Thick, freshly fried tortilla chips scoop tangy green-chile salsa swimming with avocado. Hand-made steamed tortillas sop up rich chicken mole and peppery carne asada. Hibiscus tea, sweet and tart, chases each bite. This is the food of Comal, a lunch restaurant and heritage food incubator scheduled to open in the TAXI development…
A neighborhood already cluttered with craft breweries will welcome one more to the fold when 10 Barrel Brewing opens this afternoon at 2620 Walnut Street in RiNo. This is the fourth brewpub in the 10 Barrel group, which was founded in Bend, Oregon, in 2006 and purchased by Anheuser-Busch Inbev…
Taja Indian got its start in Colorado as a fast-casual eatery, first as Bombay Bowl and then with a name and concept change with two locations in Denver and Lakewood. Earlier this year, owner Amar Singh franchised his first Taja Indian to operators in the Pearland suburb of Houston, Texas…
When Panadería Rosales fired up the oven and started making hand-rolled breads and pastries for its first day open on West 32nd Avenue in the Highland neighborhood, they were one of the only businesses in the area. “There was the theater, a furniture store on the corner, and us. That’s it,”…
Almost six months after it was closed by fire, Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen will finally reopen at 6 a.m. today at 725 East 26th Avenue (the entrance is actually on Welton Street). Owner Joshua Pollack has put the time to good use, not only coming up with new eatery concepts,…
Months after damage from a fire closed Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen, the restaurant will finally reopen on October 16. But balancing out that and two other openings were several surprise closings around Denver. Keep readings for links to our coverage. Closings: Cold Crush Closed as Public Nuisance by Denver PoliceCold…
Chef Scott Durrah and his wife, Wanda James, ended the four-year run of their restaurant Jezebel’s Southern Bistro last Sunday, in order to focus on their marijuana business. But it turns out that they didn’t exactly abandon the space at 3301 Tejon Street — instead, they passed the baton to Juan…
Dozens of slices of white bread sit stacked in columns, forming crags mimicking Yosemite’s Cathedral Rock. Corn cobs, Corn Flakes and husks are arranged so that they suggest cliffs hugging Cape Horn of the Columbia River. Fruit Loops bob in a river of milk, imitating a mining camp on the…
On Monday, October 17, Thomas Kachani and Phil Kastel will open the latest addition to their gastropub chain: Public School 303, or PS303. This is the seventh restaurant in the pair’s repertoire, but the first they have opened in Denver. Located downtown at 1959 16th Street, in a shiny new building…
No. 49: Spicy Beef Hot Pot at the Bronze Empire Those of you lamenting the dearth of real Chinese food in Denver — as well as anyone who’s curious about what real Chinese food actually tastes like — should hurry to the Bronze Empire, the restaurant that Tian Xia and…
Since it opened in May 2013 (earning our Best New Bar award for that year), Cold Crush has been a hotbed of activity, with live music inside and a lot of live art outside, including the recent Colorado Crush 2016. But things definitely got too hot this past weekend, when…
Five months after fire shuttered wickedly popular Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessan, there’s reason to rejoice: The shop at 725 East 26th Avenue (with an entrance on Welston Street) has been rebuilt and will reopen on Sunday, once again doling out its killer New York-style bagels, fish smoked in-house and a…
Roll down your window on Santa Fe Drive or Federal Boulevard these days and you’ll smell the smoky, sweet Colorado cologne of chiles roasting. The season is here: Get your flame-fired chiles now, before they are gone. “There is a shortage of chile this year,” Roastedchili.com veteran Scott Young explains…
No. 50: Bison Pastrami at To The Wind Bistro Well-edited. That’s how we’d describe To The Wind Bistro, the restaurant from husband-and-wife Royce Oliveira and Leanne Adamson. The space is snug but smartly appointed, the wine list short but well-curated, and the menu brief but long on winners — no…
Is the space at 1575 Boulder Street in the Olinger Mortuary complex haunted? That’s what some neighbors wondered as they walked past the crowds lined up at Little Man Ice Cream, or waited for a table at Linger or Lola. Meanwhile, just down the street, Vita often seemed as quiet as…
As a cool breeze blows across Eric Skokan’s land, the chef and farmer gears up for what could be the first frost of the season. Near the sheep fields, crates full of squashes — spaghetti, acorn, butternut and the trumpet-shaped tromboncino — line the shed, and over at his second…
In China, one of the more popular ways to dine out with friends is to hit a hot-pot restaurant. At these often raucous halls, you order a bubbling cauldron of broth — in Sichuan, it’ll be spicy; northerners tend to like milder lamb broth — and then dump in a…
No. 51: Gold Miner’s Breakfast at River and Woods On an intricate brunch menu full of all sorts of breakfast delicacies, the basic eggs, bacon and toast are often overlooked. Don’t let this happen if you’re dining at that new Boulder hot spot, River and Woods. The Gold Miner’s Breakfast…
Flour, water, salt and yeast: the four ingredients needed to make a loaf of bread, by the standard modern reckoning. But you can scratch one of those ingredients off the list: According to a few top bakers in Denver and Boulder counties, yeast isn’t needed. At least not in the…
No. 52: PB&B Acai Bowl at ProsperOatsFew foods have attained the kind of cult worship currently reserved for acai: The Brazilian fruit has been lauded for its antioxidant properties, making its way onto lists of ingredients that supposedly cure all kinds of ills. But while we practice healthy skepticism when it…
Lorenzo Nunez, owner of El Chingon Mexican Bistro at 4326 Tennyson Street, says it took about a year after the restaurant’s opening in 2013 for Berkeley neighbors to catch on to what he and chef Robert Lopez (Nunez’s nephew) were trying to do. Many assumed the place (whose moniker is Spanish…
The news had the kick of a Southern Mule: Jezebel’s Southern Bistro and Bar will close at the end of service on Sunday, October 9. Chef Scott Durrah and his wife, Wanda James, opened the restaurant in late 2012 at 3301 Tejon Street, in the original home of the Squeaky Bean,…
