The prayers, pleas and entreaties of Coloradans have been heard, and we are finally getting a Trader Joe’s store at the Twenty Ninth Street mall in Boulder in 2013. The hoopla surrounding this blessed event — akin to the birth of the Christ child — has some uninitiated locals wondering…
The action continues on South Pearl Street, where Sexy Pizza will be opening a second store in March — although Kayvan Khalatbari, who opened the original Sexy Pizza in Capitol Hill four years ago, just signed the deal yesterday. “So we’re a little busy at the moment,” he told Laura…
What better way to get in on a Guinness World Record than to participate in the annual Great Guinness Toast? The annual attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest toast — using Guinness brew, of course — will take place at 9 p.m. tonight at Fado…
Comida Cantina, the brick-and-mortar counterpart to the Comida truck owned by Rayme Rossello, opens this weekend in Longmont, offering an expanded menu of street food goods plus a bar full of cocktails and licuados…
Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of…
For the first time since it was created in 2008, AC Golden Brewing in Golden plans to release three of its specialty, small-batch beers in 750 ml bottles. All three are sour fruit beers that were aged for ten months in oak barrels and fermented with brettanamyces yeast and souring…
There’s been a lot of restaurant action on South Pearl Street since the beginning of the year: the Pearl Street Grill, India’s Pearl and Ototo moved out, Seven Cups dried up and Izakaya Den announced a move, making way for the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group to take over that space. Now, there’s…
Geisty’s Dogg House opened the week after the Super Bowl, and it seems to have scored with University of Colorado students…
Six years of slinging wieners! That’s the milestone that Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs will mark this weekend, Friday through Sunday, when the hot dog hut on East Colfax celebrates its anniversary with lots of freebies, including Twinkies and cupcakes. “We’ve came a long way since our humble beginnings serving up our…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. “We have a…
If you want to get to the meat of the matter, you’ll need to battle a barrage of lettuce first. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…
Tony Clement Roam 1033 East 17th Avenue 720-382-2935 www.denverseafoodrestaurants.com This is part two of my interview with Tony Clement, exec chef of Roam. Part two of our chat ran yesterday…
Stingray, a Sunnyside watering hole that featured pizza when it opened last year, closed this month for a quick concept remodel. And now it’s reopened as Coop de Ville at Stingray — a neighborhood joint with a focus on comfort food, particularly chicken. And to make sure that everything stays…
Good food fuels good conversation, as you’ll see at the latest installation of the Colorado Humanities D.I.N.E. series. Il Fornaio, 8000 East Belleview Avenue, will be the site of the first D.I.N.E. of 2012, with guest speaker Margaret Coel the Boulder-based mystery writer. The event starts at 6 p.m. and…
Siu mei, Hong Kong-style roasted meats, are the main attraction at Hong Kong Barbecue, the restaurant tucked into a Federal Boulevard strip mall that I review this week. Not only are there whole roasted ducks hanging in a case in a prominent spot in the dining room, but you can…
The pizza oven has flown the coop at Stingray, the bar and pizza joint that Leigh Jones of Jonesey’s EatBar and her partner, Margaret Moore (together they also own Bar Car and the Horseshoe Lounge) opened eight months ago at 2911 West 38th Avenue. And that’s not all that’s changed:…
Tomme Arthur, the legendary owner of Port Brewing/The Lost Abbey, is in Fort Collins today to collaborate with New Belgium Brewing Company on an upcoming beer that will be part of its Lips of Faith series. Then, at some point soon, brewers from New Belgium will travel to California to…
The Bitter Bar has been at the forefront of the Colorado cocktail scene since it first opened as Happy’s night-time alter ego three years ago. In fact, its list of classic and clever libations were so popular that owner Dave Query eventually decided to shut down his Boulder noodle house…
Zanitas Mexican is coming soon to Boulder. Maybe. We’ll believe this when we see a Facebook page — at the very least — declaring its future existence. At the moment, the only evidence that Zanitas may one day exist is a multi-colored sign posted to the window of the space…
More and more, breweries in Colorado are collaborating on new beers with each other, with chefs and restauranteurs, or even — gasp — bloggers. But Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins has made a new beer for a single liquor store: Mile High Wine and Spirits. The Lakewood bottle shop, located…
Every taqueria does its gorditas differently, and while I love the puff of masa, these flat gorditas, turned out at a taqueria that also pimps some of the best al pastor tacos in the city, are every bit as delicious as their counterparts. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Mandy Stevens has been a freelancer in the marketing and advertising sphere for years, so she knows what it’s like trying to find a comfortable place to work. “Every space I went to, the space isn’t quite right,” she explains. And that included both coffeeshops and co-working spots, where people…
