Last week Mark Antonation served up five restaurant trends he’d like to see die — including spiced rims on cocktails, and Brussels sprouts on just about every menu in Denver. Our readers have a few more pet peeves. Says David: Mark certainly nailed it for me. My other issue is the trend…
Our Tacolandia celebration of street tacos was so successful at DISH last September that we’re spinning off the concept for a new event that will be the taco the town! Join us from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, August 14, for the new, improved Tacolandia, presented by Estrella Jalisco, at…
Have you eaten your wings yet today? After all, it’s National Chicken Wing Day — first recognized by Buffalo, New York Mayor Stan Makowski in 1977. Whether you like your flappers done up Buffalo style or in something a little more racy, we’ve got options for you on our list…
Prodigy Coffee opens this weekend at 3801 East 40th Avenue with a staff like no other coffee shop in Denver. The nonprofit coffeehouse has taken a group of at-risk youth through a barista training course and hired them on as employees. That’s just the beginning of what Prodigy, run by…
No. 76: Duck Confit at Table 6 Duck confit — duck that’s been cured with salt and spices and slow-cooked in its own fat — pops up on menus all over town. You’ll see duck-confit tacos; shreds of the tender duck perched atop grits; duck confit eggs Benedict; and all…
Brunch is Denver’s favorite meal, and this weekend there are sure to be long lines outside this town’s most popular spots — lines that can translate into hour-long waits at places like Snooze. But there are other eateries that offer worthy morning meals and are relatively undiscovered — undiscovered, that…
Last month, Lonni Byrd and Caronne Porter announced that they’ll be losing the lease on their cozy vegan soul-food eatery, Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, at 3435 Albion Street later this summer. That day is drawing near, as the cafe will shutter after August 7. At the time, Byrd was…
Robert Thompson’s Punch Bowl Social team continues to add some of Denver’s top culinary talent. Earlier this summer, chef Matt Selby signed on as the regional executive chef for the growing brand, and now Christopher Cina has come aboard as national culinary director. Cina will oversee the culinary teams at…
Chef Bradford Heap, owner of Salt and Colterra in Boulder, unveiled his sustainable seafood eatery, Wild Standard, at 1043 Pearl Street last fall with a clever, dim-sum-style service model that allowed guests to pick and choose from items on a rolling cart and trays brought through the dining room. Successful…
You might think winning Top Chef could top a career, but seven years after his win Hosea Rosenberg is having the time of his life — as his Chef and Tell interview makes clear. He’s always keeping very, very busy as he expands the Blackberry empire, experiments with cooking with cannabis,…
Since closing Restaurant Kelly Liken in May, 2015, chef Kelly Liken has been pretty quiet on the culinary scene, until now. At the end of June she launched Harvest by Kelly Liken, a laid-back, seasonal eatery located right off the Sonnenalp Club’s golf course. “Opening Harvest in Edwards seemed like…
The restaurant business is a notoriously hard one. The job is physically demanding, hours are long, and shifts fall on nights and weekends, when everyone else is off. Most people wouldn’t call this fun. But Hosea Rosenberg isn’t most people — and not just because he’s one of the rare…
No. 77: Corn Mezzaluna at Bar Dough Pizza, pasta, a handful of entrees and a collection of appetizers: not much to grab your attention on the menu at Bar Dough, right? Italian joints are scattered across Denver’s culinary landscape like flecks and clumps of shaker cheese atop a bowl of…
Blue Moon Brewing Company, a subsidiary of MillerCoors, has been pouring beer at the Sandlot inside Coors Field since the ballpark opened in 1995. Twenty years later, Blue Moon just opened its own brewery and restaurant at 3750 Chestnut Street in the River North neighborhood. Notes Robert: With all the modern…
Denver seems to have a love-hate relationship with Middle Eastern cuisine, stemming in part from confusion over the term “Middle Eastern” itself. This nebulous geopolitical label has little to do with the borderless culinary world, where dishes transform and evolve over generations and from region to region. Here in Denver,…
Last week, we talked to Aileen V. Reilly and her brother, chef Paul C. Reilly, the owners of Beast + Bottle who have been getting ready to open Coperta, their new Italian eatery at East 20th Avenue and Logan Street. Even as late as last Friday, the two didn’t have…
Each year, hundreds of refugees fleeing war, persecution and violence arrive in Denver looking to start a new life. Many of those are Burmese (more than 3,000 since 2007, according to Project Worthmore), including Zin Zin, a talented cook who has partnered with Denverite Marin Toscano to help other refugees…
Blue Moon Brewing Company, a subsidiary of MillerCoors, has been pouring beer at the Sandlot inside Coors Field since the ballpark opened in 1995. And now, more than twenty years after the first drops of Belgian-style white ale were spilled in Denver, Blue Moon has opened its own brewery and…
The surprise of the Denver dining scene this summer — so far — was the opening of a new Korean restaurant, Soban, in Aurora. The eatery comes to Colorado from Los Angeles, where it wowed many fans of Korean cuisine — including restaurant critic Jonathan Gold. Says Dave: The L.A. place is great,…
Remember Longo’s Subway Tavern? Legend has it that this spot in northwest Denver first introduced pizza to the city. That was six decades ago, and four years ago the family that owned the Subway sold it to the Larimer Group, which started a major renovation that turned it into Sunnyside…
The neighborhood north of Prospect is changing, and changing fast, with new residents moving in every day, and restaurants like Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and The Pig & the Sprout serving those residents. On July 15, some of the neighbors and local businesses gathered to celebrate a new name for the…
In this week’s restaurant news, the vacant Lower Highland restaurant space that still channels the spirit of Rosa Linda’s Mexican Restaurant got a new tenant. Nine months after the iconic north-side Mexican joint closed, we know that Bremen’s Wine & Tap will soon swing open its doors on West 33rd…
