Food & Drink

Next month, Cebiche will open at 7000 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, in the former home of Minilla’s Restaurant. The massive, 5,000-plus square-foot space will have a main dining room, three bars and two patios where Peruvian food will be served, as well as a basement-level bar called The…

Ben Reid and his wife, Jennifer, didn’t intend to register for their wedding. “We’d been living together for a year, we were a little older and we were happy with our towels and toasters,” Ben explains. “It seemed wasteful to ask for gifts.” But family pressure prevailed, sending Jennifer to…

Ever since Gary Lee Bomar’s plans for a liquor license for Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub came under fire by the West Wash Park Neighborhood Association, the restaurateur has been out canvassing, rounding up signatures for his petition and meeting with the Baker Historic Neighborhood Association in order to…

At the beginning of this year, my thirtieth coincidentally, I quit my longtime job in the craft beer industry to pursue a career in writing, despite strong disapproval from pretty much everyone I knew. Most of my friends thought I had the coolest job ever working for a microbrewery; an…

We’re fans of Buchi Cafe Cubano; it recently made our list of Denver’s five best spots for sandwiches. Buchi’s Cuban is particularly good; this is one of the few places in town where you can find ham, pork and Swiss pressed between slices of real Cuban bread. But when we…

You’re darn Teuton! Looks like Chinook Tavern will be the first of Denver’s relocating German restaurants to open its doors, with the debut of the new Chinook definitely on for today. But then, Chinook left its Cherry Creek home almost three years ago — and before it moved into its…

There are numerous kitchens across the city that have made us weep tears of joy with their brilliant twists and takes on Brussels sprouts, but the Brussels and bacon combination, which is what we got at the restaurant where the above snap was flashed, has long worn out its welcome…

After reviewing Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli , Laura Shunk rounded up four more of the town’s superlative sandwiches for “Denver’s five best spots for sandwiches.” Readers served up their own favorite shops, including Snarf’s (a Boulder institution now open in the Spire), Udi’s, the Old-Fashioned Italian Deli, Marczyk’s Fine Foods…

Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from a sidewalk bloody Mary at Gallop Cafe to a great bowl of Pueblo green chile at Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina. And in between, we stopped off at a new food temple for this dish of mussels,…

Hundreds of people converged on the Denver Zoo last night for Do at the Zoo, where they observed the animals — both four- and two-legged — and ate amazing food served up by some of Denver’s top restaurants. Photos by Kate Levy. View the full Do at the Zoo slideshow…

Over the past several months, Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger have amassed a loyal following for their sack lunch barbecue business, delivering pulled pork and chicken sandwiches and an assortment of Southern-style sides to businesses all over Boulder County. And when they weren’t dropping off food, they were cooking it…

Top Chef Angelo Sosa and Lon Symensma didn’t make good on their promise to come out in Speedos for dessert at Wednesday night’s Celebrity Chef Tour dinner benefiting the James Beard Foundation at ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro Wednesday night, but that was the only disappointment at a very delicious event…

No question, I ate awesome sandwiches during my trips to Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli for this week’s review. But the flavor of those sausage, meatball and salami subs was also enhanced by the place making them, a relic of the kind of Italian market that once stood on just about…

It was a little too early to dive into the vats of margaritas that this new Mexican joint mixes every day, but it’s never too early to dive into a bowl of green chile, especially one that’s pungent with Pueblo chiles. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…

In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…