Sounds like it was a hot night at El Charrito — so hot that the fifty-year-old dive bar turned hipster hangout on Larimer Street will not be open for brunch today…and the rest of its entertaining entertainment schedule (comedy, Nerd Nite) is up in the air. Here’s the word on…
You’re starting your three-day weekend, and there’s only one way to start it right: with a long, leisurely brunch. Here’s an option: Beast + Bottle opens at 10 a.m. this morning, but if you can wait to order until 12:30, you can indulge in the Beastly Brunch Burger special, which will…
There were plenty of Japanese eateries in the news this week, starting with Monday’s opening of Bamboo Sushi, serving certified-sustainable seafood inside Avanti Food & Beverage. For Chef and Tell, Gretchen Kurtz tracked down the globetrotting Nobu Matsuhisa to talk about his newest Matsuhisa restaurant in Cherry Creek as well…
In less than a year, Black Eye Cap Hill has become the object of lust for coffee drinkers, food enthusiasts and design junkies alike. Among a handful of awards, the coffeehouse and eatery’s commitment to creativity earned a Colorado Restaurant Association award for Best Restaurant Design earlier this month. And earlier…
Another Korean restaurant opened in Aurora earlier this month, which is not exactly a rare phenomenon these days. But this one’s a little different — in more ways than one. Soban took over the space formerly occupied by K-Pub at 12101 East Iliff Avenue, bringing with it an impressive pedigree…
Matsuhisa opened in Cherry Creek this spring, and when chef/founder Nobu Matsuhisa was at the restaurant earlier this month, Gretchen Kurtz met with him for this week’s Chef and Tell. This is the third Matsuhisa in Colorado, and the group of restaurants is continuing to grow as it approaches its…
Not too much time passed between when Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs closed at 2950 South Broadway in Englewood and when new banners appeared announcing the imminent arrival of Grillerz Pub, a new eatery set to open on June 1. Manager and co-owner Kathleen Thompson says she had to move quickly to…
Menu Spanish isn’t too difficult to pick up in Denver, with plenty of Mexican restaurants — and a few Central and South American eateries — to let you work on your language skills while enjoying delicious food. But the Spanish names of meats can get a little confusing to those…
The Inventing Room’s Ian Kleinman is equal parts chef and scientist, serving up wild and wonderful treats at his Ballpark neighborhood dessert bar. You can stop in and enjoy liquid-nitrogen ice cream, exploding whipped cream and housemade cotton candy in unusual flavors just for the pure pleasure of it —…
Since Lakewood’s venerable White Fence Farm changed hands almost two years ago, the new owners have started a farm team, opening fried-chicken outlets in the Pepsi Center and at Green Valley Ranch. Now they’re expanding into Capitol Hill and onto the 16th Street Mall — and a White Fence Farm…
Civic Center Eats, the food-truck convergence on the main plaza at Civic Center Park that’s now in its eleventh season, kicked off earlier this month to better weather than last year, when May saw rain on all but one day of the month. This year, the rally has added a…
Brazilian fast casual from Missoula, Montana, with a name that sounds like a Central City roulette strategy? That’s Five on Black, which opened its first Colorado location in Boulder in late April and is set to debut in Denver at 1617 California Street (in the former Planet Sub location) this summer…
Everybody’s favorite fried-chicken-joint-slash-petting-zoo, White Fence Farm, is making urban inroads. After Craig Caldwell and Tom Piercy bought the Lakewood family restaurant from founder Charlie Wilson in 2014, they’ve had as a goal growing the business with several quick-service outposts. The first opened in Green Valley Ranch at the end of last…
When news broke that Oskar Blues is opening a restaurant, beer hall and music venue at 1624 Market Street, Chris Black, owner of the nearby Falling Rock — which had the very first Oskar Blues handle outside of Boulder — pulled Oskar Blues’s beer off his lines, and penned an “open…
Few chefs have done as much for a cuisine as Julia Child, who convinced a generation of Americans to put down their can openers and make coq au vin. But Nobu Matsuhisa is in the same category: The charming chef and restaurateur revolutionized Japanese food thirty years ago and continues…
Chef Pino Saverino opened Pino’s Neighborhood Pizzeria & Wine Bar in Cherry Hills Village in 2011 and the little eatery has served as a neighborhood gathering spot at 1400 East Hampden Avenue, with wine, pizza and housemade pasta drawing customers and Saverino’s old-world hospitality keeping them coming back. Now the…
At the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Pecos Street in Lower Highland there’s an eatery built from a repurposed, semi-industrial building with a spacious outdoor patio, great views of downtown and a dozen beers on tap. Oh, and it has its own parking lot, so no, it’s not Avanti…
Last night’s sunset revealed a particularly lovely sight: The signs of the Dirty Duck are again glowing. An April 1 fire at the abandoned Rockies Inn next door had forced the temporary closure of the Dirty Duck at 4780 East Evans Avenue, and seven weeks later the burned hulk of the motel…
You’ve mastered single-malt and bested craft beer; you’ve even solved the mysteries of mezcal and speak reasonable rum. But what of that clear — and clearly baffling — Japanese rice beverage called sake? Most of us vaguely remember blurry nights filled with dragon rolls and rounds of hot sake, sometimes…
Highland Tap & Burger at 2219 West 32nd Avenue is known for, you guessed it, beer and burgers. But Juan Padro, who owns the lively bar with his wife, Katie O’Shea Padro, grew up eating his family’s Puerto Rican cooking and visits the Caribbean island regularly, so it’s his prerogative as…
When Avanti Food & Beverage opened last summer in Lower Highland, the concept was to use the seven shipping-containers-turned-kitchens inside as incubators for chefs and entrepreneurs, where they could test restaurant ideas and new menus in a cheaper alternative to a full brick-and-mortar build. The initial leases were short-term, with…
A year or two ago, most Denverites had no idea that such a thing as Detroit-style pizza existed. Now the city has an embarrassment of the doughy riches. And last week, Blue Pan Pizza — which has been a big hit since it debuted last June at 3930 West 32nd…
