The weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Day are a slow period, as many of us take off from work to travel or spend time with friends and family. The same is generally true in the restaurant industry: New projects grind to a halt because finding staff is tough, scheduling…
While nearly 250 restaurants and bars opened in 2015 and some 100 or so closed, only four places were unlucky enough to do both in the same year. Here are four restaurants and coffeehouses that opened and closed within the year. For a complete list of openings and closings, see…
Last week we served up another helping of The Ten Best Burgers in Denver — 2015 Edition, a list that ends with our Best of Denver 2015 pick for Best Hamburger: the Ditka at Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill. Some readers found the list hard to swallow, including Ken, who…
The Ethniche column began in May 2014 as a deep dive into the city’s international culinary scene, with each month devoted to four or five restaurants serving the cuisine of a specific country, region or culture. After a year, though, I changed tactics, looking instead for less common foods, whether…
No. 100: Masala Beef at Biju’s Little Curry ShopA curry bowl at Biju’s stands out as an inspiring option for the first great dish of 2016. Owner Biju Thomas focuses on one thing — the bold flavors of South India — and weaves in themes that ring true for modern…
When Harman’s Eat & Drink first opened in Cherry Creek in June 2013, it came with lofty expectations from the team behind the acclaimed Pullman in Glenwood Springs. But since the Denver restaurant scene continues to roll and everyone continues to look toward the next great thing, Harman’s has fallen…
The cock will crow and the dinner bell will ring when Goodbird Kitchen officially opens its doors on Tuesday, January 5. Big Red F, the local group behind the award-winning Post Brewing Company in Lafayette, as well as Lola, the five Jax Fish House spots and other restaurants, is offering a new twist…
On the last day of 2015, we published our Restaurant Roll Call for 2015, a compendium of all the openings and closings around town over the past year. Some of those closings hit hard, since longtime institutions like Le Central, Andre’s Confiserie Suisse and Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe all closed…
“A samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period 1185 – 1868 of Japan. A samurai became masterless after the death or fall of his master…”: Those are the words on the wall above the bar at Sushi Ronin, which opened on Saturday, January 2, in Lower Highland,…
Where are you going for brunch today? When we shared our list of the Top Ten Spots for Brunch in Denver in 2015, a few readers wondered why the lineup didn’t include Snooze, that homegrown success story that continues to pack people in at the original (along with several other local locations)…
If 2015 can be summed up in one word, it would be: Frenetic. Although the number of restaurant and bar openings didn’t keep pace with last year, every month saw growth — and the pace didn’t slow down as the year ended, as is often the case. Along with all…
GoodBird Kitchen, the fast-casual spin-off of the Post Brewing Company in Lafayette, is gearing up to open its first location in Longmont next week. A second location had also been planned but today Dave Query, founder of the Big Red F restaurant group behind the fried-chicken joints, announced that Goodbird…
Lucas Chandler isn’t the kind of chef who started out as a pre-teen kitchen rat scrubbing pots at his uncles’s Italian joint for less than minimum wage or stirring the sauce for his grandmother before Sunday family meals. But by high school was working in restaurants and then went on…
We started and finished our list of 100 Favorite Dishes with Denver originals: a crispy chile relleno from La Fiesta at number 100 and a plate of bison ribs from the Fort at number 1. In between, we sampled bites of great food everywhere from Acorn to Z Cuisine. Here…
Colorado is known as a breeding ground for fast-casual chains that have gone national with the likes of Chipotle, Noodles & Company, Qdoba and Quiznos all getting their starts in Denver. But smaller chains like Smiling Moose, which got its start in Edwards in 2003, are also looking for a…
Denver’s favorite meal might be brunch — and diners often put up with long waits to get into some of their favorites. But there are undiscovered gems around town, several of which made our 2015 edition of the Ten Best Brunches in Denver. One of the most popular spots in…
If you’re thinking about heading out for some Mexican food in the Berkeley neighborhood this week, look somewhere other than Tacos Jalisco, which closed at the beginning of last week for remodeling. A sign on the door states that the longtime 38th Avenue favorite will reopen on Sunday, January 2,…
In 2015, we brought you plenty of news of restaurant openings and closings, plus stories about all of the best food in Denver — from brunch and barbecue to burgers and green chile. Here are the ten stories you loved the most, based on readership — with the most popular…
Last Monday, the decade-old Hamburger Mary’s suddenly turned into M Uptown — the result of owners Jennifer and Jeff Kustok failing to come to an agreement with the franchise, which prompted them to go off on their own. But while the name has changed, they promise that the food, entertainment…
Growth and change were the main themes of the past year in Denver — and the restaurant scene was no exception. Fast-paced development has meant more — and more expensive — restaurant spaces, frustrating parking situations, and a wave of newcomers from other states looking for favorite foods they left…
The corner restaurant at South Federal Boulevard and Cornell Street was an Italian eatery for years before Bubba Chinos moved into the building a few years ago. The burrito slinger didn’t last long there before another fast-food joint called Boost Burger took over in early 2014, but it came and…
Over the past year, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. Up until last week, though, there hadn’t been uch action with Colorado craft brewers…
