No. 95: Schweinshaxe at Rhein Haus A LoDo restaurant specializing in beers by the liter and indoor bocce ball hardly seems like the kind of place to run into proper, traditional German fare. Nighttime crowds in the club-heavy zone are typically more interested in two-for-one drinks and loud music than…
It’s time to bring out your best! At noon today, our 2016 Best of Denver Readers’ Poll goes live, asking your opinion on everything from the best new restaurant to the best chef to the best burger. As we’ve been eating our our way around town, we served up a…
Kline’s Beer Hall, the latest project from bar pros Lenka Juchelkova and Mike Huggins, opened last Thursday night in Olde Town Arvada. This is the second bar in the neighborhood from the team, which also runs the Arvada Tavern just a block away. While the Arvada Tavern specializes in cocktails, Kline’s main…
Some longtime Denver restaurants — Andre’s Confiserie Suisse, Le Central, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe — closed in 2015, and Denver’s losing some of its newer favorites, too — places that people with pets were particularly partial to. After a year of doggie drama, the Bark Bar closed last January, and…
The Denver Tech Center (and nearby blocks that tend to get lumped in under that moniker) is interlaced with shopping centers and strip malls that attract corporate crowds at lunch on weekdays, even if the area clears out by nightfall and becomes a ghost town on the weekends. Restaurants regularly…
Not much beats a cinnamon roll and a cup of coffee from the Duffeyroll Cafe on South Pearl Street to get the morning going. But sinful sweetness is a rare morning treat; better instead to stick with the healthy stuff for the first meal of the day. Sometimes, though the…
What was once a crumbling former synagogue at 24th and Curtis streets has found new life as a multi-use building called the Temple, with art space, a ‘zine library and several business offices. The newest tenant is Temple Bakery, a project launched by Shauna Lott, owner of Long i Pie,…
If you’ve ever have one of those days when you have to drag yourself out of the house to get food (because the only thing in the god-forsaken fridge is flat champagne), but you’re so hung over you don’t want to see or be seen by anyone, then you know…
Native Foods Cafe, which got its start in California in 1994, came into Colorado strong two decades later, winning our Best Vegetarian Restaurant award in the Best of Denver 2014. But over the last year three of its local locations have closed — including spots on the 16th Street Mall…
The National Western Stock Show leaves town at the end of the rodeo today, but not before dropping money, memories and maybe a little manure into the local economy. On Friday, the very well-behaved 2016 Grand Champion Steer and the Reserve Grand Champion visited the Brown Palace for tea and…
In-N-Out Burger has lots of fans, one of which suggested that the California chain should move into the vacated Griff’s space. That led to a discussion of why In-N-Out won’t come to Colorado — too far from its distribution centers — which then sparked a debate over whether Colorado wants…
If beer and sausage are your thing but you never had a chance to make it to Wurstkuche before it closed last week, you’re in luck because Kline’s Beer Hall opened last night in Arvada. Owners Lenka Juchelkova and Mike Huggins, who also operate the Arvada Tavern and Union Lodge…
No. 96: Housemade Burrata at Viand Viand opened last fall in the space that had once housed La Fondue. While the restaurant and its partner next door, Reunion Gastro Pub, feel isolated on an island between the 16th Street Mall and the Denver Performing Arts Complex, that isolation gives Viand…
There’s some sort of weird cloning project happening south of metro Denver — and it involves strip malls and chain restaurants. The Promenade Shops at Briargate isn’t a new shopping center, but there’s plenty of new activity there. Modern Market — remember? the chain that used to be known as…
This week we served up our list of the Ten Best Pizza Places in Denver, which included Cart-Driver, the winner of Best Pizza in the Best of Denver 2015. But readers disagreed with that choice, as well as many more on the list. Where were Buenos Aires Pizzeria, Virgilio’s, Slice Work’s, Carl’s…
A self-proclaimed “stray bar,” the Barker Lounge was a particular pet of animal lovers around town. It got its start on South Broadway, then moved to Santa Fe Drive four years ago, and its patio was regularly rated as one of the most dog-friendly spots in town. But the Barker…
There’s a new breakfast burrito purveyor in Denver — but it’s not another Federal Boulevard green chile slinger. Instead, these come from a name familiar to those who love good Italian cuisine. Americatus, the Larimer Street pasta shop and deli, launched Colorado Taco Co. this week, serving chubby burritos, sugared…
Every year since 2012, the Good Food Awards have lauded artisan food producers in the U.S. by recognizing “tasty, authentic and responsibly produced” food and beverages. The Awards single out companies and individuals who manufacture the best food and beverages in traditional ways while committing to environmentally safe practices, local…
This week Mark Antonation found evidence that USA Today’s prediction that Filipino food will be big this year is already coming true in Denver, with dishes flavored by the Philippines showing up at numerous restaurants, and a couple of Filipino spots opening, too. That’s good news for some readers. Says…
Troy Guard, the restaurateur with the rapidly expanding empire of eateries (from the original TAG to the new Los Chingones in the Denver Tech Center) is adding one more notch on his belt with a second TAG Burger Bar, which will open tomorrow (January 21) in the Highland hideaway that…
No. 97: Squab and Sunchoke Tortellini at Abejas Abejas opened last summer in Golden, tucked under a shingled awning typical of the town’s old-time, mining-town vibe. And inside, you’ll also find references to Golden’s history and location, from gas lanterns on shelves above the bar to lengths of climbing rope…
Ah, In-N-Out Burger. Ask Denver residents what they’re hungry to see in this city, and the name of the iconic California burger chain inevitably pops up. In fact, In-N-Out cropped up n two different westword.com conversations yesterday: one about what could go into the Wurstkuche location at 2036 Broadway (In-N-Out…
