Restaurants

We’ve had plenty of new and unique offering in the Denver restaurant scene over the past few weeks, from an authentic Sichuan hot-pot house that also serves hand-pulled noodle to a drive-thru brewery and barbecue where you can pick up six-packs and smoked meats without ever leaving your car. The…

Sweet Cooie’s Ice Cream & Confectionary, the latest from Little Man owner Paul Tamburello, opened in the Congress Park neighborhood just in time to serve up treats on Valentine’s Day. Take a look inside the jewel-box of a shop for some sweet temptation. On the same day, we gave homesick…

When President Donald Trump says “I’m telling you, the meatloaf is fabulous,” you’re probably going to end up with meatloaf for dinner — if you’re anything like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who went with the president’s strong suggestion at a White House dinner on Tuesday night. While national policy…

No. 20: A Trip to Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet All-you-can-eat buffets are synonymous for quantity over quality; at least that the standard expectation. And while at Guadalajara on East Colfax Avenue you won’t find the absolute best in town of any one Mexican dish, the sheer variety of hard-to-find specialties…

Proper Grounds Coffee Roasters has been serving the Lafayette community for the past four years from a warehouse-style space at 990 South Public Road. But the company, owned by Cody Osborn, has a few big changes in the works. Proper Grounds will reopen in a new location tomorrow (Friday, February…

Spike TV’s Bar Rescue recently returned to Denver to film an episode that will kick off the fifth season, when Jon Taffer attempts to save State Pub. Haven’t heard of it? That’s clearly one reason this bar needed to be rescued. The show describes the saloon as a “college bar…

The annual James Beard Awards wouldn’t be complete without a nomination for Frasca Food & Wine. The Boulder eatery regularly receives accolades for its wine program, its service and its chef, Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson (who is also co-owner). Since opening more than a decade ago, Frasca has earned seven nominations and…

No. 21: Fried Chicken Banh Mi at the Post Chicken & BeerDenver residents have been flocking to the Post’s new outpost in Rosedale (Broadway south of Evans Avenue, to the uninitiated) since the bird-and-beer barn opened on January 18. What’s all the flap about? Fried chicken, of course, but also…

Tending bar first tickled Brian Rossi’s interest in tequila, but a trip to Mexico — and then several trips after that — fueled a raging passion for all booze distilled from agave plants. Four years ago, Rossi opened Adelitas Cocina y Cantina to share that passion with the Mile High City, establishing a haven where adventurous drinkers could learn more about mezcal, tequila and other agave spirits. And last year he unveiled Palenque, his homage to Oaxacan mezcalerias, behind Adelitas on South Broadway. What’s next? Ice cream!

The coming weeks offer a trio of fundraisers that you might want to snag tickets for before they’re gone. There’s a celebration of North African and Middle Eastern cuisine in Boulder to benefit the ACLU; a chili cookoff to raise money for the Morgan Adams Foundation (which funds childhood-cancer research); and…

Homesick Texans will soon have another option for finding a taste of the Lone Star State right here in Colorado. Chuy’s, an Austin original, will soon open a branch at 6595 West 104th Avenue in Westminster. Chuy’s was founded in 1982 and has since expanded to more than eighty locations in…

Sweet Cooie’s Ice Cream & Confectionary, the sibling of Little Man Ice Cream, opens today at 11 a.m. at East 12th Avenue and Madison Street, with scoops you won’t find at Little Man, housemade chocolate truffles and ice cream sandwiches built on doughnuts, eclairs or Stewart’s short bread (a Colorado…

For more than a decade, Tarasco’s New Latino Cuisine has drawn vegetarians and carnivores alike to 470 South Federal Boulevard. Now diners in search of lighter, healthier options have another choice: Noe Bermudez, the chef/owner of Tarasco’s, just opened Kahlo’s at 450 South Newton Street in the Westwood neighborhood. The…

Big players in the national steakhouse game have switched up the downtown meat market with several moves in recent months. The latest happens today, when Morton’s The Steakhouse opens at 4 p.m. at 1745 Wazee Street, the address last occupied by Sullivan’s. Sullivan’s, owned by the Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group,…

The coffee at the Sudan Cafe, at 10375 East Iliff Avenue in Aurora, comes in tiny metal pots with even tinier coffee cups. A spice is brewed into it, most likely cardamom, that adds an herbal, medicinal note — not bad, just unexpected. But then, there’s plenty of the unexpected at…

All was quiet over the weekend at Fourteen Seventy-Two, the Southern restaurant that opened at South Pearl Street and East Florida Avenue in 2012. While there were no overt signs of trouble — the patio furniture was out and a recent copy of the menu was displayed near the front…

When we visited Casa Bonita last weekend, the pool had been drained, leaving the cliff divers high and drive. But as of February 11, all maintenance is complete and the lagoon is back in business.

Hey, look at that — no restaurant openings this week! Not that there weren’t plenty of other culinary happenings over the past few days. A Chinese/Mongolian hot pot restaurant called Chubby Cattle announced it would be bringing its refrigerated conveyor belt service to the former home of the Walnut Room…

When the Walnut Room at Broadway and Ellsworth Avenue closed last August, it was only a matter of time before someone snatched up the desirable corner location in the heart of one of Denver’s hottest bar and restaurant districts. What’s coming is far from the expected upscale taqueria, wood-fired pizzeria…