Would you stand in line for an hour on the coldest night of the winter — just to get even colder? That’s what plenty of ice cream fanatics did last night at Little Man Ice Cream, which dropped the price of a pint of its finest flavors to $1 to…
The words fresh and seasonal both come to mind when contemplating Italian cooking. While Colorado winters can make it tough to find great seasonal dishes in Denver, here are two Italian restaurants finding creative ways to add cold-weather fare. Read what these two new Italian eateries are doing to combat…
The first new restaurant of 2017 isn’t exactly new to Denver. Instead, it’s the third location of a familiar breakfast eatery. DJ’s Colfax Cafe opened on January 2 at 1490 Eudora Street in the restaurant space that was most recently Red Octave. This marks the third DJ’s, after the original…
No. 29 & 28: Comfort Food at Ohana Island Kitchen and the Kitchen Table Lunch is an excellent time for exploring the local, the mom-and-pop, the hole-in-the-wall joints. Expectations are set for good food without the bells and whistles; you can save the wow-factor of expensive decor and ingratiating service…
A little over a year ago, we were reporting on the transformation of what was then Hamburger Mary’s into M Uptown, a new face for a decade-old business at 700 East 17th Avenue after its owners decided to scrap the Mary’s franchise for an independent, local and, most important, still…
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
McCormick’s Fish House & Bar at 17th and Wazee Streets served New Year’s Eve dinner downtown and then called it quits. But the thirty-year-old seafood restaurant attached to the Oxford Hotel wasn’t the only establishment on the corner to go dark at the end of the year. Across the street,…
Happy 2017, Denver! Here’s round two of our interview with local chefs and hospitality professionals, wherein they share their opinions and predictions on rising stars, old favorites, the service-industry labor shortage and the rise of gratuity-free restaurants. Read part one of the Q & A, which includes pleas for better…
Last fall chef/restaurateur Jennifer Jasinski announced that she and business partner Beth Gruitch would be adding a Spanish-style tapas bar called Ultreia to their roster of downtown restaurants, joining Stoic & Genuine at Union Station. As the plans shape up, a few changes to their other eateries — under the…
After three decades in lower downtown, McCormick’s Fish House has closed in the Oxford Hotel. It will become an Urban Farmer, run by Sage Restaurant Group.
A food truck that popped up on Federal Boulevard near Mile High Stadium last spring quickly distracted me from the many Mexican taco vendors in the area. El Bohio Criollo stood out because its menu was Cuban; instead of carnitas and smothered burritos, the truck peddled yuca fries, croquetas, Cubano…
Happy 2017, Denver! As we kick off what promises to be another action-packed year in the Mile High City’s restaurant industry, we asked local chefs and hospitality professionals to tell us what they’d like to see happen over the next twelve months. In response, they issued pleas for better service…
Even with so many great restaurants opening in 2016, readers were most excited about the return of an old standby: Godfather’s Pizza. But the temporary closure of a RiNo nightclub over a shooting this past fall also drew plenty of attention. Beyond that, we learned that Denverites love breakfast, brunch,…
More than 220 restaurants, bars, breweries, cafes and food halls opened in 2016, adding even more fizz to an already effervescent food scene that has become one of the best in the country over the past several years. But how does that big number break down into something a little…
More than 220 restaurants and bars opened in metro Denver in 2016. Here’s the complete rundown of openings and closings.
“I’ve been on a food journey my entire life,” says Jennifer Peters. That journey led to Just Be Kitchen, the gluten-free, grain-free company that Peters founded in 2015 as a packaged-food business. But the business will soon add a fast-casual restaurant, too: Peters recently signed a lease at 2364 15th Street…
No. 30: Sesame Chicken from Red Dragon Chinese Restaurant Yes, this is sesame chicken, that ubiquitous Chinese-restaurant standby that many people order but that often proves tepid and timid. Yet somehow the owners of Red Dragon (2456 South Colorado Boulevard) in south Denver have managed to add a little wonder…
Some food fads sweep the nation and make us wish we could just flip the “off” switch on the marketing machine; we still remember the 2000s as the decade of bacon, for example. But other trends gain just enough traction that we have fun hunting down great examples — usually…
What were Denver’s restaurant industry pros talking about in 2016? We provided some answers in part one of our second taste of this year’s chef interviews. Here the reflection continues with more observations on what dining in Denver this year was all about. On how Denver’s changing demographics and the…
In late 2014, Small Wonder Food & Wine took over what had been the Coral Room at 3489 West 32nd Avenue; the West Highland eatery gave up the ghost earlier this year, leaving a glaring vacancy in a popular restaurant neighborhood. But now neighbors can get a taste of something…
No. 31: Chicken Tenders at the Fainting Goat Chicken tenders aren’t just for kids — not at the Fainting Goat, a great downhome bar at 846 Broadway that makes its own tenders. A $10 order gets you five big pieces of actual chicken, hand-breaded to order, then fried, along with…
The fast pace of Denver restaurant openings looks to continue at least through the beginning of 2107. Here are eight that will hit in January and February, with moves from old favorites, new locations for Denver chefs to expand their offerings, and newcomers to the Colorado culinary scene. American Grind…
