Indian Buffet award in…

I like to think I’m fairly equal-opportunity in my love of all things edible, but I’ve got a list of hard-wired obsessions, and I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about them, talking about them and searching for them. For instance, I’ll drive hours out of my way for…

This is where the cool kids from the food-writing class at Johnson & Wales hang out after their last day of the trimester. Can you guess where we’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool –…

One of the joys of living overseas are all the savory concoctions you find wrapped in pastry and baked. Now — finally! — the wonderful folks behind Maria Empanada have brought authentic, vegetarian-friendly Argentinian empanadas to Lakewood…

The California-based, beer-centric Yard House will open its third Colorado location, at 8439 Park Meadows Center Drive in Lone Tree, this summer, and the company is looking to fill 200 positions over the next several weeks, including servers, bartenders, hosts and cooks…

Lucy, the restaurant above Comedy Works South, has gone through several incarnations since the second it opened in the Landmark complex in late 2008: soul food, picnic food, party food. Starting today, though, Lucy has a new identity: It’s now setting itself up as a go-to breakfast and lunch spot,…

Does this look like Denver’s best paella to you? It definitely tasted that way to Lori Midson, who proclaimed it the “holy grail” in her search for great paella and asked readers to guess where she’d found it. Turned out the answer was Solera. But before we got that, we…

The proprietors of Snooze were surprised to find themselves at the center of the protest over the proposed urban camping ban after co-owner Brianna Borin spoke in favor of the ordinance at a Denver City Council hearing. Last weekend, members of Occupy Denver flocked to the original Snooze, at 23rd…

Last week, when we crowned Denver’s ten best patios, we included Indulge Wine Bar, a spot deep in the heart of Highlands Ranch that, in addition to a sizable by-the-glass and bottle list, boasts a sweeping outdoor deck, complete with fire pits and excellent Front Range views. And that spot…

This year’s Colorado Chocolate Festival, held at the Denver Merchandise Mart this past weekend, had everything a chocolate lover could want: Over eighty vendors from all over the country offered cakes, cookies, fudge, toffee, coffee, frozen red wine slushies — and, of course, all the chocolates and truffles you could…

A Philly cheesesteak sandwich and tater tots: This just might be the all-American meal. 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 select one lucky winner who’ll…

Spring signals the arrival of farmers’ markets across the state, and the City Park Esplanade Fresh Market at East Colfax and Columbine Street officially opened for business yesterday at 9 a.m. with around thirty local growers and vendors peddling their wares in spite of the chilly, overcast weather…

No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Memorial Day is fast approaching, which means cookouts and buckets of potato salad. This version (adapted from vegan king Bryant Terry) is…

There’s still no name, but the owners of Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, Southern Sun Pub & Brewery and Vine Street Pub & Brewery, are brewing up a new tap house in Boulder that will open in August directly beneath Southern Sun at 627 South Broadway…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a terrific paella at Solera, which erupted into a discussion of what, exactly, constitutes a “real” paella, to a still-unidentified Caesar salad to a respectable plate of al pastor tacos from the Pioneer. Last but not least, we…

A year after it abruptly closed its original location in Highland, Squeaky Bean will bloom again next month at 1500 Wynkoop Street. And thanks to a series of videos with owner Johnny Ballen, you can get a taste of what’s to come: a Casa Bonita for adults, he promises. “Opening…