Reader: We Brake for Beer on the Train to the Plane!

All aboard! The train to the plane officially pulls out of the station this weekend, with free rides from Union Station to Denver International Airport today and tomorrow. But the airport isn’t the only place you can get on the A line; as Jonathan Shikes points out in his Ten…

The Palm Reopens Downtown After Two-Month Remodel

The Palm Restaurant came to Denver in 1996 and it’s not difficult to imagine that some regular customers have enjoyed weekly, maybe even daily, power lunches over martinis and filet mignon for the past twenty years. So when the storied steakhouse, which got its start in New York City in…

Valhalla Cakes Opens Friday on Tennyson Street

Sam Slade grew up around cakes and other baked goods at her family’s bakeries in Chicago, so batter is in her blood. At the beginning of the year, she launched Valhalla Cakes inside the Temple Bakery in the Curtis Park neighborhood to test the market for her own creations. And…

Readers: The Suburbs Are Becoming Dining Destinations!

Denver’s dining scene is booming, and while neighborhoods like RiNo and Berkeley are exploding, suburbs outside the city limits are getting interesting new restaurants, too. In response to the news that Zomo will move in where El Tepehuan moved out, Jan says: Who’d a’thunk that downtown Englewood could become a…

Tengu Exits the Denver Ramen Scene

Is the ramen honeymoon finally over in Denver? Despite a rash of noodle shop openings over the last eighteen months or so, at least one has slipped through the cracks. Tengu, which opened in December 2014 in the Industry building on Brighton Boulevard, is now closed. Tengu initially closed for…

Squeaky Bean Team Helps High-School Kids Cook for Astronauts

The Squeaky Bean has always been a little out there (with Saturday Bingo Brunch and celebrity cocktail shrines as evidence), but soon the downtown farm-centered restaurant could soon be taking its creativity to new heights. Partner and chief bean farmer Josh Olsen is working with a team of high school…

First Look: Chef Hosea Rosenberg Opens Blackbelly Butcher in Boulder

Boulder shoppers looking for quality meat cuts, pre-made foods and a quick breakfast or lunch have known about the tiny nook inside chef-restaurateur Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly restaurant in east Boulder for some time, but because of space limitations, the chef’s vision for a complete, meat-centered market was never fully realized…

Chef Matt Collier Plants New Ideas at Boulder’s Seeds Library Cafe

Restaurants have been popping up in non-traditional spaces for years now, housed in everything from shipping containers to repurposed industrial buildings. But a restaurant inside a library? That’s a head-turner. When Seeds Library Cafe opened last year inside the Boulder Public Library, it served a much-needed purpose: giving patrons a…

Reader: Meat Wrapped in Pastry? Sign Me Up!

Who knew? Just as Denverites warmly welcomed a spot dedicated to pierogies, the Pierogies Factory, when it opened last year in Wheat Ridge, they’re celebrating the return of Kolache Factory to Lakewood. Yes, Denver’s western suburbs are rolling in dough, and one reader is hungry for more. Says Becky: What is this…

Ghost Sign Comes Back to Life in Five Points

Bob Berlute came to Denver last week to see the billboard that his father had painted decades ago on the side of 2801 Welton Street, a ghost sign that was uncovered in the process of developer Star Mesa Property’s restoration work on the building. The sign, too, has been restored,…

Heifer and the Hen Now Serving Scoops in Boulder

At the end of February, Ian Clark, the chef-owner of Bru Handbuilt Ales and Eats, told us he’d be opening a new ice cream shop called Heifer and the Hen next door to his brewery-restaurant on Arapahoe Avenue in east Boulder. Clark is a self-professed ice cream addict who had…

Rash of Restaurant Break-Ins Extends to Berkeley Neighborhood

A recent rash of Denver restaurant break-ins has spread to the Berkeley neighborhood. Il Porcellino (4324 West 41st Avenue) owners Bryan Albano and Bill Miner were greeted this morning by a smashed-in front door and a missing cash register; nothing else was taken and the register was empty, they report…

Reader: You Just Ruined Those Secret Brunch Spots, Westword!

Despite all the warnings of another snowmageddon hitting the Front Range, most residents of Denver should have no trouble getting out and about in what added up to six or so inches of snow — and if they holed up yesterday in anticipation of the storm, they’ll be hungry to leave…