No. 81: Late-night Ramen at Brazen For a tiny restaurant located next door to a Comfort Dental office in a quiet neighborhood, Brazen throws a pretty stellar late-night party. At 10:30 every night but Sunday, the chic little eatery switches over to a menu with only a few items, most…
Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, could use a little love right now. Byrd – the subject of last week’s Chef and Tell interview — just received notice from her landlord that her lease at 3435 Albion Street in Park Hill is being terminated. And so…
Marin Toscano spent a year and a half studying food culture in China and returned to Colorado with a new perspective on eating. In her travels and studies, she realized that food was more than simply nutrition. And so she founded Fooition (a combination of the words food and intuition),…
Five years ago, billboards around town were announcing the imminent arrival of the mysterious Chloe, a fictitious, jet-setting socialite whose favorite food, favorite design trends, favorite art and favorite music would soon be featured at her namesake Chloe’s Mezze Lounge, Garden and Discothèque, which opened in July 2011 at 1445…
When it comes to south-of-the-border restaurants, Denver is certainly not lacking in Mexican-cuisine options — but what about farther south? Aside from a smattering of Salvadoran joints frying up pupusas, the countries of Central America have yet to establish a firm presence on Denver’s culinary map. Where, for example, can…
This Fourth of July weekend will be full of fireworks and such all-American fare as fried chicken. And just in time for the holiday, CoraFaye’s Cafe moved from its decade-old home on Colorado Boulevard to 16251 East Colfax Avenue in Aurora. The location is a little tougher to find (it’s on…
Did you stay in Denver this holiday weekend? Then it’s time to get up and get in line for brunch! We recently updated our lists of the ten best brunches and ten best breakfast restaurants in Denver, which are full of ideas for where to eat. Says Peri: Looks we’ve…
Soul food was in the news this week as Gretchen Kurtz talked to chef Lonni Byrd about her vegan eatery, Love, Peace and Sol Cafe, while CoraFaye’s Cafe welcomed guests to its new home on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora. Seoul food also helped Mark Antonation cool off as he…
When news hit that Colorado Boulevard’s soul-food haven, CoraFaye’s Cafe, would be losing its lease this summer, many were worried that Denver would lose a culinary treasure. But owner Priscilla Smith put our minds at ease by finding a new address for her nationally known eatery. She reopened CoraFaye’s this…
The LoHi neighborhood welcomes a new kind of tap room with the opening of American Cultures. This watering hole isn’t your typical craft brewery tap room; instead, the cool and newly renovated spot on the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street pours kombucha. Stop in for a glass,…
June saw a bounteous harvest of restaurant openings, with a variety of flavors to match Denver’s increasingly diverse scene. Cuban sandwich shops, tiny taquerias and even a Mexican-Korean fusion joint joined spacious new downtown dazzlers, Sicilian trattorias and a health-centered vegetarian eatery. Familiar names dotted the landscape, with the the…
When Gayor Geller and his family opened cozy breakfast spot, Maddie’s, at 2423 South Downing Street three years ago, they already owned the former service station next door and had plans to convert it into a restaurant space. That construction project started earlier this year and Geller says he hopes to move…
Arcana 909 Walnut Street, Boulder 303-444-3885 Arcana opened in Boulder in February with an ambitious menu designed to tell the story of early American cuisine through regional ingredients. But opening chef Matthew Lackey, a Tennessee native and student of celeb-chef Sean Brock’s return-to-roots cooking style, was let go in April…
Where was Jelly? Elaine McCarthy O’Neill The Eggs Benedict with their incredible hollandaise sauce at Snooze is beyond amazing. By far our favorite place for brunch, totally worth any wait! Like · Reply · Message · 2 · Yesterday at 8:47am Alex Morquecho Alex Morquecho Anna Marie Coronado-Ramos here’s some…
We get hit with an avalanche of announcements every day, promising everything from new shake flavors at popular burger bars to products from national food manufacturers who don’t even sell their products in the Denver area. The one that particularly caught our eye this morning had this subject line: “Teriyaki…
Grilled chicken or steak, pork carnitas, beef barbacoa: From day one at the original Chipotle at 1644 East Evans Avenue, those were the only protein options. And it remained that way for years until the company added soy-based sofritas as a vegetarian option three years ago. But today Chipotle will…
Vegan soul food? Isn’t that concept a little odd, like baseball without a seventh-inning stretch, or a backyard barbecue without beer? Not to Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, a vegan soul-food restaurant that opened in Park Hill this winter. “We knew the anomaly of…
Restaurateur Robert Thompson has spent the last four years growing his group of Punch Bowl Social restaurants in Colorado and beyond. With six of the gastro-tainment spots already offering food, bowling and booze in as many different states and with several more planned for later this year and into 2018,…
Noodle cravings can sneak up at the oddest of times, but when temperatures slither into the upper 90s, the thought of a hot bowl of ramen or a steaming mound of chow fun could curtain such desires. Some soup lovers advocate consuming hot broth to induce a cooling sweat, but…
At the end of 2014, we talked with two hopeful butchers, Chad Nelan and Alex Windes, who had just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the opening of Elevation Charcuterie, their wholesale sausage and cured meats company. While the fundraiser wasn’t successful, Nelan and Windes kept at it, raising…
Does every newly hot Denver neighborhood need a nickname? LoHi was just part of Highland — or was that the Northside? — until Lola helped start the transition that turned that area into a major dining destination almost a decade ago. The Butcher Block was one of the few spots…
Yesterday morning a car smashed into Cigars on Sixth, which we called the “ultimate man cave” when we awarded it Best Cigar Bar in the Best of Denver 2013 (which was the last year we gave that award). Although the cigar store has seating just on the other side of what…
