Restaurants

When Four Friends Kitchen opened in Stapleton two years ago, the ownership group wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the neighborhood. But nearby residents responded quickly and enthusiastically to the restaurant’s Southern-inspired breakfast and lunch menu, turning the place into a perpetually busy destination. Using that success as a…

San Diego-style Mexican food isn’t common in Denver, outside of the Tacos Rapidos family and a couple of other independent eateries in the suburbs. And late-night Mexican grub is even rarer — and I don’t mean what most Denverites consider late-night, where you’re home before midnight with TV remote in…

Metro Denver has a mini-boom in Korean restaurants, and as we worked on the Best of Denver 2017, we tried them all. We presented our favorites in our list of the Ten Best Korean Restaurants, but one reader took issue with several of our picks.

This week’s Westword Watch List lets you know where to eat your veggies, which bar is smokin’ it up in RiNo, and now you can get your claws on some great lobster deals. After digesting the hottest places to eat and drink from April 14 through April 20, keep reading…

Earlier this month, Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge announced that it will be moving from its longtime home at 930 Lincoln Street to big new digs in the former home of Baur’s Restaurant & Listening Lounge, which recently closed downtown after two years in the historic O.P. Baur Confectionery building. With…

An unprepossessing storefront at the north end of the Tracks/EXDO building at 35th and Walnut streets doesn’t look much like RiNo’s hippest new gathering space. From the outside, it appears much like a dentist office or perhaps a small legal firm. The name on the door, Millers & Rossi, might even…

Nearly a year has passed since P17 closed at 1600 East 17th Avenue and the owners of Jack’s Uptown Grille took over the space. After a considerable interior overhaul, Jack’s officially opens tomorrow, April 14, at 11 a.m. The new restaurant is owned by Steve Lockton, executive chef Lindsay Donnelly…

Part of the mission of Avanti Food & Beverage is to act as an incubator for chefs and restaurateurs to test new food ideas without the financial commitment of going full brick-and-mortar. Bamboo Sushi, a small Portland, Oregon outfit founded by Kristofor Lofgren, came to Avanti last summer with a menu…

Last night’s Denver Grilled Cheese Festival included more than just a handful of sandwiches. In addition to crusty, gooey goodness from cheese-loving chefs, guests got to have their photos taken with Dolly Parton and witnessed Mayor Michael Hancock present the prize for the best grilled cheese sandwich. A sighting of…

Slow Food Nations is coming to Denver this summer, with a street food festival, a worldwide summit of culinary leaders, and a wide variety of classes, lectures, demonstrations and exhibits intended to draw attention to “good, clean and fair food” produced in the U.S. The festival will take place from…

Morning Collective opened April 3 in a former convenience store at 2160 South Broadway. Chef/owner Joseph Strelnik had spent more than four years as the executive chef at Snooze before learning the corporate ropes at Village Inn, and he’s attempting to blend the best of both experiences at this breakfast joint.

After a multi-year interlude during which he launched more casual concepts, chef Jeff Osaka has returned to his fine-dining roots with 12@MADISON, an exquisite restaurant that corrects the flaws of the first twelve without compromising the artistry and fluidity that put this California native on the Colorado map.

The Way Back’s chefs, Marcus Eng and Samuel Charles, hold monthly test-lab dinners so that guests can weigh in on potential new dishes for the West Highland eatery’s seasonal menu. A recent kitchen creation with an unusual ingredient was a surprise hit with diners, but fit in perfectly with the Way…

When you look at RiNo today, it’s hard to remember what this area looked like a dozen years ago, when two artists formed the RiNo Art District in a dusty old warehouse area. In fact, the neighborhood is almost unrecognizable from then — or even from six years ago, when the Matchbox, which Sarah McGill just profiled, opened on Larimer Street.

Now that the Colorado Rockies are back for another season of baseball at Coors Field, Denverites will be spending plenty of time and money rooting for the home team — and loading up on typical ballpark eats and drinks. Sure, you could settle for the same hot dog or nachos…

This was a slow week for restaurant and bar activity, with only one Denver opening. Morning Collective made its debut on Monday, April 4, bringing sweet and savory breakfast and lunch menus to the Rosedale neighborhood on South Broadway. The kitchen is helmed by chef/co-owner Joseph Strelnik, formerly of Snooze…

The U Baron Group (better known to most Coloradans as the founder of Udi’s) has decided to consolidate its restaurant brands by closing the last of the Silvi’s Kitchen locations.The Arvada address, at 7600 Grandview Avenue, closed at the end of March, while the Glendale CitySet outpost, at 686 South…

Where Mona’s moved out at 2364 15th Street, Just Be Kitchen is getting ready to open a different style of breakfast and lunch eatery. Founder Jennifer Peters and chef/partner Carrie Baird hope to have the nutrition-oriented restaurant open by the end of April. Baird’s menu focuses on paleo foundations: gluten-free,…

For years, fast casual chain Chipotle, founded in Denver in 1993, has been trying to eliminate artificial preservatives and additives that aren’t part of recipes any home cook could replicate from a trip to the grocery store. The final obstacle to success has been the corn and flour tortillas that…

Since opening at 955 Lincoln Street five years ago, DiFranco’s has earned a reputation for its handmade pastas. The daily board of penne, spaghetti and other Italian noodles keeps Golden Triangle neighbors and other regulars coming through the door for lunch and dinner, to eat in the tiny storefront or…

WhiteWave Foods veteran Mike Fogarty has long canvassed the country for work and play, and about five years ago, over the course of those travels, he realized the convenience store was long overdue for an update. “As you stop at various convenience stores, you get the sense that the products…