No. 46: Smoked-Brisket Stroganoff Pot Pie From the Humble Pie Store and Kitchen Table Comfort food has an advantage over our food-buying impulses at this time of year, but two eateries got together this month to make that advantage clearly unfair. If one warming, home-style dish can lead to us…
The phrase “Den-Mex” may have been coined by out-of-towner Gustavo Arellano in 2012, when the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America praised Chubby’s on West 38th Avenue for the sheer weirdness of its Mexican hamburger, but those of us who live here already knew what makes this…
Caffeine junkies near the University of Denver are familiar with the name Kaladi; owners Mark Overly and Andy Melnick have been roasting beans and brewing coffee since 2000 at Kaladi Coffee Roasters at 1730 East Evans Avenue. Around town, a handful of cafes and restaurants also sell the company’s coffee. But…
Menu changes around town this month include a few unique offerings, from a Yucatecan specialty called a panucho at Sol Cocina to a miracle berry-tasting menu at the Inventing Room to a brunch beverage bar straight out of the Big Lebowski. Keep reading to see what’s up at these three…
La Loma, one of Denver’s most popular Mexican restaurants, will turn out the lights for the last time tonight at its Jefferson Park home after a Denver Broncos tailgate party and dinner service. The eatery, which has been serving thick green chile, crispy chile rellenos and hearty combo plates since…
Sarah McGill’s tour of neighborhood bars recently took her to Pete’s Satire Lounge, a classic dive on East Colfax Avenue where bartenders have been serving up stiff drinks since the early ’60s, and the Smothers Brothers once served up their own unique brand of jokes. But a waiter there became…
It was a great week in Denver for multi-course dining events, with EatDenver’s Harvest Week dinners at the GrowHaus from Sunday to Thursday, A Taste for Life hosted at the Grand Hyatt by Project Angel Heart on Thursday, and the James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour coming to 1515 Restaurant on the…
No. 47: The Egg and Croissant Sandwich at La Fillette Pastry chef Melissa Yanc opened the cozy La Fillette bakery just over two years ago in a nondescript storefront at 4416 East Eighth Avenue. Neighbors lucky enough to live within walking distance can follow the wafting scent of her fresh-baked…
Christopher Fehlinger and Jon Lipshutz have been slowly converting the rambling space that once housed Le Central, at 112 East Eighth Avenue, into a new restaurant, wine bar and design shop — all named Clyde. But the two are impatient to get guests in the door, so rather than wait until…
If you walk past Bar Dough’s bathrooms and continue through what looks like an emergency exit, you’ll find a staircase that leads to the restaurant’s office. In this space — which, with its corner copy machine and computer-stacked desks, is one of the most unlikely dining rooms in Denver —…
Mary Jane’s Pizza is beginning to seem a little more like Little Orphan Annie. The late-night pizza joint was already forced out of its original home at 2013 West 32nd Avenue by redevelopment (Dickinson Plaza, where it had been located since 2009, is currently just a hole in the ground) and…
A new project called Rory’s Tavern is moving into the former Club 404 space at 404 Broadway, operated by Jerry Feld for more than sixty years. Since the 404 closed at the end of 2011, two other bars have come and gone: first Denver Wheel Club 404 and then Brendan’s…
Italian native Amelia Di Marco just moved to Denver earlier this year after eleven years in New York City, but she has already added a piece of her personality to the Platt Park neighborhood, where she just opened a tiny cafe called Little Spoons at 1705 South Pearl Street last…
How do you find the best fire-roasted chile stands in Denver? Short of driving up and down Federal Boulevard, sampling chiles ’til your mouth burns, trying to guess if they’re fresh, there isn’t an easy answer. So we’ve taken the heat for you and hunted down the top places to…
Pastry chef Jay Thomas and partner Michael Martinez unlocked the front door to their new bakery, the Rolling Pin Bakeshop, earlier this week for a soft opening that coincided with the reopening of Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen. Martinez describes the Rolling Pin as New-York-meets-Denver, and says that the style is “a…
A little over two years ago, a group of neighbors in northeast Denver put together a plan to open the Northeast Community Co-Op to serve the neighborhoods in and around Stapleton, Park Hill, East Colfax, Lowry, Montclair and north Aurora, an area that was largely a food desert. The board of the…
Pikes Peak is a top tourist attraction in Colorado. Every year more than 600,000 people visit the Pikes Peak Summit House, a National Historic Landmark, arriving via the Pikes Peak Highway, the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, or the Barr or Crags hiking trails. And what do they find…
Does this state have a distinct brand? What does it mean to provide Colorado-style hospitality, or to be part of the Colorado production industry? To discuss those questions, last week the Colorado Bartenders’ Guild convened a panel with out-going 5280 food editor Amanda Faison; New Belgium specialty brand manager and…
Photography exhibit Processed Views opened at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (3636 Chestnut Place) over the weekend, and if you didn’t catch the opening, you’re going to want to make your way over to see these prints before November 26. The works, from Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, consider the connection between nature,…
Donald Trump Jr. was in Colorado on Monday stumping on behalf of his dad, but while he was welcomed at the Centennial Gun Club, admission to a bar in Boulder proved to be a little more exclusive. The Trump campaign trail hit a roadblock at The Sink, the popular bar…
The restaurant space at 3759 Lipan Street that was once Longo’s Subway Tavern (and was most recently TAG Burger Bar) is gradually being transformed into something new by owners Larimer Associates and partner Jesse Morreale. And like the slow-but-steady construction, a gradual trickle of information has come from Morreale and his…
No. 48: Brad’s Neo Gyro at Avelina The sumptuously appointed dining room at Avelina, 1550 17th Street, beckons guests to linger over dinner, with rounds of small plates followed by elegant entrees of a Mediterranean bent. The restaurant, which just opened at the beginning of September, has already earned a reputation…
