The Squeaky Bean has been growing almost since the day it first opened in Lower Highland in 2009 — growing vegetables, that is. What started with a tiny herb garden behind the Bean’s original location at West 33rd Avenue and Tejon Street has blossomed into a three-acre farm and education…
Who knew? Judging from the response to our story that Godfather’s Pizza is coming back to Colorado after a twenty-year absence, people are hungry for the pizza you can’t refuse. Says Leonard: About time. I’ve been waiting for Godfather’s Pizza to come back to Colorado. I used to work for Godfather’s…
When I moved to Lower Highland two decades ago, the closest restaurants were My Brothers’ Bar and La Loma — but you wouldn’t walk to either after dark. Now this neighborhood is the hot, hot LoHi, with streets safe enough to walk at all hours and an abundance of cool…
A trip down South Parker Road yields many options for a hungry driver, with Mexican, Japanese and Korean eateries beckoning alongside American barbecue, burgers and bar food. But lurking in the strip malls and shopping centers are also culinary rarities that challenge any claims that Denver and its surrounding suburbs…
The Mediterranean Restaurant — better known around Boulder as simply the Med — has been serving up tapas and other noshes from Spain, Italy and Greece for more than a quarter century. Its younger sibling just across the street, Brasserie Ten Ten, has already eclipsed the decade mark as a…
Christian Toohey is a farmer and a member of the Boulder County Farmers Market board, and he’s looking forward to the opening of the first markets of the year in Boulder and Longmont on Saturday, April 2. These will run until November 19, and a regular Wednesday evening market begins…
If you were in college in the ’80s or ’90s when a well-rounded dinner meant a Taco Pie from Godfather’s Pizza and a six-pack of light beer, you’ll be pleased to hear that you’ll soon be able to get back in college form. Godfather’s Pizza is returning to the metro…
As people for their favorite barbecue spot in the metro area, and the conversation immediately gets hot. But as the Best of Denver 2016 approaches, one reader wants to get right to the meat of the matter. Asks Pat: Where’s the best barbecue? ‘Cause I’m from the hood, and I have not found…
What better way to celebrate this first day of spring than with a delicious fresh pastry? We just rounded up the Eleven Best Bakeries in Denver, and while readers wondered why certain spots didn’t make the cut — where was Grateful Bread? Taste of Denmark? Gateaux? GoochieCakes? — several of…
Colorado celebrated National Ag Day this week, as members of the Colorado Ag Council showed off their skills — and products created in Colorado — during a Colorado Ag Day luncheon at the State Capitol. But is there really such a thing as a free lunch? Says Sandee: Would be nice…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz chatted with chef Max MacKissock, chef/partner at new Italian sensation Bar Dough, who dished on his favorite hidden gems in Denver, including Buchi Cafe Cubano. Across town, Mark Antonation visited another Cuban gem, the Cuba Bakery & Cafe, which has been run by Miami transplant Orlando…
Colorado’s homegrown chains continue to expand both locally and across the country. Larkburger got its start in Colorado in 2006 with a fast-casual spinoff of Thomas Salamunovich’s Vail fine-dining destination, Larkspur Restaurant. Since then, the company has added eleven other burger spots throughout the state. But early next year, the first out-of-state…
It’s official: On March 15, Denver City Council approved the MCE-DIA LLC proposal from Michigan-based Midfield Concession Enterprises and partners Smashburger and Tivoli Brewing to put a craft brewery in the new Westin Denver International Airport Hotel, a coffee bar by the new DIA transit center, and two burger spots…
Spring is nearly here, despite what the snow outside is telling you, and with it comes menu changes. A new sushi bar in the south suburbs just added a fun new beverage program to help you celebrate the end of winter, and a classic Russian bistro downtown has spruced up…
The initial list of semifinalists for the James Beard Awards touted many people and places in Colorado, including Jennifer Jasinski in the Outstanding Chef category, and Frank Bonanno for Outstanding Restaurateur. But when the James Beard Foundation revealed the finalists this week, only two Colorado connections remained: Frasca Food and Wine in…
This year’s James Beard Award winners will be announced in Chicago on May 2, and two metro-area restaurants could take home prizes. The James Beard Foundation announced the finalists this week, whittled down from dozens of restaurants, chefs, bakers and beverage specialists. There were seven Colorado nominees among the semifinalists…
Hungry for Cuban food — and more places where you can find it in Denver? This week Mark Antonation visited Cuba Bakery & Cafe, which brings a touch of Miami to the metro area. And readers ate up the news. Says Andy: WOWSER! We’ve been to Cuba Cuba, but it’s…
When the Stanley Marketplace first announced intentions to convert a former aviation factory on the southeast edge of Stapleton into a 100,000-square-foot food and retail hall, the only thing we knew for sure at the time was that restaurateur Kevin Taylor would be opening a restaurant and beer hall there…
No. 88: Biscuits and Green Chile at the Noshery The sun’s pouring through a window, illuminating the steam from a cup of coffee next to a big plate of biscuits and green chile. Two eggs, sunny-side up, fill in the remaining white space on the plate. Inside the Noshery at…
Yesterday we served up our list of Denver’s Ten Best Neighborhood Restaurants — after a heated discussion in the office of what qualifies as a neighborhood restaurant. (Work & Class, we decided, has become a destination restaurant for the entire city over the past two years, which pushed it off…
For a guy who’s made his living in professional kitchens, Max MacKissock recognizes that his early forays into cooking weren’t the stuff that dreams — much less careers — are made of. He remembers burning his tongue on fried smelts as a young child at a fish house back east…
Since news broke yesterday that Colorado-based Oskar Blues had bought Cigar City Brewing, a beloved independent craft brewer in Florida, the comments have been spilling our faster than beer at Oktoberfest. Says Patsy: I am so pumped!! Love both breweries. Adds Tano: Just glad AB InBev didn’t buy them. Concludes Kurt: That’s…
