Restaurants

“Join us for one last hurrah,” owner Gary Sumihiro urges, “as we raise our glasses and say thank you to our amazing staff, supportive fans and cherished friends.”

Even for those of us who keep an ever-watchful eye open for every kind of food, especially in the most unlikely places, something unique or wonderful can escape our attention. Such is the case with Belfiore Genuine Italian Sausage at 5820 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, a tiny deli…

After we published our list of “The Ten Best Philly Cheesesteaks in Denver,” readers were quick to debate what makes a good sandwich…and whether you can find one in the Mile High City.

Last January, Yardbird opened as somewhat of a reincarnation of Gaia Bistro in the former home of Black Pearl on Old South Pearl. After a year in business, the breakfast, lunch and dinner eatery is dropping the first syllable in its name and become simply Bird. Here’s the explanation from…

The restaurant at the corner of Lincoln and East 20th Avenue is sending out some confusing signals at the moment — but that should clear up in a few days. Right now there are signs on the building for both Gumba’s Italian Kitchen and Delhi Darbar. As it turns out,…

Tap Fourteen is looking to be the leader in outdoor beer drinking downtown and now in Uptown. The Colorado-themed beer bar that took over the rooftop of Hayter’s & Co. (1920 Blake Street) in early 2015 now has a sibling at 400 East 19th Avenue: Tap Fourteen Colorado Beer Garden…

While my mom raised me not to judge a book by its cover, I still fight the urge to judge a restaurant’s food by the presence of a drive-through — especially when it’s an all-night, 24-hour drive through like the one at Taco Star at 1760 South Havana Street in…

Author and food historian Adrian Miller has been gobbling up national recognition for his recent books about soul food and the African American chefs who have served American presidents. His most recent accolade was an NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Literary Work, Non-Fiction for his 2017 book, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet:…

More than 250 restaurants and bars opened in metro Denver last year, some of them taking over vacancies caused by the closures of other establishments. But empty dining rooms and dark kitchens with stoves gone cold still dot the culinary landscape of the city, serving as a reminder that the…

Ordinarily there would be no reason on earth to take a perfectly good steak and fiddle with it. But there’s one happy exception: the Philly cheesesteak. Said to have been created around 1916, this sandwich is an East Coast hit that has slowly spread from its urban Philadelphia origins. The popularity…

Misaki’s menu offers a full selection of nigiri, sushi rolls, and chef specialties, with most standard sushi rolls coming in under eight dollars—the typical happy hour pricing at many Denver sushi restaurants….

Centro Mexican Kitchen has been through several incarnations and chefs over its sixteen years on the west end of Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. Now it’s going hyper-regional.

Sage Restaurant Group has been a driving force in the Denver restaurant scene for years; in the past year or so alone the group has opened Departure with celebrity chef Gregory Gourdet in the Halcyon Hotel in Cherry Creek, Kachina Southwestern Grill and Poka Lola Social Club at the Maven downtown,…

Quick: Name a food that rhymes with “poodle.” If you came up with “noodle,” you’re on the right track to hunting down one of the most intriguing menu items at the Brutal Poodle, a new bar and grill with a decidedly goofy name at 1967 South Broadway. (And if you…

Denver is losing some of its most iconic restaurants, including a trio that have been open for more than forty years.

While there are plenty of restaurants that plan to debut in the next two months, this was a slow week for openings (by the standards of last year, at least). Menya Ramen & Poke continues its expansion after opening noodle shops on the 16th Street Mall and at 1590 Little Raven…

Chef Efren Velasquez is coming full circle in his return to Jefferson Park. After sixteen years as a server, manager and chef at La Loma, where he helmed the kitchen at the Denver favorite, Velasquez helped move La Loma from West 26th Avenue to its current downtown location in 2016…

When you offer a traditional sandwich like bánh mì and give it a modern twist, is it still considered bánh mì? In Denver you can find family-run shops that bake their own bread and create sandwiches much like you would find in Vietnam. But a number of chefs are also…

The Danish call it smørrebrød; the French call it tartine. Here in the Wild West, we just prefer “open-faced sandwich.”  Whatever you call a mound of complementary ingredients on a thick slab of bread, we call it delicious at Call, the right-hand side of Beckon|Call (2845 Larimer Street). The new fast-casual…

Denver has not always been considered a particularly diverse dining city, but there have been notable exceptions. Vietnamese and Ethiopian restaurants gained popularity in the 1980s and ’90s, long before the specialties of those countries became trendy nationwide. And at 4609 East Colfax Avenue, Mataam Fez introduced Denver to Moroccan…

Concourse Restaurant Moderne, an ambitious project from ChoLon Concepts, is one of the most exciting restaurants to open in metro Denver in 2017. Here’s why.