Finding funding to open a restaurant used to be a simple matter. Either you’d write up a business plan and account for every penny to be earned and spent and head to the bank hoping for a sympathetic loan officer, or you’d rustle up a few of your richest acquaintances…
Barbecue and beer: Everyone has opinions about those. But while people uniformly praise Colorado craft beers, opinions of this state’s barbecue offerings are much more mixed. Last week we served up our updated list of the Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver, which includes Brewshine — a place that happens…
For years, there were hard-and-fast rules about restaurant criticism. Critics shall remain anonymous. Critics shall not accept free food. Critics shall eat more than one meal before forming an opinion, and won’t have said meals until the restaurant has been open long enough to work out the kinks. The Internet…
Earlier this year, Food Network host Guy Fieri rolled into town in his red Camaro convertible and dug into meals at several of our favorite Denver eateries. One of those was Lorena Cantarovici’s Argentinian cafe, Maria Empanada, on South Broadway. The cozy bakery will be featured this Friday, September 25,…
Michigan native Ryan Leinonen had worked the burners in several restaurants in Boulder and Denver — including The Kitchen and Q’s (now Spruce), as well as Colt & Gray and Root Down — when he decided to strike out on his own, drawing knowledge from his experience and inspiration from…
Iceland Naturally is once again bringing a Taste of Iceland — a culinary and cultural plunge into the chilly Nordic country — to Denver. This year, the food and cocktails are again being presented at Coohills. Ylfa Helgadóttir, owner and chef de cuisine of Kopar in Reykjavik, is presenting four-…
Chef/restaurateur Bradford Heap has made a name for himself in Boulder with his dedication to organic and non-GMO ingredients at Salt and Colterra, restaurants he’s run with his wife, Carol Vilate, since 2009 and 2007, respectively. While those two eateries rely heavily on local farmers and ranchers for meat and…
Denver’s being invaded by craft-beer lovers coming to town for this weekend’s Great American Beer Festival — or, if they couldn’t get tickets, the many beery events connected with GABF. But there’s another sudsy holiday already being celebrated all along the Front Range and in the mountains: Oktoberfest. And if…
Jeff Cleary has been making bread at the Grateful Bread Company for a decade, but soon he’ll be making his own flour, too. The Golden bakery’s new grain mill just arrived from Austria and will be installed over the next two weeks so that Cleary and his crew of bakers…
”Do you want to be as close to or as far away from the music as possible?” asked the hostess at Baur’s Restaurant and Listening Lounge, which opened last spring in the former downtown home of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar. There was a band coming on later that…
While we await the opening of the southern branch of Los Chingones — slated for a fall opening — in the new Belleview Station development, a few other food and drink destinations around the Denver Tech Center are making Greenwood Village and the surrounding area a more appealing place to live…
The storefront at 4483 Logan Street in Globeville has been a neighborhood watering hole throughout its hundred-year history, according to its newest tenant, Jeff Cornelius. He’s in the final stages of building out Globe Hall, a Texas-style barbecue and live-music venue that will open this fall, taking the place of the…
As we celebrated tacos last week, we reported that the fried taco — a particularly juicy, greasy concoction glued together with melted American cheese — was created decades ago in Denver, and lives on at Mexico City Lounge and El Toro. But Nick has another version of the story: In…
There was a guy in tights and a wrestling mask; there were Mexican dancers in traditional costumes; there were cooks and chefs and bakers and ice-cream makers; but mostly there were hundreds of Denverites out in the gorgeous September sun enjoying food and drinks from more than forty metro area…
Another Westword DISH is in the books: hundreds of hungry Denverites feasted at the 21st annual food and beverage extravaganza yesterday at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. This year featured Tacolandia, a celebration of some of the city’s top tacos, enhanced with Mexican folk dancers, margarita samples…
Sometimes the best hole-in-the-wall eateries are discovered by accident, which was exactly how I stumbled upon Tacos El Paisa. You can thank the tire angels at Les Schwab across the street (seriously, who fixes cars for free?) for leading me to the taco fairies at this non-descript little Mexican haven…
Oyster bars and raw oyster service have become trendy in Denver restaurants, but Blue Island Oyster Bar, which opens tomorrow in Cherry Creek North, is taking shellfish obsession to a new level. The new seafood house next door to the Cherry Cricket is partnering with the Blue Island Shellfish Farm…
After we served up our summer 2015 edition of the Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver, readers quickly weighed in: Where was Golden’s Tin Star? Longmont’s Georgia Boys? Or Jabo’s, which had made the summer 2014 list? And then there’s Robert, who thinks Denver doesn’t have any good ‘cue. Responds Martin: I…
Henry’s Tavern got a jump on its September 22 grand opening when the restaurant on the ground floor of the Denver Pavilions, facing the 16th Street Mall, had a soft opening on Wednesday. The Henry’s chain was founded in Portland, Oregon, in the original powerhouse of the defunct Blitz-Weinhard Brewery…
The Egg Shell, Cherry Creek North’s venerable breakfast spot, moved from its original home on Josephine Street to the former Mel’s Bar & Grill space in 2009. The neighborhood seemed to be in decline as a restaurant destination throughout the early part of this decade, but a flurry of new…
Over the past several years the bar at 1050 West Evans Avenue has changed hands numerous times: It has been the OT Lounge, Ike’s America’s, Greta’s Alibi and, most recently, Cecil’s Cantina, owned by Jody Johnson, who ran the Sedalia Grill for 22 years before coming back to Denver. Cecil’s…
We’re all about tacos this week, telling stories of how the fried taco (with American cheese) might have been invented in Denver and why a family is moving from a truck to a brick-and-mortar restaurant; sharing our list of the ten best street tacos in town; even serving tacos at…
