You used to be able to find old-school red-sauce joints all over metro Denver. But their ranks have been dwindling, as the owners of these Italian restaurants decided to retire or sell out to developers — or both. Stlill, there are at least six Italian joints in metro Denver that have been serving for five decades or more.
Romano’s Italian Restaurant is the oldest Italian restaurant in Littleton; on December 1, it will mark fifty years at the same address of 5666 South Windermere Street. It’s not hard to see why this family-owned and -operated restaurant has attracted legions of loyal customers: It’s all about love, according to the…
Five Points continues to be transformed before our eyes; the latest metamorphosis comes in the form of Birdcall, a sleek, modern chicken-sandwich shop from the founders of Park Burger. Birdcall opens tonight at 800 East 26th Avenue in the former home of Tom’s Home Cookin’, which closed in December 2015…
Beau Jo’s may very well be the inventor and only practitioner of “Colorado-style pizza,” but soon there will be one less place to partake in the pies that sport a crust nearly cracker-thin in the middle but fat like a bicycle tire around the edge. The pizza chain will close…
Rum might be an island spirit, but Ryan Max Riley, who grew up in Colorado, was convinced it fit well in this state, so he built the Ski Bum Rum distillery in a Golden office park, where he began turning out silver rum, spiced rum and coconut rum in May 2016. Riley went for woodsy notes in his rum, hoping to capture the essence of the Colorado outdoors that had been such a formative part of his childhood.
When chef Sean Kelly opened Desmond Bar & Grill at 2230 Oneida Street in November 2015, it marked not only a return to the roll of restaurateur for Kelly but also an opportunity for his Park Hill neighbors to enjoy a chef-driven menu in a part of Denver short on…
CREATE Cooking School, set to open this fall in Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace, will offer over seventy unique courses for the home chef. Founders Erasmo Casiano and Diego Coconati aim to share their love of cooking with their guests, as well as inspire creativity and confidence in the kitchen.
Morning Collective, which Joseph Strelnik opened in spring 2017 on South Broadway, is a real people-pleaser of a restaurant.
Slow Food Nations kicked off on July 13 with a Slow Food USA delegate reception at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where Mayor Michael Hancock welcomed representatives from dozens of U.S. cities and Snooze founder Adam Schlegel, the unofficial mayor of Denver brunch, ushered in a night of hospitality and…
When Slow Food Nations descended on Denver, the international organization brought with it nationally known power players in the sustainable food movement who convened seminars to share knowledge and inspire food lovers across geographical regions. But the festival and its many events also gave Denverites a unique perspective on agriculture…
On a chilly December day in 2015, Mark Dym stood on the sidewalk outside his restaurant at 2129 Larimer Street watching workers take down the Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria sign. The place wasn’t going out of business, but was instead changing its name to Racca’s Pizzeria Napoletana. That name change came…
Debbie Kuehn may not be the most recognizable name in the Denver culinary world, but everyone who lives or works downtown knows “the Cookie Lady,” who ran the Santa Fe Cookie Co. on the 16th Street Mall since 2008 and for years before that behind Duffy’s Shamrock and on the…
New restaurants keep popping up, some — like French 75 (which opens Monday, July 17) — with chill summer dishes and others with the hottest food in town. And favorites like Comal Heritage Food Incubator are drawing attention as Slow Food Nations, a weekend-long celebration of good food prepared with…
Slow Food warriors are heading to Union Station and Larimer Square this weekend for Slow Food Nations, a celebration of traditional and sustainable food production and cooking. The weekend is filled with outdoor markets, cooking demonstrations, presentations and food festivals — enough to wear down even the most earnest food…
Chef/restaurateur JW Lee, the owner of Menya Noodle Bar at 951 16th Street downtown, says his ramen shop serves an average of more than 400 customers a day. That’s a lot of noodles. But Lee isn’t resting easy; he just opened another downtown Menya at 1590 Little Raven Street. The…
Slow food is coming to Denver this weekend with a three-day festival called Slow Food Nations. But the Events page of the Slow Food Nations website presents a mind-boggling barrage of lectures, tours, demos, tastings, dinners and outdoor markets. Here are some of the best.
After years of bringing smoked meats to the barbecue-loving masses of Denver, Rolling Smoke BBQ has opened a permanent home in Stanley Marketplace. The 2501 Dallas Street location marks the first non-mobile restaurant for owner Terry Walsh, who launched the Rolling Smoke food truck four years ago. The new menu…
On Monday, July 17, Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno will unlock the doors to French 75 at 717 17th Street, bestowing downtown Denver with their rendition of a French bistro. This is a project that’s been officially in the works for three years, when the Bonannos were approached by the owner…
Corey Ferguson is now running the kitchen at Justin Cucci’s El Five; putting his experience at a holistic-health institute in California and during a year in Spain to work.
Las Delicias, the forty-year old Mexican restaurant in Uptown that closed in 2015 for a major remodel, is opening for two reservation-only events on July 12 and July 17 before throwing its doors open to the public next week.
One of Denver’s oldest and most esteemed Vietnamese bakeries will soon be serving banh mi sandwiches in a spot that exemplifies the new face of Denver. Vinh Xuong Bakery, owned by the Huynh family, will open its third location inside Zeppelin Station, a multi-use space slated to debut in late 2017…
Cafe Marmotte was opened by Mark Reggiannini and Mairen Reagan nearly two years ago at 290 South Downing Street, but the French cafe has been under new ownership since early spring. Maria Katsaros and her brother, Stratis, are now in charge of the eatery, which won our Best French Restaurant award this year…
