When Ryan Witcher set out on the increasingly well-beaten path that leads from the coasts to Colorado, he did so for the same reasons that I’m here, and maybe why you’re here, too: work and quality of life. “The offer to partner with one of the best chefs in one…
If you’re like many Americans introduced to Mexican cuisine in the 1980s and ’90s, you grew up with hard-shell tacos hiding miserly amounts of ground beef and shredded lettuce. Then came grilled chicken swaddled in soft flour tortillas and the revelatory steak tacos — sometimes bearing the seemingly exotic moniker…
Cobbler’s Corner, at West 44th Avenue and Alcott Street in Sunnyside, has slowly been filling its retail gaps — but since Cheese + Provisions and Bacon Social House opened there last fall, we’ve been keeping our eye on one conspicuous restaurant vacancy. As it turns out, Brendan McManus, owner of…
No. 74: Tahini Chocolate-Chip Cookies at the Preservery Lunch at the Preservery on Blake Steet is a relaxed and tranquil affair, with tables taken up by solo diners on laptops, small groups in business meetings who have eschewed the three-martini lunch in favor of something a little more modern, and…
Marriese “Mo” Jones has been putting in plenty of sweat equity at the little shack that once housed Country Time Barbecue at 2504 West Hampden Avenue, and the results have finally paid off. On Saturday, Jones opened Anointed BBQ & Soul Food to the neighborhood, serving Florida-style barbecue along with…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks, including Berkeley neighborhood favorite, Tacos Jalisco Mexican Food…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks. Joining the taco action is East Colfax Avenue…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks. Rolling up to the stadium will be La…
This may have been the slowest week for restaurant activity in the past two years, since before Union Station had its grand opening ceremony on July 26, 2014, ushering in a frenzied 24 months that has seen an average of more than twenty openings a month. Only one new place…
Unlike certain high-profile bakers in Colorado and Oregon, Sam Slade, owner of the recently opened Valhalla Cakes, is clear about one thing: She wouldn’t shy away from making a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. In fact, she doesn’t shy away from much: A veteran of Le Bakery Sensual, Slade…
Back when John Hickenlooper and his partners founded the Wynkoop Brewing Company, Hickenlooper was insistent that Colorado’s first brewpub pronounced its name “WINkoop.” As he would tell anyone who would listen, “After all, we don’t produce WINE.” But Colorado definitely does, and its current governor – one John Hickenlooper –…
On Monday, the Crafted Concepts restaurant team announced it would be opening a new eatery called Ultreia inside Union Station. While Crafted Concepts isn’t exactly a household name, the group’s principals are well known in Denver. Chef Jennifer Jasinski won a James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest in…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks, including Boulder’s Centro Mexican Kitchen. While you’re at…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks, including Roxie’s Tacos. This newcomer will be dishing up…
If you were bummed when Chicago health-food fast casual eatery, Protein Bar, shuttered several locations around town earlier this year, fear not; the company was only making way for its newest project, Thrive 360 Eatery. The new Denver location at 1001 17th Street downtown, serving healthy, chef-driven food on the…
Cherry Creek North has been a cloud of construction dust for the past year or two, with new hotels, condos, apartments and office buildings popping up where quaint boutique stores, cafes and beauty salons once occupied aging buildings. The real estate boom has pushed rent prices up, and new restaurant…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us from 4 to 7 p.m. at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from more than forty of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks, presented…
Good help is hard to find, and that’s especially true in a booming restaurant scene like Denver’s. But the partners at There, which expanded from Telluride to Denver this spring, are up for the challenge. As head chef Ben Knaus explains, their plan involves “incentivizing seasons of good, steady work…
Watercourse Bakery has been turning out vegan confections since 2004, first for Watercourse Foods when that eatery was located at 206 East 13th Avenue as well as when it moved to 837 East 17th Avenue, and then also for City, O’ City when it opened in the original Watercourse spot…
If there’s an Indian restaurant that doesn’t peddle samosas, I don’t want to know about it. And if samosas aren’t part of your regular order at your favorite Indian eatery, it’s time to get with the program — a program that dates back hundreds of years and spans thousands of…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us from 4 to 7 p.m. at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from more than forty of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks, presented…
Stoic & Genuine, the seafood restaurant and raw bar from chef Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch, was the first restaurant to open in the renovated Union Station when the downtown landmark relaunched in 2014. And now, two years later, Jasinski and Gruitch’s restaurant group, Crafted Concepts, along with S &…
