Craft beer, cured meats and cheeses, bread, chocolate, wine and coffee: All of that and much more will exist under one enormous roof, when the Source, an indoor European market, is unveiled early next year in a 26,000 square-foot, 1880s ironworks building in River North…
Have you heard? There’s pizza here, pizza there, pizza everywhere! In light of the glut of pie palaces taking over the city (and its environs), can you guess where I’m eating…pizza? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a…
Since the recent introduction of Jenn in Chains my reviews/commentaries on what’s what in the realm of chain restaurants, I’ve gotten a slew of questions from readers, friends and complete strangers on my Facebook page about why I’m giving time and attention to chain restaurants. Questions like “Why don’t you…
Yesterday’s news that Fired Up, a new pizza joint, will soon be opening in the Golden Triangle inspired this comment from Manfrenjensen: WTF is up with all the new pizza joints opening up all of a sudden?? I thought the upscale burger, cupcake, and DIY frozen yogurt trends were something,…
“Customers did not quite understand us,” Barbara Macfarlane remembers. “Many people did not think we would make it and said so. One competing grocer even offered to buy us out!” Clearly, Marczyk Fine Foods is here to stay, and tonight it kicks off its ten-year anniversary with this year’s inaugural…
Beginning Saturday, May 5, Bob Blair, the owner/executive chef of Fuel Cafe, will add weekend brunch to his repertoire, pumping out a menu that zigzags from chilaquiles to sausage and brioche bread pudding to smoked white fish with bagels, and just for fun, boda bags, courtesy of bar magician Jonathan…
The last — at least for now — in the string of pizza joints coming to LoDo is set to open its doors tomorrow. Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza was the first to join the lineup, opening last December in a neighborhood that already included the Wazee Supper Club and Two-Fisted Mario’s…
Fired Up will open in the former home of Chances (which relocated to LoDo last month) at 1135 Bannock Street. “We’ll offer gourmet pizzas made from as many locally- sourced ingredients as possible,” says owner Josh Barhaug, who just got back from a reconnaissance mission in Europe, where he and…
As part of the Wazee Supper Club’s big remodel, which begins tomorrow and continues for three weeks, the 38-year-old pizza-and-beer joint will be bringing in all new furniture. Which means they have to get rid of the old stuff…
Santa Fe Drive has an old American diner, a new American diner, an Ethiopian restaurant…and lots of Mexican options. And now there’s sushi, too. iSushi opened yesterday at 801 Santa Fe; the Japanese restaurant is offering “simple classics,” as well as dishes with “a more creative twist.” View the menu…
When I moved to Colorado seven years ago, I got an entry-level job at Great Divide Brewing Co.. One of my duties was driving around in a piece-of-shit van with a busted transmission, delivering kegs to accounts whose supplies had run out. After a few months on the job, I…
Aurora, which is already clotted with some of the city’s best ethnic joints, is about to welcome a new quick-service soul food spot. Kirk’s Soul Kitchen, which is slated to open on May 5, will dish up everything from fried chicken and meatloaf to collard greens and sweet potato pie…
The perennial question: Red, green or Christmas? In this case, none of the above. And for the love of ristas, use some damn salt to season your food. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Here today, gone tomorrow: These days, that’s the siren song of more and more menus, many of which change monthly, some weekly, others daily, which means that if you get too attached to a dish, at some point — sooner rather than later is the most likely scenario — you’ll…
Food trucks are revving up for the first big event of the spring season, the”Rolling Into Hunger” bash that benefits Food Bank of the Rockies on April 29 in the parking lot of Mile High Spirits, 2920 Larimer Street. Stephen Daniels and Mandy Birks, owners of the Crock Spot, have…
Eat out today — and eat out often. Because more than 300 restaurants are joining in the eighteenth annual Dine Out for Life, a benefit for Project Angel Heart, donating 25 percent from all food sales — whether at breakfast, lunch or dinner — to the charity that prepares and…
The Wazee Supper Club has been serving cold beer and hot Colorado-style pizza since it was founded 38 years ago by the Karagas brothers, Jim and Angelo, who’d opened My Brother’s Bar a few years earlier at 2376 15th Street. From the start, the Wazee was lower downtown’s go-to neighborhood…
The first out-of-state location of Fire on the Mountain, a wing chain based in Portland, Oregon, will open tomorrow at 3801 West 32nd Avenue. Although usual business hours will be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, Fire on the Mountain will open at 5 p.m. tomorrow and Friday…
When Denver Beer Co opened last August, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford had an unusual business plan: They wouldn’t brew the same beer twice. Since then, the two have mostly stuck to that — with a few notable exceptions — and on Tuesday, they brewed their hundredth batch of…
A little more than nine months ago, we ruffled a lot more than a few feathers by voicing our opinion on the local wine industry. Everyone from the Front Range Winery Association to hobbyist vintners juiced over where we got the balls to speak our minds on such an –…
President Obama may have made the biggest splash during his two-day trip to Colorado at The Sink in Boulder, but Secret Service staffers knew where to go in Cherry Creek North for a late-night snack during the darker hours — no, not that kind of snack…
If you tried to eat at Venue Bistro yesterday, which was my mission, a sign on the door called for other plans. From what I hear, the spring runoff is good for fishing, and the staff at Venue obviously thinks so, too, judging from the fact that the Highland restaurant…
