The James Beard Foundation will announce the winners in its 2016 Restaurant and Chef categories tonight. Only two Denver area contenders remain in the running for awards: Alex Seidel of Fruition and Mercantile for Best Chef: Southwest, and Frasca Food and Wine for Outstanding Restaurant. But Denver-based Craftsy already came up…
Thanks to all the restaurant action on Tennyson Street and in surrounding areas, Berkeley took top honors as Best New Restaurant Neighborhood in the Best of Denver 2016. And last Sunday, when the weather was lovely, windows were open and people were spilling all over the street; after trying a…
April Started out with a bang, with six bar and restaurants opening in the first two days. Since then, a number of promising eateries have debuted, including two artisan ice cream shops: Frozen Matter in Uptown and Heifer and the Hen in Boulder. Chef/restaurateur Biju Thomas launched two more outposts…
Almost exactly a year ago, a wet spring hailstorm caused water damage to the roof and interior of the venerable Taco House at 1390 West Littleton Boulevard. At the time, minor repairs were being made to the roof of the building, which originally constructed as a burger joint in 1961;…
West-side pizza aficionados will finally be able to get their fix of Neopolitan pie when the third outpost of Racca’s Pizzeria Napoletana fires up the wood-burning oven and swings open its doors at the Colorado Mills shopping center on West Colfax Avenue on Monday. If the name doesn’t quite ring…
Is there such a thing as Colorado-style barbecue? Anna and Jonathon Ortlieb, the couple behind Happy Camper BBQ, think so — because they say they’ve invented it. The two plan to have their mobile barbecue kitchen open by the beginning of June, serving smoked pork with a Colorado twist: Instead…
The name Winston Hill will mean something to you if you’re a lifelong fan of the New York Jets — or if you’ve been an even more die-hard fan of Denver barbecue over the past several decades. Hill, a former all-star offensive lineman who helped keep quarterback Joe Namath safe…
In 1986, Patrick McGaughran and a couple of friends from Texas decided to open a Mexican bar and grill centered on margaritas and food like they’d grown up with in the Houston area. They named the tiny joint, located on College Avenue in Fort Collins, the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant and…
Cafe Aion chef/owner Dakota Soifer has been showing up at the food court of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market with his super-sized paella pan on Saturday mornings all season, and he’s looking forward to the first Wednesday market on May 4 — and anticipating a slightly different atmosphere. “The Wednesday…
At the end of January, Ballpark neighborhood watering hole DADA Art Bar went dark, and Iain Chisholm, chef/owner of Americatus just around the corner, told us that he had sold his share of the bar to his partners, who were expecting to reopen under new management. But the DADA space…
Kathy Lee has been cooking up jams and other preserves for her company, Modern Gingham, since 2012, and the fruits of her labor are beginning to ripen. Her raspberry-violet jam, made with organic berries and crème de violet from Colorado’s Golden Moon Distilling, won a national Good Food award earlier…
As a certain aging rocker likes to sing, every picture tells a story. But restaurants do, too, and the one told by Stowaway Coffee + Kitchen is largely autobiographical. Launched this winter by Amy Cohen and her husband, Hayden Barnie, Stowaway draws together strands of Cohen’s life. There are influences…
Is there such a thing as Colorado-style barbecue? Anna and Jonathon Ortlieb, the couple behind Happy Camper BBQ, think so — because they say they’ve invented it. The two plan to have their mobile barbecue kitchen open by the beginning of June serving smoked pork with a Colorado twist: Instead…
Que Bueno Suerte!, a restaurant featuring upscale, modern Mexican cuisine, will open this summer at 1518 South Pearl Street. We thought the saga of this building had everything — and then its new owner, Mission Yogurt Inc., signed colorful, talented Dana Rodriguez, founding chef at Work & Class (and chef at…
Inside Silvana Mondo, Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt’s Tennyson Street art and antiques gallery, a low table surrounded by five cushioned stools that are barely higher than the floor itself awaits a group of guests, the tabletop set with a spread of dates, almonds, Turkish delight, a bottle of Bosnian sljivovic plum brandy,…
A week ago, after weathering the disappointment over the cancellation of the Official 4/20 Rally at Civic Center Park on April 16, Denver was high on all the celebrations for 4/20 that were actually taking place. Nearby businesses and food trucks were also high on the business they were about…
No 82: Shakshuka at Stowaway Coffee + KitchenRestaurant breakfasts are generally pretty tasty, but they’re rarely relaxing; the best places fill up quickly, and the morning meal becomes a rushed, noisy affair over a cluttered table where the speed-pouring of coffee becomes a spectator sport. Even the breezy, sun-drenched Stowaway…
There’s an award-winning pizza crust here in Denver and you can find it at more than one restaurant — including eateries already known for great pizza, like the Good Son, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, the Crafty Fox, Denver Deep Dish and Silvi’s Kitchens. The Gluten Free Explorer, a Denver…
Tengu, one of the first in the recent wave of noodle bars to wash up in Denver, closed quietly last week. Was it a victim of a city awash in other options? High prices? Or just poor signage? Says Jeanie: I ate ramen when we were young and broke; why…
Although there was a lot of restaurant action in Boulder this week, including the opening of Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly Butcher. But there’s food new in other areas as well: The November ballot in Boulder may include a measure that calls for an vice tax on sugary beverages such as soda and…
Happy Doors Open Denver! Today and tomorrow, you can tour dozens of historic and architectural marvels around Denver….but you might want to eat at home before you head downtown, because the brunch lines are long. Snooze at Union Station — where Doors Open Denver is headquartered — is on a…
There was plenty of news coming out of Boulder this week, as three popular metro-area eateries opened new outposts in the city. Local brewery/restaurant Bru Handbuilt Ales & Eats took over the space next door for Heifer and the Hen, an upscale ice cream shop with creative, seasonal flavors. And…
