Food & Drink

It’s finally — blissfully — patio season, and that means that one of the best tables in town on a weekend morning is at Gaia Bistro, where the tables on the patio and sprinkled across the lush garden are usually full of regulars, brunching lazily in the sun…

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: There can never, ever be too many breakfast emporiums, and over the weekend, Tangerine, a new restaurant from Alec Schuler, opened in Boulder directly next door to Arugula, Schuler’s farm-to-table dinner restaurant. The fifty-seat space — contemporary, bright and bedecked with…

Several months ago, Brian Laird, who’d been spearheading the burners at Barolo Grill for more than a decade, parted ways, amicably, with Barolo owner Blair Taylor and his venerable Italian restaurant. Laird took a few weeks off to soak up the sun in Hawaii and mull over a new offer…

The Kitchen [Next Door], the next eatery in the family of restaurants that started with The Kitchen seven years ago, had been slated to open its doors this Thursday. But there’s been a hitch — and now it won’t start serving until next week. “It’s a combination of things,” explains…

Six months after Que Bueno closed for renovations, every frequent flier’s favorite spot at Denver International Airport has finally reopened on Concourse B. The spot has expanded from 1,118 square feet to 1,490 square feet — and, more important, the liquor offerings have also expanded, with a full bar now…

My favorite meal of the week is brunch, especially when it involves the man of my dreams and something French — in this case, a near-transcendent croque madame crowned with a trembling egg spilling yolk the color of sunflowers. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…

Andrew Knowlton, the Bon Appetit food scribe, who, in the fall of last year, named Boulder the “foodiest town” in the United States, is now throwing around the culinary “F” word — fusion — in a story that trumpets the top six restaurants in the country to “Taste the New…

So McDonald’s is issuing a “surprising, embarrassing and uncharacteristic” apology to its Australian customers because McCafé coffee sucks. “We are the largest coffee chain in Australia, but we know we are not the most loved,” Helen Nash, McDonald’s Australian COO, told The Australian. “Customers have told us we can do…

With Civic Center Eats rolling into Civic Center today for a new summer season, and trucks tooling around other parts of town, Denverites will get to test some new mobile barbecue, including Bubby’s BBQ and N.Z’s Smokin’ Guns, which will hit Civic Center Park Thursday. Still, the responses to our…

I showed up at Gaia Bistro 45 minutes early. It was a Sunday morning during prime brunch hours, when the wait list can top an hour and a half (or even longer, if Gaia’s warm and well-meaning service is running slow, as it often is). Someone had to take one…

Last summer, Osei and Adwoa Ford-Wuo parked the van they’d used to hawk West African food and picked up a strip mall spot in Aurora, outfitting it with hut-themed decor and turning out a fantastic board of fufu, jollof rice, peanut butter soup and fried plantains. And now that they…

This old garage space looks shuttered now, but it’s the future home of a new restaurant: Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub. And while we’re guessing the opening is still a ways off — a deserted car lot flanks the front of the building and will require some serious cleanup…

This ad for a Bar Hostess popped up on Craigslist last week: Are you 21+, love a great environment and want to make $12.50/hr? If you are the type of girl that demands attention and turns heads, you might be perfect for Denver’s newest nightlife club; Northwoods Inn! The hot,…

The basement is a hot place to be right now. Last year, two of Denver’s top restaurateurs picked up underground spots in Larimer Square, opening unique concepts right at the edge of LoDo. The first was Green Russell, a faux speakeasy fronted with a pie shop that Frank Bonanno opened…